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  • because tons and tons of potential solutions exist. At the core of this class of product is a very simple computer that costs next to nothing. FOSS software exists to accomplish the same goal and for minimal cost someone can compete with them.

    Synology doesn’t really control anything. In the enterprise segment they tend to be tiny little offerings that are on the small end of SMB. Their bigger bulkier enterprise stuff is easily overshadowed by any real enterprise offering from a larger hardware company, though i’ve seen some exist even in larger orgs but it’s not because something else couldn’t have done the job.

    Anyone starting fresh has to do some work to catch up but it really depends on the use case. Basic NAS/DAS functions are so trivial.


  • Because not all of us are sadists. The guy deserves what’s coming to him, but it’s more than just him.

    Aside from the nazi there are tons and tons and TONS of workers who are impacted by the nazi’s choices. They all stand to lose their jobs, bonuses etc out of all of this. If the nazi didn’t exist, there would be no negative connotation with the business. After all, they just make EVs and deal with power generation and storage for the most part, as a business.

    Then there’s all the people who have retirement funds which have invested in the business simply because it’s been growing traditionally. I have index funds, so I am personally affected by the valuation loss. I don’t think i’ll avoid buying more QQQM or VOO either, it’s just traditionally beating most fund managers by a large margin with minimal expense.

    I’d love to see the guy lose his compensation package and lose his CEO status and board rights, but I doubt any of that will happen. I’d love for him to be prosecuted by all the illegal shit he’s personally directed in these past months, but I doubt it will happen.

    Ultimately thinking of all this shit is still net negative and not uplifting for me. Give me some news about how the guy is being forced out and that the workers are being taken care of or something and i’ll be all for it.










  • Sure and Santiago is a horrible example. I was just there a few months ago. It feels the most like boston of anywhere else in latin america. When I was in el salvador I thought I was gonna get robbed at the airport, where they pat you down at each departure gate.

    The wages are livable, the neighborhoods are safe(mostly), the housing is affordable, the food is terrible (compared to lima anyway.) I couldn’t get enough of the mountains.

    In lima I was getting cased by pickpockets, in santiago I didn’t ever feel that way. Lima’s traffic is on another level. Santiago’s rush hour is much more organized and you have way more street lights and better drivers. In lima as a pedestrian you have to RUN so they don’t hit you. In santiago they stop and let you cross - something nearly unheard of in a lot of other latin american nations.


  • Education quality is a tip of the iceberg.

    Talk to someone who went to a public school in say the dominican republic. I’ve heard stories of years of kids just waiting around with next to no actual teaching involved from someone who was physically there in their childhood. If you don’t go to a private school odds are you aren’t going to get any real education or structure beyond what you pick up at home… and odds are your parents were in the same boat.

    The US education system has been nothing like that, it is going to get like that in the south though. In remote low population areas it’s very possible to get bad - and clearly some teenage pregnancies disrupt things in the US, but in the DR it’s a lot worse.




  • 3300/6600 here. 6000/12000 out of pocket maximum though.

    I’m basically dinged for 3300 whenever I need health services other than a yearly physical or an eye exam.

    Every january we drop 3300 on meds for my wife and she gets eaten alive with copays for all her specialist visits.

    The $1000 deductible plan my employer offers costs $1062/month for family and you still pay $40 per visit as a copay, and the employer is still dropping that $1500/month - so you’re effectively paying $30,744 to insure a family of 3 and that’s not all-in on expenses. Plus since $1000 is a “low” deductible you don’t get to keep basically anything you put into your FSA, unless you know you’re gonna use it all. Why medical expenses are ever subject to taxes is beyond me. The whole thing should be single payer… we could probably operate on a third of the budget we have today without giving any worker providing care to patients any kind of pay cut. The middle men (insurance) do very well.

    They can only make profits off of something like 20-25% of overall revenue, the rest must be spent on “providing and improving” patient care. Hiring bean counters to make sure you maximize your revenue and reject as many costly applicants as possible is part of the “providing and improving” part, so they spend substantially less than 75% of their revenue on actual treatment.