Surplus? LOL!! If we cut a massive $1T from our nearly $2T deficit every year that would be considered a radical success. Thats how screwed up things are. Nobody is even talking about a BUDGET SURPLUS here. Sometimes I…
At this point I think its more of a strategic reserve of gold for non-financial purposes. In terms of our budget/debt/spending its not a significant amount. We could sell it all and make not one dent in anything.
"I'm always surprised to see a fair amount of support for DOGE here. I'd love to understand why these people think this is OK." So consider the guy who makes $100k/year and spends $200k/year. Over the course of enough…
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For those stateside you can still do this in a local office apparently. Not ideal but its not as if passport issuance has been suspended. The site is under maintenance to remove modifications made for more than 2…
This is the playbook of a company moving from "Growth" to "Maturity". Of note: In August 2024, Alphabet announced a quarterly dividend of $0.20 per share, totaling $0.80 annually, resulting in a dividend yield of…
Personally I view the tariffs as a threat to get compliance. Its possible the goal is to get them to "have a brilliant idea" and invest in some American production. I don't know why but Asking Nicely never works for…
Perhaps the opposite is true: Maybe Zuck found the courage to stand up for what he's come to believe in as he's matured as a person and a leader. Maybe what we're seeing now is a Zuck thats willing to say No More. Its…
@iExploder has been a consultant in a previous life - this is a more realistic plan than it sounds
Where is the solo founder startup thats up and running today where the non-technical founder used AI to generate all code and infrastructure? You are precisely correct. However I use AI regularly to write what Ive come…
Tell him your accounting department can only issue paper checks. Get his name and address "for the check" or course. Also your accounting department can't issue any check with out an invoice, so he needs to give you a…
Billionaires keep their massive wealth invested in assets rather than cash in their checking account. We had significant inflation in '24 and with that dollars got smaller. The resulting impact is that the billionaire…
Technical Cofounder here: I presume we're all living some parallel life. Forcing founders/investors/biz people to think it even 10% through was always really hard. It's like they have some kind of dopamine addiction…
I always found the whole thing odd personally. The Venn Diagram of people who both need to run a service in the cloud AND cannot manage an EC2 instance is a seemingly small set of people. I never saw the advantage to it…
"I have had several conflicts with founders because I act outside of my scope (I.E, I do things they think is a waste of my time: like budget forecasts, headcount plans, retrospectives of milestones and previously I was…
Well, it historically hasn't been every day ... that may be changing now
The Danish government is and has been well under their 2% NATO commitment. I can see a case where in the face of the requirement being moved up from 2%, Denmark may need the money. Lets not forget about the 57K people…
I wonder if you're missing my point here. Whatever Trump did or didn't do, whatever he represents to you, whatever evil things he's been accused of ... 77 million American voters chose him over a willing and available…
Not possible in the US. Musk isn't a born American but a naturalized citizen. He can never be president without a constitutional amendment and that isn't going to happen ever.
I agree this is the current plan from Trump adversaries. They recognize the combined power of Trump's POTUS authority and Musk's money and they're anxious to try and exploit any opening they can find no matter how…
Alternatively, perhaps Trump has secured himself the use of a billionaires money? Personally I wonder who the puppet is in this situation.
Surplus? LOL!! If we cut a massive $1T from our nearly $2T deficit every year that would be considered a radical success. Thats how screwed up things are. Nobody is even talking about a BUDGET SURPLUS here. Sometimes I…
At this point I think its more of a strategic reserve of gold for non-financial purposes. In terms of our budget/debt/spending its not a significant amount. We could sell it all and make not one dent in anything.
"I'm always surprised to see a fair amount of support for DOGE here. I'd love to understand why these people think this is OK." So consider the guy who makes $100k/year and spends $200k/year. Over the course of enough…
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For those stateside you can still do this in a local office apparently. Not ideal but its not as if passport issuance has been suspended. The site is under maintenance to remove modifications made for more than 2…
This is the playbook of a company moving from "Growth" to "Maturity". Of note: In August 2024, Alphabet announced a quarterly dividend of $0.20 per share, totaling $0.80 annually, resulting in a dividend yield of…
Personally I view the tariffs as a threat to get compliance. Its possible the goal is to get them to "have a brilliant idea" and invest in some American production. I don't know why but Asking Nicely never works for…
Perhaps the opposite is true: Maybe Zuck found the courage to stand up for what he's come to believe in as he's matured as a person and a leader. Maybe what we're seeing now is a Zuck thats willing to say No More. Its…
@iExploder has been a consultant in a previous life - this is a more realistic plan than it sounds
Where is the solo founder startup thats up and running today where the non-technical founder used AI to generate all code and infrastructure? You are precisely correct. However I use AI regularly to write what Ive come…
Tell him your accounting department can only issue paper checks. Get his name and address "for the check" or course. Also your accounting department can't issue any check with out an invoice, so he needs to give you a…
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Billionaires keep their massive wealth invested in assets rather than cash in their checking account. We had significant inflation in '24 and with that dollars got smaller. The resulting impact is that the billionaire…
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Technical Cofounder here: I presume we're all living some parallel life. Forcing founders/investors/biz people to think it even 10% through was always really hard. It's like they have some kind of dopamine addiction…
I always found the whole thing odd personally. The Venn Diagram of people who both need to run a service in the cloud AND cannot manage an EC2 instance is a seemingly small set of people. I never saw the advantage to it…
"I have had several conflicts with founders because I act outside of my scope (I.E, I do things they think is a waste of my time: like budget forecasts, headcount plans, retrospectives of milestones and previously I was…
Well, it historically hasn't been every day ... that may be changing now
The Danish government is and has been well under their 2% NATO commitment. I can see a case where in the face of the requirement being moved up from 2%, Denmark may need the money. Lets not forget about the 57K people…
I wonder if you're missing my point here. Whatever Trump did or didn't do, whatever he represents to you, whatever evil things he's been accused of ... 77 million American voters chose him over a willing and available…
Not possible in the US. Musk isn't a born American but a naturalized citizen. He can never be president without a constitutional amendment and that isn't going to happen ever.
I agree this is the current plan from Trump adversaries. They recognize the combined power of Trump's POTUS authority and Musk's money and they're anxious to try and exploit any opening they can find no matter how…
Alternatively, perhaps Trump has secured himself the use of a billionaires money? Personally I wonder who the puppet is in this situation.