Well, that explains why corporate is so intent on them. They’re creating the perfect little KPI-driven stooge.

Heck, now I’d like to see a study on KPIs (as a concept) as a reality distortion lens. It would seem like they have inadvertantly created a way to calculate a reality alignment index for a given KPI. Is it reasonable to conclude that using KPIs to measure performance is, in itself, unethical behavior?

To go a bit further: Is there a correlation between the number of KPIs and the likelihood of creating scenarios in which the only desirable outcome lies outside reality? That is, how many KPIs does it take to get sufficient competition between priorities that it effectively requires hallucinating a solution to achieve a sufficiently aligned result?

I got you:

The answer, they found, is that working muscles effectively outcompete tumors for the glucose supply. Because muscle contraction increases glucose uptake, exercise shifts metabolism, causing tumors to receive less of the fuel they need to grow.

Nailed it. Down to the use of the word “fuel”.

Just remember that actual profit isn’t important to investors. They’re only here make money on the growth of the investment.

Goddamn parasites.

5B run rate explains the wild 183B valuation better. The calculus is usually a solid return after 3 years and double or better by 5, so they’re being on something like a 500B valuation by 2030.

And they very likely won’t be profitable in the real sense even then.

I see. That definitely makes 13B way more sane.

$500 million in run-rate revenue

Absolutely astounding that they can raise $13B on a sixth round of funding on that.

For the less finance jargon savvy, “run-rate revenue” just means projected annual revenue.

All this means they spent 3 years of revenue to make this go away.

Absolutely not a profitable business lol.

Mongo DB popularized the “document DB” model which is just storing JSON in a database and offering a way to interact with it roughly like you would data in a traditional relational DB.

7ish years ago, they got fed up with the major cloud providers offering their free software as a service and changed their license to one that is more restrictive.

Of course this is sort of the inevitable outcome: a cloud provider builds a competing product and then “open sources” it in a way that will allow them to grab mind share and eventually erode the company that dared to demand compensation for a “free” product.

Microsoft added a middle finger by announcing it just before mongo released quarterly financials too.

I like and understand where you’re going, but I can offer some actual experience. I learned my legal first name at 8.

It didn’t go down well (I cried because the teacher didn’t call my name and sent me to the school office to get it sorted) and I had a weird complex about the real name into high school. There’s no rhyme or reason to the two names, so it is actually sort of surprising to pair the two. To this day I still go by the nickname I thought was my real name. My nieces and nephews still enjoy discovering my real name and calling me by it thinking it’s a big secret they’ve discovered. I still have to explain it a hundred times a year to new coworkers and acquaintances.

887 thousands.

So, less than the Bronx (1.4M), but more than Staten Island (450k).

About the same as Indianapolis, IN, USA or Donetsk, Ukraine.

So, 1 medium city’s worth.

Nice!

We’re just about to cross the 8MWh line for the year.

We don’t have battery backup set up, but we did just get a Ford Lightning with that in mind.

I really need to setup home assistant.

And I helped! With my tiny 15MWh/yr

My wife has an anaphylactic allergy to whey. I guess we’ll now be waiting for the day she has a reaction to “vegan” milk.

Besides drip, Euki (github) is another option on both the play store and iOS.

Note that both of these options are maintained by tiny teams with limited resources.

They can depreciate these assets over their useful life, because unlike your soggy flesh sack, these are capital expenses, not operating expenses.

… For now. I’m sure there are libertarians that think you should be able to sell yourself as the depreciable asset you are.

Asked the same question I was gonna, so I did the googling.

https://github.com/openconstruct/Peersuite

AGPL

Ah yes, the cherry-pick and ad hominem.

The previous several paragraphs were more concerning.

For example:

MintPress News said it was a for-profit “regular news organization,” with an initial business plan where advertising revenues would exceed costs after three years.[12] MintPress’s anonymous investors were originally intended to fund MintPress operations until 2015.[2] The editor had investors, who Muhawesh claimed were “retired businesspeople”, but she would not name them, a situation MinnPost said was “unfortunate for a journalism operation fighting alongside people seeking transparency. The site’s ‘About Us’ page is similarly skinny.”[12]

The irony of your insinuating I don’t check my sources when my comment is about precisely that is both amusing and disheartening. Shouldn’t we all exercise this caution?

This seems like good reporting, and there is literally 0 coverage from this angle elsewhere that I could find.

For what it’s worth, I’ve been to Palestine and inevitably Israel. I have lobbied my congressional representatives to cease support for Israel. I voted “ceasefire” in the Democratic primary. But because I happen to think the source you chose is questionable and come from a different instance, I must support the apartheid regime.

And indeed I chose .world in the reddit API migration when .ml was actively encouraging sign ups on other instances, please forgive my terrible oversight.

I hope you have a better day.

The last time this was posted it didn’t have the link and was taken down.

This source has a seriously questionable objective to say the least.

I’m cool with critique of this acquisition, but I’d love to see it verified by a more reputable source.

You might enjoy the full blog post from the author:

https://micahflee.com/despite-misleading-marketing-israeli-company-telemessage-used-by-trump-officials-can-access-plaintext-chat-logs/

Here’s a link to the original article (from the same author) on the platform you should actually subscribe to.

https://www.404media.co/the-signal-clone-the-trump-admin-uses-was-hacked/