X formerly twitter was one of the biggest LBO in history which is typically the process PE companies acquire companies as well. Priority is to increase margin, because the leverage comes from loan and debt servicing & principal repayment are pretty big sums. Its done capex reduction. Easiest way to do it is to reduce labor cost. X went from >7000 to ~1500(I may be off on numbers)
Another is to increase revenue, so twitter blue(a subscription) and increasing incentives to be on twitter blue(no ads, potential account growth because you are shown up on follow list, no or less throttle on number of posts in feed).
This is where I land too. I do recognize the economic impact will take my livelihood too eventually.
ML algorithms are transforming the input to a latent space & learning the parameters that minimize the loss with in that space. Copyright prevents copying from the source material. But the act of mimicking style or repeating a concept mentioned elsewhere isn't protected. Sure, we'd like references in academia, but as long as the material doesn't significantly resemble the source material it has been allowed.
We are able to do it artificially now and that allows it to be done at unprecedented scale.
NAD+ is available in a supplement form very popular in longevity community.
IF/intermittent fasting induces autophagy. Also popular in longevity/health folks. Our diets are so poor, I wonder if the benefit comes from eating less or by sticking to a feeding window. But the evidence is for it. It can't hurt you as long as you meet your nutritional requirement during your feeding window.
>Limit foods high in saturated fats, added sugars, and processed carbs that can promote inflammation.
Most metabolic diseases first line of treatment is diet modification.
>cGAS/STING like quercetin, curcumin, green tea extract. However, speak to your doctor first.
Do talk to you doctor. Quercetin metabolism does interfere with hormone (I know in men) But it is inflammatory. Green tea extract could hurt kidney so be careful with the source.
>CoQ10, nicotinamide riboside, and alpha-lipoic acid
CoQ10 is a co-enzyme recommended for heart patients. In healthy adults it can't hurt. Alpha lipoic acid is an essential fatty acid. Salmon/tuna is rich in it or also available in supplement. Do take a quality source because most fatty acid supplement is rancid which can cause more harm than good
>Exercise regularly
makes sense right
>Practice stress reduction techniques like yoga and meditation which may decrease inflammatory genes.
stress produces cortisol. Chronic stress causes inflammation.
>Get sufficient sleep
Regardless of effect on longevity good sleep will just help you feel better
>sleep deprivation can increase inflammatory cytokines.
this is true
>Challenge your brain with cognitively stimulating activities
More of a thing for retirees. Thats why they do sudoku puzzles
>Quit smoking
That big "smoking kill" signs mandated by FDA is kind of for this reason. Damages the epithelium in your blood vessels and causes MI/stroke. Increases lung cancer. It doesn't apply to just tobacco but anything that can be smoked
United states would benefit greatly from approaching antitrust the way EU does it. For folks that complain about the big {pharma, tech, cell, internet, insurance} you can argue that economies of scale tends to benefit consumer, but when companies become near monopolies it gives them enormous pricing power. Parents would know that diaper prices have increased a lot and that because P&G is the only game in town.
The US has far more innovation than the EU. It’s likely primarily because of less corporate regulation. What would the modern world be like if we only had EU companies?
That it's due to the corporate regulation has to be proven.
Being an european, I would say that the first cause is cultural. Innovation for the sack of innovation isn't particurlaly viewed as positive as in the US. In many circle it's even seen as negative. Same thing for entrepreneurship, as there is a good chunk of people that see Businesses, especialy big ones, as an ennemy.
> Being an european, I would say that the first cause is cultural. Innovation for the sack of innovation isn't particurlaly viewed as positive as in the US. In many circle it's even seen as negative. Same thing for entrepreneurship, as there is a good chunk of people that see Businesses, especialy big ones, as an ennemy.
Don't be revisionist, Europe is a continent full of innovations, both industrial, scientific, and artistic
This negative mindset only appeared recently, and it seems to be spreading, so what has changed? Perhaps WW I/II, the Marshal Plan and propaganda? Looks like it's very well documented
"The Americans insisted that the German coal sales monopoly, the Deutscher Kohlenverkauf (DKV), should lose its monopoly, and that the steel industries should no longer own the coalmines.[12]: 351 It was agreed that the DKV would be broken up into four independent sales agencies."
It's like if Europe asked the US to break Microsoft into multiple small companies because it is too big lol
This is what affected Europe's ability to innovate, loosing its big industries and its ability to form big and global companies, instead was forced to open its market to the US which could expand its giants as they wish..
Oh and this one is interesting too:
"The loan was followed in 1948 by a free grant of $2.3 billion from the Marshall Plan, with no repayment. In exchange, French cinemas would replace the numerical quota with a "screen quota". This meant that French cinemas were required to show French-made films for four weeks out of every thirteen and leave the other nine weeks of every quarter open to free competition, namely from American films.[5]"
Teams was based on Skype, which was an Estonian company and product, and also on Parlano MindAlign, originally developed by UBS Group AG, a Swiss company.
Skype also sucked big time, so basically the only thing people gained from the MS acquisition was even more pain and misery with the Skype for Business and Lync products.
In what areas? Software? Fraud (including anything from crypto shit through Theranos and Juicero)? Maybe automobiles and space, maybe?
In other areas such as aviation, banking, healthcare, music streaming (did you know that practically most music streaming services outside those created by the giants of Apple, Amazon, Google as an offshoot project are European innovations - Spotify, Deezer, Tidal, Qobuz), maybe edtech and biotech, space and transportation, automobiles etc. European companies out innovate American ones.
Innovation for the sake of innovation isn't cherished in the EU, and of course it's harder to be successful in 27 different small markets than it is in one massive one. Regulations playing a part in possible, but do you have any sources to substantiate your claim it's the primary reason?
Whenever something good might happen, the EU tries to regulate it to death.
The latest example being AI: we don't have any AI companies or pioneers, but the EU already started drafting regulation around it. It feels like they want to kill every economic opportunity they can.
> Whenever something good might happen, the EU tries to regulate it to death
> The latest example being AI: we don't have any AI companies or pioneers, but the EU already started drafting regulation around it. It feels like they want to kill every economic opportunity they can.
You're looking at this one dimensionally. AI isn't just an "economic opportunity", there are actual real world things that can be impacted by it (just ask the striking actors and writers in the US). Why exactly is it a problem for there to be regulations? When Airbnb, Uber, e-scooter companies sprung up "disrupting" with no regulations covering them, they made a mess all around. I'm in favour of proactive over reactive regulations.
Not to mention, there literally is an EU startup in "AI" that got tons of money, so it's not like you can say there's only plans of regulations, there are plans of competing as well.
> As an european, the US outpaces us in every area.
Aeronautics, banking and healthcare are great counterexamples where it's not even close.
I gave one example - music streaming companies because I find it funny practically all of the dedicated ones are from the EU - and you interpret it as something to scoff at? Spotify is literally the biggest music and podcast streaming company, and among the first in the business.
Back Market, Doctolib, Ornikar, HelloFresh, GitPod, N26, Yubikey, Revolut have plenty of impact and innovation as startups.
But maybe market cap is what impact means for you, so okay - Airbus? VW? Stellantis? Alstom? Thales? Safran? Sanofi? Siemens? Robert Bosch? Bayer? Literally among the best in the world in their respective branches. For instance, Airbus is outselling and outengineering and outinnovating and outmarketing and out-everything Boeing. Did you know that apart from them not being criminally negligent with basic safety systems, they're also heavily investing in all sorts of alternatives for the future of aviation? They have projects for battery-electric and hydrogen-powered airplanes, delta-wing designs, and collaborate with engine manufacturers (to be fair, it's a French-American Joint Venture) on innovative engine designs. Meanwhile Boeing's only innovation is NASA giving them a ton of money for them to test a new wing design for them.
Only some big names I could think of in France and Germany (and Spain and Netherlands and UK for Airbus). I really should start a list that I keep up for next time this topic comes up, people regularly underestimate innovation in the EU, or are completely unaware that said innovative company is European.
Almost all the big companies you mentioned were founded 50+ years ago. When it comes to tech, yeah you can cite Spotify, but against the US big techs it's kind of cute that this is the EU's calling card. Ornikar? GitPod? Please. For each of those we could list 100, if not 1000 more successful American startups.
It's a cold, hard fact that the US has had much more successful businesses recently, particularly in tech.
So innovation only counts if it's in tech and is a recently founded company? Agree to disagree on the definition then.
The innovation Airbus is doing is a million times more important (because it can drastically reduce carbon emissions in an area that emits a lot of them and is crucial for a big part of the world) than 99% of US tech startups "reinvention" or "disrupting" common things nobody needs reinventing. Do you count Juicero in your "innovative tech" metrics?
Yeah, hotels sucked in some places, but Airbnb is not a solution but it's whole can of worms aggravating housing shortages.
Let's hope that the regulators learn from their mistakes after taking bribes [0] from the same tech companies to slow down their monopolistic actions from being scrutinised in recent years. We have given them enough time and they will never change.
So we'll start with Alphabet which in September there is progress to put them on trial over their monopoly in search and ads. [1] [2], Then Microsoft who's dominance is overdue to be broken up after destroying Slack.
Finally, Meta. Which once they reach another billion users with another social network product via Threads without federating is almost certain to be investigated this time.
The total deal was at 43 Billion. 13 billion is on twitter books. He has pledged to spend 20bills through sale of tesla stock, got a loan of 6.25bills secured by his tesla stock and ~7 bills came from other investors.
His tesla stock has appreciated considerably since the acquisition and while he has pledged to refrain from selling any more stock till(I am hazy on this detail end of 2024) he can still secure a loan against his stock to purchase hardware he pleases.
I recall every tesla has a gpu on board(dont recall the spec), and for their computer vision models their staff is potentially already has access to gpu's that could be dedicated to x.ai's research.
I like mazda approach to their infotainment. The initial boot is slow(2019 model new one may have faster boots), but once it loads, i am very happy with the way it works.
Once the car is running or over a certain speed, the touch functionality of the touch screen is disabled. The rotary dial that is easy to reach can be used to do all the functions I need on my infotainment. HVAC are physical buttons as well as volume is a physical knob.
Once I got used to the rotary dial, I never needed to touch the screen again.
This might feel less useful for CS, but for other sciences and even engineering (mechanical, aero, materials, chem, electrical, marine) you need differential eq.
And than natural sciences in general (climate, space) also have applications there.
Subjects that feel useful post graduation, if they are being taught in high school early college the time gap makes it less useful. HS and early college classes fundamentals are needed for the specialized curriculum that needed for higher college and post graduate education.
I have an iphone and appreciate carplay in my car. Tesla doesn't support Apple Car play and is fairly popular.
Most buyers wouldn't notice right away at least during the test drive and the absence of carplay will be noticed later in their ownership experience. By then the loss of payment/friction in changing cars will keep them tied to their purchase.
There is a viral clip of Lebron James saying he doesn't pay for spotify premium. If a multi millionaire can justify going through the friction of the free software, you can argue masses feel the same way.
An app/service with frictionless UX that requires subscription/fees is just going have a very small percentage of users. A developer/small team may be content with that, but VC funded outfits are advised and need to have a massive growth of user to justify further rounds. So the app/service has to be free with ads/other dark patterns to boost engagement/revenue. (exceptions that come to mind are netflix but even they have an ad tier now)
