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@alexeheath RDJ is a great actor but he won’t be able to move many units. Celebrity endorsements only go so far. He cannot move a dog of a product like this one. And IMHO RDJ doesn’t have the juice with the Snap demographic.

@markgurman One problem with Meta is privacy. Don’t want Meta scooping up all my data from eyeglasses. Also with Meta there’s the problem of support. With Apple they have their stores and well established support line. With Meta, who knows?

@peterli34923561 @StockSavvyShay How can you say what Apple is focused on, when they haven’t even released any glasses yet? I bet they will be stylish. Same with Google. No real product yet. I can see them chasing specs but again, rather odd to compare to unreleased products.

@CTE_3x Heim has a deal to drive full time with 23XI in the cup next year. He’s set.

Another interpretation: the Iranians behaved like sore losers. In the NBA finals the Knicks won and the Spurs refused to shake their hands. Does that mean the Spurs really won? Given a choice between being in the US position or the Iranian position, everyone would take the US position.

True. KD got conned by the sports media into thinking that he did something wrong in joining the warriors. He made a super smart move. It was his leaving that was a poor decision. In the long run what people remember the most are the championships. No one will care how he got there. He could have had at least 2 more championships and really added to his legacy. I also think he would have been happier on that team.

Jony Ive ran out of juice when he lost Steve Jobs as a partner. He prioritized too much design over function. Remember the butterfly keyboard, the Touch Bar, removing ports from the Macbook Pro? Then there was the Apple Watch. It’s a great product but Ive underwhelmed with that design. Here he ironically seemed to do little with the design flourishes.

@Tonysmarkettips I understand that. I was speaking rhetorically . I think some people might be worried because of the embarrassment it may cause them in the short term. But even then, I’m not so sure. Vrabel doesn’t seem to have any guilt or shame about what happened.

Disney has always been expensive. I remember my parents taking me as a young lad in the 1970s and it was expensive. You paid a good amount for admission and then you had to pay extra for each ride! People joked about how expensive the food was. In every era people have said Disney is too expensive. Building, maintaining, and staffing what are in essence alternate reality worlds at that scale and quality is super expensive. There is no way around that.

Google was written off years ago in the AI race only to come roaring back. The narrative can just as easily change once again. And we don’t know why these people left. Maybe they just wanted to really cash in and get huge number of shares pre IPO. After seeing what happened with the SpaceX IPO, that was at least one factor. It’s also worth mentioning that there’s this idea of making one person too important based on a contribution years ago. Sure these people are brilliant. But history shows that there are people who always rise up with equal or greater talent.

@kimmonismus It may not be the only factor but my guess is that Anthropic and OpenAI are able to make outlandish offers with pre-IPO equity.

I don’t think this is true: “It is relatively easy to build a chip.” IMHO it’s one of the most difficult products to build, especially at the cutting edge for AI. Both the hardware and software are difficult. No need to minimize the difficulty in the hardware to point out the significance of the software.

@markgurman Fascinating. But the key is regulatory approval and vetting by the medical community.

This is all for show in advance of the IPO. There is no avengers team. This is real life. There’s plenty of talent to go around. We heard the same thing when Zuckerberg spent a ton of money hiring his supposed dream team. We see what that has led to. Not that it’s necessarily been bad but not some world-changing work. The bottom line is that OAI is still in a precarious financial position. This may exacerbate that. Given that Shazeer was probably promised significant stock grants that most likely dilutes the pool for all of the investors.

There is no AI Jesus. There are many great minds in the field. And the next breakthrough may come from someone relatively unknown. That’s what often happens. It’s funny how these guys are hyped once they are hired away. I remember when Zuck went on his hiring spree. Every new hire all of a sudden became the essential person in all of AI. It’s also funny how some people want to believe in some human god. There is no god of AI. I’m sure Shazeer is brilliant but even the paper about the transformer listed 8 co-authors, not just him.

The Iranian opposition had their best chance to gain power. Trump even told them so. But they lacked the organization and arms to do anything. The only way regime change would have happened is if the US had invaded with at least a few hundred thousand troops. That was never going to happen. All Reza Pahlavi can do is talk a good game. But he never organized or prepared well for the opportunity Trump gave the opposition movement.

The Bible verse is not offensive to anyone. It simply ties in the symbol of Pride month, the rainbow, with God’s promise to protect life. The rainbow has Biblical significance. This is a big overreaction on the part of MLB. This is the sort of action that makes it more difficult to create reconciliation and acceptance between the gay community and the conservative Christian community.

@Perez99Ste88591 @alanrog3 @wemby IF this is true, then this is on the hotel. They are the ones to enforce rules like this.