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  1. Haus

    Investing General Discussion

    This is something I wonder about. Sure, it would feel janky and like "cheating", but what is there to stop the fed from doing a big rate drop for 1 quarter to allow the government to refinance debt on the cheap, then putting it back to wherever they wanted it?
  2. Haus

    Job Hunting

    I already see with what I do, for me to find a good fit I'm going to need to find some up and coming company where they need a "Master Shifu" Cyber guy to teach younger SEs, or a "We need someone who looks like a damn professor making our talks at trade shows" person.... Or call in favors with...
  3. Haus

    Job Hunting

    My invasive thoughts this weekend, in a nutshell...
  4. Haus

    Health Problems

    So I had a moderately calm week getting over having that mass cryo ablated in my kidney. Except that I've been running a low grade fever for the last 4 days (which they say isn't abnormal), and I didn't have a bowel movement for 3 days after the procedure. But then I call this Friday since at...
  5. Haus

    Household Major Appliances

    My grandmother had one at her house and this was the way.... Opening it was always a reflex test to catch/push whatever starts falling forward first.
  6. Haus

    Household Major Appliances

    Get shit on sale chief, stock up and freeze. Not to mention one of my comfort foods from my youth is the occasional fried bologna sammich.
  7. Haus

    Smartwatches / Fitness Trackers

    So I still have my 3, but it's hitting the point where each afternoon just before dinner time it's tapping into "Excuse me, I have to go into power saving mode because I'm dying now" mode. And since my work has a thing that gives us a stipend every year to spend on various "personal health...
  8. Haus

    Household Major Appliances

    For those wondering what 20 glorious cubic feet of newly acquired freezer space looks like........ This is it next to the over quarter century old Kenmore which I believe I have referenced elsewhere in this thread as the "Obelisk which laughs at time" We also have a smaller 7cf chest freezer...
  9. Haus

    The Hulkster passes

    Yep, Cardiac arrest. With the amount of roids he has pretty obviously done over time to keep that kind of mass into his 70's I don't think this should be a shock to anybody.
  10. Haus

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    There was a whole thing about this in S. America I believe. An area where miners set up shop essentially adjacent to a new hydroelectric facility (dam). And they had a deal with pay really low rates for excess generated power, and then curtail when power demand spiked. In my head I'm even...
  11. Haus

    Job Hunting

    Well I remember discussing this with some people I know in APAC a decade ago. They were already seeing price pressures on their labor costs because those Indians coming into the call centers were making money which was really good compared to other Indians, but then they were getting exposed to...
  12. Haus

    Job Hunting

    Well, I was kinda wondering when this would pop on my bingo card.... I know folks at a BPO (Business Process Outsourcer) who operate low cost call centers across the globe where they can hire folks for a pittance, and they're now starting to openly panic at how randos with cloud workspaces...
  13. Haus

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Can't imagine with the current complexity (i.e. hash requirements) that doing it in any large city with a city power grid electrical cost would come in a profitable. Maybe I'm wrong. I do wonder how much you need in solar to run a mining rig. Let's see what Grok says...
  14. Haus

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

  15. Haus

    Superman: Legacy (2025)

    I have it on good authority that to do this requires a supercollider to create a pocket universe, and then an army of hardwired monkeys.....
  16. Haus

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

  17. Haus

    Superman: Legacy (2025)

    I thought that was what they used to explain Superboy/Connor Kent's super strength, was that it was actual tactile telekinesis as I remember it.... Then again, I remember 1970's superman who was strong enough to just push planets out of the way or meteors..... then push them back... and not...
  18. Haus

    The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)

    When hearing people complain about female silver surfer I always ask... "And if they had cast Sydney Sweeney in skin painted CGI (and maybe thrown in some power cosmic nipples)" would you be complaining? Going to see this tomorrow afternoon with the wife. Really going in with no preconceptions...
  19. Haus

    South Park

    Honestly.... I don't think the $16m settlement was a "bribe" to Trump. They could have gotten the merger done one way or another. It was CBS realizing that either they settle, or in the trial a lot of how they did what they did with Democrats and the media would have been outted very...
  20. Haus

    South Park

  21. Haus

    The Fast Food Thread

    This kid is ahead of the game..... Or the parents might be complete failures. Jury is out.
  22. Haus

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

  23. Haus

    The Prince of Darkness Has Transcended

    Yes, the dark lord of music has indeed passed...
  24. Haus

    The Video Thread

    In my never ending quest to provide high quality potato based content... From a nonsensical twitch/youtube/twitter channel I follow e
  25. Haus

    Dresden Files

    NGL, This is a series my wife got me into early on in our marriage. (We met around the time Death Masks came out). I read through Ghost Story, then just unexplicably stopped. I believe now I am on the "wait until he finishes and read it all" train now as well.
  26. Haus

    The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

    I theory that could also be Gutfeld over on Fox. Who has been gaining viewership. But I agree with the consensus. Carson was the grand silver age, Conan/Letterman/Ferguson represented the golden age. But then again Colbert was, if you are to believe the press, running a show that was losing...
  27. Haus

    Avengers: Doomsday (2025)

    Teach em for getting rid of the two smart guys.... (among other characteristics)
  28. Haus

    Avengers: Doomsday (2025)

    This is pretty much where I'm at. I'm at the point that I believe they need to accept that the MCU through Endgame was a unique butterfly and stop thinking they can recreate it. Just go to only putting out a roadmap for one movie at a time, and work on making that one movie as good as...
  29. Haus

    Superman: Legacy (2025)

    OK. @Mrs. Haus and I went and caught this today. I'd say they did write him with flaws, but they're personality flaws. Overall, I think the first third of the movie was a shade disjointed, then is gets into it's groove later and lands the ending pretty well. I did feel like Superman was...
  30. Haus

    3d Printing and the Future of Piracy

    The AI knows Spaghetti isn't colored teal obviously, also a distinct lack of sauce....
  31. Haus

    Job Hunting

    This is who I've been seeing a lot of on Twitter lately... She's the black doom queen of layoffs... But she also backs up what she says with data, so there's that. I'm at a point in my career where I'm probably at the "start the last act of the play" phase. (just turned 56). And I'm...
  32. Haus

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

  33. Haus

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    You simply have to accept that New Age Reformist FSR is a valid religion, while we let you continue to practice your Orthodox FSR.
  34. Haus

    Health Problems

  35. Haus

    Health Problems

    So the first of the two enemies has been vanquished, frozen to death in the wastelands. Left in a fleshy tomb to be subsumed over time by my body at it's leisure.... Translation : Cryoblasion of the mass on inside my right kidney today, went swimmingly, got a biopsy so we can get a better...
  36. Haus

    You know you're getting old when.....

    Which I assume one would swap out for multiples of....
  37. Haus

    Health Problems

    I can't imagine any dentist leaving you with a tooth fractured into two and a crown to "hold it together". If they don't root canal , then yes the teeth can be sensitive as nerves adjust. But that "cracked in half" part... wth?!?!
  38. Haus

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

  39. Haus

    Mortal Kombat II (2025)

    I had a buddy who was the first person I knew with a CD changer in his car in the 90's, the literal peak of car audio. And this soundtrack I swear was 2 or 3 of the 10 discs in it listening to how frequently I heard it. It was, as I believe the kids these days would say, a wall to wall banger.
  40. Haus

    The Video Thread