If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.

Most people want to own at least SOMETHING, like their own home computer.

P. S. Fuck off, Sam.

Google sucks a lot of the oxygen out of the room when it comes to people inventing the Next Big Thing. The projects that someone might have spent 5 years of their life trying to make into a startup, are now 20% projects at Google that sometimes see the light of day only to be walked back suddenly.

Nothing can be made at Google that will do better then their ad search business. It's a reality that I faced when I was there, and the vast majority of management were delusional to think otherwise. Search pays for these little projects, and they rarely ever stand on their own (Fuchsia) and simply consume payroll to get no where near turning a profit.

This one is fucked, we should throw it away and start over. A free network that isn't based around trying to harvest market research data and constantly trying to sell things.

Are we seeing wild growth in our user base due to the new policies?

The sort of people who could turn Google into a profitable innovation powerhouse no longer work at Google. Google lives and dies on how tightly they can hold onto their existing advertising empire. That's all they've got now and it is all they will ever be.

Not the worst billionaire fashion choice.

There will be winners and losers. And I don't think any of today's companies are necessarily going to be the AI leader 10 years from now.

Who will lose the most are the middle class with retirement investments that are mismanaged and put into these unstable toxic investments. And potentially bail outs for financial and chip companies when the market corrects disastrously.

Everything as a service has been the dream for the billionaire class for a long time. Creating a dependency for end-users (often called "consumers") is viewed as the path to stability and profit for a company. Having folks pay every month for health insurance, medication, vitamins, smartphone service, cable TV, internet access, streaming services, etc.

$99 billion in cash reserves will probably insulated them from most of the AI bubble pop.

Are you sure? There's so much money tied up in circular loans and IOUs based on potential profits that I'm not sure they are.

For example: NVidia invests billions into OpenAI and Anthropic, who then use that money to buy NVidia products. Has NVidia actually made any money, or does the "demand" for the product simply drive up the speculative stock price?

=Smidge=

None of the junior people can pass our interviews. And none of the seniors want a full time job babysitting an code-generation machine. Modern AI has turned coding into the equivalent of a mindless factory job watching things go by on the conveyor belt.

It's really tough to measure and interpret results, I don't fault anyone for struggling to have perfect clarity in outcomes and business results. But part of the problem with the corporate world is an unwillingness to question their metrics and call bullshit on assumptions that cannot be supported by evidence.

Using a definition for success that is not outcome-based turns out to be a giant scam!

That's a relief, I can retire early then.

I don't recall suggesting this. Perhaps you have me confused with someone else.

I'm not Steve Wozniak. If I had his money, I would have retired earlier. (see above)

I think a radical leftwing movement would be unstoppable if they followed Mao's playbook. Because Americans have no defense against it.
I would be against it though. I think the means matter as much as the ends.