Spooky23

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by Spooky23 6mo ago
Yes. This bubble will pop and we’ll have 3-4 rough years.
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
I doubt it. According to the 1960s courts, they did because this “ancient concept” was essentially common sense. If you tell someone something, you shouldn’t expect a constitutional right to it remaining a secret. If I told someone I robbed
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
Who pays the plumbers, bro? Who trains them?
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
Maybe you’ve been in a coma, but there’s this dude in the White House that has imploded science funding. We’ve probably displaced a quarter million people directly, and universities are attriting more as foreign students aren’t coming. The
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
Our entire economy is built on scientific advancement and advantage. The dismantling of everything to maximize executive power in order to maximize grift and corruption will have effects for decades. This is the American version of the cult
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
lol yes. The POTUS kids are players in Polymarket and Kalshi, and are running crypto grifts. The SEC fired most of their investigators, hasn’t appointed members to key boards, and cancelled most of their contracts with FINRA. (Which has lai
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
That’s fair. You become vulnerable to a guy like Jack Welch. The vendor financing stuff I saw (as a junior / intern at a supplier) in those days was a reflection of that culture. They’d lease capital equipment through GE Capital, and p
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
GE Capital was a different creature, riding the line of fraud in some ways. They misapplied accounting rules and had to write down or capitalize over $20B for long term care insurance.
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
I experienced this with a VDI project when we mistakenly got 25Gb links delivered to the hosts. We were expecting to get some sort of unbelievably fast internet experience, but it was awful as the internet gateway was 1 Gb or something simi
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
Oh it was becuase of their race for sure. For the type of man who joins a lynch mob, the only thing worse than a black man being black was him being “uppity”. The black community resisted the lynching and stood up for the poor bastard they
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
So you take issue with the idea that an out of mob that burned down 35 blocks of a mid sized city was motivated by envy and resentment of the prosperous black community. Instead, you assert it was a mob that assembled to lynch a young man
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
I think it’s hard to not have any kind of boss. There’s nobody to provide the critique needed to improve the products.
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
The Jones act has to be one of the most destructive stupid laws that we have.
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
All true, but you have to measure it against how enshitified Google Maps has become.
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
The “don’t” was missing. Honestly, I give up with Siri dictation. Either my voice has changed or it’s changed in a way that it doesn’t like my cadence or diction. Either way, mea culpa.
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
Nope. If you get assigned a routable IPv4 IP, you just have a shit ISP. I led the rollout one of the larger O365 implementations. Outlook and the office stack needed like 10-16 ports per user. We served like 150k people with 30 outbound IPs
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
“Traders” it’s not the word I would use. Maybe traitors.
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
Great point. Granted I’m approaching it from the perspective of a tourist or business traveler, but 6/6 of the European cities I’ve been in were fully navigable for my purposes via transit. I’d probably guess half or less in the US. Ev
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
Alot of people use iMessage or WhatsApp for out of band messaging. The global usage is nuts. All of my Indian friends live on WhatsApp even if they are iPhone users. When I was in Portugal and Spain recently it’s literally the way busines
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
Gotcha. Well, at least it's a legit program, although that doesn't help you. In some places this stuff is so vague that using a minority business (like say SHI) is essentially a sort of tax to win discretionary purchases with gove
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
It’s an incredibly useful product for the people who can use it. It just isn’t the next Microsoft Office. A market of 10M people vs 2B!
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
The article pointed this out as well, but notably did not state that Google had in fact received an administrative subpoena.
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
It’s very possible to do so. Partner with someone in the space and they take a vig. An even better option is to partner with a veteran owned entity, which often allows you to bypass the bidding process.
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
Cowork is a dead end. Most people can’t operate onedrive. Tools like Claude are best at answering things when the user understands the question.
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
I’ve used Spectrum and their predecessors since the 90s. Never ran into this, although the upstream speeds are ridiculously slow, and they used to force Netflix traffic to an undersized peer circuit.
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
You can only do it during growth phases or if there’s complimentary products with margin. The story I was told about Office 365 was the when they were using spinning disk, exchange was IOPS-bound, so they had lots of high volume, low iops
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
Im not denigrating anyone. I worked dairy farms from age 7 to 23. It’s a brutal lifestyle and I’ve seen my share of hardworking, broken 50 year olds trying to make it mostly on the lesser paying job their wife is left with because raising k
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
My former organization employed ~750 contractors developing software. Their billable rates ranged from $44-76/hr in 2022. The people in the cafeteria probably made more. They get minimum viable salary like indentured workers in hopes o
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by Spooky23 6mo ago
Anything Musk or Altman say is just about raising money. Nothing they say can be taken at face value. There’s a funny interview with Mark Anderseen, where he talks about how he never looks backwards and doesn’t have any sense of introspecti

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