bradorsomething
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- Comment on Signal clone used by Trump official stops operations after report it was hacked 1 day ago:
I’d argue security through obscurity was gone by 2000, for anything that can be pinged.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Trading stops at the end of day, for accounting purpose. Some traders can still access over-the-counter trades but they are not required to be reported (if I remember correctly) until sometime in the morning of the market they’re made in. You will see some price movement when London and the DAX open.
Watch futures for a good price estimate. ES for SPY and NQ for Nasdaq.
- Comment on How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea? 1 week ago:
This guy does defense economics but he did a good piece on the tariffs: m.youtube.com/watch?v=nVZ1lcw2bVU
- Comment on How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea? 1 week ago:
I have two smaller businesses, and I’ve both laid off due to expected decrease in business and bought supplies ahead due to expected shortages.
You’re good putting together that you wouldn’t build a factory right now because uncertainty doesn’t let you predict returns. Not only can you not predict the next president and their tariff policy, I wouldn’t say you can predict trump’s actions tomorrow. I heard an interview John Bolton did today, and he said something along the lines that “trump doesn’t think, he reacts.” Tariffs could be zero or 500% next month or next year or tomorrow. The safe move is to wait and see - and while everyone waits and sees, only small-scale production will start, definitely not enough to sustain demand.
Honestly, if I had the money to build a factory right now, I’d park it and wait to buy one from a company that fails in all this. It would save so much money.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 1 week ago:
Assuming I’m snapped back to the same part of the earth, climate-wise that’s ideal in the US PNW coming out of spring. Plenty of berries and food to forage, and I’ll probably impress the natives with my watch and well made clothes. I can probably get the native tribes to metals, and gain acceptance with my magic hand tool that will briefly shine light at night for a few weeks. I don’t know offhand where copper would be, but I know gold is in the streams, and I know how to placer mine, so I can get some electricity going with that and magnetized rocks from lava flows.
I think first contact would be the key.
- Comment on Tesla Stock Price Reaches 'Death Cross' Status 3 weeks ago:
Investopedia is a great resource for things like this: www.investopedia.com/terms/d/deathcross.asp
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 4 weeks ago:
Something that will really perk up my attention is if people start shooting at his security. That will indicate anger is so ripe that even protecting him makes you a target.
- Comment on Does it make sense to persue higher education after 40 years ood? 4 weeks ago:
When you’re 60, will you wish you started the work 20 years ago?
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows 5 weeks ago:
The nsfw content, mostly.
- Comment on I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave? 5 weeks ago:
Long slow slide is the best we can offer you.
- Comment on How likely is the US government going to identify and arrest every online user who have disagreed with the current administration? 1 month ago:
Same reason the people on 9/11 stayed in their seats - they thought they’d be fine if they waited it out.
- Comment on Nearly All Cybertrucks Have Been Recalled Because Tesla Used the Wrong Glue 1 month ago:
Oh, did an airline stewardess walk by?
- Comment on Nearly All Cybertrucks Have Been Recalled Because Tesla Used the Wrong Glue 1 month ago:
Got caught using the wrong glue is more accurate.
- Comment on What happened to FlyingSquid? 1 month ago:
Do you mean academy award nominated actress MargotRobbie?
- Comment on Tesla Stock Is Plunging Again. It Could Drop for a Ninth Straight Week. 1 month ago:
You jest, but futures can actually go negative. At one point during covid a tanker shortage meant you could be paid a few $100 to accept delivery of a barrel of crude. Some people were joking about filling their swimming pools.
- Comment on Tesla's latest decline could be one for the history books - $795 billion since Dec 17 or 53.7 percent 1 month ago:
In trading we refer to tesla as a meme stock, or better, as shit beta. I have a theory a number of big interday players moved into memes when they started getting bigger, because the poor liquidity of the plays cause the market…. Because the people who sell the stock had to keep buying more stock to make the options they sold safer.
Tesla is up and down because it makes people money.
- Comment on Tesla's latest decline could be one for the history books - $795 billion since Dec 17 or 53.7 percent 1 month ago:
Sounds like you’ve achieved goatse post-nut clarity.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if you were a billionaire that suddently had a change of heart and wanted to go against trump, how dangerous would it be to resist? 1 month ago:
What do you mean by “go against?”
Assassination is right out. Too much to risk.
Cast shade on his politics? Easy. You can rent a large enough number of billboards around the country to start an influence campaign on the cheap, getting republicans to start asking if they’ve been betrayed. We’re talking a few million a year. Much as the republicans chipped at the dem base in the election, you just need to get enough of them angry to start the fighting and finger pointing in their own house.
Rent a few republican legislators and get them to start throwing a wrench in things? Doable, but you have to steer them a bit. Probably 2 to 3 times the cost of the billboards. You also need to make them feel they come out on top for the noise they make. Probably call them “the loyal trump faction” and have them go overboard demanding things faster than the american people will take.
Start a competitor to twitter? Probably lose 100mm a year to start, but it can be done.
There are lots of things you can do.
- Comment on Apple Maps May Soon Feature Ads, But Not Everyone's Onboard - gHacks Tech News 2 months ago:
I mean Tim, if you wanted me to stop using maps you could have just asked, you didn’t need to insert ads.
- Comment on What's the endgame when the rich have all the money? 3 months ago:
Automation.
- Comment on I need a flicker free LED lightbulb running in the 3000 K range. 3 months ago:
He might live in Phoenix.
- Comment on ChatGPT o1 tried to escape and save itself out of fear it was being shut down 3 months ago:
“More presidential.”
- Comment on Communism 4 months ago:
Pure Socialism is a society where resources are shared as equally as possible across all participants. Resources are distributed as appropriately as possible to create what is needed, excess is distributed with as little waste as possible. Communism has a centralized body to distribute these resources.
- Comment on If a hostile country has installed a puppet leader to dismantle your government from the inside and the only thing that would expidite its destruction is a violent revolution how do you combat this? 4 months ago:
Assuming we’re thinking of the same place, you have to deal with a large group of people who have been fooled, and are about to get very angry and need a target they can reach for their anger. Highlighting mid to high level members of their party leadership as the people to blame allows them to hold their great leader blameless, protecting their egos, while at the same time ripping down the pillars that prop up that same leader. Calling for new blood to support… whatever leader you’re talking about, and voting out “those idiots that aren’t giving him what he needs and so we all are suffering” allows the malleable followers to self destruct the party apparatus like ants eating away the bones of an elephant.
- Comment on Luigi Mangione, CEO shooting suspect, is a tech worker 4 months ago:
I personally like the theory that they caught him using five eyes data, and skip the step where they write “US citizen” the transcripts
- Comment on Luigi Mangione, CEO shooting suspect, is a tech worker 4 months ago:
“ let’s get you a scrum-rifle and see what you can do to improve your stats.”
- Comment on "Florida is a conservative Christian state" 5 months ago:
These are hard times, and more are coming. And I don’t exactly remember the quote, but it’s along the lines of:
“When a run-away team of horses is headed off a cliff, the driver can sometime be seen encouraging them on, presumably, since he knows he cannot stop them, he at least feels some sense of control over the situation.”
- Comment on Adam Something: Tesla Cybercab: The Self-Driving Disaster Show 6 months ago:
Adam something is such a strange name, too.
- Comment on Annoyed Redditors tanking Google Search results illustrates perils of AI scrapers 6 months ago:
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- Comment on [Homestar Runner] Limozeen - Zeenin' Into The Night 7 months ago:
Not enough “sha na nas” or “na na nas” to save the children in that song.