Treating compulsive shopping, gambling, etc. :)

We have this handy hand crank to power up your RAM during the cold winters.

There's a reason why Ford's stock has been more or less flat for the past 25 years...bouncing around between about $2 and $20 while remaining deeply in debt.

They're circling the drain.

Eh, no. That would be land value tax.

Per wiki: Economists since Adam Smith and David Ricardo have advocated this tax because it does not hurt economic activity, and encourages development without subsidies., appealing to economist as diverse as Stiglitz to Friedman.

LVT is an in kind wealth tax.

Nope, I'm an Android person and I'm not an investor in Apple for what it's worth.

They're a public company...not a charity. If you were a shareholder, would YOU want Apple to eat these sudden supply chain cost spikes?

I wouldn't.

A bunch of companies that have no hope of being profitable in the near-term hoovering up huge amounts of capital as well as causing significant global market distortions for anyone needing memory or storage. I guess the question is which of these black holes should be getting the most short interest?

Try getting admitted to a Chinese hospital without a fat wad of cash in your pocket up front. I double dog dare ya. If you have no money, they will let you bleed out in the waiting room. If you are in a city/town without a local hukou, you're double fucked.

The number of sock puppets shilling for China here is rather astounding.

It's probably legacy CA software on the mainframes, not VMWare product.

Broadcom is an absolute abomination when it comes to rent seeking from legacy customers for their predatory IP purchases.

I think it's becoming less likely over time as Broadcom burns those bridges. I'm personally aware of a few that definitely have exited VMWare entirely (for the same reason they exited their legacy CA tools entirely).

There are some pretty big names that use Openstack at significant scale in production. There are more, but here are the ones that come to mind:

Walmart
PayPal
BMW Group
Intel
Bloomberg
Volkswagen Group
Comcast
AT&T
Verizon
CERN
Disney
China Mobile
Deutsche Telekom
Telefonica
Banco Santander
Swisscom

You can either roll your own or partner up with Canonical or some other professionally supported version.

Check.

The adblockers work just dandy with Firefox.

Roku quality has been circling the drain for years. I only keep it as a front end for my Jellyfin media server.

From the summary:

A former Google worker (laid off more than a year ago) says he's still job hunting, according to the article, and "he's learned it's not enough to just apply in this competitive market. Workers really need to network and leverage their connections to get seen by hiring managers and stand out."

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Thank you, Captain Obvious. There's bots screening resumes and bots submitting them. If you want to have any chance at all of getting noticed, you absolutely need to leverage your network. Simply applying online is a fool's errand.

I'm going to work a few more years and then "retire" early (from technology work) and do something else. I have zero interest in participating in this jump into the abyss of AI mindset.

There are PLENTY of other things to do with your time that don't involve living in a closet, paying high taxes, and dealing with all the social ills of the Bay Area. There are other types of work and other areas of the country that are growing. Widen your net.

We don't buy video games or mobile devices for our middle school aged children. They get to study, read, exercise and participate in athletics. That seems to be working out for them as they are both at the top of their class and in the high 90'th percentile for pretty much every topic in standardized tests. I see other parents using phones/tablets/gaming devices as a mock baby sitter and/or letting their kids doom scroll on youtube for hours at a time. Those kids are not doing very well and and many seem to have the attention span of a goldfish. Seems like a lot of parents are raising a generation of baristas.