Spooky23

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by Spooky23 1y ago
Agreed. In my city some midrange bank is financing a new commercial office space - the surrounding blocks are practically vacant. That whole category is practically useless for much anything other than allowing chinese people to get cash ou
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by Spooky23 1y ago
I think it depends on your job role. I’m more architecture and operations in past lives, and being together is really powerful and reduces time taken for many tasks. If you’re an engineer or developer mostly working a backlog, totally diffe
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Thanks for the perspective and I both appreciate and agree with you as a customer and observer of those big core services in the enterprise space. The edges and frontiers are what bug me. AI mania is a pox.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
I remember my dad who was a great investor always said that and it was one of the things that disturbed him about QE and letting some of the big banks survive. What we’re seeing today with these quasi-public markets and even the AI mania is
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Yes! I loved this product… it was our little social network for my friends and coworkers.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
There’s a spectrum between true believers and blissfully ignorant.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
They never changed. For some reason Satya became CEO and nerds fawned over the “new Microsoft” for whatever reason. They are a hard nosed company focused with precision on dominance for themselves.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
There isn’t a significant difference between “enterprise” and “consumer” in terms of fundamental characteristics. They have different firmware and warranties, usually disks are tested more methodically. Max operating range is ~60C for spinn
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by Spooky23 1y ago
That's exactly the point. It has nothing to do with a monopoly - retail is all about cashflow. Walmart has 2.8% net margins, and do it with a maniacal focus on cost control and vendor management. A manufacturer with a unique product c
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by Spooky23 1y ago
You can’t live in it. Average stay is has to be <7 days. It makes sense to do if you’re in the 35% bracket. You buy a condo or a house. So you buy a house, airbnb it for one year, then rent for 2-5 more. Then you 1031 exchange it and do
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by Spooky23 1y ago
It only works for things that are price inelastic. Usually luxury or more high end products. Good examples are Rolex, Apple, Sony in the old days. Otherwise price is elastic and using price change to tweak sales when demand slacks or oversu
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Unfortunately, the SEC slashed their spending with them and FINRA laid off a large percentage of the people doing that important work.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
You are correct, mea culpa.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
I’m in a different industry, but when I’ve had to collect identification for reasons we extracted metadata at the time of presentation, validated it, and discarded the image. We would never get clearance from counsel to store that in most s
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by Spooky23 1y ago
It’s an escalation path. When you store and image of an ID unnecessarily, then associate it with those last four digits, you’ve created a way to link other data sources to individuals. Most scenarios I’ve worked with, you toss the ID image
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by Spooky23 1y ago
The “big beautiful bill” essentially subsidizes short term rentals by allowing investors to fully depreciate the properties year 1.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
I disagree. Finance is a good example. The core regulated parts of finance like retail and commercial banking are pretty good. Costs are low, they’ve gotten more efficient, services are uniform and poor performers get purged. The issues wit
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by Spooky23 1y ago
People online like to yak about the woke nonsense. Reality is there are tax and regulatory advantages. The courts are setup in a way that is favorable to business. They read a very strict interpretation of contracts which is good in some sc
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Those cameras aren’t usually easily or cheaply adapted to surveillance. Most are really simple and don’t have things like reliable time sync. Also, road jurisdictions are really complex and surveillance requires too much coordination. State
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Sometimes the rocking helps with a ground loop that isn’t working well.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
It's not an hourly rate as in if you work 5 hours you are paid for 5 hours of labor. You are paid $20+ an hour based on the expected time to complete the job, with a price floor of minimum wage. If a job should take 3 hours and you tak
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by Spooky23 1y ago
I transitioned to mostly cash. 50's are the new 20, 100's are the new 50. I rarely have an issue with a $100 bill, but I don't pay for a $3 cup of coffee with it either. It's an annoyance similar to the people who like t
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by Spooky23 1y ago
It's code for not having certain kids in the classroom. Until the 90s, they'd base G&T admission based on IQ. Now it's based on whether your family can afford a quality Pre-K. They thought my little brother was a savant a
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Absolutely. In my area, the Chase ATMs are all issuing $100 bills. My credit union is spitting out $50s by default. They’re ready.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
There’s one called Stadiumlive. Several are out there. At least one kid I know has a Sportsbook app on his phone setup by his parents.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
That’s fair, you make a good point. I guess people win the lottery too. Life is complex, there’s no one answer. And tbh, if I reflect on my own life, my comp is much higher than it has ever been, my peeps are very happy, and I’m not grindin
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Windows 10/11 have native support. Writes aren’t terribly performant iirc.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Encryption is the mechanism of segmentation for most everything on 2025. AES is secure for the foreseeable future. Failures in key storage and exchange, and operational failures are the actual threat and routinely present a practical, explo
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Is there a good resource for newbs in small-midsized networks you can recommend? The company stuff is super-simple, but my home is as you described in the other comment -- i'm getting into large counts of IoT and other devices.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
I disagree. What a high level professional gambler is doing is hard work. Hard work doesn't make you rich, but it's part of the things that you need to prosper. I'm no inspirational poster child, but hard work, building a net

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