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Дядя приехал ко мне пожить на две недели, пока у него меняли трубы.


Какая же жиза!

Дядя приехал ко мне пожить на две недели, пока у него меняли трубы.
На второй день попросил добавить его в чат нашего дома.

- Зачем?
- Там про воду пишут.

Про воду там пишут только когда ею предлагают облить соседей.
Но добавила.

Первые сутки он молчал. Читал. Иногда спрашивал:
- А эта с шестого всегда такая?
- Какая?
- У неё любое сообщение начинается с "Уважаемые соседи", а заканчивается уголовным делом.

На третий день в чате снова обсуждали пакет с мусором возле лифта.

Теория глупых заборов


Многие знают теорию разбитых окон. Если в доме разбили одно окно и его никто не вставляет, окружающие понимают: всем пофиг. Потом бьют второе, рядом появляется мусор, а через некоторое время район выглядит так, будто порядок отсюда съехал, не заплатив за коммуналочку.

Но мне кажется, нашему нормотворческому сословию полезнее было бы знать другую теорию. Назовём её «теорией глупых заборов».

Допустим, между домом и остановкой двадцать лет идёт удобная тропинка. По ней ходят все, потому что люди вообще обладают странной привычкой передвигаться по кратчайшему пути.

Академическая смелость - это...


Академическая смелость - это не "бросить вызов современной науке и гордо плюнуть в портрет Эйнштейна". Это не "пойти наперекор всей научной традиции и взломать понимание о мире". Академическая смелость - это готовность признать свои ошибки и критически рассмотреть свои прошлые труды.

Мечта о миллионе оказалась гораздо убедительнее гражданского долга.


Когда-то тайваньские торговцы имели простую и понятную привычку не выдавать покупателю чек. Нет чека - нет официальной продажи. Нет продажи - нет налога.
Власти придумали гениальную вещь: превратили каждый кассовый чек в бесплатный лотерейный билет. На чеке печатался номер, а раз в два месяца государство разыгрывает призы. Чтобы участвовать, ничего покупать отдельно не требовалось: достаточно было не выбросить чек за лапшу, носки или зубную пасту.
И произошло маленькое экономическое чудо. Покупатели, которые прежде равнодушно уходили от прилавка, вдруг начали строго спрашивать:

Жена лейтенанта Коломбо


Есть у нашего предприятия один странный клиент из Германии. Года три назад он приобрел оборудование. Первые несколько месяцев все было тихо и спокойно, а потом он позвонил в четверг вечером, загробным голосом сказал: «Агрегат встал, нужны запчасти. Я завтра срочно выезжаю к вам». На мое предложение отправить груз экспресс-доставкой немец ответил, что заберет сам, т.к. вещь ценная, и он боится за ее сохранность.

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Nobody is complaining that a company with zero revenue, or a company with zero profit, should be trading at zero value. Thousands of zombie companies don't mind. They just incur more debt, and keep chugging along, often at astronomical valuations.

In fact, Anthropic would be foolish to not do the same. So the only guestion from this article is the valuation: it says, $2T? Well... The price action doesn't have to be connected to reality, there are many mechanics that allows powers that be to influence the price. Which is to say, even if the price is not justified, doesn't mean that the price will fall.

And even if it does fall - who would lose? Not the stock issuer! You would lose, if you buy in at an unfortunate time. Or you would gain, if you are fortunate.

Valuations drive inflation. If a valuation of a centrail piece of intrastructure/enterprise is astonomical, you can expect prices of everything to soon catch up. We have seen inflation jump in Biden years, and we can see it again.
...or, an IPO is a cash grab. It's free money - somebody will *buy* the stock, and the monies will go to the stock issuer. The valuation doesn't matter, disconnect from reality doesn't matter - let's slap a number on it, and public-offer it, so that the public can spend their money on it.

Nobody is complaining that a company with zero revenue, or a company with zero profit, should be trading at zero value. Thousands of zombie companies don't mind. They just incur more debt, and keep chugging along, often at astronomical valuations.

In fact, Anthropic would be foolish to not do the same. So the only guestion from this article is the valuation: it says, $2T? Well... The price action doesn't have to be connected to reality, there are many mechanics that allows powers that be to influence the price. Which is to say, even if the price is not justified, doesn't mean that the price will fall.

And even if it does fall - who would lose? Not the stock issuer! You would lose, if you buy in at an unfortunate time. Or you would gain, if you are fortunate.

Valuations drive inflation. If a valuation of a centrail piece of intrastructure/enterprise is astonomical, you can expect prices of everything to soon catch up. We have seen inflation jump in Biden years, and we can see it again.
...or, an IPO is a cash grab. It's free money - somebody will *buy* the stock, and the monies will go to the stock issuer. The valuation doesn't matter, disconnect from reality doesn't matter - let's slap a number on it, and public-offer it, so that the public can spend their money on it.

Nobody is complaining that a company with zero revenue, or a company with zero profit, should be trading at zero value. Thousands of zombie companies don't mind. They just incur more debt, and keep chugging along, often at astronomical valuations.

In fact, Anthropic would be foolish to not do the same. So the only guestion from this article is the valuation: it says, $2T? Well... The price action doesn't have to be connected to reality, there are many mechanics that allows powers that be to influence the price. Which is to say, even if the price is not justified, doesn't mean that the price will fall.

And even if it does fall - who would lose? Not the stock issuer! You would lose, if you buy in at an unfortunate time. Or you would gain, if you are fortunate.

Valuations drive inflation. If a valuation of a centrail piece of intrastructure/enterprise is astonomical, you can expect prices of everything to soon catch up. We have seen inflation jump in Biden years, and we can see it again.
...or, an IPO is a cash grab. It's free money - somebody will *buy* the stock, and the monies will go to the stock issuer. The valuation doesn't matter, disconnect from reality doesn't matter - let's slap a number on it, and public-offer it, so that the public can spend their money on it.

Nobody is complaining that a company with zero revenue, or a company with zero profit, should be trading at zero value. Thousands of zombie companies don't mind. They just incur more debt, and keep chugging along, often at astronomical valuations.

In fact, Anthropic would be foolish to not do the same. So the only guestion from this article is the valuation: it says, $2T? Well... The price action doesn't have to be connected to reality, there are many mechanics that allows powers that be to influence the price. Which is to say, even if the price is not justified, doesn't mean that the price will fall.

And even if it does fall - who would lose? Not the stock issuer! You would lose, if you buy in at an unfortunate time. Or you would gain, if you are fortunate.

Valuations drive inflation. If a valuation of a centrail piece of intrastructure/enterprise is astonomical, you can expect prices of everything to soon catch up. We have seen inflation jump in Biden years, and we can see it again.
...or, an IPO is a cash grab. It's free money - somebody will *buy* the stock, and the monies will go to the stock issuer. The valuation doesn't matter, disconnect from reality doesn't matter - let's slap a number on it, and public-offer it, so that the public can spend their money on it.

Nobody is complaining that a company with zero revenue, or a company with zero profit, should be trading at zero value. Thousands of zombie companies don't mind. They just incur more debt, and keep chugging along, often at astronomical valuations.

In fact, Anthropic would be foolish to not do the same. So the only guestion from this article is the valuation: it says, $2T? Well... The price action doesn't have to be connected to reality, there are many mechanics that allows powers that be to influence the price. Which is to say, even if the price is not justified, doesn't mean that the price will fall.

And even if it does fall - who would lose? Not the stock issuer! You would lose, if you buy in at an unfortunate time. Or you would gain, if you are fortunate.

Valuations drive inflation. If a valuation of a centrail piece of intrastructure/enterprise is astonomical, you can expect prices of everything to soon catch up. We have seen inflation jump in Biden years, and we can see it again.
...or, an IPO is a cash grab. It's free money - somebody will *buy* the stock, and the monies will go to the stock issuer. The valuation doesn't matter, disconnect from reality doesn't matter - let's slap a number on it, and public-offer it, so that the public can spend their money on it.

Nobody is complaining that a company with zero revenue, or a company with zero profit, should be trading at zero value. Thousands of zombie companies don't mind. They just incur more debt, and keep chugging along, often at astronomical valuations.

In fact, Anthropic would be foolish to not do the same. So the only guestion from this article is the valuation: it says, $2T? Well... The price action doesn't have to be connected to reality, there are many mechanics that allows powers that be to influence the price. Which is to say, even if the price is not justified, doesn't mean that the price will fall.

And even if it does fall - who would lose? Not the stock issuer! You would lose, if you buy in at an unfortunate time. Or you would gain, if you are fortunate.

Valuations drive inflation. If a valuation of a centrail piece of intrastructure/enterprise is astonomical, you can expect prices of everything to soon catch up. We have seen inflation jump in Biden years, and we can see it again.
...or, an IPO is a cash grab. It's free money - somebody will *buy* the stock, and the monies will go to the stock issuer. The valuation doesn't matter, disconnect from reality doesn't matter - let's slap a number on it, and public-offer it, so that the public can spend their money on it.

Nobody is complaining that a company with zero revenue, or a company with zero profit, should be trading at zero value. Thousands of zombie companies don't mind. They just incur more debt, and keep chugging along, often at astronomical valuations.

In fact, Anthropic would be foolish to not do the same. So the only guestion from this article is the valuation: it says, $2T? Well... The price action doesn't have to be connected to reality, there are many mechanics that allows powers that be to influence the price. Which is to say, even if the price is not justified, doesn't mean that the price will fall.

And even if it does fall - who would lose? Not the stock issuer! You would lose, if you buy in at an unfortunate time. Or you would gain, if you are fortunate.

Valuations drive inflation. If a valuation of a centrail piece of intrastructure/enterprise is astonomical, you can expect prices of everything to soon catch up. We have seen inflation jump in Biden years, and we can see it again.
...or, an IPO is a cash grab. It's free money - somebody will *buy* the stock, and the monies will go to the stock issuer. The valuation doesn't matter, disconnect from reality doesn't matter - let's slap a number on it, and public-offer it, so that the public can spend their money on it.

Nobody is complaining that a company with zero revenue, or a company with zero profit, should be trading at zero value. Thousands of zombie companies don't mind. They just incur more debt, and keep chugging along, often at astronomical valuations.

In fact, Anthropic would be foolish to not do the same. So the only guestion from this article is the valuation: it says, $2T? Well... The price action doesn't have to be connected to reality, there are many mechanics that allows powers that be to influence the price. Which is to say, even if the price is not justified, doesn't mean that the price will fall.

And even if it does fall - who would lose? Not the stock issuer! You would lose, if you buy in at an unfortunate time. Or you would gain, if you are fortunate.

Valuations drive inflation. If a valuation of a centrail piece of intrastructure/enterprise is astonomical, you can expect prices of everything to soon catch up. We have seen inflation jump in Biden years, and we can see it again.
...or, an IPO is a cash grab. It's free money - somebody will *buy* the stock, and the monies will go to the stock issuer. The valuation doesn't matter, disconnect from reality doesn't matter - let's slap a number on it, and public-offer it, so that the public can spend their money on it.

Nobody is complaining that a company with zero revenue, or a company with zero profit, should be trading at zero value. Thousands of zombie companies don't mind. They just incur more debt, and keep chugging along, often at astronomical valuations.

In fact, Anthropic would be foolish to not do the same. So the only guestion from this article is the valuation: it says, $2T? Well... The price action doesn't have to be connected to reality, there are many mechanics that allows powers that be to influence the price. Which is to say, even if the price is not justified, doesn't mean that the price will fall.

And even if it does fall - who would lose? Not the stock issuer! You would lose, if you buy in at an unfortunate time. Or you would gain, if you are fortunate.

Valuations drive inflation. If a valuation of a centrail piece of intrastructure/enterprise is astonomical, you can expect prices of everything to soon catch up. We have seen inflation jump in Biden years, and we can see it again.