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    • GustafG
      Gustaf
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      If only!

      "Let's give it a week! Still a disaster? Let's give it another week…" -Tazz

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      • tiggerT
        tigger @A Former User
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        @Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

        @Jam said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

        Is this a knee-jerk example of investor hyperventilation or is there substance to the issue?

        Yes.

        (Article you linked was well written but I don’t know the answer).

        Us stocks are significantly overvalued because the investors are projecting future gains from selling AI services into them. This threatens to pull the rug under it, getting the money withdrawn and put into emerging markets, if investors start believing that it will give higher returns.

        Is any of this based on any understanding? I don’t really think so. I’m in the middle of this and I have a lot of opinions, but it’s hard for me to predict what will happen tomorrow despite thinking that most of the people in the world have it wrong.

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        • O
          oyaji
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          I think I can explain it: everybody wants to eat for free.

          © 2015 - 2025 oyaji

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          • tiggerT
            tigger
            last edited by

            As an example, a fund we own a small part of was recently in talks to buy a share of Anthropic. We got a long report about the expected profits, and the gist of it was that it’ll keep growing rapidly for a decade because that’s what Google and Facebook did 20 years ago. I don’t think you have to be a genius to doubt that, on the other hand the nonsensical growth keeps happening so what do I know?

            The sale fell through and I’m pretty happy tbh.

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            • JamJ
              Jam @tigger
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              @tigger said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

              As an example, a fund we own a small part of was recently in talks to buy a share of Anthropic. We got a long report about the expected profits, and the gist of it was that it’ll keep growing rapidly for a decade because that’s what Google and Facebook did 20 years ago. I don’t think you have to be a genius to doubt that, on the other hand the nonsensical growth keeps happening so what do I know?

              The sale fell through and I’m pretty happy tbh.

              Nothing about the stock market is rational.

              Nothing.

              "laissez les bons temps rouler!"

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              • TazzT
                Tazz
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                Economic votes. That explains how a business can be successful. Either by purchasing their product or stock. Essentially you voting for a company by doing either.

                GTFO

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                • ?
                  A Former User
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                  Posting for the headline:

                  Alex Heath  /  Jan 30  /  meta

                  Meta warns that it will fire leakers in leaked memo

                  Meta warns that it will fire leakers in leaked memo

                  Mark Zuckerberg told employees that leaking “sucks.”

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                    oyaji
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                    Hey Mark-o, you zuck, I’ve got a children’s riddle for you: If you want to keep a secret, how many people do you tell?

                    © 2015 - 2025 oyaji

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                    • ?
                      A Former User
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                      Thomas Maxwell  /  Jan 31  /  Artificial Intelligence

                      Add F*cking to Your Google Searches to Neutralize AI Summaries

                      Add F*cking to Your Google Searches to Neutralize AI Summaries

                      Google will probably close this loophole soon enough.

                      Aussies are going to be so good at this.

                      “How many fucking eggs should I use in a fucking omelette ya cunt”

                      It feels completely natural.

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                      • ?
                        A Former User
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                        Feb 3  /  News

                        $1bn revenue not enough to offset Meta's AR/VR Reality Labs' $4.4bn loss

                        $1bn revenue not enough to offset Meta's AR/VR Reality Labs' $4.4bn loss

                        Meta has published its earnings report for the three months ending December 31 2024, and despite $1.08 billion in reven…

                        Pretty surprised they reported 1 billion in revenue for AR/VR for one quarter. Shocked that they are spending four times that much every quarter.

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                        • ?
                          A Former User
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                          Wes Davis  /  Feb 4  /  news

                          Meta says this is the make or break year for the metaverse

                          Meta says this is the make or break year for the metaverse

                          The clock is ticking for the metaverse.

                          This year will decide if Horizon Worlds “will go down as the work of visionaries or a legendary misadventure,” according to a Meta executive

                          I’m on the edge of my seat.

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                          • ?
                            A Former User
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                            Matthew Gault  /  Feb 7  /  Privacy & Security

                            Britain Orders Apple to Build a Backdoor Into Your iPhone

                            Britain Orders Apple to Build a Backdoor Into Your iPhone

                            Under the U.K. law, it’s illegal for the company to even talk about the existence of the order.

                            If history has taught us anything, it’s that governments can always be trusted and backdoors never fall into bad actors hands.

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                            • GustafG
                              Gustaf
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                              If Hollywood has taught us anything, if a bad guy
                              opens the back door, a suave debonair, martini drinking Scotsman will save us, after he beds a few salacious named ladies.

                              "Let's give it a week! Still a disaster? Let's give it another week…" -Tazz

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                              • TazzT
                                Tazz
                                last edited by Tazz

                                Jul 15, 2021  /  U.S.

                                Syringes Washing Up on Shore Close Five More New Jersey Beaches

                                Syringes Washing Up on Shore Close Five More New Jersey Beaches

                                The medical waste was first reported along the state's coastline over the weekend, and has continued to cause public safety issues.

                                Dec 26, 2019  /  California

                                It just rained (again). Is it safe to swim in the ocean?

                                It just rained (again). Is it safe to swim in the ocean?

                                After another back-to-back cold front that pelted rain, heavy snow and even a tornado warning down onto Southern California, here are some precautions and commonly asked questions about whether it’s safe to go to the beach.

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                                GTFO

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                                • O
                                  oyaji
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                                  New Jersey was deep-sixing medical waste offshore (including medical waste for New York along with it), so maybe they still do this? Also, did anyone bother counting plastic straws on any beach? Then we would have basis for comparison.

                                  If memory serves, Sandy Hook NJ was where all the used syringes were washing up on the beach for the news story years back.

                                  © 2015 - 2025 oyaji

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                                  • Gators1G
                                    Gators1 @Gustaf
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                                    @Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                    If Hollywood has taught us anything, if a bad guy
                                    opens the back door, a suave debonair, martini drinking Scotsman will save us, after he beds a few salacious named ladies.

                                    But in this case, he works for the back door bad guys, so we are fukt.

                                    I hope the UK sinks.

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                                    • GustafG
                                      Gustaf @Gators1
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                                      @Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                      @Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                      If Hollywood has taught us anything, if a bad guy
                                      opens the back door, a suave debonair, martini drinking Scotsman will save us, after he beds a few salacious named ladies.

                                      But in this case, he works for the back door bad guys, so we are fukt.

                                      I hope the UK sinks.

                                      That is so short sighted! If the UK sinks where will we get our…uh…hm…

                                      No I guess you’re right, nothing would change.

                                      "Let's give it a week! Still a disaster? Let's give it another week…" -Tazz

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                                      • eWildcatE
                                        eWildcat
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                                        I have to slightly disagree, sadly : the Six Nations Championship would then be the Three Nation Mess That France Always Wins, which would certainly be amusing for a couple of years but would soon lose some appeal. So there would be some minor inconvenience.

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                                        • GustafG
                                          Gustaf
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                                          Not to worry! You just go find yourselves 3 other nations of equivalent economic and cultural power to replace them with! Say, Haiti, Cuba and Puerto Rico!

                                          "Let's give it a week! Still a disaster? Let's give it another week…" -Tazz

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                                          • eWildcatE
                                            eWildcat
                                            last edited by eWildcat

                                            The idea is sound, but I worry we may anger the US government if we beat their former colonies every year, and we don’t have quite as many aircraft carriers as we’d need to do that.

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