Spooky23

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by Spooky23 1y ago
Gambling encourages and creates bad behavior. I got to hang out at a local state-licensed casino for a few nights due to a work obligation. Try it some time and people watch. At best, there's groups of people having a good time. Usuall
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by Spooky23 1y ago
I can't see any advantages at all. I deployed it at home and in a few networks my company runs. We had nothing but stupid issues and zero benefit, and I was looking for them. Basic stuff like getting automatically applied dynamic hostn
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by Spooky23 1y ago
The S&P 500 is a list. 80+% of the companies on that list when it started are no longer on it. Betting on business in general over long time periods tends to be a winning proposition. Betting on an individual company tends to be less of
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Good for him. That’s certainly a worthy accomplishment. The point stands i think. It is difficult for someone in his position to offer meaningful commentary about the topic without alienating his customers. As I mentioned in another comment
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by Spooky23 1y ago
I don't know and DNGAF about Garry, but that argument is specious and reflects the conflict his business fundamentally creates for him. The smart move would be to be silent, not sure what you "admire".
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by Spooky23 1y ago
People live in fear, and these things help police close cases quickly. I served on a jury where a young woman slipped on ice while crossing the street and was run over by a negligent driver who was fleeing what he thought was the police, be
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Inflammation is typically an immune response. Chronic inflammation is a standard flag that is measured a used by doctors in diagnoses for many years, and by oncologists in particular when treating cancer. There’s a lot of work right now int
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by Spooky23 1y ago
If you commit any number of stupid or criminal acts, you are legally blacklisted from the financial industry for life.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
They do, but the payee accepts risk.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
The real question is: did the product manager shave his beard?
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by Spooky23 1y ago
There was alot of complexities. It's hard to really understand the true position of these businesses in modern terms. Operationally, they would often try to over-represent losses because the interstate commerce commission and other Sta
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by Spooky23 1y ago
The books are great. They aren’t “history” but set the mood/tone and iirc they usually have recommendations for actual history books in the authors notes.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
I’m not an Anglophile, but even the most cursory glance at the history of England disputes that notion, unless “homogenous” is code for “not brown”.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
It’s complicated, especially as laptops have gotten thinner and tolerances tighter. Dell and Lenovo/IBM used to have laptops with drains. Lenovo definitely has splash resistant laptops, and most semi-rugged devices are spill-safe, but
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Agreed - I don’t think they are particularly brilliant as a category. Hereditary kleptocracy has limits. But… I don’t think there’s an example in modern history of the this much capital moving around based on whim. The “bet on red” mentalit
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Travel. There are two United States. A prosperous nation and a struggling nation. See both. I’m from a now depressed rural town. When I periodically drive home it gets a little more ramshackle every year. My town had 20 operating dairy farm
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by Spooky23 1y ago
No way. It’s 2025, society is totally different, you have to think about what is the new normal. They are too big to fail at this point — so much of the S&P 500 valuation is tied to AI (Microsoft, Google, Tesla, etc) they are arguable
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Google has the best story imo. Gemini > Azure - it will accelerate GCP growth.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Railroads were pretty profitable for a long time. The western long haul routes were capitalized by land transfers. What killed them was the same thing that killed marine shipping — the government put the thumb on the scale for trucking and
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by Spooky23 1y ago
How was your trip down the third Avenue El? Did your goods arrive via boxcar to 111 8th Ave?
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Unlike 1875, we have Saudi and other tillion/billionaires willing commit almost any amount to own the future of business.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
I think you’re right. But practically, it probably has more risk as people bypassing employer or legal controls think it’s “secure”. So they have conversations that they wouldn’t have.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
That’s a good point of view. 90% of the time, they are checking boxes. But if they are fishing, you have to be careful because they generally are bad at understanding anything, but good at manipulating the audit rules to frame things in suc
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Engineers are always insufferable with this stuff. I can think of dozen times where everything was perfect, except for <thing we didn’t think of> or <thing we knew but didn’t bother to engage the customer on>. There’s a million
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by Spooky23 1y ago
People have investments in things like itunes, apps, etc.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Well, for one, Florida is one of the largest states and an economic powerhouse. It's business environment is completely driven by residential and vacation real estate. They have a regulatory and tax environment that is attuned to extra
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by Spooky23 1y ago
I've never heard a rant about people being banned, but i can think of a half dozen people who have lost their icloud accounts due to the combo of inexplicably not remembering or writing down their passwords and selling or losing a phon
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by Spooky23 1y ago
The Google rage on HN is immature. That's a feature of any SaaS. Adobe frequently shuts down ETLA customers due their own invoice processing failures. I can think of three significant government subdivisions that were unable to access
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by Spooky23 1y ago
They work for contractors -- alot of the companies that used to do stuff like newspaper and courier delivery got into this, but it varies dramatically be region. For the lousy contractors, it's sort of an uncanny valley between UPS and
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by Spooky23 1y ago
UPS is pretty close to this. UPS Ground will usually load stuff onto multi-modal containers and ship via rail where practical. Fedex does for east->west coast, but they seem to do alot of relayed truck shipping. Rail is almost always che

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