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New comment by bubbleRefuge in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

bubbleRefuge — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:31:50 +0000

Agree with this. The > the organization the > the big brother dystopia. Big corps that say use outlook will ask for admin permissions on your cell which include delete access, reading media, etc if you want to use teams/outlook. So i never opt in. Probably good for work life bal. They can call me in emergencies.

New comment by bubbleRefuge in "72% of the dollar's purchasing power was destroyed in just four episodes"

bubbleRefuge — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:48:48 +0000

so long and income exceeds or keeps up with inflation growth, it doesn't matter

New comment by bubbleRefuge in "XML Is a Cheap DSL"

bubbleRefuge — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:50:45 +0000

Yup. SAP and their glorious idocs with german acronyms

New comment by bubbleRefuge in "Banned in California"

bubbleRefuge — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:15:38 +0000

In a modern money/fiat money regime, the federal government can afford anything in nominal terms. As such, the solution would be to subsidize the industries that make the most sense for standard of living and national security so they can participate in the market. Use government subsidies to offset the costs of environmental remediation .

New comment by bubbleRefuge in "I sell onions on the Internet (2019)"

bubbleRefuge — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 00:18:04 +0000

Do they let anyone pick for free ?

New comment by bubbleRefuge in "Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores""

bubbleRefuge — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 04:07:18 +0000

Its a thing. Living in hurricane alley, I see it all the time. Lines at gas stations, grocery stores, hardware stores. My strategy is to wait till the 11th hour after supply trucks have restocked everything and shop in peace.stores are open, quiet , sparsely trafficed, usually stocked up at this point. Works every time

New comment by bubbleRefuge in "Grok Code Fast 1"

bubbleRefuge — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 14:52:44 +0000

Absolutely false. Worse case is dollar going down. Interest rates are exogenous and controlled by the fed who can buy all the treasuries in the world at a moment's notice. The treasury securities held by China are their problem . Not the US's.

New comment by bubbleRefuge in "The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine"

bubbleRefuge — Sat, 31 May 2025 14:05:54 +0000

There is no proof that higher interest rates lead to greater unemployment. In fact, macro employment kind of boomed during the referenced period. I'd posit that higher rates actually boosted macro employment stats . Why ? Because higher rates = higher income to rich people via interest income channel = higher fed budget deficits ( gov is net payer of interest) = higher GDP = lower unemployment ceterus paribus.

New comment by bubbleRefuge in "In a high-stress work environment, prioritize relationships"

bubbleRefuge — Tue, 13 May 2025 15:40:48 +0000

a tech mentor once told me what makes a developer great is not how good or talented he is but how good he makes those around him be.

New comment by bubbleRefuge in "Sand trafficking in Latin America"

bubbleRefuge — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 03:55:24 +0000

I have a gf in Goias brazil . She told me that she was mugged 7 times for her cell phone years ago . Then a new governor came along and began a policy of. allowing police to execute dangerous criminal gang members rather than arrest them. Now the area is considered one of the safest regions. He's rummored to have presidential ambitions. Guess there is a breaking point when crime and corruption gets to a point where people just have had enough and only want results Justice be dammed.

New comment by bubbleRefuge in "Promising results from DeepSeek R1 for code"

bubbleRefuge — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:25:01 +0000

3 decades. me too. since 97. maybe uber driver was a bad example. what about having a work model similar to a lawyer? whereby one can specialize in creating certain types of business or personal apps at a high hourly rate ?

New comment by bubbleRefuge in "Promising results from DeepSeek R1 for code"

bubbleRefuge — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:20:19 +0000

oh. yeah. finance is to big. they've captured the government.

New comment by bubbleRefuge in "Promising results from DeepSeek R1 for code"

bubbleRefuge — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 15:47:18 +0000

like someone said above. demand is infinite. imagine a world where the local AI/Engineer tech is a ubiquitous as the uber driver. don't think it will necessarily create smaller paychecks. hard to say. But I see demand skyrocketing for customized software that can be provided at 1/10 of today's costs.

We are far away from that though. As an enterprise software/data engineer, AI has been great in answering questions and generating tactical code for me. Hours have turned into minutes. It even motivated me to work on side projects because they take less time. You will be fine. Embrace the change. Its good for you. Will lead to personal growth.

New comment by bubbleRefuge in "Promising results from DeepSeek R1 for code"

bubbleRefuge — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 21:17:10 +0000

as long as we keep learning and our heads in the game we will be fine. I worry much more for the non-techno savy like scrum masters. yikes.

New comment by bubbleRefuge in "Promising results from DeepSeek R1 for code"

bubbleRefuge — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 21:15:44 +0000

would be similar to solution engineers today. you build solutions using ai. think about all the moving parts to building a complex business app. user experience, data storage, business logic, reporting, etc. etc. the engineer can orchestrate the ai to build the solution and validate its correctness.

New comment by bubbleRefuge in "Black Swan's Taleb Says Nvidia Rout Is Hint of What's Coming"

bubbleRefuge — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 20:39:12 +0000

yeah 100% . picking up pennies in from of the train. thanks for the bits. so I should search on "Variance Swaps"? . I do a great deal of options trading and play around with some ATS software for options trading that i've developed using IB api. lot of factors and complexity as you mentioned. factors like liquidity . IV spikes, are dimensions to consider. thinking of trading high probability 0DTE spreads with portfolio hedging in place.

New comment by bubbleRefuge in "Promising results from DeepSeek R1 for code"

bubbleRefuge — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 20:30:33 +0000

this is a better world. we can work a few hours a week and play tennis, golf, and argue politics with our friends and family over some good cheese and wine while the bots do the deployments.

New comment by bubbleRefuge in "Promising results from DeepSeek R1 for code"

bubbleRefuge — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 20:28:42 +0000

no I think more engineers. especially those who can be a jack-of-all-trades. if a software project that takes normally 1 year of customer development can be done in 2 months, then that project is affordable to a wide array of business who would could never fund that kind of project before.

New comment by bubbleRefuge in "Promising results from DeepSeek R1 for code"

bubbleRefuge — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:59:26 +0000

Think the marginal cost of developing complex software goes down thereby making it affordable to a greater market. There will still be a need for skilled software engineers to understand domains, limitations of AI, and how to harness and curate AI to develop custom apps. Maybe software engineering for the masses. Local small businesses can now maybe afford to take on custom software projects that were before unthinkable.

New comment by bubbleRefuge in "Black Swan's Taleb Says Nvidia Rout Is Hint of What's Coming"

bubbleRefuge — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 16:24:40 +0000

a bigger concern to me is if the current regime pulls the rug out from fiscal policy. This will certainly crash the market. They seem to be doing this as we speak.