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& Optimus team — detailed brainstorm on gamified low cost crowd-sourced training for Optimus via competitions, virtual sims, themes like Occupy Mars, and more.
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First WeWork, then OpenAI
SoftBank signals it may slow its AI spending after a $7 billion loss
SoftBank is weighing a pullback from its aggressive AI investments after swinging to a $7 billion quarterly loss.
“It is only natural that there is some discussion now about waiting and seeing how things play out for a little while,” CFO Yoshimitsu Goto said.
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This is a crazy stat:
Over the past five years, the Bitcoin network's COST BASIS has beaten the S&P 500.
Realized price (the avg. on-chain cost of every BTC) vs. SPY total return, from Nov 11, 2021, the week of the last cycle top:
BTC cost basis: +129% (~18%/yr)
SPY incl. dividends: +75% (~12%/yr)
The average price every coin on the network last moved at is up 129% since Nov 2021.
It lagged through the 2023 bear market, overtook SPY in March 2024, and hasn't trailed since.
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Hung Cao, Acting Secretary of the Navy.
Cao entered the Navy as a Seaman Recruit in 1989 and was later commissioned as a Special Operations Officer from the United States Naval Academy in 1996. As a Navy Diver, Cao led underwater missions around the world. As an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Officer, he led counter improvised threat missions for Special Warfare and Special Forces around the world with multiple deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia. In his final tour of duty, he led sensitive activities, exploitation, counter-messaging and counter-drone operations in support of the Geographic Combatant Commanders and Special Operations Command. He retired from active duty in October 2021 as a Captain.
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Anybody claiming that this is possible has lost their mind.
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🚨 MAMDANI IS COMING FOR YOUR PROPERTY RIGHTS
Team Mamdani wants government-approved nonprofits to get first crack at private property sales.
How much real estate experience does he have?
Zero.
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OpenAI has an operating loss of roughly $13.5 billion when including stock-based compensation.
Are we really supposed to believe Sam Altman that the IPO was delayed for safety?
Exclusive: OpenAI grew revenue by roughly 50% to $10 billion from the second to the third quarter, but continued to report heavy operating losses, showing mixed results in its effort to catch up with industry leader Anthropic on.wsj.com/48eQrWv
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Veterans Day: Meet 101-year-old Petty Officer 2nd Class Edward “Eddie” D. Desmond, who served at Okinawa.
I met Eddie on November 10. He turned 101 and shares the same birthday as the Marine Corps, the day before Veterans Day.
On November 11, Desmond is being honored at the Veterans Day Wreath Laying Ceremony at the United States Navy Memorial.
TRUE STORY: Eddie served at Okinawa because he hated cold weather and liked cooking.
Veterans advocate Christopher M. Lehman shared Eddie’s story.
"When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Eddie was just 16 years old—too young to serve in the armed forces. He enlisted in the Navy in early 1944 at age 17.
After boot camp, he was given the choice to serve either as an armed guard (gunner) on a merchant supply ship doing convoy duty in the cold North Atlantic or as a ship’s cook on a ship in the Pacific.
Since he didn’t like cold weather and he did like to cook, the choice was easy.
Within months, he found himself as a cook on a small ship heading across the Pacific and was destined to participate in what became the bloodiest and one of the longest and hardest campaigns in the history of U.S. naval warfare—the Battle of Okinawa.
By early May 1945, 20-year-old Petty Officer 2nd Class Desmond had already been exposed to heavy combat.
He had also discovered that the ship’s cook on these small ships had additional duties when the ship was engaged in combat or the crew was at Battle Stations.
His battle station was at a 20-millimeter anti-aircraft gun on the starboard side of his ship.
He also witnessed the devastating effects of Japanese kamikaze suicide planes hitting other ships—many much larger than his—with some sinking in minutes and with tremendous loss of life.
As one of the last (and likely the final) surviving sailors from the roughly 10,000 men who served on the 130 Landing Craft Support ships known as LCSs during World War II, Eddie has helped preserve their history.
After the jump, a GoFundMe page has been set up to help keep the historic USS LCS-102 operating as a museum ship in California.👇
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Many such cases
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100GW in space is roughly equal to 800GW on Earth.
Moreover, solar on Earth must be paired with massive batteries to continue powering compute at night and supplemented with combustion or nuclear power during winter.
These are not the same at all.
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Veterans Day gives me the opportunity to honor our Vets comicallyincorrect.com/categ…
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Robotaxi hits 5 million unsupervised miles.
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THREE POLICE CHIEFS SOLD ARMED ROBBERIES THAT NEVER HAPPENED.
Five thousand dollars a name. That is what a Louisiana convenience store owner paid them to write a foreign national into a fake robbery report and sign the federal form that says the victim helped police.
That form is the U visa. Congress built it so crime victims who cooperate with police can stay in the country. In central Louisiana the police were inventing the crimes.
Chandrakant "Lala" Patel of Oakdale got ten years Monday from a federal judge, and gets deported when he gets out. The chiefs of Oakdale, Forest Hill and Glenmora and an Oakdale marshal got five years each. Prosecutors put the fake reports in the hundreds. Most of the "victims" didn't even live in Louisiana.
Patel's own U visa, granted in 2023, was for an armed robbery too.
I read the indictment. It lists twenty-four of the fake victims by initial and last name. Every last name is Patel.
Nobody was ever robbed. The country was. 💎
