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Lesson learned - use a professional brokerage like IBKR, Schwab, etc.
You can also "yes and" this. Invest in the startup, by some investments, etc. Multiple streams of returns that are uncorrelated is the holy grail formula for investing [1].
How long until an adversary figures out a way to inject something nasty through the ad network? Only a matter of time. I can’t wait for the Blackhat talk.
I just went through a hellish Microsoft experience _trying_ to get Office 365 working on a Windows laptop. Got stuck in a fail loop: Create account -> Email already used. Login. -> Cannot login, account (email) does not exist. -> Create account. DO FOREVER.
The crazy thing is on Microsoft's own support (term used very generously) forums there are multiple threads with many pages on this very same issue. Imagine, I want to pay you for your product, but your rats nest of services is such a hot mess that it's nearly impossible. Unbelievable!
Converted the laptop to Linux dev box. Doing project using Pages and Keynote on my Mac.
“How to grow a forest in your backyard” - speaker talks about how they plant collections of native (to area) trees and help them mature to a self- sustaining level within 10 years accelerating what would talk about 100 years without a helping hand early on.
https://www.ted.com/talks/shubhendu_sharma_how_to_grow_a_for...
Recently looked at templ-great features, but somewhat awful looking generated code.
Harvest.org
WorldWildlife.org
There are also potential performance gains because there’s a lot less network hopping around.
I’ve done some big data processing using a single big box strategy in the past and it worked very well—as the saying goes, “distribute when you must.”