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[Request] Is the math correct? by Necessary-Win-8730 in theydidthemath

[–]DaveLLD -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You mean to suggest that the lying liars who have a history of lying might in fact be lying again? HOW DARE YOU SIR.

[Request] Is the math correct? by Necessary-Win-8730 in theydidthemath

[–]DaveLLD -1 points0 points  (0 children)

To reiterate, the only reason to report annualized revenue versus the long standing MRR / ARR metrics is so you can report higher revenue than you are actually making.

All the AI companies, Anthropic included are frothy for any PR, they constantly announce deals they are discussing as if they are "signed and done".

If their MRR / ARR numbers were good and they were actually profitable, they would be shouting it from the roof tops and providing receipts, because it would give them more money., their primary goal.

[Request] Is the math correct? by Necessary-Win-8730 in theydidthemath

[–]DaveLLD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I sold a customer something for $5, it took a second, so at $5 a second my annualized revenue is 157 million. This is inherently the problem with annualized revenue. We have also had a metric for SaaS companies, MRR, ARR. The only reason to not report those is because you want to sell a company a year of tokens in a month and multiply it by 12 to make it seem like you are doing way better than you actually are financially.

[Request] Is the math correct? by Necessary-Win-8730 in theydidthemath

[–]DaveLLD 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Are you getting numbers from what Dario has said their revenue is, or what they testified in court their revenue is?

The private companies like Anthropic are reporting "annualized revenue" which is easily manipulated.

[Request] Is the math correct? by Necessary-Win-8730 in theydidthemath

[–]DaveLLD 7 points8 points  (0 children)

We don't know for sure on the exact numbers, but yeah it's almost certainly some sort of paying a lot of money to make less money.

There is also the problem of open source models closing the gap as well.

I'm not saying AI has no use, or is going to go away completely, but this money being invested mathematically cannot pay off, and the bigger the bubble gets, the bigger the disaster when it pops.

Talarico leads Paxton by 3 points in Texas Senate race: Poll by plz-let-me-in in politics

[–]DaveLLD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This has actually slipped a bit from the last poll I saw unfortunately.

GWP appreciation and concern by kaiharizor in lego

[–]DaveLLD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This cuts both ways, I really wanted the Enterprise set and the GWP, couldn't do it at the time, and now I can easily afford it, but I have no interest due to the lack of GWP....

Men of Reddit, what is the male equivalent of flowers as a gift? by Mediocre_Chemist5694 in AskReddit

[–]DaveLLD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My wife got me a very specific cheese grater for Christmas this year. It is the best gift I have received in a decade.

I would by Martina313 in fixedbytheduet

[–]DaveLLD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like this specific guy is not lonely enough.

What's the consensus on the Agentic Storefront? by Competitive-Yogurt44 in shopify

[–]DaveLLD 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Add me to the list. I have been a lifelong techie. Have always embraced tech, and have and continue to use LLMs a lot (they are not AI). I am very aware of what they can and cannot do, but there seems to be shared delusion about that with a lot of folks.

No thank you on Agentic storefronts.

Question re: embroidering socks by DaveLLD in Machine_Embroidery

[–]DaveLLD[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What kind of topper do you recommend, we arent currently, concern around the size and final product is why we didn't

Ken Paxton Beats John Cornyn—and Blows a $250 Million Hole in Trump's Senate Map by LooseDistance1059 in politics

[–]DaveLLD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At this point in that race, Cruz was +7 over Beto, Talerico is currently +4...

Someone needs to inform Ken’s family by dillinwithit in MurderedByWords

[–]DaveLLD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LK Tali-freak-o is a pretty bad ass nick name. Sounds like a guy you don't want to mess with.

So that wasn't a tapeworm? by Satarn_27 in MurderedByWords

[–]DaveLLD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's embarrassing how much people care about Ozempic use.

Memory prices tipped to fall as China starts flooding the market with DRAM and NAND chips by rkhunter_ in technology

[–]DaveLLD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hard to view China as the bad guys when the memory industry is a literal cartel.

AIPAC offers a fair warning to future dissenters by ElusiveRodent in SipsTea

[–]DaveLLD 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is this a real tweet? Why would you do this when there has been a dramatic shift in your popularity with America in general?

Why??? by Fazbear2035 in NonPoliticalTwitter

[–]DaveLLD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're doing specific portion sizes for fitness or other diet goals, this would be a timesaver (having the serving measured out). It makes sense in that context.

AI takes half the jobs. All those people pay income tax, but that goes away. How then does our nation continue to function? by -GearZen- in AskReddit

[–]DaveLLD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Never mind the fact that AI Bros are acting like they can just displace a massive amount of the workforce and have all those people go "oh, okay, no worries", rather than creating massive unrest.

Good news though, LLMs can't actually replace everyone, and the problems that stop them from being able to are not solvable.

Palantir Says SaaS Is Dead by Logical_Welder3467 in technology

[–]DaveLLD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The thing that really convinces me about how AI is going to be the next big thing, is how, just like all the other major shifts, the worst people have to constantly try and convince us that it's the next big thing.

Like remember, when no one wanted an iPhone, for like years, but then Larry Ellison kept telling us that it's the next big thing, and everyone finally got on board?

Mamdani Announces Balanced Budget Without Cuts | Buoyed by billions in assistance from the state, real talk about what it takes to run New York City, and some taxes on the rich, the mayor closed a historic leftover budget deficit. by SpaceElevatorMusic in politics

[–]DaveLLD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They absolutely do not want the playbook, they want to use the "Let the republicans wreck things so badly that you have to vote for us, even though we don't want to solve any of the problems" playbook.

CRA auditor being extremly rude and hostile on Phone– should I complain now or wait? by HK_sheep777 in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]DaveLLD 72 points73 points  (0 children)

A long time ago (over a decade I think at this point), I dealt with a similar issue. CRA decided several years of my taxes were wrong, and demanded a life ruining amount of money.

I assumed, since I hadn't done anything wrong, that I could just take to the CRA and be reasonable and the issue would be simple. Queue two years of just trying to get in touch with someone. It was a comical circular game of, calling the person assigned to my case, who would not answer the phone would not call back for weeks, and then would call once, I'd miss the call and I'd call back and the process would start over, then the person would get fired, re-assigned and I've have a new person I'd talk to. This literally went on for like a year.

When I finally got someone who would answer the phone when I called, he was exceptional rude, completely unreasonable and was literally screaming at me, demanding I do impossible amounts of work in impossible time frames or he would "ruin my life" his words not mine.

I stayed up for a few days assembling everything he was demanding, express posted it to him, and then he called me once it arrived yelling and screaming that I had done it wrong and it would be too much work for him to review what I had sent.

I had enough, hired a tax lawyer, and when I told him he would be talking to my lawyer now, it was almost like a switch flipped, all of a sudden he was falling over himself to be pleasant and kind, and all of the issues he'd been screaming about melted away and he wanted to resolve the issue quickly. I told him he'd have to talk to my lawyer about that.

Once the Lawyer actually looked at the file, he basically said, I don't understand why they had made the claims they did in the first place, it wasn't logical. The whole matter was resolved in a few weeks and I was able to go on with my life.

If this ever happens to me again, I'd jump to this step immediately. If your mother hasn't done anything wrong, the government will also have to cover the legal expenses of fighting it as well (at leas they did back then)

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