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by turk73 7y ago
IPOs these days are more about "finding new and/or ultimate bagholders" than anything else. Up yours GoPro.
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by turk73 7y ago
Go look up some photos of the Ukrainian genocide, then get back to me. My Grandmother's family fled Stalin's murderers with just the clothes on their backs. A few fun facts: At the height of the Genocide Ukrainians were dying at
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by turk73 7y ago
Making 90% of your income off of this tech over the last n years is different than that tech being successful. I work at a very large company that is trying to use ML and AI in all kinds of places. The trend I am seeing is that most of th
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by turk73 7y ago
No, we spend so much so that companies like the one I work at can make billions and be in the Fortune 10. The huge costs are extraction of wealth and there isn't that much to show for it. We also have a 2-tiered medical system where t
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by turk73 7y ago
I've seen the same thing at every large company I have worked for. Plenty of slacker employees watching Youtube, gaming, making coffee runs, you name it. Big companies carry people, big companies carried me, even. When you have an i
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by turk73 7y ago
No, rates were going up in lockstep with fed tightening and peaked late last year. I was finding 6-12 mo. CDs with nearly 3% coupon. Then everything fell apart back in the Spring and it has continued its downward trajectory until the yiel
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by turk73 7y ago
I sort of disagree with your main assertion. I do big data for a living and what I have seen is that our architecture is dictated to us from above for reasons of "fashion" not really for any reasons of practicality. I'm actu
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by turk73 7y ago
I bought one Colt once. It ended up being a wobbly POS that I overpaid for based on the rollmark. It had that ridiculous metal block blind pinned into the lower so you couldn't install a sear or some such idea. I wasn't going t
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by turk73 7y ago
If they're behind all these mass shootings can we as a nation get together and put an end to these goons? Because that is what is being hinted at here--that there are drugs capable of mind controlling susceptible individuals. It is n
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by turk73 7y ago
We never should have made that deal, Stalin was actually worse than the whole Nazi regime of murderous scum. At least the Germans had style and before you accuse me of being some kind of 88er, I will remind you that the big shots in the US
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by turk73 7y ago
Unless EVs can charge faster, I really don't see them taking off. Sorry to be a luddite, but time is our number one good in the world and wasting more of people's time isn't scalable. If I need gas and I have to pick up my k
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by turk73 7y ago
The problem I have with mass transit is that outside of a couple major cities, the system is a horrible time waster. I used to take a bus to downtown job in my mid-sized Midwest city and it was like commuting 2x--I would have to drive to a
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by turk73 7y ago
Well, you said it all. I guess all I can say is that I am against these kinds of people. The Yale kind. I don't know if I want my kids going in that direction. This country has a enough psychos in leadership positions to last anoth
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by turk73 7y ago
Yeah, uh, BMW sucks and so a lot of auto makers. Instead of making an additional menu in the ridiculously over-complicated dashboard computer system, I had to buy a $150 tool that can do a "battery registration" so that the smart
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by turk73 7y ago
Here's your choices: 1) Killed by cleaners doing the bidding of the elite to protect them and cover up their misdeeds. If so, the reach of the mighty is total and that would explain why so many politicians and public figures are scare
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by turk73 7y ago
I think you're wrong and I do have a clue. Having lived through the 2000 mess, I don't think corporations are that over-valued and that capital isn't chasing complete and utter pipe dreams this time around. This is nothing l
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by turk73 7y ago
The only way to do what you suggest is...you know. That's the only thing that will roll it back even a little. I'm available whenever, but I have no misconceptions about how brutal it will be. Just locally where I live I've
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by turk73 7y ago
I don't completely understand why you disklike Rossman. I think he's an archetype for a "tell it like it is" New Yorker (like me). Maybe I have a soft spot for people like him, but they're superior to the more com
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by turk73 7y ago
Even when Tor was new I had my doubts about it due to its origins among other factors. My dissertation was on privacy technologies in that era (early '00s). I covered a lot of ground at the time. The most sinister change in informati
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by turk73 7y ago
I don't see how this is at all realistic. If it were up to me, I would just do all POC work and nothing else. But there are bills that have to be paid, so...
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by turk73 7y ago
I remember touring Harvard around '91 when I was looking at colleges. I recall very clearly thinking: "Wow, I will never fit in here with these elites." I never even applied and probably couldn't have afforded it, anyw
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by turk73 7y ago
I kind of think BMW has generally lost its way. Their model line is bananas. They're great cars in some ways but damn the electronics are a pain in my ass! Like the battery registration--no reason why you can't add a menu that
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by turk73 7y ago
The point is that it will never be "close to ready." Not unless every fourth person is a crook. Anyways, these kinds of systems exist for the same reason drug dogs exist--to generate a probable cause that appears scientific even
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by turk73 7y ago
I know the Kochs contribute to Cato, but it's a stretch to call them "libertarian" these days. I think they're opportunistic oligarchs. They meddle with their money. I wish they wouldn't. Running things in a demo
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by turk73 7y ago
I'm just going to tell you all: I'm a life-long libertarian. You're not going to sway my opinions because I get censored online and my posts deleted. I am limited to 2 posts like every 4 hours lest I poison your minds with
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by turk73 7y ago
Actually, it might be better to be who you are, isn't that the moral of My Fair Lady? Most of the people I work with in the Fortune 10 are educated idiots. Corporate communications, especially e-mails contain egregious spelling and gr
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by turk73 7y ago
I lived in RTP for 9 years. Never could figure those people out. Anywhere outside the cities everyone talked like they had a mouthful of marbles. Nothing really cultured going on there, just hoi polloi.
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by turk73 7y ago
I've never hardly known a free, or market-controlled anything in my entire life. What we have is corporatism, where giant companies go to government and lobby for monopolies of one kind or another. There is no actual competition, onl
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by turk73 7y ago
Not buying it, sorry. Maybe some jobs, but all this nonsense about automation taking over everything is purely to sow FUD and for no other reason. Oh, automatic trucks, yeah, probably not. That's going to be really hard to pull off b
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by turk73 7y ago
I am interviewing candidates in the Fortune 10. We get a lot of fraudsters that have found a way to lip sync Webex interviews and do all manner of silly things to get marginal people hired into roles they aren't suitable for. After 2

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