Spooky23

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by Spooky23 4mo ago
Grandpa Gates was PR bullshit - he was always a notorious asshole. It really demonstrates the nature of people. Richest guy on the planet for quite awhile, but can’t manage his relationships and spends his time chasing skirts. To the point
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
Clarification: They want someone who isn’t them to make the decision to commit the war crime. They are happy to facilitate.
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
Yes you’re right. Paying off POTUS’s family through a series of pump and dump schemes is much better than what Biden did.
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
Sacks works for the government now. Everything is political. This happening on the day SpaceX IPO’d? It’s a flex, and a message.
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
They’re fine. It’s a car radio, not a critical system. The people who are vulnerable to this type of attack have procedures and trusted equipment to conduct their business (or not). US police agencies have had rules like this for rental car
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
My wife died of aggressive melanoma. Immunotherapy would likely have helped her if not for some complications that delayed it. Today, only 4 years later, there are two therapies, one RNA based and one CART that would have been usable in he
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
The difference is the nature of the lobbying and the volume. Follow the rules. An egregious, non-controversial example of things going poorly is NYC Mayor Adams and Turkey. He basically accepted bribes and favors from the Turkish government
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
It’s very different. I was adjacent to state level politics for a long time. The German, Korean and French economic development organizations would come around every now and again with promotional events coordinated with their embassy to pr
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
The submission is more like RSUs and wire transfers to various actors in the grift-iverse.
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
To hell with mythos, I want the marketing bot.
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
Just like “rule of law” and “family values”, “the troops” and some other stuff, free markets were never something they really care about. The reality of Republican free markets were about compounding and growing big business and resource e
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
They also buy rivals. I worked for a small, out of the way company that added a really good ticketing app for some niche scenarios. They basically bought us for the tech and integrated the rest of the company into various other companies th
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
I can kill you by having a B-52 level the entire downtown area where you work. Or, I can have a drone with an LPR slam a mortar round into your car as you drive.
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
Yeah tbh I may have read past some of your previous post :) What you’re saying is what makes me nervous. It was definitely sold as “anthropic IP, thorough your old pals at the hyper scaler”. And it’s turning into something else — I’m having
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
Sure. It's really about informed consent and acceptance of risk. I'm very conservative about that due to my background and business. Say you have some flow that is processing/handling regulated, sensitive or other customer da
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
I’m very cautious with using these tools with certain clients, as I’m often contractually obligated to do things that my downstream supplier can rug pull at any time. You should never use any of the frontier models with operational workload
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
The buyer and sellers are frequently wrong. The buyer isn’t the patient, it’s the employer. The insurer is either charging a premium for risk or servicing work for a self-pay employer. The biggest buyer is the Federal government and by law
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
Actual open source is hard without a big war chest that allows you to flagrantly steal the training data.
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
xAI lets companies like Google move fast and hurt people at arms length. Google itself has a good reputation as a facilities operator. SpaceXAI is operating gas turbines emitting exhaust at ground level.
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
It’s also “the sport”. Americans don’t really do casual sports anymore and there is a ton of competition in the various leagues. In many parts of the US, soccer is a fall sport that competes with football in school leagues. Football teams r
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
It’s not a win for Israel. It’s a win for him . The stronger Iran is, the more you need him. Netanyahu is Trump like - his core constituency is whack job Americans and the Israelis whom they firehose money at. The commentators and idiots r
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
We had a coup attempt without military intervention on 1/6. The current regime is actively purging the military leadership. Countries don’t have military coups or juntas because they are fundamentally bad or whatever. It happens becuas
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
Yup. And it tends to cluster around rural and sectarian lines. When people start having 6+, the formulas get weird and vary by state and sometimes county.
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
Kids are cheap when you are poor because you aren’t seeking status. A home in a highly desirable suburban school district won’t support 12 kids in the lifestyle that people demand in those places. Whoever has custody of the kids is fine. Th
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
The only thing you lose there are the trips. If anything your social life can blossom. My wife was a city treasurer and had a masters. I was a .gov and later a tech executive.
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
Yet, I, a relative peasant financially has been hit by 3 different brokers that I'm eligible to participate in the offering. I would hazard a guess they are not getting the uptake in institutional money they were hoping for.
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
That particular example is a labor arbitrage issue - it's a better value to have a $500 assembly with $250 labor than a $50 part with $600 labor. If you have the know-how, BYO labor is the magical way to save on this sort of thing. The
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
Anthropic seems to have clawed its way to being the best AI and charging for itself. Microsoft had to slash the Anthropic budget… which it exceeded while being the exclusive host of OpenAI. Google seems to have a good B2B and internal lever
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
I’m sorry to hear what you are facing and send any good vibes I can. I lost my wife to a particularly nasty metastatic cancer (melanoma). There were a few complications that delayed her immunotherapy, which ultimately led to her death. Ther
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by Spooky23 4mo ago
Yeah if you don’t license Office correctly for an RDS server, you’d by contract be liable for a license for each user and device used to access the server.

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