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Its important to note for the sake of comparison, that average borrowing costs in a stock , to understand how out of whack 80% really is.

I believe in normal circunstances it tends to be less than 1%
How do these other economic systems you speak of ensure that reproduction remains below replacement levels?
This is true of “credit unions” in the US which are (probably?) similar as a legal structure. They exist as a service for a group or community - e.g. a union of policemen for example, or any citizen of a city.

Often their loan rates are generous, their fees low, and perhaps most importantly, they do not join into the blacklists that commercial banks use which prevent people from ever using a bank at all.

If you can qualify for a credit union I would definitely recommend that you try them.
As an aside, it's really cool to see that Naver is not only open sourcing a lot of their technologies, but doing it a lot of it in lisp too.

For those who aren't aware, Naver is the Google/Yahoo equivalent in South Korea. Their main product is a search engine and web portal, but they also have community pages (Naver Cafe), Music, Translation, Webtoons (webcomics) and so on. They have a subsidiary company that's created the LINE messenger app.
The original parent is 'This is worrying indeed because the negative reviews are clearly justified.'. I don't agree with this and the thread explains why.

There are two issues to your comment:

1. Trading (including risk management) is really complicated. It isn't something that you can pick up in 30 seconds after downloading an app. This exact scenario (where broker stops taking orders on a stock likely due to internal risk limits) is a great example of an unusual scenario that has to be risk managed. This isn't some nose-upturned view but a fact.

2. Many of the comments here are made in good faith but it is pure speculation. 500K reviews were apparently posted and automatically removed. In any usual day we'd assume this was the usual spam. Again there's speculation about why there were removed. My point here is that there needs to be time to actually find out what happened.
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Sure, but when you short, you owe a share. If more people owe shares than there are shares for sale, you have a serious supply and demand problem depending on when those debts come due. If shorts are significantly over 100% of float, then it would seem that they are still vulnerable to further squeezing.

Further shorting is completely possible - nothing stops shares continuing to be lent, but doing so just makes the likely supply shortfall worse.
>>"and the Turks refuse to remove any more soil?"

I have no connection to this, but if I was in charge of a site like Gobekli Tepe I would absolutely shut down all work until I was absolutely sure that the people who were going to work on it were a) funded out of the kazzzoo, b) the best people in the world to do it, c) using methods that would not do damage and stop subsequent generations from squeezing more knoweldge than I could imagine from the site. I would want to know exactly what was being looked for and why before I allowed the smallest trowel to scoop the smallest bit of earth off it.

Why? Because if in three years someone popped up and told me that there were a slew of important questions that were now off the agenda because I permitted a world heritage site to be trashed I'd be quite upset frankly.
Please look at this list of the oldest companies in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies

They are still operating, but they didn't grow. Even trees in the forest don't grow indefinitely...
> I've read that they and other brokers did not halt trade, they stopped or limited purchasing but not selling.

you are correct, I used the term "trade halt" incorrectly. i clumsily meant the portion of trading that was has halted, which is neither clear nor an appropriate usage of the term.

> People argue that this is criminal market manipulation.

shrug. some people wouldve said that if it WAS a full trade halt - if people can't sell to get their gains before a crash, thats illegal market manipulation right?

regardless, it seems clear that RH couldnt cover more volatile stock buys so they halted volatile stock buying. maybe they shouldve taken different actions, but they have well-known legal and contractual requirements about liquidity and cash-holdings for the volatile stock trades they broker.
I think the point is there'd be places like this in more affordable non-sought-after locations, had the vision been a success.
From what I understand, it is a slightly special number. Each one of those shorts is supposed to have some kind of contract in place that can be used to cover the position (e.g. a call option that would ensure that the stock could be purchased, even if the options contract isn't ITM). If there's over 100% short interest, then it's impossible for all of the outstanding shorts to be covered in that way (or, alternatively, the contracts to cover the short positions are naked, not the shorts themselves).

I'm by no means a finance guy and if I've misunderstood this, I'm happy to be corrected.
Another small example. Robinhood gave me one share of GE when I joined. I didn’t want it, so I sold it and withdrew the money. I initiated the withdrawal request yesterday for $10.69. It’d be amusing to me to find they would have been fine if I only withdrew $10.68.
Sure. Other people will have shorted at artificially high prices they don't need to worry about margin calls on, and will be quite happy to wait for the price to drop.
Love Letter and its variants (I like the Batman one myself).

You can explain it to a person who's two-three beers in and they'll get the rules well enough to start playing. Rounds last 5-10 minutes depending on how much people start analyzing the cards on the board. You can play as many rounds as you want.
Why kill your job opportunity by doing that? Might as well stay home.
That makes no sense, the analogy is wrong on all counts.

An open source project I initiate is not a "public good". I'm sharing it; I still own the copyright.

The monk handing over the book in the park has done no work on the park, they are a user NOT a contributor. In fact, probably a bunch of the trash I'm picking up are those pamphlets. I'm an atheist so the pamphlet is equivalent, at best, to a spam pull request.

> The request for a donation is the cultural expectation of reciprocity.

This is a completely different expectation that the open source expectation. I, personally, feel no guilt at all for telling people proselytizing to go away as I've done nothing to give them the expectation that their proselytizing would be welcome and most people proselytizing expect to be rejected constantly. Contributing back to open source is expected and usually desirable so the expectation that the contribution will be accepted.

Also, the monk is ASKING FOR A CONTRIBUTION not giving one.
Ever since I got a new microphone I've been having issues with large quantities of background noise, primarily typing sounds, leaking in through my microphone.
A friend of mine had told me about rnnoise, describing it as "very good" at removing noise, so I decided to test it.
My initial testing started by me piping raw PCM from arecord through rnnoises denoiser demo into aplay. The results frankly shocked me. When not speaking, there was no noise (or sound) at all (this is due to rnnoises voice detection system, which essentially mutes the microphone when there's no voice), and when I was talking, the sound of my keyboard was a lot quieter without it affecting my voice, this lead me to decide to develop alsa_rnnoise to have good real time noise cancellation.

alsa_rnnoise is a very simple ALSA filter plugin that runs its input through rnnoise before outputting it back to ALSA. It operates in real time, adds very little latency (the amount depends on what size frames ALSA delivers, but is nominally less than 10ms). After enabling it, any annoying background sounds were gone. My intended use cases for this were VoIP, screencasting and streaming, and, as far as I can tell, it works great for all three.
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How about "manipulation via bad UI?" Because that's what it is: manipulation.
I like it. Do you support WebSQL?

One category of apps I think would be interesting is caching SaaS data locally to make for fast search. e.g. Intercom is painfully slow, I want an extension that caches recent Intercom data for fast search and messaging.
I work on a desktop application. Developing on a laptop is often a requirement especially when dealing with touchpad/touchscreen input and animations. Realistically one cannot do that over a remote desktop. It just adds too much latency. Plus most remote display clients suck at forwarding complex touch gestures. And when the sources include a copy of Chromium, one better get 32GB. For example memory usage during linking may hit at least 12GB.

Similarly developing mobile apps is more convenient on a laptop as one can interact with an emulator with proper touch input. But then ide and emulators take memory.

On the other hand developing a web-related code on a laptop locally can be even harmful, as opposite to using ssh or remote extension in vscode. Things are too fast locally and one may become aware of performance problems only after fixing those requires a big refactoring.
From what I can tell MMT is about carefully choosing the right place and strategy to print money.

By recognizing what the real limits to borrowing are you also gain an understanding of what to spend the borrowed money on.
> The same with business: business is growing or dying

I know plenty of people with small businesses that are neither growing nor dying, just paying the bills and making enough money to live happily. I'm kind of scared that people can't even imagine this is a possibility to be honest...

Not everything has to be the next facebook and have 100% yoy growth
The whole Lisp family is already associated with a speech impairment, so that PR ship has already sailed...

(Not to mention, the name "Racket" is already self-associating.)
Bethesda is a great example of this. Up until Fallout 4 or so, the company kept producing games with similar versions of Creation Engine.

Despite many fans hating the buggy engine Bethesda was using, and the fact their new games were basically spinoffs of their previous work, some of them are among the best-selling games of all time.
I (US citizen, freshman at a UK university) tried to set up a Monzo account a few months ago. They refused to give me an account, and refused (both in their app and over email) to tell me why. Left a bad taste in my mouth.

Ended up going with Nationwide, who are a bit behind tech-wise (they do this weird thing where they ask for 3 digits of a 6-digit PIN I'm supposed to memorize, which seems far less secure than a long random password in my password manager), but generally have been great. I tried to sign up for their student account, got told no and redirected to their no-credit-check account with no issues. (That's probably also an indication of what went wrong with Monzo.)
I've always enjoyed the sensation of being pressed that the traditional machine generates. A cuffless blood pressure device sounds like it's taking away the best thing the old device had going for it.
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One thing some people don't know is there is a ton of really cool mods - https://mods.factorio.com/

You can see some of the most popular at - https://mods.factorio.com/downloaded and https://mods.factorio.com/trending
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I have tried using fakes over mocks, but it becomes cumbersome if it is a large-ish code base with handful of developers contributing to it. Keeping expectations on what a particular Fake does gets contentious. Mocks however usually allow a developer to encapsulate entire mock behavior within the boundaries of a unit test.

I am curious to know if you ran into similar problem, if you did how you managed to overcome it?
> It was actually a bit depressing to see how much stuff is available, just not available in the US

One reason for this is strict regulations. U.S. FDA Title 21 CFR Part 11 is very strict as to what a medical device company needs to do, and it's not easy to meet those requirements. Most people do not realize that even in the early startup stage, if you build something that is a medical device, there are rules to follow (mostly about traceability: you have to know what you've built, using what parts, and where those came from).

Shameless plug: I am the solo founder of PartsBox (https://partsbox.com/), which helps a lot with managing traceability when building electronics.
Recently discovered a less complex, open source alternative called Mindustry. Highly recommend it.
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It's a tough decision to make, police getting involved to break up crowds often escalates the violence from that crowd, look at all the protests here in the US that were mostly peaceful and get escalated by police response. Now there's a new thing to be mad about and it's unlikely to go away because the police are hard to disengage once they decide they should.
The human body is regrowing, to repair and replace the dying parts. But after reaching it's endgame (around mid-tweenties) it's not growing in size or complexity. Companies and cancer are different in that regard. Cancer is growing without aim and purpose for the host. Companies are similar, though not in all cases. Small companies need to grow to a point were they are safe to survive any little problem. Big companies sometimes reach a point of stability, and maintain their size for a long time. But in other times they grow and grow and grow without any real aim, just for the aim of growing and doing something.

The result is that you have companies playing on many fields, delivering low quality for the customer, but often still impacting the market because of their sheer size and market-power on other fields. It is indeed disputable whether this behaviour is really justified and good on for the customer, or more harmful.
it keeps going down with these new vaccines. either the first ones were over inflated or we're getting lazier.
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Actually your skin cell analogy is a good one, in that companies should also be constantly recycled by the market.

One of the major problems in the modern west, especially the US, is that when crises have hit we’ve conflated helping “the people” with saving their employer. Imagine how differently things would look today if in 2008 there has been no bailouts for corporations, only direct aid to affected individuals.

To me, “too big to fail” is when we’ve turned companies cancerous.
I still get random crashes (1 out of 10 times, not rare) when I connect or disconnect my external display, including on suspend & resume. Since I'm used to a very long-running login session, that makes it unusable for me personally. (This is on GNOME, in case it matters.)
And the legal environment is carcinogenic, too.
IIRC TransferWise holds all your money in escrow (as opposed to investing it or w/e), so they don't need to guarantee it. I'm not sure off hand if that's just what they claim, or if they actually make a legal promise to that effect.
Leading up to this the developers were pushing out twice-daily updates to the game. These guys give unheard-of levels of support to their base. They should be the object of study in academic courses.
I often question the motives of my company. It has only 100 or so employees. Has been in business for 25+ years. But we are on a continual drive to increase sales, hire new people, add size to the facilities. But it wasn't always this way. It only happened once it went public. Now we are working for the investors. They need to see an increasing return on their investment. Management choices are no longer about the customer or providing a great product/service. It's about squeezing margins and duping the customer to join our mailing list or accept cookies. Otherwise "the list won't grow". And how can we market to more and more people if we can't track how many pages they've viewed?

I've gone a bit off track there, but the point being, there IS no answer when I've explicitly asked "why" with regards to these things. Nobody knows. They just know they have "targets" and the targets are constantly moving.

/rant over
At the very least the price wouldn’t’ve have dropped 70%. That was an attack by institutional investors who sold relatively small amounts of stock at very low values. Normally retail users would’ve snapped it up cheap, but they can’t do that when their trading platform makes it impossible to buy.
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It's expected that the population will stabilize around 10-15 billions.
Maybe something in the EPICS ecosystem? https://epics-controls.org/
In many cases, growth is evidence that you've solved a problem in a way people find compelling. Look at Signal. I think its growth is a really positive development.
No, see, what you don't get is that they're a big company and people really want to use their product, so the rules are different... for some reason, I guess?
I've been playing with PyO3 for prototyping, and wrapped some Rust code to see if it's faster than Python. The experience was very much like using Boost Python (whcih these days has alternative with https://github.com/pybind/pybind11). It's _really_ easy to wrap code for Python, and it has nice APIs to ensure GIL is held. Being Rust, I'm much more confident I won't suffer from memory unsafety issues which my C++ at the time did.

Now I'm starting to use it as part of the Python memory profiler I'm working on (https://pythonspeed.com/fil), in this case to call in to the low-level Python C API which PyO3 includes bindings for in addition to its high-level API. This kind of usage is more like writing C, except with the benefit of having high-level APIs (for GIL holding, but also object conversion) available when I need it.

So basically you get safe, high-level, easy-to-use APIs, with fallback to low-level unsafe APIs if you need them.

Highly recommend trying it out.
In the same way explosion is a good thing, if confined within and channeled by an internal combustion engine. Outside, usually not so much.
This thread is likely a good place to ask:

What modern alternatives to `.sh` scripting exist? Tcl? Is Fish objectively better than Bash and ZSH? Are there any thin wrappers and transpilers on top of sh? Or maybe just good old Perl?

And how does this project address normal pain points of shell scripting, like using arrays and iterating on them for example?

I was thinking a lot on the topic lately and currently have no good answers (never studied the topic in detail). I suppose just replacing `sh` scripting with Golang is also an option. Not the strongest typed or least verbosive language out there but it has a very good cross-compilation story, compiles really fast and produces single binaries that are easy to distribute. So might go with that.

Python is out because startup time wasn't great last I used it for CLI tools (might be an outdated info however, any metrics)? Ruby is also a pretty solid candidate; the lack of static typing is, eh, 50/50 -- might not be important after all.

I also know a guy who replaced Python with OCaml for quick scripting which is rather bizarre to me but knowing a bit more about OCaml nowadays, that actually can work just fine -- and OCaml is very terse.

I would prioritize speed of startup and terse code over everything else. Static typing I want but can very likely do without. I don't care much how portable the program/runtime is; I can distribute it to my machines and I have some influence in my work about what tooling to use.

Any practical recommendations?
Amongst the total conversions, I've quite enjoyed Krastorio 2.

If you're into really detailed and complex factories, Industrial Revolution might be for you.
> The other big issue is you tend to look at whatever patterns you find that are repeated, but you don't know why.

To what extent?

In my limited experience of quantery, you want to have some idea of the mechanism behind an effect before you start trading on it. How much of the industry is building hypothesis-free models and trading on them?
Does anyone have experience updating servers to 1.1?

Is it as simple as loading into 1.1 loading the old 1.0 map in single player, saving it as 1.1 then uploading to the server?
Businesses cannot and need not grow forever. I don’t buy your argument. Stable businesses can and do exist.
Funny. But seriously, the way you manage this is to build marketing and sales into your rates. Your rate should built bottom-up: direct cost + indirect cost. The indirect costs include time off, marketing/sales, benefits, admin, a little profit, etc. Grab a book on consulting for an explanation of how to do this. Good luck.
Well, I opened up Reddit an hour ago. It's not just WSB, there's posts all over the place with tens of thousands of upvotes.

The thing that boggled my mind was plenty of people openly asking "Hey, I don't know anything about trading, but I want to join this and buy stock." and other people straight up telling them "Get the app from a broker (not RH!), open an account and buy $GME" (followed by a flurry of rocket and diamond hand emojis)

It is one thing to be told that markets can be irrational and emotional. It's a completely different thing to see it that playing out in real time on social media.
That, or they just hired an effecitve "growth hacker".

That metric has been successfully gamed in startup sphere over the past decade.
They have to have a certain amount to cover the value of all the stocks held by their clients so when 50% of their account holders have a stock that suddenly gains 2-20x value things get tight. In your analogy the price of the milk is relatively stable in the case of gamestop the value of the milk is fluctuating wildly between the time you sent the kid, when he got to the store, when he picked up the milk, etc etc. except the kid is legally required to deliver the milk or make you whole.
Open source aside, it would be great if any developer could do this on iOS. Unfortunately -- in contrast to macOS -- Apple keeps the XPC API on iOS private, so that it is impossible for "normal" app developers to properly sandbox the more critical and exposed parts of their application.

Only Apple can provide the described security for their messenger, but other messengers which face similar challenges (rendering untrusted content) cannot protect themselves.
The article seems to not talk about the difference between game designers and game developers which seem quite relevant in this context. It is even explictly naming "developers" in companies but using it wrong in context, it isn't a game developer's job to come up with a novel idea, that would be the company game designer. (Though people might fill both roles).
To most people the amount of changes a a publishing company makes will be quite surprising, it will change a lot to everything about a game if it arrives by an author's submission and is gonna hit the market.
The author might have submitted a novel idea and interesting core, but the raw games are often bad in pacing, balance, scoring, emotional engagement and the most people would just dismiss them. Good developers will be able to turn the interesting bit into a good game and dismiss the rest.
Indeed, I can see that being useful on many systems
Which is dead.
Many of the more popular mods add complexity to Factorio. I guess there might be an audience that swings the other way, but I don't imagine the lack of the dopamine surge from solving the next problem is going to have Mindustry players putting in the same insane hours.
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