FauxPseudo
@FauxPseudo@lemmy.world
- Comment on Title 14 hours ago:
I made this right after Louise Fletcher died.
- Comment on ... 5 days ago:
Is this loss?
- Comment on Big small doesn't want you to know that 1 week ago:
Minimalism is for people that can solve any problems with money. No tools. No rainy day supplies. No “just in case” in the back of a cabinet. Something breaks? Call a guy. Need 300 cup cakes? Catering.
It’s a philosophy for the rich. Not a philosophy that makes you rich.
- Comment on Intel details everything that could go wrong with US taking a 10% stake 3 weeks ago:
Now imagine how government will effect that. You know how the government’s been trying to put back doors into hardware? A lot easier to do when you own part of a major chip manufacturer. Do you think having a steady supply of government orders will make them innovate or get lazier? Why is the government proving up a dragging company? Isn’t that picking losers and winners like Republicans had issues with in the Solyndra deal?
Intel failing isn’t a reason for the government to get involved, it’s a reason to stay away.
- Comment on Intel details everything that could go wrong with US taking a 10% stake 3 weeks ago:
I really feel like we are talking past each other. I’m talking about people who wanted to privatize the Social Security system and sell off the USPS because they believed any amount of government in any service was dangerous. I’m not being histrionic, I’m asking the people who have spent decades being histrionic to explain why they are suddenly very chill with something that was, until a week ago, a firmly held religious belief.
Don’t mistake my position for that of the people I’m trying to reach.
- Comment on Intel details everything that could go wrong with US taking a 10% stake 3 weeks ago:
Then you aren’t my target audience. Canadians are very different from USA Republicans who have a long and loud history on this topic and then flipped in one day to say it’s okay to have a little communism as a treat.
- Comment on Intel details everything that could go wrong with US taking a 10% stake 3 weeks ago:
The government holding ownership stakes in companies. If so, have you been in favor for a long time or did it start this week? Because I’m focusing on the people that just recently adopted this position after years of opposition to anything that even smelled like government interfering with business.
- Comment on Intel details everything that could go wrong with US taking a 10% stake 3 weeks ago:
Are you in favor of this?
- Comment on Intel details everything that could go wrong with US taking a 10% stake 3 weeks ago:
Not communist except for the government ownership of companies?
- Comment on Intel details everything that could go wrong with US taking a 10% stake 3 weeks ago:
Prior to a week ago every conservative was 100% against any form of government corporate ownership. They hated TARP, Solyndra and quantitative easing. They went so far as to want to privatize social security and the post office. Countless hours have been spent justifying all of this and it was baked into their identity that it was all bad in any flavor.
Then, suddenly, Trump is for it and they fall into line without a moment of cognitive dilemma. Cult mentality. They cared about communism before and suddenly they don’t and they haven’t given us a reason. They haven’t admitted their charge.
- Comment on Intel details everything that could go wrong with US taking a 10% stake 3 weeks ago:
Think long term. What kind of regulatory capture is going to happen? Protected companies stagnate instead of innovate. That 10%? That’s not a cash deal. It’s not revenue for the share holders. It’s basically the value of all the CHIPS deal and other things that Intel was already getting. They literally gave 10% of the company away for free.
And it’s illegal. And it’s communism. It’s everything Republicans hated when the Obama administration gave Solyndra a loan. This is pure corruption and will end badly for everyone.
The stock is up. But that’s not because this is good. It’s up because investors didn’t think this through. Short term profit vs long term fail.
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 4 weeks ago:
Increase in workflow? Like there are more steps to perform the same task? Because workflow isn’t work volume or units if output. It’s the process that gets the work done.
Did the increase in “workflow” get you more money or more work for the same money?
- Comment on Oh My God, TAKE IT DOWN Kills Parody 1 month ago:
“Matt and tray so loved America they were willing to burn $1.5 billion to save it.”
- Comment on Startup Claims Its Fusion Reactor Concept Can Turn Cheap Mercury Into Gold 1 month ago:
- Comment on Sleeping beauty bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2 billion 2 months ago:
Two wallets. 10k BTC each. These wallets were created back when BTC was 78¢. When you spend $10k the IRS might ask questions. If you are “structuring” correctly you avoid spending $9,999 and $1 within a short time span or even in the same reporting period. 10k BTC back then was something you could buy that looked like it wasn’t $10k but was really close. Spend it twice in two different wallets and if there are enough other transactions no one will notice.
Anytime you see a transaction or set of transactions that add up to or are just shy of 10k USD, BTC or pretty much anything, there should be a little bell that dings in your head and causes you to think “this person is clearly thinking about US tax reporting laws and trying to dodge them.”
Who had all that money back in 2011 that decided that now was the time to tap those wallets that are worth a billion each? Obviously someone that hasn’t needed the money until now. Someone that is planning on spending up to 2 billion. But not right away because if you try to sell 20k BTC in a hurry it will draw attention and potentially destabilize the currency. But you could sell it all off over the next year or longer without flooding the market.
Who wants to spend up to $2 billion in the next year? What could you buy with that kind of money? Elon musk spent ~$250 million getting Trump elected. That’s just an eighth of $2B. You could buy a lot of super PAC power with $2B. You could bankroll the primarying of every Republican that voted for OBBB. Weird that these wallets were dusted off so close to Elon saying he would primary anyone that voted for OBBB, and he has a strong affinity for crypto, and he had enough money in 2011 to buy that much BCT on a whim, and that he wouldn’t have had to touch it to pay other bills as BTC went from 78¢ to more than $100,000 over the last 14 years.
I wonder who these wallets belong to and what they will be used for?
This is what conspiracy thinking looks like. It’s me. I’m the one conspiracy thinking.
- Comment on Most Common PIN Codes 2 months ago:
Star Trek fans.
- Comment on New ATHEIST community. 2 months ago:
I’m number one!
- Comment on New ATHEIST community. 2 months ago:
Ideally an empty atheist group is the platonic ideal. Nothing about nothing. No arguments. No exclusion. No evangelicals. No conversion attempts.
- Comment on Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan, and all other publishers of America 2 months ago:
It’s too early for the Butlerian Jihad to start.
- Comment on Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.' 2 months ago:
At your next job interview ask them if they are results driven or methodology driven. “If I were to take twice as long to do something by using a poorly designed tool will I be rewarded or punished?”
- Comment on The bizarre, dismal page you see if you open YouTube without an account. 2 months ago:
Good to know. As my posting history on Lemmy will show I definitely watch bread recipes videos. In fact I became a mod for c/cooking today.
- Comment on The bizarre, dismal page you see if you open YouTube without an account. 2 months ago:
You watch one ContraPoints video about Jordan B Peterson and the next thing you know … Still not any JBP video recommendations. So I guess there is an upside to the failure of big data.
- Comment on The bizarre, dismal page you see if you open YouTube without an account. 2 months ago:
Each day I go to the YouTube app on Roku to my subscriptions tab and watch whatever is new. Then I go to Recommend and it’s 90% or more previous videos from those same subscriptions and very little new creators it hasn’t showed me.
After almost a year of this it figured out last week I might like AronRa, a person I’m very familiar with. And after countless videos on anthropology, evolution and paleontology he should have come up so much sooner. So much for big data.
But what is completely lacking is a “show me completely random stuff, old, new, not in my algorithm, short, long, completely against my algorithm, etc.” it lacks almost any way to discover new stuff that isn’t 100% related to content you already have.
YouTube gets more uploads than any one person can possibly watch and yet it’s almost incapable of showing me something unless I explicitly tell it to find it for me.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever 2 months ago:
It capitalized Wash because spell checker is the leaf on the wind.
- Comment on Walmart Expands Rollout of Generative AI Search on App 2 months ago:
There’s not much that can make their web experience worse, but this is definitely one of those things.
- Comment on Tech moguls want to build a crypto paradise on a Native American reservation 3 months ago:
You didn’t understand the assignment. Before asking questions do the required reading. You may find your questions have already been answered.
- Comment on Tech moguls want to build a crypto paradise on a Native American reservation 3 months ago:
Look into the history of libertarians trying to set up paradises of like minded people to find out why this will fail. They start into the 19th century and just keep failing.
- Comment on UK vehicle regulator David Ward says cars sold in Europe are so much safer than in the U.S. 3 months ago:
So buy an American make and model car in Europe and have it shipped home.
- Comment on The New York Times stands by article mentioning Chinese women small fingers. The paper says Apple engineers privately talked about this 3 months ago:
Does anyone else remember this fake commercial from a real life movie with actual brand names in it?
- Comment on The New York Times Just Published Some Bizarre Race Science About Asian Women 3 months ago:
Does anyone else remember this fake commercial from a real life movie with actual brand names in it?
