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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • it is possible to rigorously say that 1/0 = ∞. this is commonly occurs in complex analysis when you look at things as being defined on the Riemann sphere instead of the complex plane. thinking of things as taking place on a sphere also helps to avoid the “positive”/“negative” problem: as |x| shrinks, 1 / |x| increases, so you eventually reach the top of the sphere, which is the point at infinity.





  • Board chair Robyn Denholm wrote in a letter included in the regulatory filing: “Elon has not been paid for any of his work for Tesla for the past six years… That strikes us, and the many stockholders from whom we already have heard, as fundamentally unfair.”

    Musk’s compensation for 2023 was $0, the filing showed, as the billionaire does not take a salary from the company and is compensated through stock options.

    it’s so unfair that elon hasnt gotten a single pay check and has instead had to settle for making billions off of his stock options. think of all the mega yachts and social media companies he could’ve bought if only he had been paid a salary.



  • Everybody knows what free speech means.

    i really dont think so.

    free speech is a pretty complicated thing and i feel like many people dont have a solid grasp on it. i think a good number of people think they know what free speech means because they know “it only applies to what the government can do to you”, but there’s quite a bit more to it than that. like how to deal with hate speech, threats, misinformation, disinformation, etc.

    and this is directly related to the problems twitter is facing: elon musk started out by saying hes a “free speech absolutist”, but twitter has been slowly rediscovering why “free speech absolutism” doesnt work. and you can see those discoveries in real time with twitter reintroducing moderation policies (among other things)









  • i feel like it’s going to be another case of the ipad. i dont really remember anyone thinking the original ipad had a reason to exist when it came out (myself included). but after 8-10 years or so, it found a problem that it could solve. (it’s a nice way to take handwritten notes.) it’s not really necessary now, but it’s certainly way more useful than the original ipad was when it first came out.

    i dont think the original vision pro will be that useful to anyone, but it might start a line of products that leads to something interesting in 8-10 years. or not, who knows.


  • im not really sure i understand what you’re trying to say here. it seems like you’re just listing a bunch of problems and insinuating they’re either unsolvable or too hard to solve.

    if you want to look at how to solve “the big problem” with homelessness, you could look at how finland is actively solving it, for example.

    and i dont really know of many people who think that if “corpos stop being greedy”, then all the problems will be fixed. my experience is that people tend to instead think the problem is “it’s really bad that our laws cater to greedy corporations, and allow them to do terrible things. so, we should change those laws”.

    but i dont know, maybe im misreading what you said or maybe im missing something.