SavageBeast

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by SavageBeast 2y ago
Commenting on this to mark it in my feed for later reference. Well said!
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
There is only one truth: Monthly account statements.
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
I tried for a long time with stocks, then I tried stock options. I eventually moved off to index and treasury futures. No money to be made in stocks, shitty leverage, high fees, LOUSY TAX TREATMENT and to complicate matters further shorting
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
For lack of knowing a better play at the time I got long MSFT on news of their OpenAI investment. Pretty minimal exposure but more than what I could justify elsewhere.
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
Who in the hell is paying for this ...
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
Always nice to see a new one of these - don't forget this one too: https://hipsum.co/
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
I came here to say exactly that myself.
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
Firing people is hard and fraught with peril legally for a large company in the US. It was simply easier to marginalize them and get things done in spite of them. That was my strategy anyhow. My management discouraged me from making a furth
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
"where getting in everyone's business is used to feign productivity." I see this so often, everywhere. The useless people make the most noise, the productive ones are too busy.
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
"A Stanford researcher says data on programmer productivity suggests 14 percent of remote software engineers get barely anything done." Having managed a team of in office devs, I can say that easily 14% or more get barely anything
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing Astroturfing is the deceptive practice of hiding the sponsors of an orchestrated message or organization (e.g., political, advertising, religious, or public relations) to make
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
Bird Flu isn't new - this is posturing to justify USDA existence under the coming DOGE microscope. No different then when layoffs are looming around the office, you start seeing people showing up on time and scheduling superfluous meet
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
This reads like a guide on how to get fired for cause. Additionally its quite childish. Why not just throw a tantrum and save the trouble?
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
I have a good many neighbors with Teslas and while the media loves to spin a tale about Teslas and Liberals being a thing, my first hand observations don't support that narrative.
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
One problem of mine that seems to fall in line with this: There is a set of data that some other daily process requires. This data is only available on a well structured and difficult to quickly navigate web page and any of it can change at
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
I don't know how to precisely quantify the value I get, but Im happily paying $20/mo for OpenAI tools. I'll never again "read documentation" directly nor will I sift through useless SEO optimized bog-spam to learn a
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
Absolutely correct regarding medicare/ss/military. Its an issue. What will get cut? Enough things that we can start to have a real conversation about how much "government" we're all willing to pay for. "What ex
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
People seem to get caught up in the political end of this issue but the fact is the US is spending 1.7T a year MORE than its tax base supports. This MUST stop and if this is how it happens, then I guess this is what it took to make the chan
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
Perhaps theres no money in it and the market need is well served today by existing companies?
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
Take this as an outside perspective: reading the description of your work situation gave me a feeling of panic and dread. I felt it physically in my stomach. What you describe sounds awful. Whatever the reality of the situation may be, you
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
Google needs to bolster their AI story and this is good click bait. I'm not buying it personally.
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
It's a free country and a guy made a decision regarding what he was willing to have HIS company say publicly. It was his call to make. His company. Privately funded. He's got the right to run it any way he sees fit. You have the r
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
It would hurt Bezos even more if the US Govt found a way to cancel the massive use of AWS cloud services because his media arm endorsed the non-winning candidate. Given the business AWS does with the US govt, the size of his remaining stake
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
Is it censorship when your boss forbids you publishing your personal opinion as the official position of his company? It's funny reading the comments here but has anyone considered that Bezos may in fact support Trump? Bezos is a billi
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
A guy I know well is a senior level recruiter at a large firm. Earlier this year his company FIRED THE ENTIRE RECRUITING DEPARTMENT.
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
I've been passively searching, sending a resume, hitting click-to-apply here and there. For the 100 times or so Ive done this since March I've had only 2 responses and they were both automated replies of "not interested"
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
People tend to have their minds made up for them by powerful interests who use money and influence to frame the narrative in their favor no doubt. In the case of climate change the fictional argument/narrative for years as been "I
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
"WHAT KIND of cheese is the moon made of" Climate/Energy policy is the electorate, not the government. You're not protesting The Government here, you're in fact protesting your neighbors who elected the politicians.
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
I recall this being the case A LOOOONG time ago but I haven't heard of, read about, been warned to look out for or personally seen such a thing in forever. Have you? * I'm running a lot of MySQL stuff and such a topic might be of
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by SavageBeast 2y ago
The government always knows the right solution don't they! We really should put them in charge of everything.

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