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  • Tell me you have never worked in IT security without telling me you never worked in IT security.

    To give you an actual answer, instead of pure Internet snark, the concept you're proposing is called "security through obscurity" if you want to research it.

    The TL:DR of it is it doesn't work. If it did, all software would be proprietary and things like viruses wouldn't exist. The source code for Windows isn't available, but Windows gets exploited constantly.

  • If it helps, those guys treat other guys the same way.

    Also if it helps there are women who treat other people this way too.

    This seems akin to racism to me. My favorite quote about this is from President Lyndon B. Johnson. "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

    My dad isn't this kind of guy, but he is an old white guy that watches Fox News. And it's the same thing with them. He has bought any number of supplements advertised on Fox News, and believes wholeheartedly that one day the world will finally understand the deep wisdom he believes in.

    I don't believe you can categorize people as a simple either or. "You're a red piller or not." "You're a conservative or a liberal." But I do think you can apply a personality type to people. And it sounds like you sussed out a guy who really needs to feel superior to other people. I fucking hate those kind of people. So good for you, there are a lot of people who may have never figured it out, or weren't socially aware enough to see it. It sucks this turned out to be what it was, but celebrate the fact you're a strong enough person not to put up with it

  • OP was spouting a bunch of nonsense implying that Elon tanking Twitter's value somehow was going to end up with him profiting.

    In the United States, publicly traded companies have responsibilities to timely and accurately report their financials. By Elon taking the company private, Twitter no longer has those fiduciary requirements.

    That's why I was pointing out how stupid OP was being, and banging on so hard on the public vs private company thing. Elon has, by all accounts, lost tens of billions of dollars in this whole ordeal.

    Because he's lost so much money I find it incredibly ridiculous people think this is some kind of conspiracy. Less people use it, the company is looked upon less and less favorably, and it's reputation is in tatters. If you're trying to make a platform to brainwash people into being racist the last thing you'd want is LESS people using it

  • The fiduciary and reporting responsibilities of public companies are drastically different than private.

    Musk bought all of the shares, then took the company private, meaning all of those fiduciary and reporting responsibilities are no longer required.

    Your understanding how public and private companies in the United States work is lacking.

    What is public? A 501c3? c6? A government run organization like the post office? What legal and compliance frameworks did Twitter have to follow when it was publicly traded vs now when it's not publicly traded. In your terms it was "private" in both instances. So please, educate me. How is Twitter different now

  • The fact you admit you're using your own definition of publicly owned, instead of the legal definition of that word in the country in which it applies, and then double down with a bunch of "facts" you don't understand, while really pouring on the condescension, is simply an amazing execution of trolling.

    The sad thing, though, is I don't think you're trolling. I think you believe what you just said is true.

  • I'll agree with the other commenter here.

    Also there may not be any difference between the consumer and enterprise drives. The reason the enterprise cost more is the better warranty. But because they have different components.

    Monitor the drives, modern drives are pretty good at predicting when they are dying, and replace it necessary.

  • The methodology here is suspect at best.

    Simply dividing the amount of debt by the number of people does things like decrease the debt per person if there are children in the house.

    There are other weird scenarios like non married people who own a house together. When you purchase a house with someone both parties are responsible for the debt, so 100% of the balance shows up on both their credit reports.

    There may be some broad trends that can be gathered from this? If anybody has any idea what they are I'd be interested in hearing. Right now I can't think of any

  • This is, quite easily, one of the dumbest comments of all time.

    You are free to setup and run a server, and create whatever experience you'd like. With how cheap hosting is it would probably be free for you to do for quite a long time too.

    But you won't, because you're a consumer

  • Exactly. Amazon is essentially running a huge chunk of a retail business for their customers, the people buying and selling products. The reason you pay these fees is so you don't need to run a website, build and maintain warehouses, pay staff like HR, etc etc

  • Yeah. And that's fine.

    Cost is a concept in retail that gets manipulated a lot. In my previous example there is no way the actual "cost" of the USB cable was $2. When you factor in employees, rent, bills, logistics, customer service, etc etc the cable was likely more like $5. Best Buy made have paid $2 for that cable, but the actual cost to sell it, taken as a whole, was more like $5.

    That other $3 is essentially what Amazon is making. If you sell on Amazon they build and maintain the website, logistics, warehousing, etc etc. You can create an online store and have exactly 0 employees or logistical infrastructure. Amazon has spent literally billions and billions of dollars building all of that.

  • I don't get it

    I worked in retail on and off for 7 years and every store charged markup. Some products were marked up 70-80%. One place I worked was Best Buy. I regularly sold USB cables where the store cost was $2 for $32.

    Amazon fees are essentially their markup. It's impossible to run a store without it