Spooky23

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by Spooky23 8mo ago
That’s babble to 80% of the nerdy HN audience. “Copy your stuff to this usb drive and keep it somewhere you aren’t” is easy for almost anyone to comprehend, accessible but operationally difficult.
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
It’s not very hard. Take a guy making $200k and 30% benefit overhead and replace with two offshore people at $50k total comp.
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
HN is full of people who backup but never restore. Lol
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
HDD cost small dollars and low skill. Expecting even a nerdy user to successfully restore something from a cobbled together LTO setup is prepper nonsense.
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
For individuals? No. LTO is enterprise gear that is not suitable for people. If you want to waste alot of time with backups, curate your stuff and get it on optical media. Better yet, print the good stuff on archival papers and ink and stow
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
MRIs are good if you know what you’re looking for, and usually with contrast, which in a situation like cancer where you need to do them often can result in allergic reactions. In a full body situation, they are looking for mets, and the up
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
IMO, no. I pay alot of taxes. Probably more annually in the last decade than I made in total my first decade working. Many of my peers spend alot of time agonizing about this stuff and spending both mental energy and significant capital in
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
Money describes a price, not a value. Two different concepts.
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
People get very high and mighty when it comes to other people’s getting of benefits or paying taxes.
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
People like this don’t let the facts get in the way.
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
Fair, but still, the legislative process takes alot of time, and judicial norms and precedent allow for discretion to be exercised with accountability, which also informs the legislative process.
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
Good news, the messenger has been neutered. You may continue messaging.
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
Sounds like a great way to reinforce the "We ready to move along from Epstein" narrative.
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by Spooky23 8mo ago
The protections aren't quite the same with merchant issues. Notably, most situations that you attempt in good faith to resolve, purchased within 100 miles of your home are protected for credit cards. But even if it were - most people o
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by Spooky23 9mo ago
You do, but if you leave so much that 20 cars are pulling in front of you, you’ve either driving too slow or misjudged and left unnecessary space. At 15-20 mph traffic speeds, you need 8-20 feet. Ideally, cars in a multiple lane to one lane
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by Spooky23 9mo ago
You’re the problem because of the way you are thinking. You don’t own the asphalt in front of you. You’re angry because in your mind you do, and you feel righteous about it. That’s why you are casting a moral judgement about them. The most
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by Spooky23 9mo ago
That’s the thing that is so ridiculous. Why is it magically OK to drive harmful compulsive behavior on your 18th birthday. The interns at work talk incessantly about gambling. It’s just weird and wrong.
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by Spooky23 9mo ago
People are motivated by money, and the aspects of the job that aren’t toxic.
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by Spooky23 9mo ago
It often doesn’t. But it is possible to have effective regulatory oversight systems and taxation. Norway is the model. It’s the ultimate rent seeking model, and like the old telecom & utility monopolies, they should be on a tight leash
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by Spooky23 9mo ago
This is a feature of all resource extraction industry. I live in New York - we have 100+ year old oil related hazards in western NY to this day. My folks had a gravel mine near their home that would occasionally cause issues relating to f
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by Spooky23 9mo ago
Ivanti is a necrotic acquirer of things. Kind of like a poor version of Microfocus or Broadcom pre-VMware and pre-AI hype. (Broadcom even bought CA, which was the ultimate company of this type.) This product was MobileIron, which was actual
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by Spooky23 9mo ago
Totally the same. Enjoy your bone broth.
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by Spooky23 9mo ago
People do crazy shit. Consider yogurt. Some ancient person decided to sample curdled milk in the intestine of a dead sheep, and subsequently figured out how to replicate that experience.
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by Spooky23 9mo ago
The marketing of OpenClaw is amazing. They had a one-liner install that didn't work, started the hype-train days before they changed the name of the product and have everyone from nerd influencers to CNBC raving about it. I'm wait
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by Spooky23 9mo ago
> They are adding B12 as a way to say that it’s tailored to individuals and not available. Yes, adding B12 is a regulatory fig leaf. So is bribing public officials: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/07/hims-hers
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by Spooky23 9mo ago
Hims is mostly marketing. They are using compounding pharmacies to fulfill orders. Compounders are a shady industry in general, and most the GLP places are using Florida pharmacies, which are notoriously extra shady, as Floridas regulatory
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by Spooky23 9mo ago
The issue isn’t the technology, it’s that there’s more than one way to do everything and people tend to scratch their itches. If you started a company today, you can immediately and cheaply hire people or an MSP to manage Windows PCs. I hir
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by Spooky23 9mo ago
Honestly, that’s a 2016 argument. I flipped a few contact centers over to Linux desktops and had very few issues. If anything we probably spent 5x the resources getting Windows 11 certified internally. Microsoft knows it, but they don’t car
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by Spooky23 9mo ago
More like people who won’t bite the hand the feeds them.
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by Spooky23 9mo ago
Most of the ethanol stuff about cars isn’t really true anymore. The place where ethanol sucks is yard equipment where gas sits and pulls in water.

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