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  1. PintOStout

    Marvel’s first family faces Galactus in Fantastic Four: First Steps teaser

    Dont know that story line.... but its also probably unlikely to tie to the John Byrne scripted story line where they discover Reed's father stranded in alternate future that is war torn wasteland. After fixing everything, his father stays and a 1000 years later a descendant becomes the guy they...
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    Hurricane Milton becomes second-fastest storm to reach Category 5 status

    sigh I relocated from Tampa Bay last year after over 30 years living there....I've been following the models on what became Milton since Helene was making landfall and have been trying to get the attention of friends and family back there for several days. The only storm to get my lizard brain...
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    Starliner’s speaker began emitting strange sonar noises on Saturday

    Well if someone fired up the Improbability Drive when the remains of a Long March 6 launch was passing by, the odds get down to under a 100 to 1.
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    Soda additive “no longer considered safe,” gets long-awaited FDA ban

    Striking down Chevron wasn't the only decision that will cause chaos on this front. While everyone was focused on the Trump case on the last day of this session, SCOTUS tried to slip in Corner Post under the radar. My understanding is it will not apply to all regulatory decisions (some do have...
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    Chaos at Tesla: What analysts think about Elon Musk’s cuts and layoffs

    Its an old story but legacy rental properties... i.e. old properties now targeted towards lower incomes... are only going to see minimal upgrades dictated by local code to keep them inhabitable. Right before we left Tampa Bay last year I was reading several news stories of such properties with...
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    Chaos at Tesla: What analysts think about Elon Musk’s cuts and layoffs

    The Autopilot investigation leading to an "unafforable fix" was not part of my thinking either ... it could be interesting exercise to game out the potential cost of the options if the they are told something along lines of "you cannot do Autopilot this way...you must add in radar". After...
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    Apple’s Q2 2024 earnings reveal a drop in iPhone, iPad sales

    Mmm yes and no. Part of Apples challenge is that they've been so successful and make so much money there are very few industries they can go to and move the needle. They tried one of them (cars) and after several years of R&D decided the low margins are not worth it (a reckoning Tesla is...
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    Roku ad push continues with plans to put video ads in OS home screen

    sigh I've noticed the Roku OS on a couple of our TVs becoming more and more flaky in recent months and now this equine fecal matter... From my point of view they've only been making it less valuable to the point of making it Roku OS an active detriment to my experience using a TV. I'm more...
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    Customers say Meta’s ad-buying AI blows through budgets in a matter of hours

    It's a little insurance policy called Directive 4... Putting classic cheesy cinema villainy aside... why would you give an AI from a social media company the decision making power to spend your money on services provided by that social media company? Obligatory:
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    Alleged AI voice imitation leads to arrest in Baltimore school racism controversy

    Dmitri Alperovitch and Chirs Krebs are the guests on the latest "On with Kara Swisher" podcast which was focused on conflict with China but towards the end (about 55 mins in) they briefly discussed the election and AI/disinformation. Krebs said he expected AI to be a lot more noise in 2024 cycle...
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    Tesla profits drop 55% as Elon Musk dodges cheap car questions

    But that also goes against one of the fundamental premises of broad index funds... those are usually the ones with lowest fees as the management structure is kept as simplistic as possible. "We simply buy the S&P 500...or the Russel 2000". Allowing people to pick and choose what makes up their...
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    FTC bans noncompete clauses, declares vast majority unenforceable

    I understand that sentiment as for me it applies both to vets and my own medical staff when I find one I particularly like. I followed a dentist to 3 different practices over 20 years...at least in that industry they seemed to make a point of contacting patients with notices of "Dr X is leaving...
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    FTC bans noncompete clauses, declares vast majority unenforceable

    I cannot remember the reference but I remember reading (or I may be really confused and it was a podcast) in the last year about how one of the targets for private equity in recent years was vet clinics....a firm would buy up a significant percentage of the clinics in a metropolitan area and...
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    Tesla profits drop 55% as Elon Musk dodges cheap car questions

    That article is a bit dated. Tesla is a part of the S&P 500 now which the most popular ETF's are based on.
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    Trailer for Deadpool and Wolverine is filled with fun slo-mo action, F-bombs

    Borrowing from Team America... Jesus T***y F***ing Christ... wtf is that crap? I had no idea who the hell those characters are...so I googled it...read the Wikipedia page...and now I want to punch Kevin Feige in the nuts repeatedly for both letting such crap out...and wasting the talent of...
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    FTC bans noncompete clauses, declares vast majority unenforceable

    The aggressive ones do go a little past threatening (by managers)... they will start sending out letters from legal counsel making threats which does effectively intimidate most people and thus achieve the goal of wage suppression. The costs are stupid high just to get another lawyer to write a...
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    Recoding Voyager 1—NASA’s interstellar explorer is finally making sense again

    Sheesh I love this stuff. I like to fondly remember hacking around on my Atari 800XL as a teenager... writing assembly routines to replace small sections of the OS ROM (after duplicating it into bank switched RAM) ...or code that had to execute within the time constraints of the video vertical...
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    Trailer for Deadpool and Wolverine is filled with fun slo-mo action, F-bombs

    Long running comics suffer from similar "mudflation" problem as MMOs do. Over the long haul its all about the same characters doing bigger and better things....its really hard to keep creating truly original characters within a particular title that has gone for decades...so you end up with...
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    Daily Telescope: The ambiguously galactic duo

    I am talking about much greater scale than just a few observatories looking outwards or inwards (with respect to the solar system). I look at where you place them / specific mission tasking as a matter of prioritization for early launches (and perhaps a selling point to get key stakeholders on...