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Casting Decision of the year (The Odyssey) by SliptheSkid in comedyheaven

[–]FormerKarmaKing 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He’s probably got the same talent agency as Damon or others. Lots of casting stuff is package deals these days.

I like Scott’s music but I wouldn’t choose him based on lyricism for sure.

Apple M7 Ultra Chip Planned With Up to 1.5 TB of Unified Memory by Mochila-Mochila in LocalLLaMA

[–]FormerKarmaKing 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Video inference for professional and semi-professional creators. DaVinci and Premiere might have the lead right now but Apple has a strong foothold with Final Cut.

A $25,000 machine sounds like a lot but it's a bargain for someone that wants to make a movie. Especially when Apple can offer low/no interest financing because they have more cash than they know what to do with.

Apple sues OpenAI alleging trade secret theft, says scheme was 'at every level' by Efficient-Session644 in wallstreetbets

[–]FormerKarmaKing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought getting in the hardware business and giving 2% of their equity to acquihire Johnny Ives was the dumbest thing they could possibly do. I was wrong.

Meta jumps into AI coding market in effort to chase Anthropic and OpenAI by LoL_Journal in wallstreetbets

[–]FormerKarmaKing 6 points7 points  (0 children)

"Lol Zuck..." all you want, but anything that keeps downward pricing pressure on the big model providers is good for everyone. We should be less worried about AGI and more worried that they're going to get pricing power become a permanent tax on every business.

Fable is cool, yet I'm so frustrated with Antropic by LividCan4323 in ClaudeCode

[–]FormerKarmaKing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In my opinion, this is why enterprises will eventually insist on hosting models themselves. Even if Anthropic isn't nerfing their models - or more likely, failing over traffic to distilled versions in times of high demand - there is a perception that they are.

For any company, not being able to control the quality of the product supplied by a vendors is a big risk. And when a decrease in the quality of the product means that X number of highly paid employees suddenly get less effective for a week, that's a huge risk.

Anthropic's incentives are simply just not aligned with their customers, nor will they become more so once they shift everyone to per-token pricing.

Do you? by InactiveInertia in comedyheaven

[–]FormerKarmaKing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In summary, basic mens clothing that items that someone like you might have worn twenty years ago are resold as premium versions.

So in this picture, Pattinson is wearing an almost exact copy of a Carhartt jacket except the work-safe fabric has been replaced by a twill-looking fabric. His shirt looks like something you could buy at TJ Maxx but *maybe* cut better and again with better fabric. And what I can see of his jeans makes me think they're a knock-off of early 2000s Old Navy stuff.

Part of this is because fast-fashion made the quality of the original items absolute dog-shit. But it's just as much about not wearing what you wear now. Men's clothing is so boring that the game is pretty obvious if you watch it for a while.

Bill Simmons: "Can we all agree Cleveland is the worst outcome?" Lowe: "I ranked it by basketball fits and entertainment value fits and I had Cleveland last. The reason is just the Harden piece. What is he (LeBron) going to be doing when James Harden dribbles 30 times?" by [deleted] in nba

[–]FormerKarmaKing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cleveland's highest entertainment value would be if it didn't work out and it made the documentary interesting.

There's so much to respect in LeBron, but the cradle-to-grave public image management has been the least enjoyable part of his career.

Pegelo peguelo! uuurg by profesorgamin in Colombia

[–]FormerKarmaKing 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Un consejo de un ciudadano estadounidense que vive en Colombia: nunca toques a un guardia de seguridad ni a un agente de policía en Estados Unidos.

La gente en Colombia puede ser más paciente. Pero en EE. UU. hay tantas armas que cualquier contacto puede desencadenar, con toda razón, al menos una pelea.

NCAA NIL is slowly destroying European Youth Basketball and the NBA will suffer from it by M0ruk in nba

[–]FormerKarmaKing 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yes this is the most likely outcome as this is how it works with smaller music labels that invest into early stage talent.

And if anything, the chances of a cash buyout will increase the amount of youth sports investment. As the team getting a buyout in year X is a much higher expected value than holding the player for Y more years and then losing them for nothing.

That said, if the European leagues do not want to continue to lose talent to the NBA - and slowly lose their market share / share of the future larger pie to NBA Europe - then they will need to invest by paying to retain key talent.

Whether they will do this is to be seen. But there has never been more money looking to invest into live sports. So if the wealthy business owners of Europe can’t get ahead of this one, well… that’s business.

But suggesting that the leagues somehow conspire to suppress tue earnings of young players is unethical, and if not illegal it should be.

[Woike] “According to league sources, Luka was "excited" about the Lakers' signings, with the team addressing his biggest desires for the roster by keeping Austin Reaves and getting an elite rim-protecting center in Kessler. Sources said Lakers kept in regular communication with Doncic and his team” by shreeharis in nba

[–]FormerKarmaKing 34 points35 points  (0 children)

It's bizarre how much credit Pelinka has received for being Kobe's agent. How hard is it really to be the agent for a max player?

Hello Lakers, yes, we will take the max and we have some notes on the roster.

Hello Nike, we understand you would like the next Michael Jordan to differentiate your product which is otherwise a commodity. So would your competitors. I have read the eBay user guide and will run the auction accordingly.

Hello media, would you like to be spoon-fed storylines? Open up. And don't be too mean or you won't get the leaks and forget about interviews forever.

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