Spooky23

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by Spooky23 7mo ago
You’re confused because you are treating free-market and capitalism as the same thing. Capitalism is about who owns the assets, free markets are about how they are transferred. They don’t require each other. State owned enterprises can part
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by Spooky23 7mo ago
I expressed that poorly. I mean the internal components. The MacBook Neo has 2 configuations. The MacBook Pro has several, but the SOC funnels those configurations into a few paths and segments the market. You can't get a "base&qu
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by Spooky23 7mo ago
When I worked for the government, we had a requirement to get a certification for every model of device Dell had on our contract. This excluded consumer devices. They had >350 SKUs, with probably millions of configurations. Apple a decad
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by Spooky23 7mo ago
They reflect the will of the principal who hired them. Success is in the eye of the beholder.
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
20 mph.
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
Their model works great. It’s really about bypassing the existing power structure of the company. Competence of the work itself is a secondary objective. Most in-house initiatives can be slow rolled by management. The fresh faced consultant
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
Yes! We were never bougie enough to get Lego, I played with Sears bricks growing up.
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
Noooo. Most cameras retain 30 days of video. That allows officers to review the violation. These camera systems have always been about surveillance. Flock adds the Silicon Valley software process, while the older tech is “law enforcement te
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
My city does it. It sucks ass. It’s a 70% vendor / 30% city revenue share and people avoid the city and use side streets to avoid the main avenues.
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
Absolutely. They shut down for COVID and never came back. A big part of traffic stops was to find weed and trade up for an arrest. With legalization, they’ve shifted to camera work, which has gotten even bigger with Flock.
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
And then when you do that, get thrown out of office.
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
Solar is best used to take care of peak summer demand. It’s not gonna displace coal plants which tend to make up base load.
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
Germany has different factors. But in the US, lobbying has established BYD as a national security threat.
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
No, it’s just disruptive and political. Ford built a world class product in the F-150 lightning, but their dealers and customers rejected it. A big part of it is that it’s a threat - you don’t need mechanics to fix electric cars.
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
It's really not. Energy grids are not designed for distributed generation. In my US state, that means billions of infrastructure investment. The people using carbon to create forcing functions to transition to renewables conveniently f
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
It's the standard innovators dilemma nonsense, with the added drama of the car case that the innovator (Tesla) shot itself in the foot due to a madman in charge. The entire ecosystem of automaking is just like tech - clusters of compli
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
If this stuff is cheaper, why are prices going up?
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
We have a magic button in servicenow that lets the L1 agent kick off a job that pulls telemetry from a user device and do an overall health check of the device. That input identifies the issue like 80% of the time if it’s a device issue. It
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
As someone who came up in the Slashdot M$ era, if nothing else the PR and communication style of Satya is a masterclass is delivering a message to the public. The dude presents like a Zen master. The message is baffling and the strategy is
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
I found myself in a similar place a couple of years ago. My partner passed away, which is different and the same as your situation. My advice… Run. Don’t worry about being fast. Get the Jeff Galloway run-walk-run book and just do it. You pr
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
Publishers served a really valuable purpose of curation and keeping good authors productive. Now we have the double whammy of a consolidated publishing system pumping out whatever James Patterson’s assistants churn out and and a long tail o
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
The UI pattern is still stupid. You should be able to quickly enter forms like this on a keyboard. When I look for a part for my car, I pick “Honda”, “Model Year”, “model”, “trim”. With address forms, if I type “U” in a keyboard aware field
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
Basically, yes. I've worked in government outside of the Federal level. The government has a moral and often legal incentive to do inefficient things for the simple reason that the work they do needs to be safe, controlled and determin
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
This. The OpenAI grift is to make itself too big to fail. They are playing a game of chicken ahead of the election circus. Trump must keep the market alive until November. Nvidia, Micron, Oracle, Microsoft are cooked when and if they pop.
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
It’s a service. Democracy doesn’t give the government the right to force you to perform a service. The technology isn’t suitable for the purposes the regime wants.
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
You can deliver confidential compute on GCP.
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
Small merchants are people, and people vary in their intelligence/savvyness and may have other issues like poor credit or high chargebacks that they usually forget to mention. Some people roll the cost of the terminal into a higher fee
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
POTUS pretty much told you this is what you are getting. His great admiration for Andrew Jackson pretty much says it all. Jackson was the poster child for bullshit populism, patronage and corruption.
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
What issues do you see? The only problem I have with it is safari support, and that’s really about Apple’s arbitrary limits on plugins.
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
It’s all economic, pride and ego. Once you hit a certain amount of income, the marginal cost of children seems too much. It’s not a big deal when you have nothing. Maintaining a middle/upper middle class lifestyle for your kids is expe

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