whodidntante

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by whodidntante 3mo ago
I was at a dinner for the .01% the other night, and many of them said the problem is really with the .0001%, if they would just pay a fair tax, everything would be fine. btw, the dinner with the .01% was 800,000 people, the room was pretty
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by whodidntante 4mo ago
right, author did not bother to do some simple queries for actual revenue vs actual costs banks used to lose a lot of money on those toasters, amazing they are still in business
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by whodidntante 4mo ago
I see combined estimated revenue for Q1/2026 to be $15B to $20B, depending on source. I also see combined estimated spend Q1/2026 at $15 to $20B, depending on source. Someone or something is having an hallucination that would make
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by whodidntante 4mo ago
There is a high correlation between wealth and taxable accounts. For those that are not well off to have large taxable accounts and have most of their assets in retirement funds, this should not be an issue.
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by whodidntante 4mo ago
I agree that the rule changes are bad and ill intentioned, but I am not sure what I can do about it. And, even if it was zero cost for me to move to an ETF without SpaceX, I would not do it. The market does what the market does, that is wha
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by whodidntante 4mo ago
I am not looking at the "pure" numbers, and many investors do not, they look at potential. They look at what the possibilities are. If you believe that space will be a significant part of the economy in 20 years, and that SpaceX w
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by whodidntante 4mo ago
If you do not like Elon, you can simply move your assets to a direct indexing fund, there are plenty of them at reasonable cost, including from the large brokerages. If you believe SpaceX is overvalued or do not like the way it is being han
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by whodidntante 4mo ago
Immense power and profits attracts certain behaviors. This has happened throughout history. Finance is a lot more efficient, flexible, and powerful than other mechanisms, and has become the modern choice.
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by whodidntante 4mo ago
The Audacity of these people
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by whodidntante 4mo ago
Very good advice. I was at it for 40 years, actually did some MUMPS (for those of you who watched The Audacity), as well as every tech from the old days, even some hardware, and kept current and on the very edge up until the end. I also lov
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by whodidntante 4mo ago
The "imbalance of power" can only be "fought" by eliminating the concentrations of power. This is not a capitalist vs communist thing,it is, at least, a human thing, as humans need hierarchy, and power ends up being held
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by whodidntante 5mo ago
As I commented elsewhere, everyone gets affected by a wealth tax, as it will affect how assets are priced and how businesses operate across the board. For those who have little hope of the wealth tax applied to them (me for example), but as
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by whodidntante 5mo ago
A wealth tax will affect the distribution of investments. It might make higher risk investments like stocks more attractive as compared to bonds, it might make them less attractive. More likely it might make publicly available instruments l
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by whodidntante 5mo ago
Not sure I understand why you would not want to separate your personal machine from your dev machine. Even more importantly, I do not know what you want to tie yourself to a piece of hardware. I like having multiple personal machines that a
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by whodidntante 5mo ago
I agree I would rather have something other than chrome, but I need to trade that off with my desire for the benefits of a simpler system. If Apple came out with a SafariBook equivalent, I would consider it. Might even do both if I could au
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by whodidntante 5mo ago
It is very simple: I have multiple Chromebooks and an extra monitor, and use Google for files, email, photos. I can grab my cheap Chromebook and throw it into my backpack, don't bother with a case. I have learned to live without using
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by whodidntante 5mo ago
also - I do not like developing on my personal machine. I got into this habit a long time ago - I would always use a remote Linux box, and now with LLM's I ride them bareback (or maybe they ride me). If I trash a machine (which has no
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by whodidntante 5mo ago
I am retired, and don't need to - I have a couple of beelink's (just need my home wireless running) and a couple of VPS if I really want to do things away from home, which I don't I cannot remember the last time I wanted inte
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by whodidntante 5mo ago
actually both. vim for "real" work, but also vi when I am moving though different machines that have minimal tooling (production or production support machines, which may not have vim installed). I have been retired for some time,
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by whodidntante 5mo ago
Just use Chromebook via Crostini to remote access a headless Linux box. For me, the Chromebook is the right tool in both directions.
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by whodidntante 5mo ago
Crostini is kind of a joke, but I use it to remote into real Linux boxes. For me, best of both worlds.
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by whodidntante 5mo ago
With ChromeOS you get both. I have used Linux for 20 years, but only for development, and I will only develop on Linux. For everything else (email, files, photos), I want a browser. Used to be Mac/Osx, but got tired of being managed by
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by whodidntante 5mo ago
I used DOS,then Windows, then Mac for a total of almost 40 years. I think using Windows and OSX are insanity, but to each their own. I now have a machine that boots almost instantly and just works without maintenance, upgrades, or compatibi
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by whodidntante 5mo ago
Chromebook users. I loved my Pixelbook, fantastic piece of hardware. When that ended, I went with an Acer Chromebook. Works fine, just not the same. I would go for a Mac Air or Neo, but only if I could install ChromeOS. I will most likely g
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by whodidntante 5mo ago
Yes, that is true. However, each time this happens, those people are eventually labelled as getting in the way of progress, luddites, etc, and it is easy for those that benefit (cheap food, cheap products) to simply go on with their "b
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by whodidntante 5mo ago
+1 50% of the workforce was in farming near the end of the 1800's. Today, 2% 40% of the workforce was in manufacturing early to mid 1900's. Today 8% 60+% of the current workforce is white collar. What will it be in 20 years ? LLM&
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by whodidntante 6mo ago
I think that if you go to an AI for advice and emotional support, it will do what most people will do - tell you what it thinks you want to hear. I am not surprised about this at all, and I do notice that when you veer into these areas, it
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by whodidntante 7mo ago
With AI, as we currently understand it, we may have stumbled upon being able to replicate a part of the layer of our brain that provides the "reason" in humans., and a very specific type of "reason" a that. All life has
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by whodidntante 8mo ago
ok, I will be the dumbass here - I am a retired software engineer who has not used any of these tools, but when I as working on high volume web sites, all I wanted and needed was access to the log files. I would always have a small terminal
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by whodidntante 9mo ago
He is an equal opportunity a-hole, though my personal feeling is that he looks up to Putin, and wants to be like him Some things he has done that Putin is probably not fond of: Javelins in his first term, I believe that was the time the us

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