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by Spooky23 1y ago
It depends. My home in a smaller city would be ~$3M in NYC. It’s about $400k where I live.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
In my city, for a poor person, it’s about 1% of their weekly gross wage.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Well, expect more. We’ve gutted the federal bureaucracy like a fish, anyone who wasn’t fired is leaving as soon as they can. I’m hiring lots of amazing people from the feds. My client is going to make a fortune as the smartest people regula
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Mercy. Flash had an awesome ecosystem. But it was too fragile, and Adobe is too incompetent of a company to be a good steward of that kind of tech.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
The camera iterates significantly every other year. My kid plays baseball, from little league to now high school ball. The pictures I can take on my iPhone are incredible. (I’d do the same thing with a Pixel or Samsung if I was a Android pe
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by Spooky23 1y ago
You make your currency the reserve currency, tax the world by inflating it while restricting circulation, print money, then borrow. When people or countries potentially disrupt the equilibrium, kill them.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Not really, that’s just the type the EFF gins up. The problem is the regulation of speech and requiring verification. The VPN stuff is a misapplication of security “best practices”. Tech companies are amoral and happily facilitate the use o
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Yes, but cities design for that. Urban paid departments have a 7 minute response time or less. My mom lived in the country, and the sheriff there started a paramedic service and trained deputies as EMTs. It made a huge difference as the par
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by Spooky23 1y ago
My question would be… how often are you stressed?
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by Spooky23 1y ago
> The American appetite for new "war fighters" is exceptionally low when there's no exigent conflict facing us. That’s a problem easily solved. We have the menace of the Red Maple Leaf people to the north, and perhaps a bu
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by Spooky23 1y ago
It was a really fun project. We basically made these disaster kits, with small MFPs, tools, laptops, cell radios and INMARSAT terminals hooked to Cisco switches (this was circa 2002-3) and a little server. We had a deal that let us stow the
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Thank your procurement agent and hvac guy. My team used to maintain go-kits for continuity of operations for a government org. We ran into a few scenarios where the dye on optical media would just go, and another where replacement foam for
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by Spooky23 1y ago
There is very little new with nuclear except bubble money. It’s fundamentally a ton of capital spend with high operational cost and risk. Would be energy barons like it because it really begs for concentration of generation from a political
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by Spooky23 1y ago
The bigger issue is that there’s no demand for ships. When containers distributed the industry, the whole thing moved to flags of convenience and mostly asian crews. There’s a reason why the docks in every rich country have given way to con
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Visio was built to be acquired by Microsoft. It was the best office family app pre-acquisition. Every subsequent release is worse than the one before it. Lucid is a better tool in every way.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Absolutely. They are in the middle both physically and logically. Notice Trump’s big crackdown barely made a dent - mess with India, and Jamie Dimon and his peers are on the phone immediately… finance depends on the outsourcers onshore and
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by Spooky23 1y ago
That’s no hum, it’s the sound of shareholder value.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Municipal government does not have any power, obligation nor responsibility to enforce federal law. Lowering themselves to be federal snitches, they reduce compliance with state and local laws which actually impact the public, and create a
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by Spooky23 1y ago
The Indian diaspora is huge and you have second and third generation folks in executive office all over. As a political force, south Asians are increasingly powerful as well in many states. There’s a lot of opportunities for personal networ
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by Spooky23 1y ago
I think people use it as cudgel to blame people and as a crutch to avoid action. And we ignore the psychological and other factors that make improving lifestyle and eating better difficult. No doctor wants their patient to have a stroke. Bu
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by Spooky23 1y ago
I don’t think that’s the case. The relatively small cabal of people driving this stuff are all pretty weird people who live atypical lives and are hella smart, aware, and unconstrained. They don’t care about the wake of destruction, and lik
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by Spooky23 1y ago
I agree, but both are heart disease and both can be prevented in similar ways. My dad and my father in law both died from heart disease. My fil was on the surface less healthy. He had an extreme high stress job with exposures to environment
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by Spooky23 1y ago
We decided in the 1970s that all must be sacrificed on the alter of maximizing shareholder value.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
The Ben Thompson take attempting to find a lemonade in the lemons is the most terrifying: the bubble will pop and leave us with… excess electric generation capacity? (And bankrupt power producers?) We truly live in the dumbest timeline.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
The need to say “fuck you” to Elon and one-up him.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
This isn’t a surprise — it’s been projected since the 80s at least. K-12 is in a trough for the next decade.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
The retail experience is. Farmer's Almanac sat above the candy in the checkout aisle. That's all transitioning to delivery and self-checkout. 20 years ago, you'd like 30 lanes open with eyeballs on the book. Now, in my area t
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by Spooky23 1y ago
They dont get a choice. You really can’t operate a small store anymore. The distribution networks were all destroyed by the top-5 retailers. Regional supermarkets are capped by this. The lack of third party distribution means they have to h
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Their audience is old people who buy the book at the cashier line at Walmart. Both their customer base and sales outlet is dying off. These things are really magazines that run once a year. The notion of a magazine is a weird concept that d
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by Spooky23 1y ago
It’s legal in 39 states, DC and Puerto Rico. The Supreme Court shot down the federal ban circa 2018.

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