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One of my most memorable night viewings was some years ago when I was in Cyprus, lovely and warm, sat looking overhead. I saw a bright light and a dark light perhaps 2 or 3 degrees (more than a thumb, less than 3 fingers) apart travelling at the same speed. I later found out it was a Dragon carbon ship detatched from the space station and on its way back to splashdown less than an hour later in the pacific.
> You can get things below the median and it’ll be ok, you’ll live
Median household income is about $140k. Well done for "making it work" on 3 times the median income.
Retail is a small part of those index funds, and the wealthy won't be happy with losing paper value.
The median individual salary in California is about $50-60k
$480k on its own (ignoring stock) is a ridiculous level, it's $285k after tax.
Yet someone with $1b in investments "earning" 10% makes $270k every day.
Someone with a "mere" $10m makes that $480k gross every 6 months.
That's fine when they are accountants, it's important to tell the decision makers the costs. The decision makers know the value.
The problem is when the decision makers don't know the value.
Take home $22k a month
$10k on a swanky place like
https://www.zillow.com/apartments/san-francisco-ca/490-avenu...
or
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/727-Moraga-St-San-Francis...
$3k on childcare https://familychildcaresf.com/child-care-san-francisco/
Leaving $9k a month
There's so much commentary misunderstanding what ip-options are that I find it difficult to make any judgement call. I do know that I've got routers on 5 continents with hundreds of public IPs and none have triggered an IP packet with an ip-option arriving on the WAN side, or seen on the internal side other than ones I've created with scapy trying to reproduce this. I also can't get these packets to traverse any internet paths I've tried.
For large companies, infosec will never allow some POS IOT device on their network without a 50 page form and large amounts of funding. The business however needs this to happen for whatever goals they have.
So the project manager goes back to the supplier, who recommend sticking it on a 4g simcard with a public IP address, and "install this app" to manage it
The project manger finishes the project, gives the app to the store manager, and rides off into the sunset, and nobody actually owns the equipment or even knows its there.
For small companies they likely don't have a technology provider at all, and just use the ISP's router.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar_Land_Rover_cyberattack
Of course they then blame "state sponsored" attackers.
https://www.techdigest.tv/2026/10/former-minister-confirms-j...
Indeed a shared IP is arguably a benefit in that it makes fingerprinting harder.
If your ISP had customers who were interested it could spend $150k on a /19 block giving 8000 IPv4 addresses and charge an extra ₹100 a month for them and after two years it would be in profit.
In fact I think Jio and Airtel offer static IPs for residential use for something like ₹300 a month, which given how cheap IPv4 addresses are is a massive money spinner, but I have't spoken to anyone living in India about ISPs for a couple of years.
When they are 3 or 4 percentage points off they are ripped to shreds.
The polls for the recent Brazil elections were about 49% for Lula, the result was 52%, that's a 3 point difference, not a massive error margin. With brexit the polling pointed to about 52% for remain, actual result was 48%.
But those are proper polling companies, not worthless online ones.