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Whose pricing is above API rates? Not Cursor. It's 100% at each model provider's published API rate. With a bigger sub, you get it cheaper than that.

Cursor makes a ton of money because the product is great. It's easily the most sophisticated harness out there, and it isn't an IDE anymore. It's an agent dashboard since version 3.

Suffice it to say it's not all idiot money being thrown at them by users.


What needs to be "retired" is this cruel and pointless form of animal abuse.

It's not an expansion. The first line says they sold the shoe business which will continue under someone else. The company is changing names and its line of business.

That doesn't cause it to make any more sense. The leadership tab still shows the CEO is the same guy from the past 5 years, previously the President of Mountain Hardware and before that a VP at North Face, with a degree in Forestry Science.

What on earth qualifies this guy or this company to build out GPU as a service infrastructure?

The CTO is at least, as should be expected of any CTO, an actual engineer with a technical background, but he's been working in engineering leadership for Allbirds for the past 9 years, and as far as I'm aware, at no point in that duration did they own or operate data centers.

Skills can't seriously be that fungible that a complete lack of any domain-relevant experience means nothing. I have no idea how reputable "Chardan" is as an investment bank, but how on earth did they sell this to investors and who did they sell to? What on earth is a "convertible financing facility?" If I web search that, every result is a press release about Allbirds. Did this bank invent some new form of finance that only Allbirds has ever used?


You’re assuming this is a good faith effort to rebuild the company.

I have no proof of this, but if I were a gambling man, I’d bet this is a pump and dump opportunity for insiders who are stuck with large volumes of stock that has bottomed to almost nothing since the IPO.


FYI "convertible" instruments aren't new, I suspect its just unusual phrasing that's tripping up your search. "Convertible bonds" or "convertible securities" are more common terms IME. Either way it's typically a bond/security that can be held _or_ converted at a preset strike price. Eg a convertible bond has a slightly discounted coupon (interest) for the holder. The bond can be converted to a fixed number of shares (equity), effectively at at a pre defined price/share. If the per-share price appreciates the bond holder can convert at capture the vallue above their strike price. If the associated equity falls (or doesnt appreciate) the bond holder 1) holds to maturity 2) is senior to equity holders for recovery.

In short, the allbirds financiers are taking a slightly reduced interest payment in exchange for the option to capture stock price appreciation if the gamble finds a greater fool.


Allbirds ran on Shopify... was the CTO a shoe engineer?


Several world leaders would like to chat with Mark, either the real or the AI version.

Why BS your public manually when you could have an AI just make things up for you that seem plausible? This is what actual politicians do for work!


It's buggy and repeatedly dinked me for correct configurations.

thanks for the reply, could you tell me more about any issues?

Sure. Several times I turned on a light in a room with a person alone or a person with a dog and got a red box and kicked out. I think it happens around the 3rd frame. Ping me if you want more help testing. I have the same issues with my apps!

Terrific! The clock radio will never recover.

They didn't include the latest and best one, a terrific rap video that got the producer banned from YouTube.

A press website posted this archive copy:

https://youtu.be/5G9DNx7xIIc?si=XxIep3pySW7ZS8zb



Damn that shit slaps. The lyrics are actually not even that incorrect, the Epstein Regime is fucked, it's crazy how happy Americans are to humiliate themselves in front of the world and die for their paedophile regime and for Israel.

Thanks for sharing. That shit slaps :clap:

Why did he get banned?

“Violent content” according to their twitter account.

https://x.com/ExplosiveMediaa/status/2042388973729763746


Never would have found that. Poked around, interesting:

"In response to your completely valid request, and in line with the boycott of the US dollar, we have closed our USDT wallet. Please use Bitcoin or Solana instead."

https://xcancel.com/ExplosiveMediaa/status/20419442863300406...


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If this is satire it's excelent one.

Thanks, apparently others didn't appreciate or understand it, heh

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All of the lyrics that reference it are talking about the country, the government and its president. If them being pictured as making a financial trade with the US president is an "anti-semitic trope", it becomes impossible to satirize these real-world events. Is there a different real trope that I missed?

"The Jews are secretly running things to the detriment of the common person" has been a right-wing conspiracy theory for a long time, going well before even the invention of modern politics.

With that said, I think the video, looked at as a propaganda piece, threads the needle about as well as possible - it sticks strictly to referring to Israel as a country, but also just as importantly frames Trump as the primary actor rather than taking direction from Israel.


Equating the government and its president to Jews in general is a massive disservice, and truly antisemitic, towards the hundreds of thousands of Jews[0] who directly oppose them. The video showed the former. I realize that the second part of your comment means you're not doing so, but the person saying that the video at that timestamp showed an anti-semitic trope, was doing so.

[0]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Street https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Voice_for_Peace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IfNotNow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_Now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_Together_(movement)

Among dozens of other smaller groups.


This is super cool! The cockpit view is the best feature. But I had trouble finding it again after picking a different plane. Maybe a dedicated button for that on the map?

Love it.


cockpit button is on the left side panel under flight details

The use of wishy washy language is fab. They don't show ads; ads "will be available." (passive voice)

Also, ads don't affect chat content but of course chat content affects ads, which is the whole point.


>Also, ads don't affect chat content but of course chat content affects ads, which is the whole point.

Given that Anthropic's superbowl ad implied otherwise, I think it's a fair distinction to call about. Not to mention basically every advertising network uses context in their ads. Given the choice between ads and no ads, I'd obviously want no ads, but just like google, you need to pay the bills somehow, and not everyone can afford a $20/month claude subscription.


I'm curious when OpenAI will be able to start paying the bills. Because I can't think of any amount of ads which will dig them out of their hole.

They don't really need to tho, they can actually keep raising money for a decade.

Then why run ads?

More money as there is never enough.

In Google Gemini, ads do affect chat as they're native affiliate links right inside the chat, it's somewhat annoying.

Affecting chat would mean the chat answer would be different because of ads.

Btw this should be easily testable by comparing free and paid accounts


In Gemini it is different. Looks like they have a system prompt to push Google Shopping links regardless of whether the user asks for it or not, I've noticed.

> chat content affects ads, which is the whole point.

What happens when I am constantly violating usage terms by calling ChatGPT mean names for ignoring my explicit instructions and trying to turn everything into a trite creative writing project.

"Not programming. Not efficiencies. Terrible, terrible poetry."


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