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I've got an idea. Let's make auto loans non-dischargeable. -Joe Biden, probably
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Nov 7, 2023 02:59
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anime was right posted:yeah dating apps have went from bad to unusable because theres no way to squeeze profit out of them anymore besides making them basically paywalled. except that means that only people who pass the paywall can interact with women, and they are not people women want to interact with... so theres no allure to the people paying money. $9 billion valuation lol i mean most of these could work as a small <100-person private company but that's not good for investors
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Nov 7, 2023 03:03
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Acting like Linux is a realistic alternative for the average person is about as delusional as insisting they "need" a Mac. The second you try to explain that all you have to do to resolve some issue is copy-paste something into a command prompt, you've lost about 98% of them. Not to mention the gigantic security risks that are involved with managing a Linux machine by blindly doing whatever someone on the internet tells you to do. That's still a risk with other OSes but on Linux it's way more of a concern.
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Nov 7, 2023 03:04
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i dont talk to anyone and i like it that way 
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Nov 7, 2023 03:05
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Xaris posted:that's the story of all unicorn sillycon valley tech stocks as a ponzi scheme. burn a couple hundo mil or two showing "meteoric user growth to the moon!", IPO with all this potential infinite growth that's clearly fake, pass the bag and cash out, then lol at the ponzi scheme collapses and enshittifies itself because it was never sustainable yeah the growth bullshit then ripping the rug for pure profit is how my company is failing. we're in a unique situation though where all of our clients are really expensive and need to be catered to constantly. naturally this means like we're firing everyone that can do that. i am likely looking at the privilege to design a process to set up a process so that someone else can do my job for me. very cool very good.
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Nov 7, 2023 03:06
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anyone got a book recommendation for the history of canadian currency and bank failures? Was just thinking about how canada, a british colony, went from £ to $ and was wondering of the people behind that decision.
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Nov 7, 2023 03:07
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Windows is fine because unless you're gaming the average laptop CPU is powerful enough to let you post on the internet as long as they also put in an SSD.
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Nov 7, 2023 03:08
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anime was right posted:i am likely looking at the privilege to design a process to set up a process so that someone else can do my job for me. very cool very good. really computer toucher's got super lucky they touched computers right as ZIRP kicked off with trillions of dollars being suckled out of the money spigot. there was a huge demand crunch of there being way way too much money sloshing around that can't be spent fast enough on investment ponzi-scheme projects. now that it's gone, i think wages are gunna start to fall a lot
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Nov 7, 2023 03:11
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i mean its going to guarantee me like 6 months of employment if it ends up happening and ill bullshit through it as much as i can. if my company was remotely smart they would keep me around as a consultant to support all the people theyre hire offshore. they wont tho bc theyre dumb as rocks.
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Nov 7, 2023 03:19
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drat those brodozers are expensive.
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Nov 7, 2023 03:19
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it would be pretty funny if the US gets "the Federal government will pay for your car loans" before student loan forgiveness
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Nov 7, 2023 03:21
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gradenko_2000 posted:it would be pretty funny if the US gets "the Federal government will pay for your car loans" before student loan forgiveness cars and the expenditures built around them made up ~12% of the GDP last I checked. Probably a lot higher now that everyone's driving $60k+ tonka trucks
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Nov 7, 2023 03:22
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People do a lot of web based poo poo now. Who cares about OS.
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Nov 7, 2023 03:22
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anime was right posted:i mean its going to guarantee me like 6 months of employment if it ends up happening and ill bullshit through it as much as i can. if my company was remotely smart they would keep me around as a consultant to support all the people theyre hire offshore. yeah but will they hold the bag when it goes poo poo?
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Nov 7, 2023 03:24
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SirPablo posted:People do a lot of web based poo poo now. Who cares about OS. this is also true. The browser is pretty much an OS unto itself.
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Nov 7, 2023 03:25
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Xaris posted:eh, the amount of tumeric powder in American French's(TM) Mustard that everyone eats is so miniscule, like how most american chocolate contains 0.01% cocao, that it's fine. One of my aunts gave me a giant bag of oregano from her garden to bring home this summer along with two giant homemade cheeses and some other homemade stuff. She just opened her fridge and started giving me things, it was great. Then the airline lost my drat bag for a week with the cheese in it.
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Nov 7, 2023 03:50
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Glumwheels posted:Then the airline lost my drat bag for a week with the cheese in it.
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Nov 7, 2023 03:55
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you cant keep cheese in a suitcase!!! you will regret this!!
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Nov 7, 2023 04:03
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Xaris posted:just don't do it or fake it so it blows up disastrously, that'd be funny they've already fallen across the board. companies are simply running out of money. every single job has a bazillion applicants, so certainly no lack of talent buried in the pile. companies need the miracle candidates to save them from running out of money, but they can't afford to hire anyone. one place i interviewed with for several weeks with great feedback still decided they'd rather hire no one at all. i also found out after the fact that they laid off like a quarter of the company a couple months ago. this is extremely normal poo poo now, and wasting product and engineering hours on these interviews only to not hire anyone is insane. honestly i don't know how the gently caress anyone is getting hired at all when it does happen. going off my linkedin it seems to be staff/director level people who are generally shuffling the deck chairs and moving to something similar at another company. my feeling is that we haven't seen the worst of it yet and in the 6-12 months you're going to see a shitload more mid-stage startups fall apart because they haven't been able to do another raise since covid. meanwhile every other day i see more and more bootcampers/coursea users on reddit or whatever who are trying to get into the tech industry because there's no reliable way to make a decent wage otherwise. there are absolutely no jobs for the, yet they put their weak resumes and fake cookie cutter portfolios out there, further saturating an already oversaturated market with hundreds of thousands more applications. every job takes 15 seconds to apply to because greenhouse and company are huge pieces of poo poo, amplifying the problem exponentially as it becomes even more of a numbers game. great country and economy. the best.
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Nov 7, 2023 04:03
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 quote:there are no plans to sell this truck in the United States https://www.roadandtrack.com/reviews/a45752401/toyotas-10000-future-pickup-truck-is-basic-transportation-perfection/
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Nov 7, 2023 04:18
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Mustached Demon posted:yeah but will they hold the bag when it goes poo poo? the entire game is they are trying to get someone else to hold the bag, and it wont work.
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Nov 7, 2023 04:33
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Third World Reagan posted:anyone got a book recommendation for the history of canadian currency and bank failures? Was just thinking about how canada, a british colony, went from £ to $ and was wondering of the people behind that decision. paging forums user Frosted Flake, his majesty's microfiche research services are required
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Nov 7, 2023 04:35
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on second thought paging might be too modern for Frosted Flake, figure out a carrier pigeon to rmc
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Nov 7, 2023 04:36
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SirPablo posted:
i want one
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Nov 7, 2023 04:37
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anime was right posted:the entire game is they are trying to get someone else to hold the bag, and it wont work. that's our capitalistic society in general
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Nov 7, 2023 04:39
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Kreeblah posted:I've got an idea. Let's make auto loans non-dischargeable. Endgame: make all debt nondischargeable and enserf the bankrupt to the private property of their landlords.
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Nov 7, 2023 05:02
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SirPablo posted:
Not a truck guy, but I'd still get one.I was gonna high post about all the poo poo you could do with a back like that and then I opened the article and they already were thinking about that. I want to serve noodles or tacos out of that thing.
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Nov 7, 2023 05:30
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I'm assuming they won't sell it here because it'll cannibalize all the $50k+ truck sales.
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Nov 7, 2023 05:52
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I mean, Toyota is right. They're not selling that thing here because it'd probably have a smaller audience in the US than manual transmission sport sedans. You'd also be way over that $10k price after the light truck import tax and adding enough crap to meet US safety regulations, and you'd be competing with ~$30k and below stripper work trucks for fleet buyers. I can't imagine they could sell that truck here for under $20k, and I bet that'd still be in a RWD, manual transmission configuration. Trucks are monstrosities because US automakers have taught US consumers that you need to buy huge rear end poo poo loaded down with every option imaginable. Ford and Chevy would be selling you stripped out trucks for as much money as possible if they could because pickup trucks are already gigantic ripoffs that generate huge margins for automakers. edit- like the entire reason that pickup trucks are insanely popular in the US is because US buyers don't want pickup trucks. Manufacturers have successfully rebranded trucks as hyper-masculine versions of mom-mobile grocery getters. They're minivans that don't make you feel sad when you roll up to Home Depot. The market for actual trucks is much, much smaller and/or limited to fleet buyers. Paradoxish has issued a correction as of 06:36 on Nov 7, 2023 |
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Nov 7, 2023 06:24
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triple sulk posted:BORN TO APPLY lmao
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Nov 7, 2023 06:45
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BULBASAUR posted:somebody post the map of trolly lines in cities going from everywhere to totally disappearing this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH9toJw6-k8
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Nov 7, 2023 06:46
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those brodozers make lovely work pickups too
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Nov 7, 2023 06:46
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loquacius posted:Oh I get it, it's a Mac pro not a MacBook pro i paid 13 grand for one at work. grant money. works good. use it for video playout. added the video card and some ram i think. its honestly, oddly, a vital piece of hardware... for me..
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Nov 7, 2023 06:48
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the mac pro is mostly for spending down grant money or department budgets. if ya dont spend it youb get less next year!
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Nov 7, 2023 06:49
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Smythe posted:the mac pro is mostly for spending down grant money or department budgets. if ya dont spend it youb get less next year!
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Nov 7, 2023 06:59
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Gotta be a propaganda reel of America being conquered by China, and all the SUVs being confiscated and fed into a crusher while the sobbing owners are issued kei cars instead
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Nov 7, 2023 06:59
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https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/1721714675623072122?t=QJGVmor92xB3G8A4lEKYMA&s=19
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Nov 7, 2023 07:28
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time to go chair hunting
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Nov 7, 2023 07:41
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triple sulk posted:
the endgame of all those tech startups was "get bought by FAANG", right? Is that not happening anymore with the end of ZIRP? I got the impression that there was a lot of consolidation during the COVID money spigot but idk since then (attempting to google this, but all im getting is a wall of SEO junk. too bad we don't have a thread bloomberg terminal.)
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Nov 7, 2023 07:56
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Paradoxish posted:I mean, Toyota is right. They're not selling that thing here because it'd probably have a smaller audience in the US than manual transmission sport sedans. You'd also be way over that $10k price after the light truck import tax and adding enough crap to meet US safety regulations, and you'd be competing with ~$30k and below stripper work trucks for fleet buyers. I can't imagine they could sell that truck here for under $20k, and I bet that'd still be in a RWD, manual transmission configuration. As someone who has a Honda Odyssey, I'd much rather drive a mini van than the hyper-masculine grocery getter. It's a really nice ride. Edit: Smythe posted:i paid 13 grand for one at work. grant money. works good. use it for video playout. added the video card and some ram i think. I bought one from a failson friend of mine that has more money than brains, who absolutely had to have the M2 Ultra Mac Studio when it came out, and announced his 2019 MP obsolete. So he sold it to me for basically the cost of a new, mid-tier GPU. Can't complain, it's a great machine. Wouldn't pay anywhere near full price though. Canned Sunshine has issued a correction as of 08:00 on Nov 7, 2023 |
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