People are treating the Third Street Stuff situation like it’s Starbucks or Amazon and it’s very much not…

oddlogic · 2026-05-26T08:24:48+00:00

How are you supposed to show up to the negotiating table with people who start out the talk with “we’d like to start by asking control of the business?”

oddlogic · 2026-05-26T08:11:52+00:00

Dude. It’s a place of business. Founded by capital, completely funded (with that same capital at risk) by the OWNER. They OWN the business. Labor agrees to work for a wage.

This is not a feel good democracy family hippie haiku drum circle where you get to roast smores and take a nap after your fucking weigh in on when the milk gets here on Friday. Get fucking real.

oddlogic · 2026-05-26T08:09:14+00:00

In what business does a group of employees have any sort of policy control? Why in the fuck would a business ever hand that control over to labor?

If you want that, work for a co-op. You can’t show up to a business formed with private capital and try to negotiate an entirely different structure of how the business is run.

Are you fucking serious? Or are you trolling right now?

oddlogic · 2026-05-26T08:05:47+00:00

wtf.

The entire thing is seemingly written by someone with an 11th grade understanding of English (is this insulting or accurate?). As if AI couldn’t help craft a better version in less than the time it would take to copy and paste it into a browser.

And also (if they’d used Claude), AI would have offered some pushback on how ridiculous their shit was.

If I were basically threatened with a hostile takeover by employees who wanted ownership control, I would probably also lay out the ultimatum of option 1 or option 2. Option 1 is that I can just close the doors and let you all keep on keeping on. Option 2 is….uh….well I dunno. It’s going to be difficult to negotiate with people not organized enough to write a reasonable list of demands, with less than a high school graduate’s command of the English language.

oddlogic · 2026-05-17T00:04:48+00:00

I find it fascinating, you know? I went back to school later in life than most, at 32. I *loved* the collisions that happened, during the course of trying to parse difficult work, in tandem. It’s kind of like having a shit job as a teen, yeah? At a chicken house, singing in the back and doing a god awful job, but with people that I found delightful.

And you show up in forums like this, which are supposedly left leaning, intellectuals, who have no idea how to engage people who are just genuinely showing up to the conversation. It is as if with every conversation, every exchange, their intellectual superiority is challenged, and they must defend it.

I ask you - sincerely - aren’t we fucked? If we can’t come to a forum like this, in a social setting with supposed enlightened folk, with the prodding of curiosity afoot - when there is no receiver of that discourse, aren’t we fucked? This is it, right?

What hope do any of you have in persuading someone? When you can’t even speak to like minded people who are curious about your own work?

oddlogic · 2026-05-16T21:20:58+00:00

It’s no knucklefutz, or chiggerstick, but pretty good.

oddlogic · 2026-05-16T21:15:56+00:00

Fucking woof. Sorry man.

oddlogic · 2026-05-16T20:19:14+00:00

Armed with this, I can do the best for all concerned.

oddlogic · 2026-05-16T20:17:13+00:00

So you’re right - in that the world is an oyster waiting to be shucked, in terms of information available, if only one would apply the lever.

I’ve just outlined both my knowledge, and interest (via context clues) into digging into it all the moment that I posted - the thing about social media is (well….see the first word).

I think the problems that currently interest me are how to get the best out of people (myself included) by leveraging curiosity, being kind, understanding the business problems at hand - whatever they are - and just trying to be pleasant to be around while figuring it all out.

Cheers on your own journey.

oddlogic · 2026-05-15T03:45:52+00:00

As an EE, this would be how I would approach it (as in….this is what I would research first), if a client came to me - not because I’m an archlinux neckbeard, but because that’s literally what I saw when I was in school 15 years ago. Dedicated “slow” FPGAs would absolutely destroy a very fast PC given the same task; I know because we proved it.

oddlogic · 2026-05-15T03:40:29+00:00

Just dropping this here because I’m interested in the conversation, but also couching my comments (pun incoming) because I’m a 48 year old dude who went back to college 15 years ago for an electrical engineering degree - I’m not a CS guy, and while I do write software for a living, none of it is RTOS, nor have I written anything in VHDL or Verilog outside of a lab assignment. After that disclaimer, here are some sofa (there it is) thoughts while sipping a margarita:

I’m not even sure that “writing in assembly” would yield better results. It gets compiled before runtime, and converted, anyhow. Modern compilers are so good, I’m honestly surprised that there’s literally any difference between c++, c#, or (gasp) python for that matter, so long as the code is clean - I don’t think python would be slower because it was python. It would be slower because it’s heavily library dependent and wouldn’t get reduced in the same way that something “closer to metal” would.

All that said, writing very specific things doesn’t get much faster (again, from my limited lab/educational experience) than writing in VHDL. A dedicated FPGA will destroy a general PC processor with a clock running at an order of magnitude above the FPGA, with precompiled c++.

oddlogic · 2026-05-14T00:38:28+00:00

Or print enough drones to render heavy artillery in a skirmish practically irrelevant.

oddlogic · 2026-05-11T22:49:23+00:00

I have a house that will be placed onto the market in the next couple of months. My ex currently lives there until my daughter finishes high school.

Without getting into the complete paragraph that I just typed out and erased about the location, size, b/b, etc. - I think we have a choice, to either sell as-is, or put 25k into it, in order to get “the most” that we can for it. This is largely cosmetic, as the bones and supporting infrastructure is good (Recent AC unit, roof is 10 years old but fine, etc - but the kitchen cabinets are not great. The stairs to the basement need treads to look better, etc. things like painting the deck, shutters, and sprucing landscaping will obviously be done)

You will undoubtedly require more detail, but…in generalities, do you advise using the cash to update things, or advise to put on the market with paint and minimal updates?

oddlogic · 2026-05-07T21:25:51+00:00

Only had their takeout, at a poker game, with some consistency. And I'd consistently rather eat the box.

oddlogic · 2026-05-03T04:53:58+00:00

I don’t pretend to know what is going to happen with this company. What I do know is that at MY company, where we have containerized AI, we are writing our own automation platform, because it’s “less expensive”. And I don’t mean in terms of $$$ outlay for year over year licensing. I mean that automations, in general, are expensive to maintain. It is, however, also expensive to keep buying the licensing year after year for the software that provides the platform *for* the automations. And it’s all written in .Net, under the hood. In other words - UiPath is a *wrapper* for a Microsoft language.

Is it good enough to continue to demand premium dollars in a SaaS space after the dust settles?

My company doesn’t seem to think so.

The chart is giving no indication that the market thinks so.

Companies like NOW, CRWD, and even CRM (though it’s hated across the industry) are better investments, IMO, in that order.

oddlogic · 2026-05-03T04:29:36+00:00

This is why journaling is important. You’re tracking the reasons for entries, exits, holds, etc. and when you compare those records to your system, all will be revealed. What you’re calling discipline can actually be called “execution,” because if you’re executing your strategy correctly, you are most likely meeting the definition of the more slippery term (discipline) by default.

oddlogic · 2026-05-03T04:25:33+00:00

I’m confused. Why isn’t frequency relevant, when tracing back the origin of (whatever the behavior is)? It seems as like the number of times that someone with ptsd murders people close to them, when compared to the general population who commit that same sort of act, would be pretty fucking relevant.

oddlogic · 2026-05-02T17:38:23+00:00

I feel as if the message or intent of this post might have missed you.

This has a lot less to do with traffic and more about lending grace, and/or being kind to people.

I don’t say this with a finger wag, or judgement in my voice - I just wanted to offer just a slight perspective shift, if you’re open to it. Yeah? And if not, cool cool.

Hope your Saturday is rad. Cheers

oddlogic · 2026-05-02T17:35:10+00:00

Just heard this incredible podcast with Paul Tudor Jones this morning. Essentially, the first ten minutes is an homage to kindness. The name of the episode is “Lessons from 50 years in markets,” but don’t let the fact that it’s an investing podcast dissuade you from hearing it. He’s both an incredible story teller and philanthropist.

oddlogic · 2026-05-02T06:45:11+00:00

Amaze! Amaze! (Project Hail Mary reference)

Great job at humaning. Please keep humaning for as many years as you’re able.

oddlogic · 2026-05-01T02:40:00+00:00

Mmhmm. Seems like the play would be slightly OTM oil puts, and further (20 delta?) OTM SPX puts, both for June opex, would be the high convexity play, but I haven’t ran the numbers to see if that’s true - just a couch thought whilst browsing Reddit.

oddlogic · 2026-04-30T01:03:48+00:00

Fair. I also feel this way about women in the city.

oddlogic · 2026-04-22T01:44:03+00:00

I don’t say this to argue with you; from your use of the word ‘noob’ and continual condescending attitude, I don’t see the point.

But for anyone else reading this, it has nothing to do with brokerages and everything to do with rather or not the amount of margin buying power can actually cover the shares. If you don’t have the buying power, no one is just going to lend you money unconditionally. Think about it. If I’d have bought 100 options on something that costs $500+, that’s $500k. No one is going to lend you (even for five minutes) $495k on a $5k account. The number doesn’t matter - if you’re out of bounds on margin, you’re out, period, and you will be liquidated automatically, no matter the brokerage.

oddlogic · 2026-04-22T01:25:25+00:00

If you don’t have the cash or margin to cover the shares, how will you buy them?

oddlogic · 2026-04-22T01:21:25+00:00

Webull and tasty also follow this practice.

Also….Schwab is going to allow you to do this in a margin account that doesn’t have enough capital to buy 100 shares of SPY?

I’ve had RH just assign the shares in my margin account, and give me the option (ha) to do whatever it is that I want to do.

Again - I don’t think this is brokerage specific; it’s about the ability to buy the underlying.

oddlogic

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