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Vegas64

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  1. Okay so let's take the position you are right because I don't know the details of the ad business model OpenAI is going to implement, but are you saying that ChatGPT adding an ad model is a bad idea? Or are you saying it's not going to matter in the long run as they aren't a viable and enduring business in the long run? I ask because Google is already a step ahead of the game in terms of monetization (AI overview, AI mode, etc.) and Google waking up last year from their slumber and getting into it gear was a Cod Red moment for Sam, well, this is an extension of that.
  2. Adding Ads for ChatGPT reminds me of the adding of ads to Netflix. It changed the entire narrative and was a huge growth function for them and fundamentally changed the business and was something they should have done way before they actually did.
  3. Bear with me here, but why WOULDN't adding ads not generate tens of billions in revenue? Saying that means that you think that ChatGPT will not attract the dollars and eyeballs of current social media today. Did you know that "Reels", a social media contraption widely seen as lame and culturally irrelevant (compared to TikTok, Youtube, etc.) brings in over $50 billion dollars in annual run rate business? If ChatGPT, advertisers potential dream from a user intent and call to action to buy standpoint, would do half of what Meta does that's tens of billions in revenue tomorrow.
  4. Not strange at all. I mean, Trump and Mamdani got along better than Trump and most people when they met earlier this year. I think Mamdani is great.
  5. It has long felt like an ad supported model was the only way for OpenAI to succeed in the short and medium term with their a) surprising head start on Google, etc. and b) their massive, massive capital needs. I think most business analysts and AI business pundits had been commenting (screaming) "where are the ads, you are screwing up!" for a while now. That said, the Thinking Machines Labs looting back talent has been pretty masterfully done it seems like...
  6. It definitely is a great school. It's just not a no-brainer to my eyes that would get a blank check.
  7. I'd be hard for me to justify for public california schools if the price tag is akin to a $90k high end Ivy. Especially Berkeley which I feel like was a bigger brand and prestigous name in the 90's and 00's than it is today. It's a great, fantastic school don't get me wrong. But not $90k/year great.
  8. I read things like this and my brain does the Vincent in Pulp Fiction looking around confused meme. Did I just get lucky and apply and get in at the easiest possible time in the history of the school or what? My kids friends all grew up big football fans of every college but UT because virtually none of the cool/popular/sports kids that their school ran with ever could get into UT and their parents were, at best, all Aggies. My kids being a Longhorn fan was a scarlet lette, dang near.
  9. That's interesting because that is my thought still. If my kids gets into Yale (or Harvard or Princeton or Stanford), I'll figure it out. $360k over 4 years for a lifetime is do-able for HENRY's if we are considering a low or paid off mortgage, a mix of loans, 401k loans, maybe some HELOC help, max out the 529s, etc. I'd make it happen. What doesn't make any financial sense to me is the same price tag for lower tier Ivies, the little ivies, the expensive tiny privates, and etc.
  10. waymo's are fun for the novelty when I'm in SF and, I guess, now Austin. But for regular (non-company expensed) use, it's too rich for my blood. You can take my cheap UberX Honda CRV with one donut and a broken trunk latch driven by a friendly hispanic named Josuelangelo from my cold, dead hands!
  11. Sorry, I think someone brought it up and you know how those conversations can go into a rabbithole.
  12. 100% agree. Nobody has to be all-in on "abolish ICE" from their more limited and narrow remit, but this in MN is clearly overstep and wrong.
  13. I think if you google it you can see the scholarly debates over the years about it but some more laymen ones below. I think it depends on the Christian's interpretation but there seems to be an argument and suggestion that indeed, it was novel and supernatural and would have been considered insane. Why else would one need the insane faith of Noah to build a huge boat over a lifetime for an event (rain and a rain-caused flood) that the world and it's inhabitants had never seen nor even heard of. Christianity Stack ExchangeDoes Scripture mention whether it rained before the flood?I've often heard it said that the flood of Noah was the first time that the earth experienced rain. This is the passage people use: Genesis 2:5-6 ESV When no bush of the field was yet in the land...and
  14. Did they just give him the Peace Prize Medal or is that fake news
  15. Completely. It's a conspirarcy theory that harms the truth and real, actual crimes of Dotard (and Epstein, etc.)
  16. @Longhorn_Fan68 Don't believe the lies.
  17. Have you considered that rain for 40 days would be as supernatural and insane to people then as fusion is to us today when (canon/biblically speaking) the earth and the earth's inhabitants had never seen rain before....as in, rain as we understand it didn't exist to that point. Also apparently it didn't come from the sky...no....the earth opened up and it came from underneath. I think this snippit of a conversation alone highlights how a) ignorant people are of what the bible actually says versus what they think or have grown up hearing the bible says and b) how biased people are to think that the supernatural insanity that Christians would characterize as "God revealing himself or his nature to us" in things like fusion on the sun and rain for 40 days, and whatever future knowledge and discoveries that blow our mind in 100 years; they are all functionally the same thing.
  18. Is he wrong?
  19. John 20:29
  20. "Hey, at least Minneapolis Gov. Tim Walz finally did a very somber photoshoot at Renee Nicole Good’s memorial. Only took him about five days to get over here. Longer than he waited to mourn The Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir, in case you were wondering."
  21. Will you comment on this alleged satire:
  22. Which actually checks out based on the caption for what the guy installed and what he does afterwards.
  23. Vegas64 replied to Derka's topic in Cloak Room
    Middle Class shouldn't have to pay the highest rate on ANY dollar of income, is the point. But look what happens when you start talking about taxing billionaires like in California the last couple of weeks. I think the Google guys already got their Bug out bag and are halfway out of the state with others making a lot of noise about. Oh great, the richest man in the state and founder/ceo of one of the few trillion dollar companies is gracious enough to give a one-time tax donation, which isn't nothing, but all the other billionaires are like roaches under the couch when the lights come on.
  24. Vegas64 replied to Derka's topic in Cloak Room
    You think? The little $10bn aluminum can company whose namesake for a little college in Muncie, Indiana says hi.
  25. Vegas64 replied to Derka's topic in Cloak Room
    I think that USED to be the case (cue the Steinbeck or Twain quote about being temporarily embarrased millionaires) but I don't believe it's quite as you say anymore. I think most of the middle class is resentful that the pie has shrunk so much that there isn't really a great separation between the three traunches anymore. It's billionaire class and then the rest of us. Middle class people see even being a "millionaire" which a lot of people are due to 401k's plus home equity via net worth doesn't mean what they were conditioned to think being a "millionaire" was supposed to mean. Being a millionaire today just means you might one day get to retire in middle class comfort and keep agency over your money and estate decisions and die in your own house or hospice of your choice until you either go senile or die. There are multiple think pieces out and I don't want to "The Lost Generation" this thread, but the middle class is getting screwed at the expense of mostly the billionaires and there should be an awakening to that and that alone. Stop trying to throw in all the pork barrel initiatives with it that kill support (LGBTq stuff, poor stuff, etc.). Maybe the numbers don't back it up and the demographics don't back it up, but it feels like if the middle class would wake up and rise up, the numbers should be on our side.
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