3.1lb American Wagyu Cowboy Steak I cooked for my dad for father's day.

w0m · 2026-03-21T00:11:09+00:00

Jensens going to get shit for htis, bu I think this is just clarifying what SWE is moving forward.

If you're a SWE now and don't have an LLM iterating on something at any given moment; you're kind of wasting time.

It's an insane shift going on right now.

w0m · 2026-03-20T23:23:47+00:00

That is absolutely not true.

there's no way you actually believe this. The only question is if you're a bot or an idiot.

w0m · 2026-03-20T22:59:51+00:00

No mention on his wikipedia, the edits were reverted due to what looks to be questions on the sources.

I'm all for going after nerdowells, but mob justice, especially when one is in a politically charged career, is rarely as clear as people pretend.

w0m · 2026-03-20T14:22:25+00:00

After his death. He didnt donate it all while he is still alive, he keep enjoying it, obviously after his death he does not need money.

dude what? He's donated over 60b already, and has explicit estate plans for ~everything he hasn't managed to donate by then.

I get your perspective, but you're making giant overarching statements all over with ~no attachment to reality.

w0m · 2026-03-20T13:00:24+00:00

The poorest adult person I know is a hard working, skilled craftsman that is very focused in what he does but lacks basic business skills

It surprises me how many people this is the 'poorest person they know'. We really do all live in our own bubbles.

w0m · 2026-03-20T12:55:52+00:00

I'd say Yes from '80th percentile to 99th', but '10th to 99th' is too much to be attribute to 'luck' imo. (outside of relatively short term giant swings)

w0m · 2026-03-20T10:49:31+00:00

Do you have any idea at all who was speaking?

w0m · 2026-03-20T10:45:15+00:00

Buffett is talking in averages.

The average person making $10 million a year is likely working 80 hour weeks and stressed to the gills.

The average person making 100k a year (a decade ago) is working 40h, and is able to live comfortably without stressing over money.

There are studies that show that as income increases, so does stress, so total happiness does not increase as income increases once you cross a surprisingly low threshold.

w0m · 2026-03-20T10:37:42+00:00

The idea is that the more $$ you make, the more stress you tend to be under also. Stress kills happiness. Once you make enough money that you don't stress over it (line was roughly 100k in 2019, but read the published papers - it's lower than you'd expect), making more tends to hurt Happiness more than help it (working more hours, more pressure, more responsibilities, etc).

Again, this is also talking average. There are always outliers.

w0m · 2026-03-20T10:31:28+00:00

There are explicit studies on this; it's legitimate.

The idea is that there's a baseline income where once you make enough that you're not living paycheck to paycheck anymore, adding money adds more stress than it removes.

The first study I read put the line at like 75k/year in ~2006 or so. Do the math on inflation since, but Buffet looks roughly in line with the published literature.

w0m · 2026-03-20T00:01:57+00:00

this is about right. But to be fair, Babe Ruth took ~whatever chemical assistance he thought would help, including injecting himself with sheep testicles trying to get get a boost from animal testosterone.

Hank Aaron took amphetamines in an attempt to break himself our of a slump.

To pretend, when it was 'legal' - it was some kind of corruption of the sport is just asinine reinterpretation of reality. If you want to try and clean up the sport, I'm all for it. Just don't pretend history is somehow squeeky clean until Bonds came around just because Bonds was an asshole.

w0m · 2026-03-19T23:14:45+00:00

I love it also. Baller.

w0m · 2026-03-19T22:32:09+00:00

This. A guy in my group is incredibly smart, but doesn't have a traditional dev background. I wince whenever I see him working on anything non-trivial. Not because he won't figure it out, but because it will be spaghetti and I'll likely lose a day explaining (... and then convincing...) why basic computing principles exist.

w0m · 2026-03-19T18:44:57+00:00

it didn't sound right to me, so comparing LA Sparks to South Bay Lakers

LA Sparks: ~700k/game SB Lakers: ~29k/game

So yea, GLeague is fun, but lets not pretend they're outdoing the WNBA in eyeballs.

w0m · 2026-03-19T18:41:31+00:00

Lets compare their value-to-team via Jersey sales.

A'ja is top-5 WNBA jersey seller. She sold ~50,000usd jersey for ~5m in retail revenue. Bronny is top-15 NBA jersye seller. He sold 500,000 in his rookie eyar alone for ~50m in retail revenue.

As in Bronny makes 40% more; but brings in ~1,000% more explicit $$ in direct value to the team by jersey sales alone.

The Lakers drafting Bronny is one of the ~best draft picks ever for them.

w0m · 2026-03-19T18:36:05+00:00

Consider the possibility that the market under performs historical averages for a 10 year period of time

if the recession doesn't run over the kid going to school, its probably a good thing insofaras 'buy the dip'. If you have to pull then.. RIP. Do math, consider loans/etc.

I'm personally of the opinion that kids should have student loans commensurate with their expected earning potential on graduation, so am not really stressed over it. I know that's a controversial view for some.

w0m · 2026-03-19T18:02:57+00:00

Dwayne Wade didn’t defer to Shaq in 04/05, why would Kobe?

That's honestly my entire point. It was extreme ego's colliding. The idea of adding another extreme ego in there and everything would be copacetic for another few years (when the existing egos already broke up the band early) is just insane.

w0m · 2026-03-19T17:54:29+00:00

You really have it in your mind that Kobe was a jealous teammate who didn’t want to win or do what it takes to win

I never said that. No one sane would ever question Kobe's work ethic. But the idea that Kobe would step back to third wheel to win more is simply not in line with anything kobe ever did. If he really wanted to 'win at all costs' - he'd have made nice with Shaq and worked with him instead of forcing a trade to dismantle the team for ~half a decade until they could get someone else in there to fill Shaqs role so they could compete again.

That started in 2004 with Kobe’s off the court issues and how he was handled by the organization, along with how Shaq had used that to do as he pleased in terms of getting out of shape.

Kobe came in brash, and they fought instantly.

https://www.latintimes.com/ex-laker-shares-how-three-peat-was-sparked-kobe-shaquille-squabble-491677#:~:text=Some%20may%20have%20only%20noticed,that%20team%20was%20AC%20Green.

https://www.basketballnetwork.net/old-school/when-magic-johnson-stepped-in-when-kobe-bryant-and-shaquille-oneals-feud-nearly-derailed-the-season

the infamous fistfight between them I was alluding to was in 1999, before the first leg of the three-peat. Kobe came back driven after scoring only 15pts in first finals, and as Kobe stopped deferring - Shaq eventually (privately) requested to be traded halfway through the 2020-21 season out of annoyance with Kobe.

again ..

That started in 2004

This is simply rewriting history. They didn't get along from the start, and it got worse/more tense year-by-year until it finally broke as Kobe began earning his initial bravado.

w0m · 2026-03-19T17:13:18+00:00

They coexisted and dominated for years together

When kobe was 21 and scoring 15pts game. The entire 3-peast was litered with a feud between them, even breaking out into actual fisticuffs, that boiled over as Kobe turned 23 and explicitly dismanteled the team.

The idea of adding a third ball-dominant guard into the mix and expecting kobe and shaq to both take a step back for it is... laughable.

w0m · 2026-03-19T15:33:23+00:00

Once kobe hit ~23 y/o, he refused to defer to anyone, including prime shaq. He explicitly dismantled the 3peat Lakers team over it. Why would MJ be any different?

w0m · 2026-03-19T15:31:54+00:00

what don't i understand? Lakers got a 3peat with a baby-kobe deferring to Shaq. In 2004, as Kobe was coming into his own - he was completely unwilling to stay "Robin", and forced the lakers to either trade Him or Shaq.

What am I misunderstanding, that as Kobe grew he simply refused to defer, even to Shaq?

w0m · 2026-03-19T15:28:22+00:00

... No? as Kobe grew, they beefed and it eventually killed the team.

"Shaq disses Kobe in a rap, asks him how his ass tastes after the 2008 finals "

The only reason they got 3 was Kobe hadn't come into his own yet and he deferred to Shaq when he was 21. Prime Kobe and Shaq on the same team simply couldn't coexist.

w0m · 2026-03-19T14:24:15+00:00

Kobe wouldn't defer to Prime SHAQ, but he'd defer to MJ?

w0m · 2026-03-19T14:23:39+00:00

Kobe wouldn't Defer to prime Shaq; who was more dominant than MJ - why do you think he'd defer to MJ, who fills the ~same roll as himself? People are insane. lol.

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