Barclays downgrades Apple: Here's what you need to know - YouTubeTesla Deliveries Meet Estimates, Falls Behind BYD in Sales - YouTubeWorld's richest billionaires add $1.5 trillion in wealth during '23 after losing $1.4T in '22 - YouTubeBitcoin soars to kick off 2024, topping $45,000 for first time since April 2022: CNBC Crypto World - YouTubeBitcoin is driven by global liquidity: Marathon Digital CEO - YouTubeWhen it's risk off or when people need to sell a bit of their portfolio. Or when they want to avoid a volatile investment.
Costs to mine, during the halving, low to mid $20ks is breakeven. Marathon went from 7x a hash to 25x.
Government might delay or reject the ETF, or might approve it.
YouTube now has one or sometimes two non-skippable ads before videos quite frequently. This is beyond what even I am willing to sit through. I found an alternative so no ads play, something I didn't want to do, as I recognize ads as the way to fund publishing, and am generally against adblockers. However, this is too much, and YouTube has dominated the market for online free videos, partially through unfair anticompetitive measures, and are about the only platform. If they were one participant in a rich market of online videos, or if they didn't have what I now consider way too much advertising for the offered product, I would not have to do this.
Amazon, I bought a laptop there, and after they already completed the sale, retroactively went and ‘froze’ my 5-year account (so their customer service couldn't even ‘see it’ and help), and wanted me to phone in to verify, a certain manipulation of leverage to violate privacy. Note that this wasn't before accepting the contract of sale (which is anyone's right), but after they already made the sale. I will use Amazon as little as possible henceforth. I can but things from Walmart, computer manufacturers, etc.
Note that Amazon also manipulates their reddit sub. When you post something, they have an auto-reply saying you may only post complaints on a given thread on a certain day called ‘meltdown’ (as if any complaints are the fault of the customer who just can't handle things). They don't say the post is removed, so you think it's published. But if you view their page in a private browser, you won't see your post because it's not public.
Why Everyone is Abandoning GoPro - YouTubeHow cheap it's going to be to copy an existing business in 2024. - Chamath. Create these really cheap
and then basically attack the existing big business which have just a lot of upside-down economics because they've taken on so many costs, employees. GPT can replicate this for free.
Pro sports franchise/enterpirse values peak? - Chamath. Live Tour versus PGA forced PGA to merge. Country SA bought Christiano. College athletes will be making millions. Uptick in churn at Netflix.
BTFP, used to bail out regionals last year, supposed to be a temporary program of 1 year, but banks might not be strong enough to survive without this funding (impaired comercial debt portfolios, and until the yield curve deinverts).
GPTs, the request time length is way too long (30 or 90 seconds versus should be milliseconds), and the cost of credits is too high.
Will decline in military resources and appetite for spending resources lead to an increased risk of nuclear weapon use? - Friedburg
Many AIs and they might value down 70 or 80% this year. Just like having 15 search engines.
Competition is coming on in software engineers, with AI.