Spooky23

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by Spooky23 8mo ago
In fairness, I should have said "engineering companies" vs. engineers. Like any scenario, the engineers themselves have to work in the scope they are allowed to. Those firms absolutely lobbied our state legislature for all sorts o
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
You work for a company that’s part of the Trump, Ellison, Kutchner orbit of corruption. Y’all are developing amazing technology. But accept reality and drop whatever sense of moral righteousness you’re carrying here. Not because some asshol
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
You’re reading into it like the federal government is an honest broker. It’s just corruption. Google is a bigger fish. OpenAI is attached to Oracle and Larry Ellison, who is a Trump collaborator. Kushner is also in investor. Anthropic is th
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
LA County has a bigger economy than many European countries, and would displace Illinois by GDP if it were a state. LA is fine.
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
The engineers are a big part of the problem and drive regulations that featherbed themselves. I got into a fight with my city over nonexistent crosswalks (the adhesive line strips wore off) near my home in an area where drivers have a hard
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
Even in cheaper areas without earthquake or hurricane construction codes, minimum $/ft is like $250 (for lowest quality components) and realistically more like $400. Inflation for materials and labor makes any build incredibly expensiv
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That’s absolutely untrue. The only reason companies track depreciation as they do is because it allows them to defer taxation. Public works projects are not paid out of current cash. Strong Towns makes good arguments about certain things an
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
Government is top down. Once the top level people are engaged and accountable, they can do anything. The people in the middle can ensnare and kill anything that doesn’t have that support and engagement - their incentive is to encourage cons
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NYC is interesting as it has examples of everything. Dense urban, inner suburb-like service and a huge core. Crawling busses are an issue all over the place. The easy way to spot it is when noticing stacked busses during peak periods. These
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It’s usually German towns or cities trying to drive hard bargains or fighting some internal political battle. This is a different - the agency has more scope and with the ridiculous confrontation between the US and Denmark there’s no doubt
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It’s not that bad once you’re used to it. My brother was having an issue with some of his servers and I was able to connect from an airplane in the middle of the night somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean. Crazy time to be alive :)
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Just use ish and standard ssh or tailscale+ssh!
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My genetics are such I'm more likely to drop dead of a heart attack too young. If I were likely to develop alzheimer's, I'd make more and more expensive accommodation for power of attorney and trusts to shield assets while I
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
Not really. Alzheimer's is about 60% of dementia, and is frequently misdiagnosed without a full workup. As primary care shifts to more poorly trained providers and doc in the box delivery models, you'll get less workups and more m
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
Gross. Ethics laws should prohibit this.
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It’s weird that you blame the victim. The real question is why do we leave it to parents or intrusive surveillance instead of holding companies accountable?
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It’s a prop to conduct an adversarial interrogation without the same stigma.
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The bZ4X was particularly bad. Toyota adopted a combo of NIH syndrome and DNGAF. They didn’t anticipate cold weather. The batteries lost like 30% of their capacity in the cold and the resale value of it tanked.
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
My assumption was that it was an intelligence platform first. Just like Skype, Microsoft decided to randomly buy it. It amazing really. If you reached out to people and asked them for the information and graph that LinkedIn maintains, most
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NY is a financial nexus for many of the schemes and grifts, and politically it’s safe.
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I’ll let my mom know - she successfully sued an employer for doing just that.
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
The problem is you have to be defensive. If you mess up once and click some AI reading Reddit posts or hawk-tua style street interview, you’re cooked. You used to be able to reset by watching stupid financial content with high value like go
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
You’re drawing the exact wrong conclusion. Building an old boys network was acknowledged by society as a problem. If I, as a straight white male, started a men’s club, excluded women, and conducted my company’s business there, I would (righ
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
We’ll be dependent on New York for that, as potus will pardon everyone save for a few suckers at the end, assuming he leaves office in an orderly manner. The purge of DOJ (They can’t even find confirmable US Attorneys at this point.) and th
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
You can see how regulatory requirements drive corporate behaviors. Instagram and TikTok in particular behave much differently in Europe or Asia vs the US. TikTok is very different. Instagram runs an algorithm that delivers consistently bett
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
It varies depending on where and when you cross. TBH, I’ve gotten a lot more shit over the years from Canadian authorities at the border. The Canadians are tough about foreigners with convictions entering the country, and if you share a nam
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These companies all hired psychologists to help design systems that maximize dopamine release and introduce loops that drive compulsive behavior. Besides, they aren’t making great products and haven’t for some time. Is anyone happy with Fac
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Possible, but they buy data from the carriers with similar profile possibilities. The DEA operates long standing and pervasive surveillance in “drug corridors” like I-95 from Maine to Miami. They do things like LPR and grabbing passenger pi
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Awesome! I got this game for Christmas in 3rd grade and was completely hooked! It really captured my imagination and immersed me into this seemingly limitless world. It took me a couple of years to complete, and I kept of journal of explora
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
No, that’s insanity. TBH, pursuing this type of nerdery is just wasting time to excuse not curating stuff. All electronic media is bad for long term archiving. People who restore things for a living over a period of many years transition me

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