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Browser Check -- What We Know

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What We Know About You I created this page so that I had a place I could depend upon to get such information, particularly the external IP address necessary to see my local subnet from the Internet. Except for this text, everything here was written by ChatGPT, so it demonstrates that you can get working code from an AI if you know how. IP Address: Loading... Browser Name: Browser Version: Operating System: Platform: Language: Screen Size: Color Depth: Time Zone: Network Type: Battery Level: Loading... Battery Charging: Loading... Geolocation: Loading... Geolocation Accuracy: Loading... Hardware Concurrency: Browser Memory: Remembered L...

The Facebook Singularity Update

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In 2012, a Forbes article dismissed Facebook's valuation, claiming it was worth only $34.5 billion, far below its actual value. Contrary to this, I predicted Facebook's market cap would soar to a trillion dollars, leveraging exponential growth and its unrivaled data network. I wrote about it at Forbes, which to their credit they did not remove and put it on my blog here:  The Facebook Singularity at $1 Trillion The projection, based on a linear trendline from past growth rates, indicated a market cap of $1,067 billion by 2024. Today, Facebook's market cap has actually surpassed $1,260 billion, exceeding all expectations. This outcome highlights the misjudgment of the 2012 pundit who failed to grasp the technical and exponential growth aspects driving Facebook's value. The professional's simplistic arithmetic overlooked critical factors, while my analysis emphasized Facebook's dominance, network effects, and the exponential growth potential of its data-driven mod...