Only oracle has taken on debt so far, among the hyper scalers.

CoreWeave has taken on $11.2B in debt with interest rates ranging from 7% to 15%, paying $250M in interest on that debt last quarter on just $19 million in operating income. Half of their assets are GPUs, depreciating over six years.

(per Bloomberg)

Great work. I'm sure the brain-rotted OP will be back to regurgitate whatever he read on twitter and completely ignore your debunking.

Thanks for this reply.

I think the part that tells the real story here that I forgot to add in that wall of text most won't read is that each of those links came up in the first 5 results for the simple searches I ran on DDG.

If any effort had been expended at all in attempting to understand whether anything in musk's post was accurate then they would easily have been able to find several high quality breakdowns from non-partisan sites.

Instead they made a choice to echo something, incorrectly too, that they thought they read somewhere. Didn't even provide a link.

I think if HN was to modify any rules that would improve the quality of discussions on contentious subjects that frequently devolve into unproductive political arguments then the posting rule could be changed to require posting of links to arguments that you are trying to make so that everyone can see the supporting data behind your beliefs and judge for themselves whether they should change their own beliefs or poke fun at the poster for believing nonsense.

Back when reddit was still a one-pager they tried to maintain a standard of backing up claims with data to support the claims. Over the years it has devolved into the site we have today where most posters do as this guy did and post simple one line replies to everything.

It's a hit and run way of trying to bring someone around to your way of thinking without giving them a reason to do so.

Is it wise to credulousy believe everything your government tells you without source data?

The breakdown is readily available and even the Guardian read about the issue 10 years ago

You knew a decade ago that a million 150 year olds were collecting social security and nothing came of it?

Yes.

This is an extremely unhealthy rate of weight loss. All guidance centers around .5-1kg/week as both safe and sustainable.

Not if you start from an extremely obese starting point like I did. I don’t recommend this rate to people with normal weight.

This is also wrong. It’s extremely unhealthy, unsafe and unsustainable to lose 15% of your body weight in 2 months.

Not wrong in my personal case - I've lost those 20+ kilograms with no problem to report.

Again, it was not a calorie restriction diet - it was a carb restriction diet.

Any citation on that?

In his books (likely in autobiographical "Unholdes Frankreich")

And of course you didn't watch any of it, right, just an automated dismissal?

And then you didn't watch the Maddie De Garay video either, otherwise anyone who watches it and cares about integrity would be shocked - and would want to make sure it's looked into - just alone on the clinical trial reporting app design alone is highly disturbing.

Edit to add: You haven't posted in 4 years and you have few comments to begin with? That's a bit curious. I wonder what an analysis of the HN accounts that instantly jump to putting smear campaign links on these different credible, articulate doctors/researchers/experts, would look like. Any way to do such a study dang, ideally with directly or indirectly getting upvote and downvote data to see if there's other interesting patterns that emerge?

It's weird (to me) that this submission is getting upvoted now. It's existed for five years (I helped work on a small part of it).

So, any pointers on where we can find the data source? :)

Very good compensation is one reason I can think of.

Yep, my brother decided to join Facebook in a non-tech role (admittedly, right before the #deletefacebook movement began), and it was purely for the compensation. He even joked he had joined "the dark side". I've been off Facebook since 2011, so it was a bit disappointing. But, the compensation was the highest out of the companies he got offers from (Google, Stripe, etc.), so I don't blame him.

In this case I'm not getting that your brother wanted to be associated with them necessarily. If compensation was equal, which do you think he'd have picked?

Right but that's kind of irrelevant isn't it? Perhaps a semantic detail, but Donald Trump could hypothetically pay me as much as he wanted but it wouldn't change my desire to have his name next to mine.

I'd think most people who get major comp from FB could also get it from a lot of the other big players.

Facebook is known for being a little more profligate with their spending, especially for senior and up. On the other hand, they will fire you faster. I have heard that Netflix is even more in that direction, if "excitement" is something you desire in the domain of "whether you will be employed tomorrow or not."

I think if the most important aspect is compensation, then the company is arbitrary. Not to suggest that compensation is an invalid priority, but I don't think it's the same as wanting to be associated with a company for an inherent quality.

I think you're absolutely right, but what's hilarious to me is that they have private pricing for many of their services. For the traffic we're already doing, we just asked and they knocked our cloudfront bill down nearly 75%. We didn't have to change our usage at all. Granted, we serve a lot of traffic.

What order of magnitude of traffic are we talking?

A couple of PB per week, I'd guess

> Companies who are not Google or Apple like to read books about Google and Apple, pretend that they are Google or Apple, and imitate recruiting processes that come from Google or Apple. Which doesn't serve them very well, because they are NOT Google or Apple.

A million times this. I got rejected from a company because the interviewer decided he didn't like that I used array concatenation to find the correct solution to a problem he gave me. This was for a job at a 100 person company. Companies writing line of business software need to stop acting like they are google.