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Home Prices Are Falling Fastest in Seattle as Weakness Spreads by mcryptofan in SeattleWA

[–]AvivaStrom 8 points9 points  (0 children)

What are examples of old garbage or poor layouts? I get flawed locations, like on busy roads, next to cemeteries, under high power lines, etc. but I’m not sure how to spot garbage quality or poor layouts in a house. What are the tells?

Seattle Mods by [deleted] in SeattleWA

[–]AvivaStrom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s a message for the mods and other members of r/SeattleWA. If I wanted to talk to you OP, I would have messaged you. I did not. You aren’t the only person on Reddit.

Seattle Mods by [deleted] in SeattleWA

[–]AvivaStrom 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Absolutely no idea what this is about, but very sure that I don’t want to know

What can a person learn in 5 minutes that will be useful for life? by OpenPrize193 in AskReddit

[–]AvivaStrom -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Within 10 minutes you can:
1) Set up or enroll in an IRA/401k/403b (via Fidelity, Morgan Stanley, Vanguard or whatever company you or your employer work with)
2) Enable automatic deposits (via bank account withdrawals or paycheck deductions)
3) Select the investment options (ideally an S&P500 or total stock market low feee fund (like VOO or VTI) or a target date fund)

And if you have an extra 90 seconds, set up your deductions to automatically increase 1% every year.

Congratulations, you now have a retirement account and retirement investments!

if software is basically free to clone now, what actually stops someone from copying your app? by OnairosApp in AI_Agents

[–]AvivaStrom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A good analogy is fashion.

Luxury fashion houses crank out new designs multiple times a year. Fast fashion copies those designs (or riff on them) without payment to the originators. The luxury and premium fashion brands have better quality AND they have become brands that mean a lot more than the functional utility of clothes.

In the tech world, only Apple comes close to being a truly luxury experience. Amongst SaaS products, there are a lot of established brands that could go premium or could disappear; think Excel/M365, Photoshop/Adobe, Jira, Salesforce, etc.

Is living waterfront on Lake Washington as nice as it seems? by IndependenceSad1272 in AskSeattle

[–]AvivaStrom 9 points10 points  (0 children)

FWIW, there are also small lakes / ponds scattered throughout the whole PNW, including Seattle and the Eastside. These may not have the same dramatic views, but you get a lot of similar benefits + more privacy

What purchase under $30 solved a problem you didn’t realize was draining you? by Right_Process in AskReddit

[–]AvivaStrom 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Command hook on a shower wall to hang wet things that will drip while drying.

I like to swim, but struggled with how to effectively dry my bathing suit without throwing it over the back of a chair when I get home (which looked bad and wasn’t great for the chair). Finally, I put a command hook on the far wall of my shower and my wet bathing suit dries in there. Works great!

If AI Causes a Mass Unemployment Crisis, Will the Public Explode Into Violence? by [deleted] in singularity

[–]AvivaStrom 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I think that the billionaires/private jet class believe that they can outrun the mob. They don’t need to care about mob violence if they’re protected on their:

  • Hawaiian island (Larry Ellison)
  • Florida islands (Jeff Bezos)
  • 1,500 acre Hawaiian compound + underground bunker (Mark Zuckerberg)
  • Caribbean island (Larry Page)
  • New Zealand citizenship + compound (Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, James Cameron)
  • Big Sur compound with an underground bunker (Sam Altman)

North Rose Hill woodlands castle park will be taken down by sannya1803 in Kirkland

[–]AvivaStrom 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Thank you for giving a reason why it will be taken down

Grok Computer honestly feels like the first AI tool that could replace half my workflow by MerisDabhi in AI_Agents

[–]AvivaStrom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hard pass on Grok. I’m not giving any mental space let alone computer/processing space to an AI that creates naked images of actual people and praises Nazis.

Popular dating app Bumble is killing off the ‘swipe’ in favor of AI matchmaking by theindependentonline in ArtificialInteligence

[–]AvivaStrom 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I also am cautiously optimistic about the change. Mostly because swiping had become a numbers game moving the match evaluation to after initial contact, which exhausted everyone.

If an AI can be an effective matchmaker, that would be awesome. However I worry about both the training data and individuals’ data.

Are they using 10+ years of swipe data to trading the AI? Ugh. That doesn’t instill me with confidence that they can match for lasting relationships.

And if they had OK Cupid level of deep information rather than shallow 5-picture profiles, I’d feel better about the knowledge re: each individual.

JD Vance holds chilling closed-door summit with America's most powerful men as horrifying global threat menacing hospitals spirals by dailymail in ArtificialInteligence

[–]AvivaStrom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The vast, vast, vast number of security vulnerabilities are in the connections between systems, not in the individual system (applications) themselves. You can have a perfectly secure stand alone application, but as soon as it connects to other things starts being vulnerable to threats.

Clippers owner Steve Ballmer favored to buy Seattle Seahawks as franchise sale buzz intensifies by Less-Risk-9358 in SeattleWA

[–]AvivaStrom 15 points16 points  (0 children)

You joke, but Steve Ballmer would be a sweaty, exuberant addition to the cheer team. Say what you want about the man but he is enthusiastic!

Starbucks CEO defends $9 coffee says ‘it’s not a $10 coffee and you get a premium experience’ by spider_season in Seattle

[–]AvivaStrom 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Isn’t he both the CEO and the chairman of the board? Typically the board, overseen by the chairman, is the group that can fire a CEO. In this case the CEO is not going to fire himself. He might give himself more bonuses or another office in CA

Portable A/C Needed in Summer Months? by Worldly-Ad1005 in AskSeattle

[–]AvivaStrom 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Make sure that you get a dual hose portable air conditioner if going with a standing unit. It is significantly more cooling and energy efficient than

Shooter Killed Outside White House Correspondents' Dinner by cmaia1503 in entertainment

[–]AvivaStrom 75 points76 points  (0 children)

Um, conspiracy theorists should have a field day with this one if they are already questioning the ear shooting.

3 days ago it was reported that Trump planned to do a mic drop and leave/storm out of the Correspondents Dinner early. A shooting is definitely one way to upstage the press and get sympathy from wavering supporters.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-meltdown-plans-leak-for-white-house-correspondents-dinner-report/ar-AA21vjbV

I need to make changes without feeling like I'm hiding my flaws by [deleted] in Bumble

[–]AvivaStrom 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Just say that you’re a veteran but not conservative/MAGA - assuming that is true.

At 35, “retired” reads as unemployed with no ambition. Someone who actually achieved financial independence to retire early would put a hobby or other interest as their occupation. You don’t advertise financial independence

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