Hertz infamously came out of bankruptcy guns-blazing and purchased 100k cars for $4.2 billion and helped drive Tesla's market cap above $1 trillion in 2021 By 2024 they had begun dumping the EVs and reported a $2Bn loss…
I guess the fact that Paul Graham felt the urge to write and publish this in 2020 is indicative of the toxic relationship that was developing between silicon valley and the rest of the world. Unfortunately, this essay…
The Chinese gov't and also the rest of humanity... I'm not sure how everyone in the US forgot that monopolies are bad
We have an entire generation of technologists convinced that you need a monopoly for a business to be viable, so every tech company is either trying to subsidize its way into a monopoly or running a deadweight loss.…
> The state of the art models are going to get better and more expensive and smaller models are going to get cheaper. Why do you think this will be true? Right now I see the major US labs betting on gaining an advantage…
I believe this is the process that defines Julia Evans' writing (and cartooning)!
Is there any country where it is?
I've got news for you there. The Biden administration tried to take the first real antitrust action in decades and then suddenly a bunch of tech oligarchs switched from supporting Democrats to supporting a convicted…
To me the biggest (but not only) issue is that blindly connecting sensitive tools to 3rd party services has been normalized. Every time I hear the word "claw" I cringe...
They could be VC-backed and selling at a loss to grow market share
Are any inference providers currently making profit (on inference, I know google makes money)?
Hertz infamously came out of bankruptcy guns-blazing and purchased 100k cars for $4.2 billion and helped drive Tesla's market cap above $1 trillion in 2021 By 2024 they had begun dumping the EVs and reported a $2Bn loss…
I guess the fact that Paul Graham felt the urge to write and publish this in 2020 is indicative of the toxic relationship that was developing between silicon valley and the rest of the world. Unfortunately, this essay…
The Chinese gov't and also the rest of humanity... I'm not sure how everyone in the US forgot that monopolies are bad
We have an entire generation of technologists convinced that you need a monopoly for a business to be viable, so every tech company is either trying to subsidize its way into a monopoly or running a deadweight loss.…
> The state of the art models are going to get better and more expensive and smaller models are going to get cheaper. Why do you think this will be true? Right now I see the major US labs betting on gaining an advantage…
I believe this is the process that defines Julia Evans' writing (and cartooning)!
Is there any country where it is?
I've got news for you there. The Biden administration tried to take the first real antitrust action in decades and then suddenly a bunch of tech oligarchs switched from supporting Democrats to supporting a convicted…
To me the biggest (but not only) issue is that blindly connecting sensitive tools to 3rd party services has been normalized. Every time I hear the word "claw" I cringe...
They could be VC-backed and selling at a loss to grow market share
Are any inference providers currently making profit (on inference, I know google makes money)?