SkipperCat

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by SkipperCat 1mo ago
But what happens when one of those businesses in your village strikes it big and becomes a multi-national baking good company. They hire a lot of MBAs, take investor money and then need to stay profitable to meet those obligations. Add to
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by SkipperCat 1mo ago
There's a lot of benefit, but its all to META shareholders...
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by SkipperCat 2mo ago
But they did increase the GDP by $200.
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by SkipperCat 2mo ago
Good question. Government should represents and advocate for the best interests of the entire population. It should legislate for both people and companies to behave fairly towards each other. Consider the gym membership. You join and sign
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by SkipperCat 2mo ago
This is what legitimate government looks like. Leaders actually advocating for the people who are being deceived by those in power instead of helping those in power. While this may be a trivial issue, being able to cancel a gym or newspape
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by SkipperCat 2mo ago
Thanks for the clarification and another example of my ignorance about it. The only time I've ever seen it is when I was trying to build a "slender" kernel and I was removing all the stuff I've never used(eg: 9P ). The
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by SkipperCat 2mo ago
This is the first time in my entire life I've ever seen someone use a Plan 9 formatted disk. Deep respect.
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by SkipperCat 3mo ago
This isn't a problem with "rockstar" AI devs. This is a problem of management. Who would let someone come in and rebuild the core infra of their business without any planning or review?
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by SkipperCat 4mo ago
I can't help but think that this is due to Musk putting pressure on the current administration to help him win his lawsuit and punish Altman.
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by SkipperCat 4mo ago
The Rothschilds getting news faster because they build an information network is not inside trading. Inside trading is when you have a legal and fiduciary duty not to trade and not to disclose information. The people working in the US gov
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by SkipperCat 5mo ago
I hiked and camped for three days in the Grand Canyon about 10 years ago and it was one of the high points of my life. The sheer beauty of the massive space was transformative in the way I see the world. How small we are, how big it was.
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by SkipperCat 6mo ago
It looks like a lot of the monies in that chart are for wages and admin. That's not the worst thing. Many charities spend their money on doing things for the betterment of society and those people need to be paid a salary for their w
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by SkipperCat 6mo ago
I'd call it dummerspeak...
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by SkipperCat 7mo ago
I only share articles between my wife and myself. The shared articles show up in our respective Apple News apps. Never really shared an article outside of the ecosystem. Sorry that's not more helpful.
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by SkipperCat 7mo ago
When I click on links in Apple News, it stays in the Apple News app. That's the same on my phone, iPad and MacBook.
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by SkipperCat 7mo ago
Agreed. I used to subscribe to the WSJ and WashPo and I cancelled both because I get both in Apple News. Plus I get the Atlantic, New Yorker, Wired and so many other magazines. The user interface sucks. Sometimes I go to the actual websi
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by SkipperCat 8mo ago
Social media is not designed to keep you informed. Its designed to keep you engaged because that helps them sell ads. And the best way to keep you engaged is to keep you enraged. I've seen in the US how social media has been used pu
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by SkipperCat 8mo ago
They all joined ICE.
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by SkipperCat 8mo ago
This is why we need to bust up monopolies.
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by SkipperCat 10mo ago
Has anyone had and experience using hearing aids to deal with tinnitus? I've got some small hearing loss in the high frequencies and I'm looking at getting fitted for hearing aids to help boost those frequencies. The hope is to
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by SkipperCat 11mo ago
The Miami stock exchange (MIAX) has their matching engines colocated in Equinix's NY4 data center in Secaucus NJ, much like many other exchanges. I would not be surprised if TXSE does the same. Many trading firms already have their tr
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by SkipperCat 1y ago
Private security is not police. Private security will not give you a ticket for speeding. They wont write you a citation for not having a working turn signal. Their only mission is to protect the people who employ them. Very different fro
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by SkipperCat 1y ago
> But I've never talked to a person in a rich neighborhood that would turn down more police Rich people in safe neighborhoods very commonly turn down police because they don't want their local taxes to go up. It's as simp
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by SkipperCat 1y ago
100% yes.
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by SkipperCat 1y ago
I always felt the movie "Brazil" was the satire. 1984 was the horror film.
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by SkipperCat 1y ago
An excellent piece of artwork! Really captures the meaning of Yin Yang, at least to me.
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by SkipperCat 1y ago
Isn't this what the "Freemium" model is supposed to resolve? If a open source package is popular, people will build businesses around it and people who use it can then purchase support and get bonus features. This allows the
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by SkipperCat 1y ago
What you describe is the best of what social media can be. Real people connecting, interacting with each other and helping folks. Sadly, a lot of social media is not this. Its people and bots posting content designed to inflame, generate
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by SkipperCat 1y ago
Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast just interviewed Jim Chanos about this topic. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2025-06-30/odd-lots-jim... If you like a digestible discussion of markets and economics, I
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by SkipperCat 1y ago
You ask a very fair question. I don't show my real name on HN because nobody else does. Just like taxation, it only works if everyone follows the rules. If only some users provide their real names, there is still the opportunity for tr

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