Spooky23

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by Spooky23 9mo ago
You’re missing the point. The villainy and noise is the superpower of the company. Operating Palantir in the way ICE is illegal, full stop. Just the IRS integration alone makes most users in a position where they are committing felonies. Ba
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by Spooky23 9mo ago
Apple has to price in the risk of the US government forcing their hand in various ways. They have a negotiating disadvantage.
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by Spooky23 10mo ago
The F-150 lightning weighs about 25-35% more than the ICE version. That's a significant margin.
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by Spooky23 10mo ago
It displaces well paid mechanic jobs with greasemonkey stuff. It's not bad for consumers, but a significant amount of the economy is maintaining cars. It's the same thing that happened when emissions standards made cars more relia
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by Spooky23 10mo ago
lol. You figured it out, Verizon wireless can just be replaced by a UniFi router and ChatGPT.
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by Spooky23 10mo ago
It's great for rural folks or others with power issues. For a few thousand bucks, you have a backup generator in your garage.
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by Spooky23 10mo ago
Elon going off the deep end is the tail wagging the dog. It's an objectively terrible car. The collapse of the company overall, particularly the Model Y, which is a great car, is all about Elon. Not only his unveiling as a fascist, but
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by Spooky23 10mo ago
My brother has one, it is an amazing vehicle with better range performance than Tesla. It's dramatically better in the snow. Towing of large loads is a valid downside, but reality is that most people don't tow, and people who do a
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by Spooky23 10mo ago
I’m not diagnosed but have a high correlation condition (APD) which explains my inattentive ADHD ways that only my closest people basically knew were there the whole time. After reading a book about APD, I felt like I was reading reports wr
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by Spooky23 10mo ago
The change is that standardization of laws and limits to interstate commerce has made everything a national market. It doesn’t benefit the market to make plumbing contracting a national business, for example.
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by Spooky23 10mo ago
Other states are worse or better these days. The US is
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by Spooky23 10mo ago
A friend of mine did this, and had the food delivered to himself. They banned him eventually.
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by Spooky23 10mo ago
In this case it’s “You can’t use our technology to teach your thinking machine from our stealing of other people’s work, because our AI is just learning stuff, not stealing, and you are stealing from us, because we say so.”
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by Spooky23 10mo ago
One of my teams runs a Microsoft product that’s been in place for a long time and has been an amazing product falling on hard times. We had a service impacting issue and went through the typical Premier/Unified support gaslighting exer
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by Spooky23 10mo ago
Huh? MS did ok in the nascent consumer market. RIM owned commercial, completely. I had an iPaq in 2004 when we got married. It was like living in the future, where the future was a scaled down Windows 98 box. We took a one month road trip a
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by Spooky23 10mo ago
Their CEO comes off as a real self-righteous character. One has to wonder whether these passwords were that way purposefully to avoid accountability for privileged partners. Most of these systems are deployed with grant money that it comes
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by Spooky23 10mo ago
If you have a lot of resources to protect against or known risk, you segment. For example, do most daily transactions at one bank, and keep the rest at another. This happens a lot in companies and government - you outsource payable operatio
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by Spooky23 10mo ago
The police rarely have ever been super responsive on shoplifting and basic trespass. I worked at a big box electronics store in the 90s, and we got looted when management did stupid shit like put hard drives on a retail shelf to save labor.
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by Spooky23 10mo ago
It really depends on the market. The institutional investors are common in the South and Southwest. I think the fact that they exist at all is a problem. You are correct however that smaller private investors are more common. I live in a sm
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by Spooky23 10mo ago
You are 100% correct. Pre-1960s, the elderly were living in SROs, often windowless, with family (without aid or care), in county poorhouses, or marked as senile and sent to a mental hospital. Retirement and living with family was viable for
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by Spooky23 10mo ago
It’s easy to eye roll at billionaire guy wanting to go work, but it’s a real thing, I recall my dad struggling with retirement, after having planned so long. He did a bit of consulting, was a rural mail carrier for a year and ended up manag
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by Spooky23 10mo ago
Honestly i didn't think of that. "Maybe your wife would be happier with you after your first free delivery of Blue Chew, terms and conditions apply!"
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by Spooky23 10mo ago
I have a good friend who is having a hard time and is moonlighting as a delivery driver. He basically has conversations with ChatGPT for 5-6 hours a day. He says it's been helpful for him for things as varied as technical understanding
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by Spooky23 10mo ago
Very true. We waste alot of valuable labor on “software engineering” that is grossly inefficient. Capital gets allocated to these so called startups that are incredibly inefficient.
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by Spooky23 10mo ago
I think the narrative is that South America is America.
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by Spooky23 10mo ago
Exactly. Delivering freedom to Venezuela will get the splintering aspects of his tribe focused on the message and away from Epstein. The people he needs at home are pretty simple. This type of thing makes it easier for his loyal propagandis
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by Spooky23 10mo ago
My company owns like 10k work trucks. Zero tow. The people with serious towing needs are buying F-250s anyway. The people towing their toys to the lake are mostly fine. If not, it’s not the right vehicle choice.
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by Spooky23 10mo ago
Weird flex of pedantry even for HN. Says who? I did a gap year service project and graduated at age 23. My business partner did a 3-2 program and graduated at 23. Plus, anyone working as an engineer then has a 8 figure net worth and the ove
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by Spooky23 10mo ago
There’s zero benefit to you because the carrier is NATing you for other purposes. They get better network management.
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by Spooky23 10mo ago
Exactly. Spectrum delivers good IPv6 service in my area. I tried it when I upgraded my gateway. All of my devices are assigned 4 IPv6 IPs, hostnames are replaced by auto assigned stuff from the ISP, and lots of random things don’t work. I w

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