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As someone who bought on the dip in 2008, 30% cash is the sweet spot. 20% buying into the dip. 10% to keep you from having any cash flow problems that make you sell off to stay above water.

The one chart to rule them all, https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HTRUCKSSAAR

If that were lower I would be less worried. The sky high market is why I worry. If the Fed has to prop things up that bad in an all time high economy they will have no control in a free fall crash.

Only $120 billion in fed overnight loans to prop up liquidity to keep blowing money on short term treasury auctions. Totally not a 5 alarm economic fire raging.

Sigh. Why doesn’t EPA hold auctions like FCC on dangerous pesticide use? Market will apply them where they are most needed, govt gets revenue, environment is saved.

”Substantially increase funding for the IRS” (according to her own words linked by @mrep)

They might have an X project that could use the Fitbit platform. Hopefully not another Nest mess.

Unemployment numbers in Iowa are 100% rigged. They shortened the window from 2 weeks to 1 week to make continuing claims throwing many off the rolls. There is also a benefit cliff that screws workers penny for penny out of side hustle income over $100/week giving them little motivation to file claims despite making less than $600/week.

Also the system is rigged against minimum wage workers. They have to work weeks longer than $100k wage employees to qualify for coverage.

This should be the insurance company's problem. Also, they should have filed in the criminal case with the State judge for the damages who probably would have granted them.

Tax on labor is perverse. Why should workers be paying higher tax than a robot?

Wage taxes for under $50k in income should be zero. Ditch all earmarked tariffs and implement a 5% across the board import tariff which is essentially a national sales tax. Cut the NDAA operational budget in favor of letting the 50 States implement Swiss style defenses. Equalize the US Postal Service budget with NASA. Build 1 foot diameter pneumatic/hyper loop tubes under the interstate network to modernize small package and bulk data transfer.

Have DOE make electric steel smelting and electric based low carbon fertilizer/cement production a top priority. Increase the NSF budget for grinder/sifter/centrifuge/pickerBot tech so a modern municipal recycling rig can be modular to a few semis. Same for a modular ethanol production rig that farm cooperatives can use.

Take bids on electric USPTO/DOD short and long haul trucks. Mandate as part of the contracts they also be available commercially in the same quantity for no more 10% more.

The harder win will be more efficient allocation of workers. Govt agencies could grease the wheels by doing one click job applications on linkedIn etc, and offering training benefits to all part time workers.

Govt student loans need to be burned to the ground in favor of GI bill style packages where you do a year of government service in return for having some school paid for. There should be no age limit.

Healthcare is simple. All Medicare/Medicaid bills paid to providers should be public record. Sunlight will quickly cleanse market inefficiencies.

I would go with AWS for S3 serving of files. The rest depends on your application needs.

Posting bond should be sufficient. The bond company would do all kinds of 3rd party testing to cover their investment, far more than any agency would.

I still think many models are missing volcanic winters. We know they have crazy cooling effects, but they are something we don’t yet control.

More $$$ money needs to go into Vulcanering. Crazy, but if we can make ash spread 20% more that’s years of cooling.

I would be curious to see Gates’ take in his maturity. In fact I visualize a more curious and playful Microsoft as Gates himself pushing it that way behind the scenes.

Could be an albatross for Microsoft. Amazon not having control over wired munitions is goodwill outside the US, and especially outside NATO.

Iowa was one of the unethical states using them well into the 1960s. Shameful.

ICE ops says what?

I don’t want them touching my payments or get stuck to their endpoint. This, but a self hosted version.

Two sides to every trade. More curious which side lost their shirt.

Discriminatory pricing. What could possibly go wrong?

Retail death freeing up labor.

With proper error correction codes and perhaps the upfront cost of a prebuilt DAG you should only have the rework of failed nodes.

Isn't there a way to use Ghidra and cross compile it to 64 bit?

Void for vagueness.

Why?

Consumer fraud lawsuits, and they don't want Venezuelan cash on their balance sheets.

Larry should double down on cloud, offering .NetCore fronted MySQL/Oracle/Postgres in addition to Java. Be a Heroku style service inside AWS/Azure/GCP. Make his competition front the capital cost of running the data centers. Get back Govt marketshare on AWS GovCloud.

Curious how much of this is a trade war, screw the U.S. If vape supply dries up there could be a spike in tobacco use.

JAWS is horrid. There needs to be better open alternatives sponsored by Congress.

Curious. I hadn't thought too much about startup hopping, since there is a large opportunity cost to staying in a startup that doesn't take off.

I'm building the equivalent of a Heroku for batch processing. Should save an obscene amount of developer setup time, and megawatts of power with more data locality.