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If your portfolio is down that much over that period of time, you are likely not making good investment choices. S&P500 is up like 50% since 2021…

Your losses or lack of portfolio growth isn’t really something to complain about online without more info on what your asset mix is. Unless your goal was just to complain, and not get any advice from helpful anons that are having more success in investment choices.

It’s invested in total market funds, some tech, some big cap companies, and healthcare

Tech, big cap, and healthcare are already part of the total market funds, so you’re over-weighting (taking excess risk) by investing that way. Assuming you’re pretty young based on time in market, you’d be fine with just the total market fund, until you have more experience with the market or just want a set and forget, for a while.

The US is the primary military force protecting Taiwan, by treaty. That’s likely why.

Apple One+

Music, TV, Games, and 50GB storage for $10/month via Verizon.

Investing billions

Weren’t the headlines a week or two ago about Microsoft trying to get taxpayer funded aid for reopening 3-mile Island? Companies shouldn’t be asking for taxpayer funded handouts when they are basically printing money at this point.

Isn’t Microsoft Copilot just ChatGPT?

Hulu is owned by broadcast networks, they could just be using the same media, pre-condensed.

It’s for ad time. At some point, the TV industry realized though couldn’t get studios to make “30 minute” shows shorter then they already were (for ad breaks), so they artificially compress those show times to fit more seconds of ads in addition to the ad breaks they already had time for.

So say a studio releases a 20 minute episode of content for a 30-minute time block, distribution companies like Hulu will take that 10 minutes for ads, plus compress (by speeding up) the 20 minute episode, too. It wouldn’t even surprise me if they use an algorithm to determine which parts of the episode they can speed up more aggressively than others, to hide that impact from the viewer.

Nope I’m just awful.

People on the opposite side of that tolerance spectrum look at us avid ad avoiders like we put in too much effort to do that, so I see it as two sides of the same coin. I started blocking/avoiding ads due to the nuisance, long before privacy and security became even more prevalent attack vectors through advertising. That was just a benefit to the time saved by blocking ads, but not it’s a primary use case.

When developers commit source code to a shared repository (for integration in software people like us use), they have the often-squandered opportunity to summarize the changes they are submitting. Linus (rightfully) thinks this opportunity should be leveraged more appr9opriately and more often, with more quality.

Unlikely all 4 though. Give people 1-2 they can map services two, instead of multiple wasted (branded) buttons.

I’m like 80% sure they were being sarcastic in that comment. I hope so anyways.

I guess that means the US will send another $10B “self defense” aid package, again. Sigh.

If you don’t pay for something, you are not a customer, you are the product. If you pay for Youtube, you don’t see the ads, but you are also still their product. Lose /Lose

Is there really anybody who thinks they would like that?

Auto companies don’t care what people like, only what level of BS people would put up with before going to a different brand.

This is straight up atrocious, but Russia has been using white phosphorus during this war. No side is pristine in this conflict. War is awful, period. One thing it has shown is that Ukraine has become expert in using commodity hardware to rain death on their enemy.

.1% gain is smashing records now?

I came in here to post Mallrats, so you’re not wrong on that either.

If your business can’t survive without theft, it isn’t a business, it’s a criminal organization.

That’s a really good point. Starlink can ignore this order, but the courts can order banks to stop processing payments to them. Pretty sure Starlink isn’t going to “protest” this at the cost of profits.

Of rourse Starlink could then go be further shady by taking payments in Bitcoin to get around it. It’s an interesting arms race to follow.