Roland Dreier
@rbd.bsky.social
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I put the R in RDMA.
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Screw it, my bike has purple tires and I'm gonna go ride it for a little bit
Close up of a rear bike bike wheel with a purple tire near a few purple flowers
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... turns on Warriors-Trail Blazers preseason game
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I'm very good at watching the NBA but it's still training camp... You can't make me care about preseason games!
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... “oh by the way I should mention you can put your desk in the exact spot where Bob Noyce created the modern world.”

You paying extra?
Historical marker noting the place where the integrated circuit was invented by Robert Noyce at Fairchild
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Imagine you raised a bunch of money for your AI company and you need office space in Palo Alto. Your real estate agent takes you to this crappy small old building on a busy stretch of Charleston Road...
Exterior view of a two story office building with a few parking spaces
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Sorry what's the Japanese sleep apnea trick??
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A low-tech yard sign advertising ... online ads?
A white and blue yard sign staked in the grass reads “FACEBOOK AND GOOGLE ADS” with a phone number.
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Weirdly the postcard has a Vermont postmark
Close up of a Burlington, VT postmark on a postcard
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Finally got one pro-California redistricting postcard addressed to one of my kids (there are four registered California voters at my house)
Postcard with handwriting:

Dear ***

STOP THE TRUMP POWER GRAB
Vote Yes on Prop 50 the Election Rigging Response Act on Nov 4.

In early October, you will receive a ballot in the mail for this crucial election. Please vote yes and return it ASAP.

Let's fight back and defend democracy!

Thank you, John volunteer

For more into go to stopelectionrigging.com
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This is not the Law of Large Numbers though (the law is that the sample mean converges to the population mean as the number of samples increases)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_...
Law of large numbers - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
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When you think about it, what MF DOOM did was really b2b sales
Reposted by Roland Dreier
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Enterprise sales is just America's greatest con, but with better unit economics. You're not selling a product, you're selling a new reality. MF DOOM knew it: 'Got more soul than a sock with a hole.' Now get the MRR.

https://www.wsj.com/business/business-cons-gray-area-us-history-ae72ad26
Great Cons Are Part of the American Story. And That Might Not Be So Bad.
Many business practices fall into a legal gray area—which is by design.
www.wsj.com
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If you're wondering what this post means, Shams is reporting JK signed a two-year deal with the Warriors:
Screenshot of a Shams Charania tweet:

Breaking: Ending a summer-long stalemate, Jonathan Kuminga has agreed to a two-year, $48.5 million contract to return to the Golden State Warriors, agent Aaron Turner told ESPN. The deal has a team option designed for the contract to be ripped up and renegotiated next summer.
Reposted by Roland Dreier
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Three months ago, @gavinnewsom.bsky.social correctly warned us that failing to address our housing crisis would cost us people’s trust, and that the entire reputation of the State of California was on the line.

Call him now and urge him to follow through by signing #SB79! ☎️ (916) 445-2841
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Spit a slider that put the batter in a blender / Mets got a lower return than a timeshare lender
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He's never been one for careful argument — one of his seminal “enshittification” essays talks about how platforms die but then gives as examples Amazon and Facebook, which as you point out are bigger and more profitable than ever (in fact not dead)

pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/p...
Screenshot of text:

“Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

I call this enshittification, and it is”
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Trump loved* the digital service taxes in Europe so much that he wants to bring one to the US?

* he does not love DSTs thehill.com/homenews/adm...
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“OK sure Kristi... Or are you just gonna take my money and do jack shit, like that Homan fucker last summer? Turns out that motherfucker doesn't even award contracts!”
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WH Press Sec says, "… Tom Homan has not been involved with any contract award decisions. He is a career law enforcement officer…”

Then shouldn't they charge him with fraud, if only to protect the credibility of other administration officials who are fishing for bribes?
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“On Sept. 20, with hidden cameras recording the scene, Homan accepted $50,000 in bills, according to an internal summary of the case.”

Homan was being investigated for allegedly “soliciting payments in exchange for awarding contracts should Trump win the election”

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.
www.msnbc.com
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This is like the most minor point ever but curious why you chose the colors so big gains are cold/blue and big losses are hot/red?
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> aging population growth markets
> funeral industry business plans
> mausoleum name ideas
Signs along a sidewalk, with

HILLS OF ETERNITY MEMORIAL PARK PORTALS OF ETERNITY MAUSOLEUM GARDENS OF ETERNITY MAUSOLEUM

in the foreground and

ACME MEMORIAL

in the background
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Yup the mayor gets to appoint someone who district 4 will probably like less, but it would take a city-wide vote to change the park back into a road
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I'm rooting for the recall because it's poetic justice for recalling Boudin and also it does exactly nothing for reopening the road