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by Spooky23 11mo ago
I think implying that the DRAM makers are nefarious is nuts. What would you do in their shoes? You have to think about what’s happening in the context that its 2025. The US is different… there is no functional financial regulator. The CEO o
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by Spooky23 11mo ago
The hotel industry is bizarre. I feel like we hit this maxima circa 2005 where prefabrication made for the shockingly cheap/nice Hampton Inn style hotels in the US. Now those places anre on the wrong side of the depreciation curve, and
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by Spooky23 11mo ago
It’s also not true. Women worked in the “lower classes”, they were just confined to jobs befitting their station.
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by Spooky23 11mo ago
Yet. Flock, et al is working on that. My brother in law runs a tie company. His trucks all roll with LPR, and they get pings on the location of repo vehicles in seconds. At the government level, slot of the Palantir work is (often illegally
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by Spooky23 11mo ago
The helmet less riders are less likely to go the hospital, because if anything happens they are dead.
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by Spooky23 11mo ago
100%. We’ve seen crazy swings in RAM prices before. A colleague who worked with me about 10 years ago on a VDI project ran some numbers and showed that if a Time Machine were available, we could have brought like 4 loaded MacBook Pros back
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by Spooky23 11mo ago
Those mental institutions weren’t equipped to treat them either. They were just awful places full of abuse and other cruelty.
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by Spooky23 11mo ago
I actually had a dude yell at me and basically say “are you stupid? Why would you pay?” While holding the gate open. I told him my boss is an asshole and was paying. That made him happy, he said “f that guy” and wished me a good day.
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by Spooky23 11mo ago
The most visible enforcement I’ve seen was in Rome. They have people issuing tickets on the bus at random. It was noticeable in that as a tourist, it seemed like a chill place, but there are lots of police of various stripes and they seemed
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by Spooky23 11mo ago
This is probably one of the most cogent analysis/descriptions of this topic that I’ve read. Thank you.
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by Spooky23 11mo ago
Nah, I’ve rode a bus to work most days forever. It’s my calm place when I go home. Tragedy of the commons is real, even a nominal stake in a service, thing or place impacts behavior. If you’ve ever shopped at Aldi, they make you put a quart
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by Spooky23 11mo ago
Because you can’t make a subjective judgement with regard to the worthiness of a particular passenger of a public resource. A car on private property eventually becomes trespassing.
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by Spooky23 11mo ago
Japan uses employer subsidy to break even. It a below the line tax in the same way health insurance is in the US.
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by Spooky23 11mo ago
Without nominal costs, buses turn into mobile benches for unhoused people and druggies. It’s the same story as what happens with libraries.
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by Spooky23 11mo ago
It is a sad story. But I will say that events in my life have really made me regret questioning the decisions of others. I did things “right” I met my wife right after college, and I loved her dearly. We lived a happy life and have a wonder
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by Spooky23 11mo ago
That’s not the standard for a warrant. That standard is “reasonable belief”.
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by Spooky23 11mo ago
The only thing fascinating is that anyone believed any of that crap. Everything that Trumpists are doing was peddled in the 1990s by such distinguished figures as Newt Gingrich and Rudy Giuliani. Usually with a nauseating appeal to "ru
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by Spooky23 11mo ago
If you've worked in government, you'd know that that bar for getting a subpoena or warrant is far lower and less strenuous than getting a purchase order.
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by Spooky23 11mo ago
For good reason. Being "investigated" for illegal things is a key way to violate personal liberties. If you believe in freedom, you have to accept that some people who are not nice people benefit from those human rights. You may f
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by Spooky23 11mo ago
I think Perl was very tied to Unix idioms. I love the language to this day and found it incredibly expressive for developing small order of magnitude programs. Python was more opinionated, and better able to integrate with external librarie
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by Spooky23 11mo ago
If you’re not a nerd, signal is like a batlight for people doing stupid shit.
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Forever is a long time.
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by Spooky23 11mo ago
I say it when I really don’t have an opinion about the likelihood and don’t want to choose a word that infers high/low.
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by Spooky23 11mo ago
The market is priced for perfection. Delivery is underwhelming. I think the audacity and hijinks of Altman, Musk, the Trump whack pack, Theil, etc in this zero regulatory environment is starting to wear thin on Wall St. The honest players l
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by Spooky23 11mo ago
A nuclear plant about 50 miles from my house was closed 15 years ago. The spent fuel rods will be stored there indefinitely until a federal facility is built.
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by Spooky23 11mo ago
Nuclear is great, but it does require wheelbarrows of cash, and we don’t have a solution for waste products.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
The issue with that logic there is those basic drugs are mostly generic now. That money is less, and goes to the PBM and generic manufacturers in India.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
A fancy Nissin Cup of Noodle is $0.80 and 300 caloriesz. I just bought 2 lbs of hamburger meat for $15. Food insecure people load up on cheap carbs. Most of them don’t know you to cook or lack gear and will buy a $5/16oz boil in bag ri
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by Spooky23 1y ago
It’s not that they don’t want — you can gamble on the toilet now. The guys who were gonna fly in and drop $10k already blew their kids college fund on Draft Kings.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
The switch to the current monetary system, followed by the elimination of taxation for rich people created this. You can only prosper with compounding. People on the bottom are just as helpless as they were before. They carry on with benefi

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