pinkyboy

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by pinkyboy 1mo ago
Verified - and the actual payload to the iCloud endpoint is e2e encrypted ciphertext.
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by pinkyboy 1mo ago
the marketing name is "Mail Drop", and it is separate from iCloud mail; though it should only fire if there's a 20mb+ attachment on the email. cloudd is used by a shit-ton of services though, so I'm not sure how to track
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by pinkyboy 1mo ago
"reasonable person, what kind of definition is that???"
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by pinkyboy 2mo ago
For 2026, the 401k limits are $72,000 overall, and $24,500 for pre-tax employee contributions. Assume an employer who matches 50% up to pre-tax employee contribution max, the result is this: $24,500 pre-tax employee contribution $12,250 emp
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by pinkyboy 2mo ago
Pretty much every EV can use Superchargers. I'm setting aside that charging off of public EVs is relatively rare anyway... but your premise is flawed.
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by pinkyboy 2mo ago
And you can plug almost any modern EV into the Tesla supercharging network without issue. However, unlike Teslas, you can _also_ plug and charge them in other networks. On self-driving: if you want true autonomy, where you can relax and do
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by pinkyboy 2mo ago
R2s are already being delivered to customers. There is no honest way to manufacture a $40k price gap.
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by pinkyboy 2mo ago
Charging experience? Teslas can't charge as fast as a modern Kia, Lucid, Geely, or BYD. They can't two-gun charge like a BYD. They don't have battery-swaps like NIO. They've got a single charge port in a back corner.
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by pinkyboy 2mo ago
I have considerable Roth assets because my employer's 401k allows for the Mega-backdoor, which means I can put $30k+ per year of after-tax income into 401k (beyond the normal pre-tax contributions) perform a Roth-in-plan-conversion on
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by pinkyboy 2mo ago
The key is your comment about rotating between 4-5 different vendors to control costs. That will naturally rotate you _away_ from vendors who expand margin, and _toward_ those who use the same capability to undercut the margin expanders.
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by pinkyboy 2mo ago
Apple is a $5t company that has $45b cash-on-hand. Your post is "cute", but 3 or 4 months of operating cash isn't a great example of "sitting on piles of gold".
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by pinkyboy 2mo ago
That is a largely incorrect statement that is loosely based on a single incident, not a trend. The single incident was an individual in Malaysia who added an after-market finger-print based engine immobilizer to his car in 2005. The attack
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by pinkyboy 2mo ago
It's fascinating that you simultaneously argue that margins will expand... while posting about personal behavior all of which points toward commoditization and intense price competition.
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by pinkyboy 2mo ago
Great paper, thank you for sharing it.
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by pinkyboy 2mo ago
Elon Musk cares that Elon Musk benefits from policies. He does not give a single solitary fuck about you. If you get lucky and your interests align, great. But Musk talks fairly openly about letting many humans die while a few rich elites
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by pinkyboy 2mo ago
Even if carbon was a complete non-issue, electrification and a greater diversity of energy sources would still have immense value.
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by pinkyboy 2mo ago
This becomes substantially less true when the billionaires transform their money into political power.
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by pinkyboy 2mo ago
Even if you live off of your wealth - what happens when customers of those wealth-generating businesses don't have jobs?