JakeAl

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by JakeAl 17d ago
You lost me when you started talking about seeking money and what sells an idea to VCs, not value creation. If your goal is the money and not the product, ypu've already lost.
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by JakeAl 1y ago
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 comparisons going on. Second, in the US depending on the
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by JakeAl 1y ago
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's perception. Watch it go out of busines
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by JakeAl 1y ago
This is awesome. Now do stock options and every other derivative.
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by JakeAl 1y ago
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 bots, most likely running Blackrock's Aladdin algo
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by JakeAl 2y ago
Didn't help Jeep when Biden did it, either. Stellantis is going out of business.
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by JakeAl 3y ago
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 that money we've been printing for decades to pro
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by JakeAl 3y ago
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 and with the FTC.
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by JakeAl 3y ago
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 bloated app suites to do that they liked and became bur
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by JakeAl 3y ago
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 based on location. Some companies won't even interview you
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by JakeAl 3y ago
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 The Word controlled and interpreted by the Church, who wielde
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by JakeAl 3y ago
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 message. Just look at BigTech interfering with the messag
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by JakeAl 3y ago
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. Funding until 2020 was chasing the next big thing, (VR&#x2F
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by JakeAl 3y ago
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 product design and development or production in
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by JakeAl 3y ago
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 text-based menu-driven system. Newscorp bought the company a
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by JakeAl 3y ago
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.org/2022/11/17/clinton-linke
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by JakeAl 3y ago
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.
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by JakeAl 3y ago
I'm okay with you calling it a dumb take. Try "unsophisticated" to pacify the sensitive, or "mentally underdeveloped," if it gets you grief.
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by JakeAl 3y ago
"To be replaced soon by the monster they created." Niiice.
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by JakeAl 3y ago
Because someone is being paid, and someone is being given power/control that gets them paid.
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by JakeAl 3y ago
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 sync software on my PC that links my contacts
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by JakeAl 3y ago
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 status because of brand names. Your question is valid, why d
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by JakeAl 3y ago
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.
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by JakeAl 3y ago
Remember APE. The right medium is always the most Accessible Powerful cost Effective relative to your audience and available resources.
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by JakeAl 3y ago
I'm getting sick of a right-click "copy" pop up appearing as I try to scroll pages these infinite scroll pages on my touchscreen, too.
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by JakeAl 3y ago
US debt to GDP ratio is greater than 120%. The IMF defines that as an economic death spiral. By 2028 the loan payments we make on all that debt/money we printed will only cover the interest, no longer the principal, and the death spira
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by JakeAl 3y ago
They've been playing games with the numbers but it's true, we're looking at a depression not a recession as it's going to last much longer. US debt t GDP ratio > 120% which by IMF definition means the US is in an econ
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by JakeAl 3y ago
This is standard for economic conditions. When there's a lot of easy to come by money (loans) there's a lot of disposable income and excessive employment. As soon as the money supply tightens (or in this case year on year the mone
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by JakeAl 3y ago
There was a book written a few years ago and I wish I could remember the name of it, but it was about the effect of devices on children. The takeaway is they don't learn to read people's expressions and get easily offended, they d
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by JakeAl 3y ago
In short, if they are a company and are not 100% secure and they say they are then they are committing fraud. The person doing the testing is providing the evidence for a legal case and no amount of legal threats change that.

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