Owl [he/him]

When no one was looking, China

built forty nuclear power units.

They built 40 nuclear power units.

That’s as many as four tens.

And that’s awesome.

Keep a consistent schedule, always engage with chat, keep talking even when chat is dead. Can you keep up a stream of interesting observations and stories for an hour, just talking to an empty room? (Record yourself trying, ding yourself if you go 30 seconds without being engaging.)

Honestly, the people who manage to build up a successful variety stream from the ground up by doing that kind of freak me out. The alternative is to win a championship at something or get world record on a speedrun, so those people show up to see you do your thing, then start the consistent and engaging grind, and slowly pivot to variety content. (Maybe it says something about me personally that “simply become the world champion at something” sounds easier than talking to an empty room for hours a day.)

https://investors.affirm.com/shareholder-services/investor-faqs

2. What is Affirm’s revenue model and how does it make money?

4. We sell a portion of the assets originated in our platform to third-party investors and recognize a gain or loss on the sale of these loans.

5. How does Affirm fund the loans it underwrites?

We have forward-flow agreements that facilitate the sale of whole loans to counterparties.

Can anybody figure out who is buying these from Affirm? I bet that’s the next Lehman Brothers.

If you’re able to do the work, go home, and just completely forget about it and do something else, that’s a very cushy job. The people who get completely invested in CS projects get chewed up and discarded by the industry.

Bold of them to assume Trump knows what the word “unilateral” means.

Well that sucks.

But it’s also like the least scary thing NASA could announce we’re on the brink of. So when you phrase it that way, it comes as a relief.