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Really great segment here on Gen Z not drinking anymore
And first time I really see how great @tbpn is when it broadens outside of tech and interviews other ppl like here David Chang 10/10
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The Filipino, Indonesian, Nepali and Turkish staff saying "arigato gozaimasu" every time I walk passed makes me feel I'm truly in Japan
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I went traveling November 6 from Europe to Asia
As @bryan_johnson said it'd take about 15 days to recover from the time zone differences
Sleep was rekt for 2 weeks but now finally good again
The crazy thing is you don't really notice how bad it is unless you track it
I'm not obsessed with tracking, I always been kinda against tracking and the benefits of travel in experiences outweigh the negatives I think
All I have to think about is the touring musicians and especially DJs who fly around the world every few days, which at decades ago seemed like my dream but now sounds like a nightmare for your health
I have to think about Avicii who killed himself and his grueling tour schedule and how it played a part in mentally destroying him
As digital nomads we'd stay in places for months at time (usually as long as the visas would allow us) because the constant timezone hopping was too destructive
So anyway now the data shows that too
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Add your ideas to save Europe to the bug board
https://t.co/fU2jmU91xL
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Updated https://t.co/euT3MmmP2Y with current progress https://t.co/RDKGFiDoTT
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It's literally just these paper mints rebranded as "eco toothpaste" btw
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This is Japan btw, not EU!
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Possibly the best AI reply bot I've ever encountered on here
But the formulaic nature of the replies made it smelly for me over time
Great work though, almost passable! ๐
Blocked for AI reply https://t.co/kL2DSe303O
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Today I wanted to brush my teeth and I was out of toothpaste
So I tried to find the hotel's toothpaste
Then I discovered my hotel has replaced their regular toothpaste with toothpaste paper for ๐ Eco reasons
These are thin slices of paper that in your mouth turn into a tiny amount of tooth paste
Of course it doesn't really work at all ๐
But very sustainable! #eco
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https://t.co/J3GUCULMJI
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๐ช๐บ Something is finally happening!
EU is:
- scaling down the GDPR (data privacy laws)
- watering down the AI Act (more like AI Ban), and
- finally removing the Cookie Banner laws
This gets us a bit closer to the top eu/acc ideas being reached
https://t.co/fU2jmU91xL https://t.co/2D8yOegfmJ
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My great grandparents generation would dig peat from the ground in the Netherlands
They used it as a fuel for stoves, oil lamps and to make fire to stay warm
Digging peat (kinda like clay) was a grueling and dirty job, and they'd stand with their feet in a cold wet swamp for 14 hours per day
They were dirt poor
Their kids then got more regular jobs, like my grandma would manually connect the telephone switchboard in Amsterdam but still low paid and poor
Then some of their kids (my parents) could go to university and study law or medicine, that was the first generation that was middle class
Then my generation benefited from all those generations working hard, be able to do comfy office or online jobs, and personally I still like to work hard too so I continue what the generations before me built up
This generation (in many parts of the Wsst at least) is where the cycle now seems to end and reverse, where many people don't want (or need) to work anymore and see work as torture and expect the government to pay for their life instead
Ironically this is exactly why the next generations may go back to being peat diggers again
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Anyone know how to connect Alipay to Didi?
In Didi iOS but tapping it doesn't do anything https://t.co/zvBiQRMqPV
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| Nov 20 |
Are you guys getting this too?
GPT 5.1 keeps saying "{your name}-style"? https://t.co/h7DwXWQDHG
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| Nov 20 |
I realize best way to reply when people throw ad hominems at you
Is to just ignore the insults fully and try to reply with arguments
Because otherwise it just turns into a fight and none of you learn anything from the interaction
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It's probably hard for Americans to imagine this because it's their normal
But being European and living in Europe and being radically honest when I arrive in America the main feeling I get is just endless abundance
Non-honest (I'd say many to most) Europeans will not be able to deal with this abundance and start coping "zOmG but if you hit your knee you will go bankrupt cause healthcare bills" and "look at the homeless tents" and "lol look at the Amerifats!!!"
Even if fully true, that's kinda besides the point, the range of America is much wider, the bottoms are lower and the peaks are higher
People are (in some ways literally) hungry to work and climb the social ladder which even if worse now than it ever was is still much more present in America than it is in Europe
I can barely get people to come to my house to do construction work in Europe, while in America I'd have them working the same day, because people want money, because unlike Europe there's not much free gov money
That makes the system more oiled in a way because people WANT to work and that makes people work and build things
The problem is most Europeans will never ever respect "the hustle", they're stuck in the socialized welfare systems that worked in the 1960s and fairness, which is an absolutely beautiful ideal but stops working when you run out of money like Europe does now in 2025
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I tried but everything fully booked months in advance
Which I think was lucky because Hakone now is a tourist trap full of Americans
This one we went was mostly Japanese and nobody spoke a single word of English
10/10
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Woke up in Sanyo-so, a traditional Japanese ryokan in in Shizuoka, Izu, Japan ๐ฏ๐ตโจ๏ธโจ
It has a private onsen in every ryokan, with tatami floors (of course), and you sleep on the ground, and communal baths you can go too
And a beautiful Japanese garden outside
ยฅ88,462 or $562/night with Japanese breakfast and dinner (booked just a day before so probably overpaid but it's okay!)
Very beautiful and cute!
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This is sooo cool
They made vibe servering into a product
Your own private cloud computer with AI
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| Nov 19 |
Yes! Messages is gone https://t.co/uEfnwGeRkF
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| Nov 19 |
๐ฌ๐ง UK will now subsidize AC installs for ยฃ2.5k
Great work!
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| Nov 19 |
More proof that all ACs in Singapore are compromised now
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Can @X replace the Messages tab with Chat now?
Because the Messages tab is completely broken and doesn't even show half the messages anymore?
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| Nov 19 |
Here's the bathroom with sick bath
I have to post this days later now because I can't get d0xed innit, bit annoying but it is what it is https://t.co/jQ1wfasBUF
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| Nov 19 |
Here's a tour of our Aman room, was very nice, with nice view https://t.co/swB01ZN4fr
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| Nov 19 |
This time in Tokyo we experienced the full range of hotels I think, from $40 to $5000/night
We arrived from a long night flight where we barely slept from Singapore and then at our hotel we couldn't get early check in cause it was full (which seems to be the case everywhere you go now in Japan, everything is fully booked, soooooooooooo many tourists, like I never seen this at this level anywhere, not even Thailand or Paris!)
So anyway we were in Shibuya at 7am completely homeless, roaming the streets, eating in 7/11, we walked around and tried to find other hotels to get a room like APA, but they were all full too, entire Shibuya was full!
Then I remembered, Japan has those hourly ๐ฉ love hotels of course, so I found one, they're kinda camouflaged, you don't really see many signs, just a black wall and some stairs down, then a front desk that has half the wall covered so you can't look the front desk staff in the face (cause shame and privacy)
She didn't speak English and we didn't speak Japanese but she was very helpful though and got us a room until 5pm! Most Japanese are honestly so helpful and sweet trying to get you what you want without much/any English
It was a very compact and a bit old room but very clean. I kept it secret from my gf that it was a love hotel or she would never want to go in ๐๐ she also kept her jacket on thinking it was dirty
My argument for the love hotel being clean was "it's cleaned more than a regular hotel" for that exact reason. And it was REALLY clean to be fair. After convincing gf, she took her bomber jacket off too
I actually slept really good for a few hours
It was 6700 JPY or $40 to stay 7am-5pm, so ~10 hours, not so bad. And the room had everything like soap, tooth brush, comb etc. Probably if we booked days before it could have been much cheaper.
There's something in me that highly prefers these kind of compact functional hotels over luxury hotels, obviously it's the Dutchness in me (we like simple and cheap), but also I've increasingly realized luxury hotels are just facades for chains with shitty service
I feel with compact functional hotels you get what you pay for and things usually just work better (I think because there's higher volume and you have less expectations), very similar to how EasyJet, RyanAir, Air Asia, and JetBlue are low-cost but actually really good airlines
So this trip we experienced both $43 love hotels and $5000/night luxury hotel which was Aman (the quoted tweet below is Aman)
Aman was flawless btw, and I think the best hotel I've ever stayed, we paid for a big suite, and it was a crazy amount of money, and everyone asked me how it was
Well it was what you'd expect from a regular hotel, everything just works, the people are helpful, the AC works and is cold (!!!!!!!), when something goes wrong you call and there's a person at your door instantly to fix it, no need to keep calling, it's like how hotels were before "The Great Enshittification of post-COVID 2020" happened, just excellent!
It says something about hidden inflation that a good luxury hotel where you actually get service you used to get is now $5000/night! Unaffordable but I guess that's how it is now! Don't call me jaded, I'm just the messenger!
Obviously Asia helps, hotels are just much better here than the rest of the world in terms of service
Anyway I hope you like the video tour of our love hotel ๐๐ฉ
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Ok ok I should have called it "Vibe Tourism"
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I'm not in Switzerland, it was just a memory
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@nikitabier Sign up via iOS works but there you pay a massive premium ofc cause 30% Apple fee
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| Nov 19 |
@nikitabier Looks like the iOS subscription expired because I changed App Store to install Sora (cause US-only)
Now I try sign up on web but every card I try gets declined @nikitabier
Tried my Wise Business and Revolut Personal and both don't work https://t.co/MJ9VE3lwIz
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| Nov 19 |
Uh oh what did I do https://t.co/2OYN8qpvaF
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| Nov 19 |
Sitting at the Swiss hotel breakfast where a woman on a harp is playing always makes me want to kill myself
Fresh crispy warm croissants
It's all too comfortable and there's no battle to be fought anymore
A terrible place to be for too long
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| Nov 19 |
The answer is Sergey Brin
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| Nov 18 |
So....Kyoto tips?
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| Nov 18 |
I noticed something new this time traveling that I haven't seen before
Asking ChatGPT where to go, it would recommend us to go to specific places, so we went, and we were then surrounded by other foreigners who also were there, and then I saw some of them open their phone and yes there was them also asking where to go to....ChatGPT
So you now have ChatGPT being the travel guide for a substantial amount of people, and because it has a tendency to normal/average answers, you kinda end up at normie tourist traps
Then even if you ask for more authentic places, those thousands of other people also asked that, so it just funnels hundreds to thousands of people per day to the same exact places
You could call it ChatGPT Tourism?
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| Nov 18 |
We're back
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| Nov 18 |
This is your chance to vengeance me back for when I scolded AWS being down while my Hetzner stayed up
I'm behind Cloudflare so I'm down too!
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| Nov 18 |
MATTER
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If you want me to invest in your thing, go to https://t.co/deoJX7NDB6. I like most to invest seed or series A cause then I can still get rich. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MARTER
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| Nov 18 |
May I short you?
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| Nov 18 |
So I made https://t.co/0lBrLhXmCW around 2017 I think
Back then I got cancelled for it actually for "redlining" search that term
So it was quite edgy and daring back then
Now is a very different time culturally but no it wasn't meant to be PC, it barely survived back then just being like this!
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And since luxury hotels all sucks nowadays with a few exceptions, you can't even spend your money, you just get a worse experience than you had in your $30/night functional hotel!
And any material goods like cars you adapt to within weeks or months
House is nice actually cause you can fully customize it to your own little fortress but then whatever you have in your house also exists outside your house in most first world places (except Portugal ofc :D)
Flying business is nice though that's for sure the main thing
Anyway point is money is boring and it's not the fun part of achieving stuff at all
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| Nov 18 |
So ummm for me it's about fun, I love creating things and that's how I started and that's where I still am now and then in the middle came the money
But if you only did it for the money then when you have the money life gets boring! Because money is very boring! It's just a number and once you have it, it's even more boring, just an ego pursuit
What's not boring for me is creativity, expression, difficult challenges, pursuit and joie de vivre (the joy of living)
Like hacking on things and learning new things is the most fun for me and without having a money goal for it ironically often gets me to a new business just by following my curiosity
And I think maybe that's a skill to develop too
The good thing about having money already is that it's the perfect time for hacking, cause you have the time finally!
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Here's my investment site https://t.co/deoJX7ObqE
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| Nov 18 |
Since I have more money available now
I'd love to invest in other things, if you know anything let me know
I also invested in @bryan_johnson's Blueprint and I think health things are interesting because I myself am more health focused than 10y ago, going gym and trying to eat clean and take supplements etc
But AI interesting still too of course
And maybe robots???
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| Nov 18 |
I agree
Cloudflare needs some marketing like Vercel has, they get a cult-like following when actually Cloudflare's products are groundbreaking too
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| Nov 18 |
I think this is misreading it
China is a very young nation too, essentially starting at either 1949 when People's Republic of China started
Or even 1966 when the Cultural Revolution happened and China's thousands year of culture was essentially wiped out within a decade and reset from 0
USA was founded in 1776
Both quite young
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| Nov 18 |
@patrickc @collision And now we know @satyanadella is actively reading things on X ๐
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| Nov 18 |
Thanks to the Collison brothers for relentlessly pushing me over the years among all these tech gods ๐ญ @patrickc @collision
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๐ฅน๐ฅน๐ฅน
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| Nov 17 |
Congrats @Replicate and @bfirsh and everyone there!
Cloudflare can really use it to add AI inference to its platform I think
And this is my first exit as an investor! ๐
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I mean founded by Indians, built in India, registered in India, operated from India
Not founded by Indians, built in US, reg'd in US, operated from US
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| Nov 17 |
What Indian startups are used globally?
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| Nov 17 |
Windows 95 gets way more RTs than Windows 3.11 so as I expected it resonates much more
Even if it's a non-profit project it's fun to make it have the most impact possible
And it seems we're in that 30 year retro cycle and that's exactly Windows 95 now (30y ago)
Also lots of games ppl remember I can run on there like Age of Empire while most games don't run on Win 3.11 or DOS (cause 16 vs 32-bit)
Which is why I wanna get it running so everyone can use it in their browser on https://t.co/M1hEUBB6da like I did with Windows 3.11!!
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The US sucks up the entire world's talent and lets everyone incorporate there to bear the fruits of other country's education systems (smart strategy)
And China has great education itself (STEM) and kinda centrally plans what industries to hyper invest in (like EVs and AI)
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I just realized the only 2 countries left with actual substantial startup activity now are literally only the US and China
The rest of the world can't really do startups, doesn't have the funding, can't grow them and it's more like performative hobby projects for their governments
Which might tell us where the future wealth will be concentrated in the world
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| Nov 16 |
It already works on https://t.co/RRYOCWrpFY with Win 3.11 for everyone asking
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| Nov 16 |
Internet works on Windows 95!!!!!
Can visit websites now with MSIE 3
Just had to set the network card IRQ to 10 and I/O base to 300
Yeehawwwww ๐ค https://t.co/MRqf2CPOQi
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| Nov 16 |
I wasn't a big fan of Zuck but he was of the once there and before that was definitely ever been
Many people think he could not be the to be the of between but then he do. And not only they are but he was with Meta
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| Nov 15 |
One time I tried to test the security of my hotel in Bali
It was Six Senses
I called the hotel with my phone (no they didn't know my number)
And asked "I forgot my room number"
They asked "what's your name?"
I gave my name
"Oh it's room 311"
No further checks
And since you can just walk into most hotels, it's super easy to get the room number for any person, take the elevator up and make a visit
Only few hotels have the elevator locked with a key card, even fewer have it locked to the floor you're in so anyone could book a room next to you
TL;DR hotels security generally means no security
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| Nov 15 |
I'm still convinced GPT-5 is just a model ran at lower steps so less GPU time and cost because OpenAI knew it had to start cutting costs
Presenting an inferior model that saves costs as superior
Users will complain a bit but quickly forget because the title says 5 and 5 is higher than 4 so must be better
And because it auto routes the difficult questions to heavy models you can get good results if you prompt heavily but just asking normal questions gets me just stupid answers
It seems wrong everytime
GPT-5 Pro at $200/mo seems different though but I pay $20/mo
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| Nov 15 |
I should have used https://t.co/9mjFqcG8Kc
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| Nov 15 |
The morning after posting this photo in Tokyo, a stranger awaited me in the lobby of my hotel
I went for breakfast and while passing through the lobby, someone on the sofa there turned around and said "Hello Pieter ๐ค "
I was like WTF ๐ณ
It turns out he was an indie hacker living in Japan (not Japanese, but Western), who'd been waiting all morning to meet me
He figured out which hotel I was staying at just from the photo below
I had a chat with him and he was nice, he had a regular job in Japan and wanted to build his own business too, all friendly and nice and fine
But still it did make me remember that rule to never post photos in a place until you've left! Because you may get instantly d0xed and visited by people
I guess obvious in 2025
Especially in a time where AI can find where any photo is taken in literally seconds, even up to the floor number you stay in a hotel, I stayed at floor 37 and it correctly guessed the range (33-38)
Beware!
https://t.co/YtRm2V1bWT
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| Nov 15 |
Finished the Windows 95 install and it runs really well
Now trying to set up dial-up internet
This interface is such an experience, maybe more so than Windows 3.11 because it's much closer to 98/ME/NT/XP etc. https://t.co/1JGqZDDGJ0
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| Nov 15 |
I love these Windows 95 pixel art graphics so much ๐ https://t.co/PTFczx6RBZ
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Installing Windows 95 fresh now because the image I had didn't have Internet Explorer working (and internet in general)
I will have to get dial-up working to dial up into https://t.co/m2bzvbHy9G and get an internet connection on https://t.co/RRYOCWrpFY with Win95 https://t.co/WDR7VDgZiW
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| Nov 15 |
You see a lot of helicopters in Tokyo https://t.co/wTqkYrJu25
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P.S. no data was lost of course, it's just a Windows 95 boot drive and I had a backup
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I am still of this opinion
GPT-5 is just highly retarded and does things Claude would never
It just told me to delete a partition, promising me the data would remain (of course it wouldn't), then after I did it all data was gone and it said "That's exactly what happened!"
๐คทโโ๏ธ https://t.co/cl50r8sUKg
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| Nov 15 |
Yep this exactly
The top 0.1% of editors (or just 4200 people) are responsible for 77% of Wikipedia edits
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| Nov 15 |
Personally I think Wikipedia died the moment its editors started to get paid by PR agencies to write whatever the agency wanted
You literally can't make a new page yourself without involving a PR agency, it will just get deleted by editors
Wikipedia became pay-to-play
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| Nov 15 |
Co-founder https://t.co/JBClKEyGjN
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| Nov 14 |
Is air quality bad in Dubai because of sand storms or actual pollution?
Last time I researched this it seemed like it was sand storms and all those did was make AQI go up to 150 but not actually make you sick or give you cancer like regular air pollution does
Is this true?
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| Nov 14 |
It's crazy AI startups raise money at about 10x the amount regular startups would
Obviously because they need that kind of money to train foundational models
And foundational models is how you get independence from or negotation power with your suppliers (like Anthropic and OpenAI)
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| Nov 14 |
Great tweet
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Revolut is one of the few European companies that actually just really great and impressive
Many of the others ones being pumped are pumped by Europeans because they're European but inferior to US products
Revolut is on-par or superior to US fintechs by now
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The screen is random benchmark on 8x H100 :D https://t.co/zgUBMrc4mK
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| Nov 14 |
The naivety on here about China from Americans is funny
Sometimes I think maybe it's not even what they actually believe in but it just helps their companies and investments to talk the party line
Being humble about and curious how the Chinese are developing things so fast seems more useful to me
I'm not American, nor Chinese, so maybe it's because of that
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| Nov 13 |
The guy behind this is Peter Hummelgaard
What's creepy is that he's from a country that's usually very common sense about most things: Denmark
So why isn't he?
And why is this his single issue he keeps pumping?
I'm not going to say it but seems highly likely he's a plant, no? https://t.co/CatugdCt6q
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Crazy
In China, Korea, Japan, Thailand and India they're already switching to High Voltage DC (HVDC) for power transmission too
https://t.co/hUEkKIzbtD
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Also https://t.co/yelUOSSCon
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| Nov 13 |
Just a month later and...
๐ช๐บ ChatControl is back!
Now they're trying to pass an even more far reaching ChatControl law through the back door, in a form even more intrusive than the originally rejected plan, without needing any of the EU countries votes
The new proposal:
- total mandatory surveillance of ALL text chats, emails and social media in the EU
- obligatory registration of your ID/passport to your chat, email or social media account
- minimum age requirement for chat, email and social media apps of 16 (!)
The only way to stop this law is if EU countries veto it
Read more here by @echo_pbreyer:
https://t.co/Yg2iXX9uWs
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| Nov 13 |
POV building an AI startup https://t.co/ZgjeR8onkN
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| Nov 13 |
This is crazy indeed
We had multiple solar companies come to sell
The biggest one when I asked if it would work when power would go down said
"Why do you need electricity when the power is down? Then it's down for eveyone anyway?"
I could not comprehend
I said "Isn't that the point of solar and batteries? Have an off grid backup
No he said "Solar and batteries are to save money, they're sustainable and you use less energy from the grid"
Completely different mindset
Anyway the company that finally installed it I had to keep pressing to make it Off Grid because it's not by default!
Why? God knows!
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P.S. this power outage seems localized to our Portuguese beach town as the rest of Portugal is up
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So Edison turns out to be right 150 years later with DC (Tesla was pushing AC and he won)
"AC can be transmitted long distances with almost no loss. DC couldnโt"
But with local power generation (solar, wind, mini nuclear plants) we don't need long distance transmission anymore
Batteries, solar, computers, data centers, phones and EV cars are all DC!
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| Nov 13 |
What is he doing wrong?
https://t.co/bRIOKY31zq
Should he try another product or improve this?
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| Nov 13 |
Can anyone explain why many countries in Europe can't scale up their electricity grid now?
How hard is it to put more power cables in the ground and up on poles? Expensive?
Telcos seem to do it with ease for fiber for example, why is it hard to do the same for power?
Curious
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| Nov 13 |
You can't legally power your own house without getting an Off Grid License in Portugal and paying for it yes
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| Nov 13 |
4 months later another power outage in ๐ต๐น Portugal!
A few days ago also lots of power outages
Luckily just in time we now installed 2x @Tesla Powerwall (27kW) and lots of solar panels
We're in Japan so didn't notice it but friends are without power now
The guy installing predicted new outages very soon and said the grid is systemically unable to deal with all the solar being produced and pumped back into it, the irony he installs solar ๐๐
We have the Off Grid license so we just disconnect and keep going, all the freezers, fridges, stove, and most of the house (except sauna and pool) keeps running on batteries
Especially important: the @starlink and @Ubiquiti router stays online so we keep having internet! During the BIG outage this year the worst was that 4G stopped working within hours and you can't communicate with anyone anymore
Depending how long we wanna go we can disconnect stuff to use less energy and with enough sun theoretically we could stay online forever!
The future is off grid โค๏ธ ๐ โ๏ธ
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https://t.co/i7SPMTMhpm
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| Nov 13 |
The respect for intelligence and education in Asia is really impressive
This is why Asia is pumping out high IQ science graduates
While the West is pumping out low IQ intersectional sociology graduates
We should be doing this too!
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They made a nice case study about ๐ก Interior AI too https://t.co/eIcZHhKxuH https://t.co/uW9NQwudLB
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| Nov 13 |
World Labs is now live for everyone!
Try it and make any image into a 3d world you can walk around in
Already on Interior AI for awhile and used by many people to get a better idea of their interior redesigns
image2world is just the first step, their end game is fully realistic world models
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| Nov 12 |
Exactly my point
Most hospitality staff now sucks at hospitality
However you believe that's due to socio-economic reasons or not
It means hotels will go fully automated without a front desk and self check in because the quality of service will be higher and the cost lower
Then there'll be a super premium tier segment left with very human, very personal and very delicate service, but only the top I think
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24/7 security at hotel
Cameras in hallways like a regular hotel
24/7 cleaners and mechanics in shift at hotel
Managed automatic and remotely (but near)
No further staff
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There's a natural tension with hotels these days I noticed
Where the staff usually makes 10x-100x less than the guests
While they have to play the fake role of "welcome sir" and "how was your day" of a luxurious experience when in reality almost no staff in hospitality actually cares about any of that anymore
Because it's a become an industry of very low pay and super fast churn so why would they? They make $1K/mo and quit within 6-12 months (depending which country)
Their guests can afford to travel the world and stay in expensive hotel rooms, while they can't
If the staff that works for you can't ever climb the social ladder or escape the system, why would they work hard for you? I surely wouldn't
There must be some socio-economic name for this effect
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| Nov 12 |
This seems to happen every time I go travel
I don't have much time to code
But I have lots of small moments of time to tweet about whatever I observe and experience because travel is so much waiting around
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X algo has never been so good
@nikitabier did his thing
So much interesting stuff at the cutting edge of society, memes, tpot, dating, tech startups, AI etc
At least that's my algo
Lots of bangers but also posts with tiny engagement I see that are intellectually stimulating
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"While Sonder entered the licensing agreement with Marriott in 2024, the two systems reportedly struggled to integrate their booking systems, which ultimately led to what executives called a โsharp decline in revenueโ"
Imagine going bankrupt because you can't make their API work
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