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  1. I'll believe quantum computers work when I see one run Crysis in 1080P
  2. Missing the good old days when you could do it through a sham board appointment on the front end and a presidential pardon on the back end.
  3. 52-80

    1923

    Spencer and his peach of a wife? Look the same.
  4. no group is free from original sin if that is the M.O.. even buddhists were involved in warfare. afaik in my (limited) exposure, today mormons are some of the best people. miscellany i learned: -steve young, the 49ers qb, is a descendant of brigham young -"comancheros" is not a plural term for the comanches, but rather a distinct group.
  5. Some clients of ours in europe, they actually track to prevent working overage. If management sees people approach maximum statutory hours for the week, they advise them to work from home so the company avoids getting fined 🫠 gov auditor once came into our (small) office and gave us a warning for not having timesheets. so we automated fake ones for everyone, completely generic - same hours for every person for every single day.
  6. What industry and size of employer do salary workers have that employ time tracking? I've worked from a bunch of different offices and badges were only used for security, never for logging
  7. Microsoft automatically enroll PowerBI users into its frequent "Power BI Digest" newsletter and in what world do they think that thats a desirable thing?
  8. I mean there were 5-10x more native tribes than there are modern nations on Earth, so there is a definitely variance in their cultural constitution. But for sure, overwhelming the broadbrush of recharacterization is to paint that whole more as noble than as brutal.
  9. fucking hotdog buns that are sliced down the middle, they separate in 2 pieces as soon as you even look at them. can someone not make a bun that just carves out the middle for the hotdog? turn the scraps into croutons or whatever.
  10. some years ago before meta glasses were ever a thing, rayban had already had wayfarers with music function. i tried them and they were nifty. listen your music in privacy, without appearing too aloof like when you have headphones in your ears.
  11. Got more SPY 590/580P spread for 2 weeks out 🫥
  12. i really like the idea of Meta RB - ophth said i could use very mild reading prescription if i need - such as to take spontaneous photos playing with my kid. hate that you need to go through facebook platform to get the photos though.
  13. people who never thought a social networking website for college kids sharing drunk pics would grow to 1T, are skeptical they can grow an VR based business. we spend 8+ hours a day on a computing device, 5+ separately on a personal device, whos to say building a digital world is a wrong trajectory. and on the AI end its already a space race of every other tech company, and meta owns massive trove of graphic data, text data, relationship data. paying for all of this is an advertising business rated by actual advertisers big and small as far and away the most effective alongside google.
  14. Zuck is a pretty serious operator. FB looks superficially like a mess of spam, but things like Marketplace is a big hit. Their advertising revenue per user keeps growing and growing, even during what looks to lay people as the twilight period of their primary product. He had already announced 2 years ago about starting a "year of efficiency", and did a big cut then, so this current workforce reduction was coming from miles away. Their operating expenses had been on a steady decline. Since then, profitability went up 3x. They're putting tons of money now into infrastructure for AI and VR, so this will go into offsetting that spending.
  15. UVIX isn't something you want to hold long term. It's an extreme short term hedge, and sub-optimal on any longer timescale because it suffers volatility drag which erodes value as markets stays flats, or , ironically , the volatility (its target) itself is volatile. (UVIX holds VIX futures and as those contracts wobble it'll hurt the rebalancing). If you're skittish, rather than buy hedges, short term rates are attractive to park your cash. <1Yr bond yields above 4% with minimal duration risk, so money market account can give you something similar. I bought SPY put spreads before the new year, "expecting" a come down from santa rally, and those monetized really well. New cash is waiting for end of Q1 (typical lull in seasonality) and settling in of new administration before buying in the market. Also, don't listen to me because I sold off PLTR in 30s.
  16. I own Tobacco (Altria). The business is going anywhere, they print profit, and it just gets pumped out as dividends. Have some energy and utilities and other old-world economy stuff that doesn't have attractive name appeal for price appreciation but they keep rolling in the earnings.
  17. is there any bear rape?
  18. Wait why cant you throw the ball 20 yards
  19. the same way if i came back to UT and beat out bijan robinson: impossible
  20. 52-80

    Gunnar Helm

    IMO if you clowned all over an opposing player like that and DONT taunt him, that should be a penalty
  21. VY’s thread lasted 15 years since he last wore orange so the answer to this question is a big NO
  22. Hes played with 4 NFL backs: bijan, jb, roschon, keilan; 4 NFL receivers: worthy, whitt, AD, JT…not counting Gunnar who’ll go also. In year 1 all 9 of those guys were on the roster at the same time. Since colts time, theres been a total of 5 offensive players drafted, and thats counting Geoff Swaim. Unfortunately quinn is the teams ceiling, not its floor.
  23. Quinn ewers, one of the longhorns quarterbacks of all-time.
  24. Sam Ehlinger on this team, would he have gone further last year and this?
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