Spooky23

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That’s really splitting hairs. The Republic of Vietnam was a dead man walking, but it was a United States puppet state, and they finally collapsed in 1975. The cope stuff of “never beaten in the battlefield” is just bullshit. The point of f
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Fair, that was a flippant response on my part. I'm of the age where sequence of returns is a impactful risk.
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You're thinking backwards. The money is parked in these companies. They basically figured out a strategy to maximize return in an environment where the public market is dominated by passive capital. It's time for Google/Elon&
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The string-pullers behind the anti-DEI crowd want to replace the traditional power structure with their philosophical fellows. They complain that black people are admitted to fancy colleges despite being "less qualified", but real
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Yeah, that's the rationalization. "Better qualified" generally boils down to "people who look like me". "Fraud" is usually code for "make someone else pay". People make all sorts of passionate ap
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Politics is an art and science in of itself. It's a representation of power, and reality is that some people are leaders, and some are loyal vassals or subjects. Most legislative people are idiots and are really supposed to be idiots.
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What you and the article captured is that the argument that the civil service and military is not a "4th branch of government". An effective, professional workforce is important, but ultimately professionalism and process can only
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It’s hard to appreciate this until you spend some time elsewhere. I was in Barcelona for a few weeks for work. While I don’t want to pretend there are no problems, I can only say that life seemed better and happier than back home. I didn’t
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It attracts talented people. I remember going to an air show when I was 12 with a good friend. Walking through the C-5 and then seeing a thunderbirds display just captured my friends imagination in a way that’s hard to describe. He ended up
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For trucks, it varies by the trip. There is county/locality, state and federal jurisdiction. Operators are adept at gaming the system. From Chinatown busses that use sequences of shell companies, to operators who operate out of friendl
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If it’s due on June 1, most people show up at the last minute. So you have time pressure which makes you vulnerable to upsell. My girlfriend almost got swindled by this. She needed brake pads and rotors, and they tried to slide unnecessary
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It’s definitely debatable, and is unlikely to be a primary factor in a significant number of events. It’s also hard to measure because the data is pretty bad. As an example, your tire could blow out and cause you to hit a drunk pedestrian.
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If you spend your time in the northeast and drive south semi-regularly, you notice it if you’re observant. There’s broken down cars and shredded tire debris everywhere. Inspection is one driver of that. Salt eats cars up north which limits
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Those integrations are needed in the long term because only through interdependence can you have peace. You need peace because the consequence of war post WW2 are too high. The problem with the right wing authoritarian types, regardless of
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That’s a risk, but for most cases likely not the most material up front risk - there’s a million ways for the spooks to enter the building. TBH, all of these entities are likely actively penetrated by US, Israeli and Russian human assets. Y
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I’d disagree. It keeps cars with bald tires, faulty brakes and other defects off the road. Poor people who can’t afford these things shouldn’t be driving the cars. Motor carriers have a totally different regulatory regime that has a direct
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One of the obvious issues with Life360 is the product poorly validates email addresses and doesn’t allow a recipient to reject Life360. In my case, I have the ability to access a large, unrelated family group about 3000 miles away because m
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It’s weird how it gets worse. To this day, I think the barely remembered iPhone voice assistant with incantations was better than Siri at any point.
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Totally agree, not a bad idea at all. Some local governments aligned their web presence around the tourism and chamber of commerce type organizations, which made it confusing for people to know where they had to pay their water bill vs. get
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That law was a reaction to a Federal thing (through CISA i think) to migrate all governments to the .gov domain in the US in the name of security and branding. They were pushing it hard when DNSSEC was being babbled about by cyber people.
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Ivy League has always been like this. Everyone gets goods grades. It’s a legacy of the good old boy network. It’s good for the brand in general. It’s pretty easy to find a 3.8 GPA kid from Harvard. There’s no C students to dirty up the alum
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And Trump simps are real. I said continued fascism post-Trump. Help me out, which major public company did the Obama administration take a material ownership stake in? Which media companies did George W pressure into putting toadies into ke
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I think it’s worth considering that these things are not binary and we’re all different in goals and approaches. Personally, we ended up living where my wife grew up and about an half hour from my fold, and were really social in the communi
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Is it so different? If the US’s fascist experiment continues past the current president, we’ll absolutely be nationalizing frontier companies or exerting equivalent control.
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Alot of the language work is scratching the itch of engineers and developers. I think you’re correct and react is the new COBOL.
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They're really the same thing. I think of the classic Walmart/Vlasic pickle story. https://eng121.net/online%20textbook/cause-effect/The%20Wall...
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One of the issues is that their historical strengths became weaknesses. Scouting integrated into existing infrastructure, which is why religion is such a prominent aspect. (It’s also why as mentioned elsewhere the politics around the LDS ch
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It’s really simple. The president is a criminal backed by an authoritarian political party whose members of Congress refuse to do their jobs. That’s the difference between a Spiro Agnew or a Richard Nixon. Crooks, but without the same type
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I served in an executive role for a non-Federal government organization. Think a senior director, not a political position. My stock holdings had to be disclosed, and were and still are publicly viewable. They audit them and explore potenti
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How did Netflix do making a business decision that defied the wishes of the Ellison family? With Trump 47 there are literally pages of this sort of stuff. Other notable non-Trumpist example is Joseph Nacchio, the former CEO of Qwest. He ref

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