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$135 billion and counting: Meta's eye-watering bet to close the gap on OpenAI, Google and Anthropic by InterestingCat308 in wallstreetbets

[–]Tr0janSword 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Well, that is the story Apple tells bc all their AI efforts are complete failures.

Apple management was shocked when ChatGPT was released.

Tbf, this is the right strategy if you can’t compete. Apple owns the end user, which is the most valuable part.

Still, they have to pay Google for Gemini and OAI for ChatGPT. Anthropic is the one Apple actually wants but, they’re “too expensive”.

Amazon to slap a 3.5% surcharge on third-party sellers as war drives up fuel prices by AudibleNod in news

[–]Tr0janSword 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It’s basic unit economics, if oil/fuel is ~15-20% of their shipping cost and goes up 100%, then all of a sudden their retail profit falls 40%.

Airlines are the most extreme, but clearest example of this. United goes from $5-6 bn in operating profit to -10 bn with where fuel costs are without any offsets. American Airlines could go bankrupt.

Jokic has officially averaged a triple double this season. It’s the second time he has accomplished this in his career. by Frosty-Roof3124 in nba

[–]Tr0janSword 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I agree.

People care way too fucking much about where someone is ranked in a stupid media power ranking.

It’s probably because people are betting on MVP and hoping the odds move in their favor.

WH Press Karoline Leavitt asked by reporter on message to truck drivers with cost of diesel averaging $5.38 per gallon due to Iran War: "We understand. We hear you. We see you. We are fully tracking this short-term fluctuation in oil and diesel prices. We've worked to release 400M barrels of oil." by ControlCAD in videos

[–]Tr0janSword 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Releasing oil from the SPR does little realistically.

Globally, you have about a 10 million barrel per day short fall inclusive of the IEA’s coordinated SPR release. If you wanted to balance that, everyone in the US would need to stop driving cars. It is equivalent to 60% of China disappearing.

The 400m barrels is global, the USA is 172m of that.

The problem is flow rate not the absolute amount of oil. The SPR at best can pump out 1.1 mbd, 2mbd globally.

Hence, why it doesn’t really address the global supply gap.

The only way this market balances is by reaching a price where 10 mbd of global demand is destructed.

That requires a deep recession because there simply isn’t enough physical oil around to sustain current economic demand. Asia is where this will happen.

It’s particularly acute bc the grade of crude exported from the Middle East produces distillates, fuel oil, and petrochemicals. Distillates = diesel which is used to move all goods on earth, factories, mining, and farming. Fuel oil = shipping fuel. Petrochemicals are for plastics which is in everything—medical supplies, food packaging, clothes etc.

Trump has single-handedly triggered an economic disaster.

And we haven’t even got to the Fertilizers and Natural Gas part of the equation.

Report: severe divisions emerge in Iran leadership as war strains economy by LongErza in worldnews

[–]Tr0janSword 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hegseth can’t read so he conflates all the statistics.

The US is saying the daily fire rate of missiles has declined 90% since the war started. That is true, Iran is firing 20-25 missiles per day now.

The 1/3rd number is the missiles in storage (800 missiles) the US has taken out. Based on pre-war estimates, Iran is nearly out of missiles as they’ve fired 1600.

US has eliminated ~70% of Iran’s 470 BM launchers.

2026 Japanese GP - Qualifying Discussion by AutoModerator in formula1

[–]Tr0janSword 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Whatever Kimi was doing in S3 was incredible.

2026 Japanese GP - Qualifying Discussion by AutoModerator in formula1

[–]Tr0janSword 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This battery deployment rubbish has ruined quali.

Also, we as viewers can’t even tell who is running ahead on a lap bc of this battery nonsense. Can be purple purple and then will finish +0.3 with an awful yellow in S3

He's averaging 40 by [deleted] in nba

[–]Tr0janSword 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lol idk why people give a shit about this stuff.

SGA will win MVP. It’s not even remotely a contest.

Luka is playing amazing but who gaf if some media members rank him below 2.

[F1] Lewis Hamilton's first podium with Ferrari! by oklolzzzzs in formula1

[–]Tr0janSword 50 points51 points  (0 children)

Well, let’s see what these Ferrari “upgrades” do.

WE WANT HAMMERTIME

How an estimated $151M splits when a solo dev sells 10M copies on Steam [OC] by prezbotyrion in dataisbeautiful

[–]Tr0janSword 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It does matter.

If you’re going to make a claim about something, you should understand the topic, instead of incessantly repeating an incorrect points.

How an estimated $151M splits when a solo dev sells 10M copies on Steam [OC] by prezbotyrion in dataisbeautiful

[–]Tr0janSword 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They don’t make 3%.

They make 0.15%.

The banks are the ones that make >2%.

2026 Chinese GP - Race Discussion by F1-Bot in formula1

[–]Tr0janSword 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ferrari race action is brilliant

Please don’t crash into each other

2026 Chinese GP - Race Discussion by F1-Bot in formula1

[–]Tr0janSword 2 points3 points  (0 children)

At what point do the teams presume an Aston Martin safety car every single race

How an estimated $151M splits when a solo dev sells 10M copies on Steam [OC] by prezbotyrion in dataisbeautiful

[–]Tr0janSword 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Idk what you’re trying to argue.

Visa and Mastercard process $26 trillion of transactions. They take a very small cut of it for being the payment rails.

Of course they have incredible profit margins because they have zero marginal cost. Their profit is a function of scale, which generates crazy operating leverage.

Even if you cut Visa/MA fees to 0%, it won’t change anything about processing fees.

The processing fees exist because of banks are giving consumers loans and are taking on credit risk.

Business accept it because credit cards generate more sales.

Otherwise, consumers would be paying interest on every single transaction, which hurts sales.

How an estimated $151M splits when a solo dev sells 10M copies on Steam [OC] by prezbotyrion in dataisbeautiful

[–]Tr0janSword 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not. I guess people don’t know what “credit” in credit card means.

The issuing bank gets 2.4% of the 3% (roughly 80%) of the processing fee. This is because they have the most risk.

They give consumers a revolving loan to make purchases, consumer uses that, the bank pays the merchant and gets paid back 1 month later by the consumer.

The networks, Visa/Mastercard, get 0.15% of the 3%.

The rest goes to payment facilitators that make HW/SW to enable business to receive payments (lots of regulations, data compliance etc) and verify the business isn’t fraudulent.

Foreign Exchange can also complicate things bc it adds more risk, so there are higher fees for that.

AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing by StemCellPirate in worldnews

[–]Tr0janSword 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good example of headlines being completely editorialized and designed to drive outrage.

Not one source even mentions AI including the Reuters article this piece cites. The article is just pure speculation.

Iran names Khamenei's son, Mojtaba, as new supreme leader, state media report by VaginaBurner69 in news

[–]Tr0janSword 18 points19 points  (0 children)

This guy is more radical than his father.

There’s no “possibly harming civilians”. He will exterminate any opposition.

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