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This is misleading when you dig into the data. For starters every state and nation does not record deaths and causes of death consistently, so there's a lot of apples and oranges c…

All private companies do that. Ever heard of Virgin? It's Branson's MO. Create a company with a high public profile that's private. Hype it up and sell it based on the value of it'…

This is awesome. Now do stock options and every other derivative.

I'll do you one better. The Market Makers are Vanguard, Blackrock and State Street which are majority shareholders of 80% of the SP500. They control the price using swarms of HFT b…

Didn't help Jeep when Biden did it, either. Stellantis is going out of business.

US debt to GDP ratio is >120%. By IMF definition that's an economic death spiral. The death spiral becomes irreversible by 2028 because by then the interest on the loans for all th…

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I go through this every time I have to ask for a refund and tell a business I just want a refund so we can part ways instead of filing complaints with the Better Business Bureau an…

This. Salesforce, is a great example of this. I can't tell you the number of companies that exist just building a simple application that does the one thing customers bought these …

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Been dealing with this since my 40s. And good luck hiding it on your resume, most application forms these days require dates and even addresses. I am also discriminated against bas…

On this note, the invention of the printing press led to The Reformation with the first printing of the Bible, which up until that point had been duplicated by monks by hand, and T…

I would say instead it's a PEOPLE problem, not a technology problem. To quote Neil Postman, politics are downstream from technology, because the technology (medium) controls the me…

I did some consulting and tried starting my own company but I don't have the resources (co-founders, money, programming skills) and the market is dramatically different today. Fund…

Technically I've been unemployed for 9 years. When I say I can't get a job to save my life, I mean that literally. Today I'm looking for a full time job as a manager of software pr…

I created an online fan forum for The X-Files back in 1993 on the Delphi vax-based network as the web was starting to emerge. I created ASCII art of logos and stuff since it was a …

Just a reminder they tried the same political hit on Elon at this exact time last year. This is pure party politics. They see him as a threat to their power. https://jonathanturley…

Right there with you. In the process of extracting myself from all things MS. Even when they do something right they have to keep changing it until it's crap.

I'm okay with you calling it a dumb take. Try "unsophisticated" to pacify the sensitive, or "mentally underdeveloped," if it gets you grief.

"To be replaced soon by the monster they created." Niiice.

Because someone is being paid, and someone is being given power/control that gets them paid.

They don't care about safety they care about lock in to their ecosystem. I'm not into ANY of these ecosystems. I don't want MSFT installing Edge ever, or OneDrive, or having Phone …

and NFT JPEGs. I agree, there's a lot of things people spend their money on, the collectibles industry for example is known for this. Luxury goods appeal to people projecting statu…

Here's what I do, I use Brave for YouTube and another browser for everything else. Brave apparently bocks the ads and they don't get to spy on me anywhere else but their own site.

Remember APE. The right medium is always the most Accessible Powerful cost Effective relative to your audience and available resources.