When did any of this happen.
Get a grip.
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Get a grip.
Scalping your gamma?
Feels like the stock market is just a bunch of jargon, subterfuge and financial sleight of hand. Like we learned nothing from 2008, and just created financial 'products' mechanisms and gambits out of thin air.
Stock shorting has got to be one of the most pants-on-head stupid things I've ever heard.
Well, next to gamma scalping.
The hate brigade is still on Reddit.
Hacker News becoming more like reddit every day with trash comments like this.
Webb-pack? Amirite?! Heyoh!
They heavy fog for SN11's RUD is a travesty.
I'd like to see more explosions, because they learn a lot from them, but the stakes are getting super high.
The US will convert to metric, however everyone else has to convert from commas to decimal points.
Places using decimal separators and the metric system are the real winners here.
> > virus checkers - slowing down workstations for minimal benefit.
> Being able to stop known malware is a significant benefit.
Having been part of a malware debacle that essentially circumvented two different av/malware tools it's hard for me to find a pragmatic balance to the year's worth of absolute hell the tooling caused to the systems I'm responsible for. (Log bombing, HDD I/O stackups, chained immune responses and deadlocks to literally nothing) +25% or more resource consumption _just_ to keep the AVs happy.
Couple that with needlessly aggressive IT policy (see Mordac, the preventer of IT services on steroids)
There's got to be a better way, but maybe this is the new normal.
Then shop for internet. It's a travesty. I don't know where you live, or what kind of bubble you're surrounded by, but the situation out here is hot garbage.
I'm currently on a 5g wisp, but $100/mo gets me 24/3 speeds. Which wouldn't be stable enough for 4k, and on the off chance it was, nobody else in the house could do anything. (I'm currently on a 12/3 plan for $60)
I have to plan a day in advance if I want to play a new game with friends. A fresh backup takes months. When I was on DSL, 3/768k my phone's photo auto backup would basically render our connection useless.
It was unfathomable for me to think about moving to some family gifted farmland to build on. Or a house even more remote to our current one. My wife and I thought about buying a large plot in Utah for retirement, after taking a trip there. We laughed because we couldn't survive without internet. But now, we have options.
It is a game changer for stuff like this. To think otherwise is complete folly.
Trump and his followers are rampant on Facebook. It's an absolute cesspool.
The mainstream media, is Fox. They are mainstream, they are boastfully 'the most watched' Rush Limbaugh has an enormous listening base. Alex Jones up until recently commanded a huge user base. People are getting 'cancelled' for making terrible comments. Sexist, racist, largely inappropriate comments. People, especially minorities (women, gay, race) are sick of it. They're sick of laughing nervously and pretending it didn't happen. I'm a 30-something white dude, I'm sick of it.
CNN has people like Rick Santorum on to spew his filth. I was just watching Meet The Press on MSNBC and they let Jason Miller sit and lie for a few minutes.
Twitter/modern meidums where youth is the primary audience, where they are not getting traction isn't due to censorship. Few among younger generations subscribe to Trump's brand of insults and division. The religion pandering, the science denying. They're not buying it,
The victim mentality here is infuriating. It's no more censorship than OAN not giving air time to climate scientists.
My team is spread throughout the US and for a few years now my professional life was wall to wall Google Hangouts/Meet. It's been largely business as usual for us.
I wouldn't say there aren't other factors. General anxiety about ones health and paycheck, parents are now largely unpaid teachers, 24/7 news coverage of generally bad news.
It probably all adds up and we just blame it on technology. 5g towers, video games and now Zoom.
There is a huge problem with knockoffs and "off brand" items, most are harmless. Since this is something you put in your body there is reasonable concern that there is opportunity for unsavory or unscrupulous actors to make an <appliance brand> water filter that makes you sick, because it has some shitty chemical or compound in it. The genuine filters are indistinguishable from the knock offs. So when there's lead or something terrible coming out of your refrigerator your going to blame the brand. Even if the blame gets redirected, consumers will be upset the brand didn't do more to protect them.
Maybe I drank the koolaid on this, but there are a number of other accessories for products up and down the line that I staunchly oppose this scheme for. I don't necessarily buy the "control the experience" bit. I think it applies sparingly but a "works best with our brand's stuff" sticker is generally sufficient.
A person who might be open to ideas, closed off pulling the lever for someone based on out right lies. Someone who might have stayed home or voted for someone else.
I think that's a real possibility.