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As a rule: don't bother with trying to "opt out" of data collection. Reject the collection entirely either by forcefully blocking it (ublock Origin for instance) or straight up not using the service.


If I try and run an unsigned program, the UAC window will be yellow, but I can run it with zero issue.

I cannot do the same thing on MacOS with the same ease, and that's the issue.


Yes I don't understand what he means. On Windows you can basically tone down the security to the point you basically tell it to shut up and let you do anything you want, including shooting yourself in the foot (which is fine by me).

On macOS you have to resolved to various tricks to be able to run stuff you have decided you want to run, for whatever reason.


A bet against Nvidia is smart. A bet against Palantir is not. Palantir has become deeply integrated into the surveillance states of America, and won't be going anywhere anytime soon.


But it has an unreasonable P/E ratio. The price is simply wrong.

It doesn't matter if it's the best firm ever and will get its dividends forever. You still calculate reasonably.

People say this kind of thing about Tesla as well, and Tesla has been stuck as a slightly-smaller-than-Mercedes-Benz sized firm for years and will stay like that forever, or even shrink relative to MB.

NVIDIA has a much more reasonable P/E ratio, even though it is of course very high.


Given that the market has moved so strongly away from dividends in favour of stock buybacks and other reinvestment (i.e. the successful companies are now much more often "growth" companies rather than "value" companies), and given e.g. Buffett's wisdom about total return, I don't know that traditional rules of thumb about P/E make sense any more.


In the end the value is just discounted dividends or there's an arbitrage opportunity under the risk neutral measure.

This isn't a matter of rules of thumb. This is what's required to have prices that do not create an arbitrage opportunity.


Welll....

I'm old enough to remember it being impossible to imagine a world without the USSR in it.


Putin still can't imagine it.


Palantir is trading at 80x revenue (NTM), whereas Nvidia is only trading at 19x revenue (NTM).

Both companies are growing revenue at a similar rate (~50% YoY), and Nvidia has a higher net margin, however Palantir's share price is up 717% over 18 months, whereas Nvidia is only up 124%.

It's hard to argue Palantir's valuation reflects its fundamentals, even if you believe Palantir will be benefit from lucrative government contracts for years to come.

Buying companies at 80x revenue has not historically been a great way to make money, unless they're growing revenue at several hundred percent per year.


Does that mean it should trade at a 600 P/E?


Where does "most moral" come from?


Per Wikipedia, the idea that the IDF is the "most moral army in the world" comes from Colonel Richard Kemp, a retired British army officer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purity_of_arms


It's a throwaway line Israeli officials have been using for a long time. I heard Netanyahou himself use it to describe the IDF and explain it can't possibly do wrong.

https://x.com/IsraeliPM/status/1745501858611786029?lang=en


Trustworthy enough to shitpost behind? Sure.

Trustworthy to break some actual laws behind? Absolutely not.


This is really cool, but also totally something you'd think existing AI agents should have zero issues with. _Especially_ if they're supposed to be for coding, I'd expect loads of documentation to be baked-in, so to speak


On the consumer side...

Smart people know to choose AMD. OEMs heavily favor Intel for the brand recognition. It's the same on the workstation side, though AMD's market share has been rising quite fast (it's apparently at a 36.5% share) so I'm unsure if system integrators will keep pushing their Intel SKUs so heavily.

So they're not cooked, but they're certainly not doing well and barring a massive jump in performance or efficiency, they're not going to be making a recovery any time soon.


Not to mention, if an employee could usually write pretty good code but maybe 30% of the time they wrote something so non-functional it had to be entirely scrapped, they'd be fired.


But what if he only want 20$/per month?


Lobbying, probably


Considering the DoD's budget, $200M is chump change


Also true when considering the size of the companies.


And a drop in the ocean what those companies are losing too on an annual basis.


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