Zillow is Slow & Behind on Data

A buddy of mine who is a realtor says that he always has a problem with people that call him saying that they saw house listed on Zillow giving him bullshit information and he tells them that looking at the actual local and regional real estate networks that are used by real brokers, those houses are listed for different prices and a lot of times those houses are sold and Zillow still shows them as being available 48 hours later where he has to field calls for the next two days about houses that have been closed.

Compass Buying Other Real estate Brokers

The other thing he told me is that a lot of the real estate companies have now consolidated and bought each other out and Compass has now become one of the biggest companies out there buying everybody else out where now there's going to be Wars for data access too real estate house listings.

Real Estate Transactions Collapse & Recession/Depression

The other thing a friend of mine told me is that there are people that have been brokers and Realtors in the market for over 2 to 3 decades and in the last year or two they have not been able to make any transactions whether it's a purchase or a sale because we are in a massive recession and everyone is just holding their breath because the interest rates have f***** everyone over so nobody wants to sell and people don't want to buy and those brokers are now starting to get really concerned and are switching brokerage companies because of all the massive consolidation that's happening because of the recession and the upcoming depression that we are in. Stock market is doing great. Real estate market is dead.

That little uptick in IT sector unemployment is trailing reality where there's a larger acceleration of unemployment in IT due to cost cutting, recession like economy, uncertainty over AI augmentation of the IT labor force, and fear of the bubble popping whenever it does if ever.

The statistics are cooked since like an earlier poster said that when folks drop out of IT because they can't find good work anymore they aren't counted anymore in the unemployment statistics so it looks like a win for the numbers getting better, but the person is still unemployed or switched sectors or careers.

Middles six figure jobs for IT are very rare to see and all the job postings are for under six figures. It's work that is mostly the churn and burn type like hands on desktop, low-level analyst or QA, site monitoring, or low level admin jobs. Which burn people out and then replace them with more cheap labor locally or offshore.

Career Path Change

I've built a path and skills and certifications over the last decade to a completely different career and now I'm going for it after finishing a decade and a half long stint at a dead-end organization that did IT in the stone ages managed by sociopathic computer illiterate exploitive and manipulative management and technically myopic leadership criminally violating laws and regulations with massive cover-ups.

I'll probably dabble in IT work to enhance my new career and try my hand at a derivative business idea to bring IT to a non technical sector that needs to come to the modern age and there are only two other people doing serious IT in it.

But I'm one of those statistics now who's making those IT Unemployment numbers look good since I'm switching career paths midway in life, after seeing and predicting the IT job apocalypse that is now starting and looking into the future over the horizon of the corpses of IT workers like in Terminator 2 opening scene.

Opening (Future War) | Terminator 2: Judgment Day [Remastered] = AI Killing IT Jobs

Don't you know that the consent decree and the memorandum of understanding from the previous antitrust lawsuits with the Department of Justice (DOJ) expired for Microsoft?

They do the same thing every decade with their lock-in OS and features line OneDrive and Copilot. Every single time.

I'm other news, the sky is blue and water is wet.

Same at the old place I used to work for. Oracle somehow won the bid for an ERP accounting solution and migration work and it's about to go down the same way also. It is going to be a shit-show when they try to migrate from mainframe Lawson software solution. They supposedly are trying to hire an internal developer for account with mainframe and C# skills for Oracle ERP accounting. That is going to be a no-find position and require Oracle contract development hours and a whole team instead.

The Cyber Security managers did the same thing with Deloitte through the revolving door and now are back at the org using them as consultants and contractors which have screwed up a lot of security worm because they are not knowledgeable over the systems they should be securing nor competent to do the work well. No wonder their only internal develop left when that happened and now they have to outsource development to them.

The old leadership did the same with IBM and Cerner.

Revolving Door Corruption

The 2008 financial crisis was due to Collaterized Debt Obligations (CDO)s that had real good and normal mortgages but were mixed in with no collateral and bad mortgage loans into tranches to make the crap passable and to get the credit rating companies to upgrade the ratings by hiding the bad debt among some good debt.

This new retirement account legislation is going to do the same thing for all the 401(k), 403(b), and 457(b) plans which force you into target date funds and to allow those funds to allocate percentage of their holdings into their bad assets like cryptocurrency and private debt, which are both opaque and poorly if at all regulated.

Private debt defaults at 10%+ rate and higher very quickly and quietly even after passing audits, which are no longer trust worthy after so many incidents of complete debt write off right after a clean audit. Private debt companies limit liquidity by preventing withdrawals using ponzi scheme like timing and amount limits per customer or per entire fund.

Cryptocurrency is inherently a ponzi schemensince it always requires new suckers to hold the bag and is unstable so it can implode or get rug-pulled anytime without recourse. Very bad for an asset class which should hold value and provide growth without surprise and without massive value swings.

Very bad for US employees. They will be forced to hold bad assets by heir employers and retirement account administration companies without recourse because of the limits of investment choices they have with retirement accounts.

The choices of investment funds and their internal structure is very small and limited on purpose by the management companies to limit investments I to their choice of funds, so employees are forced down a very narrow path of carefully bad or expensive to manage choices to only arrive at the single target date fund that their employer and management company wants them to keep their retirement money in.

The emplyees cannot just choose to invest into index based funds of their choice and that is the purpose of this legislation to mix the alternative asset crap into those very limited choices and push them into the target date funds as an alternative allocation percentage to tie up the crap assets with equity and bond holdings to make them look reputable.

Most normalish retirement fun choices are the default target date retirement fund, a bond mostly fund, a money market position for some reason, and some other esoteric and badly performing weird funds.

The employer and the administrator firm want to force you into target date funds which they can keep filling up with crap allocations such as crypto and private asset debt that is not well regulated nor even well exposed and certainly not audited properly since many of those debt investment loans quietly default even after clean audits.

Well when you address the Need Congress that is Slashdot audience and mention aliens in Dune you trigger a strong reaction from us because the whole point of Frank Herbert's Dune universe is that there are no known aliens, all the weirdness of that universe is human derived. Purity of the Human evolution only on the Golden Path's door step.

The only references to alien intelligence is the human created machines that we're defeated once during the Butleriam Jihad and which survived and escaped by travelling away from the human controlled sphere of influence in the Universe and who will come back in the future to annihilate the Humans once again unless the Humans are so strongly subjugated by Leto II God Emperor that after his death they will explode into the Universe so far away from control control that not even the machines will be able to find nor catch them to exterminate them.

The only other reference to other aliens are the bringers of the Sandtrout which turn into the Sand Worms on Arrakis (Rakis) [Dune] planet and there might be an inference that they are from another Galaxy.

Finally the last weird somewhat alienish are the two facedancers overseeing the events with almost prescient powers but they are just further genetically engineered humans by the Tleilaxu genetic butchers.

Yep, I completely agree with you ZipNada, but I knew that the book is not going to offer up some phenomenal new science fiction shift of a paradigm type of a literary invention.

I wanted something that was very much like The Martian which was a science fiction-based adventure in space instead of on Mars. I would say science fiction lite and enjoyable like a shoot-em-up heist movie except for nerds and geeks with some nice science thrown around; and without having to do any equations or discuss quantum mechanics only special relativity and bit of raw space gamma radiation.

Andy Weir Is able to capture a nice science fiction-based adventure that is very linear and enjoyable to read and watch. He does introduce a few new concepts which are very enjoyable and then he just builds the story on them and moves it forward with little mishaps and issues that have to be resolved until the final outcome.

His other book Artemis that takes place on the Moon is also a very enjoyable lite science fiction read. Would make for a great movie with an awesome chic actress who'd need to have a bit of attitude and spunk about her, a real character of a lady. Gosh, so many choices for casting. I'd love for someone to suggest a few actresses who would fit that role.

Think of Project Hail Mary as a Science Fiction X-Com Bromance Adventure in Space with Biological Power Cells!

Yes, it's worth seeing the movie.

Sorry about the bad grammar in the original subject. I was dictating it and the phone while walking in the market. I didn't see the mistake.

I ended up hearing about this movie coming out from the same author that did the Martian whose name is Andy Weir.

So I immediately got the book and read it and after that went to see the movie. I ended up reading his other book, the one that was in between about the girl at the space station and that was pretty enjoyable so.

This movie's definitely enjoyable and we want to see it in a nice theater where we have dinner and drinks and it was definitely worth it. Since I read the book week in advance, it was a nice little visual representation of the book and it was very faithful to the book.

The author definitely captured the ability of doing hard science space stories and making them appealing in book form and also in visual movie form.p

"mentioned in Frank Herbert's Dune as the planet of at least one alien species."

Editor David is using AI generated slop again. Because that code is patently wrong and could only come from some AI hallucinations.

Qualcomm makes telecom wireless chips and lower tier processors and the upcoming 6G will increase bandwidth at the cost of increased latency and lowered distance from the tower. Anything to do with PI features over the wireless telecom network will be incidental.

Agent based communications will be text based or condensed and compressed mutually negotiated binary format for efficiency of transmission for speed and lower latency for responses. That's not going to require additional bandwidth of 6G since it won't be mixed media nor high bandwidth video transmissions.

PI agents will eventually communicate to each other as the preferred interface method over classic APIs, but that is going to be like trying to use foreign language translators to interpret meaning, sublety, and original intent of the prompter as it's translated through the telephone game over multiple hops, losing meaning and coherence at each step of the way.

Nothing to do with new 6G wireless protocol and chip sets.

I completely agree.

Long time ago I mentioned that the Microsoft Recall feature that takes a screenshots of everything that you do on your computer is just training data for their Copilot PI.

Now with organizations and the executives forcing PI adoption and mandating it as part of performance reviews, they generally want everybody to train their PI replacements so they can start the next batch waves of layoffs and the next economic crisis bigger than anything else that we've seen in the past.

This is exactly like the movie Office Space when The Bobs are trying to figure out what everyone does at the company but this time the layoffs are followed by the P.I. (Pretend Intelligence) push into the replacement roles by the consultants, but not before you're told to train the P.I.

Office Space (1999)
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt015...

The Office Space Bobs Plot No One Ever Talks About Is Genius
https://www.giantfreakinrobot....

Frozen Accounts

Don't forget that PayPal would routinely freeze accounts for over 180 days or longer for anybody that use them for small business that had a very high volume of credits and debits and they would claim that it was a security reason. But meanwhile they would hold all the money and make the account inaccessible and not even answer to the person why the account was frozen for real.

Every so often you would hear of somebody running a legitimate business and they received a payment from some other PayPal account or person who themselves was flagged as problematic and that would trigger a chain lightning event. Where anybody else associated with that person or that person's account or a hacked person's account would just spread like wildfire and freeze every associated account for a very long time. Without anybody having the ability to do anything about it or get a real answer or even identify what happened.

You made a sale or you purchase something from somebody else online. You paid them with PayPal and zap. Your account is frozen and you don't really have an answer to what happened and any money you had in there is gone for months. If you will ever get it back or not, you will never know. And support will not tell you. They'll just say security reason and your account is frozen.

The government had to step in and threaten regulation but PayPal would still routinely do this to a bunch of small business owners and eBay sellers.

Banking Accounts Linked

Luckily I stayed away from PayPal and only used it as a way to pay for eBay or receive money from online sales and immediately transfer the money out of there directly into my bank account. I didn't like the reason why I had to have my bank account linked but I figure if something went wrong I go straight to my Chase Bank and complain to them and I would have much better results than complaining to PayPal which would hide there support number on their website for a very long time and people had to get it from Reddit or from Google searching.

Other Apps More Popular

Everybody that I know is using Venmo or CashApp or Zelle to send money between each other. So PayPal is pretty much on its way out but online web stores still do a lot of sales through PayPal so it's going to be a very long and slow burn to replace it because it is so tightly integrated with web, front ends and shopping cart systems.