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> I'm not sure if you responded to the wrong comment, but you're talking about a whole bunch of stuff that's not relevant to my comment

It's all relevant to the broader argument. The link you posted mentions failure-to-deliver.

> No one made money on my way out, I've made about a 20% return on GME.

Good for you, but I'm talking about the general practice shorting a company that is about to go bankrupt. If you're willing to take the (apparently not insignificant) risk of going short on such a company, I'm fine with you taking those profits. I don't consider that "immoral".

> You sound angry and spiteful for some reason, not sure where that's coming from.

I'm not angry, but I do have some spite about Gamestop. The company sucks. Everybody always agreed the company sucks. Now a lot of people - perhaps not you - are acting as if the company is somehow good, that it can be turned around, that they "like the stock". That's all bullshit. If people were just honest about being in a casino and betting on "squeeze", that'd be totally fine.

> Almost certainly not? GME was shorted 140%. They absolutely certainly shorted more shares than actually exist. How can you short 100% of the float, then continue shorting more?

There is one number calculated in a particular way that reported short interest as 140%. So far so good. Everything else is an interpretation of that number that is not necessarily reflecting reality.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/01/28/yes-a-stock-can-ha...

If you take synthetic longs out of the equation, the number drops to well below 100%:

https://twitter.com/ihors3/status/1354847896173240322

Still good enough for a major short squeeze, of course. In fact, all of the "most shorted" stocks in the S&P experienced a short squeeze alongside with Gamestop.

FYI, I pretty much never open a short position in the hopes of turning a profit, I only use it to hedge other positions. You know, like a proper hedge fund.
> . When private companies screw up, who gets left with the bill?

In theory, the company is meant to declare bankruptcy (or seek more investment from shareholders) as soon as their books say they are insolvent. A company is Insolvent when it's liabilities are higher than it's assets, even by a single dollar.

The theory is that because the company is required to declare bankruptcy as soon as possible, it should only be slightly insolvent and should be able to repay creditors 80-95 cents on the dollar after liquidation.

Owners or shareholders might even put a company into bankruptcy while it's still solvent (if they predict a future insolvency, or just want to wrap the company up). Creditors might get the full 100 cents on the dollar. Any money beyond that is paid as dividends to the owners/shareholders.

In theory, if a company had incompetent or fraudulent accounting practices and didn't know it was insolvent, or it deliberately traded while insolvent, then the liability of the company is pierced and the owner can find themselves on the hook to the creditors.

Companies are only meant to be liability shields if they are run correctly.

In reality, sometimes events cause a company to lose a whole lot of value overnight. A company could be 100% solvent one month and 20% solvent the next. But as long as the company was following best accounting practices, it's legal. Sometimes the assets of a company can lose value after bankruptcy, or due to the bankruptcy. Especially when the company has put a lot of "good will" or "brand recognition" as assets on their books.

In reality, liquidators (who are also private companies) often don't go after owners responsible for fraudulent accounting or mismanagement. They let it slide.

Perhaps because they didn't detect it, or it was too minor to worry about. Perhaps they didn't want to waste their time trying to prosecute. Perhaps they decided their creditors would get more cents on the dollar by not prosecuting, especially if the owner has very little of their own assets.

I also suspect there is a reputation factor. Owners get to select which liquidator handles their bankruptcy (unless it was court ordered) and if one liquidator gets a reputation for going after the owners for every mistake, then they might get less business.
Being poor is doable as long as there are no disasters or gross unfairness. Every student who gets buy without parental help will attest.
I recall having MSN on a symbian smartphone just before iPhones even existed. Really cool and all, but I could only communicate to a handful of people with it. SMS was the de-facto only way, always 1-1 and charged per message. Internet 2g/3g was being pushed for low prices (10 EUR/month for unlimited use) but there wasn't really a mass market yet. I could tether my laptop to my phone abut that was really something exceptional, but most people were like "who needs internet on a phone?" Had too look it up, this was just 14 years ago.

Then about 6? years ago almost overnight everyone (including mom) had a smartphone with Whatsapp and SMS/MMS was a thing of the past.
Triple whammy if you include the larger and larger capacity factor of ever growing wind turbines (and offshore). Even if you're overprovisioning 2x and fill in with battery capacity for some of the shrinking holes inbetween, you'll end up cheaper than nuclear.

Which, on the other hand also still does not factor in the externalities of the still-not-solved issues of final deposition of nuclear waste (some quote 38 billion still outstanding for just getting rid of the current ones that haven't been factored into historic electricity prices), defending against proliferation and antitrust issues due to the massive capital investment and minimum size of nuclear power plants.

I used to be pro-nuclear at some point, but just looking at the current wholesale prices and trends, it's basically game over for nuclear.
In addition to other comments, Steam Chat had significant in-roads with the gaming audience that would eventually form the foundation of Discord. It is quite plausible, had Steam improved chat earlier, that Discord might have never gotten the traction it got.

Nowadays, I find Steam Chat is a ghost town.
I assume that when he talks about 'rarity' of skills he's talking about supply. Almost anyone can be a farm hand; supply is huge and individual workers are fungible. So wages are low.

"how much money would the company lose if no one did the exact job I am doing" seems a bit of a moot point when it's not even close to being the case that no-one would do the job in question. _Expected_ value then approaches price paid as you weight in the probability involved.
Well, this is ok when you work more, to get more for yourself...

...out here, people want their neighbours to have less.
You could probably get the entire (original, ARM1-3ish) ARM instruction set onto an index card with a little creative freedom. Possibly even a single side?

edit: Forgot to explicitly clarify that it was ARM
Is it just me or are these happening a lot more since Microsoft?

We unfortunately made the call to go all in in actions; and it really makes me miss gitlab...

The runners don’t even speak kubernetes properly; all your steps run inside the same container as the runner process...
Interesting solutions, especially the latter, absolutely brilliant, despite the reduction in efficiency, it probably trumps batteries wrt to first materials used.
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Nuclear isn't as inflexible as you think. A usual change rate in power output is around 10%/min, so you can go from half to full in 5 minutes. Far away from days or weeks. Here is a nice comparison: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lastfolgebetrieb
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Okay, but now consider other monopsonies. There are plenty. What most people get paid is almost entirely decoupled from the net value they create, and oftentimes it's only tangentially related to the value they give to their employer.
> but would your work be "valuable"?

yes, if somebody else would be willing to swap their hard earned "value" for it.

The problem is when people making decisions to swap is not swapping their own personal "value" they accumulated themselves, but someone else's (usually the tax payers').
Do we prosecute the janitors, too? What about the admin staff? I'm fine with burning HR at the stake, but some fairer minded folks might point out their general lack of involvement in business decisions that affect the public, as a reason to spare them.

The kindest thing I could think to call your idea is naive and poorly conceived.
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I think it was just at the time when 5k iMacs were introduced there was no (good?) way to support that resolution over a thunderbolt or what, so support was dropped. Then it was just never added back...
Seems quite short sighted to assume space manufacturing processes would not improve - or we would not want to improve them.

Cold weld it in space, it's not that difficult with some engineering.

Space X?
This is really impressive, I wish I had some compatible hardware to test with. I once tried to throw together a small personal project for saving configurations on an analog device visually, but couldn't find any nice knob/pot libraries to use - the components page alone is worth a bookmark to me. Thanks!

It's a pity that there is such a disparity between Chrome and Firefox on Web MIDI - Chrome steaming ahead and Firefox not even started due to security concerns around SysEx. I don't know enough about it in truth, but it seems like there ought to be a sensible compromise available.

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/58

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=836897
In case OP or anyone else is interested: PHP lacks strict typing (by default). For older applications I agree with you, but in the last few versions it's been a lot better. Depending on your framework or tools, you can customise file templates and add strict typing to each file, i.e. Laravel's `php artisan make:xxx` can now always have declare(strict_types=1); . Of course you can't assume that for external packages, but it's highly recommended.
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Finally which one is better? Angular or React?
Because we can't build anything larger than an office building on time and on budget.
I bought a helio ocean keyboard phone over an iPhone because it had AIM MSN and YIM while the iPhone did not. I thought it was great.
Generally speaking, they were shut down because they were designed in a way that they were centrally controlled by one entity which had the ability to shut them down, just like that.
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> Save yourself thousands of dollars. Here’s all the writing advice you need:

The essay is good but this one sentence at the end reeks of the “bullshit industrial complex” that it’s trying to warn against.

If that is the only writing advice you need, then you’re in a good position. For everyone else, I recommend “Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace” which is a low-bullshit guide to fixing your writing.

I’m not trying to be pithy here; otherwise intelligent people sometimes suck at putting words down, even when they have something valuable to write.
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Yes, according to one of my old economics teachers, above the subsistence level, happiness is approximately how much better off you are than your neighbors.
I'm impressed that the author could remember a lecture from, at the time, well over 25 years ago.
There is definitely non-linear pricing in the London housing market as one example.

When I was last looking -

Studio apartments and one bed room apartments rented for similar amounts, and so did two beds and three beds.

But the price jump from one bed to two bed was much larger than any of the other jumps.

You can speculate on many reasons why this might be the case (smallest size apartment for a family in the city, smallest size you can split with a friend, smallest size with space for an office).

There are exceptions and I'm sure that more research time could help you find them.

But one of the points made convincingly in the artle is that if you are poor you don't have a lot of energy, time or gas-money to do that kind of research.
I think I read somewhere that prices are capped at USD 9000 per MWh. That is still USD 9 per KWh which is insane pricing.
This has been discussed before.[0] The short answer seems to be "yes, but it might have its natural reasons."

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23676199
Happend right when I added a new action for a new project - hope it wasn't me ;-)
I recall Yahoo Chat finally shutting down in December of 2012. In a sense, you could see it coming: the messaging protocols were a mess, no real attempt had been made against the spambots, the property was poorly managed during that phase where Yahoo was attempting to date anyone, everyone, in order to fix their lives.

First they killed the user-made rooms, due to some senseless pedo-panic, then some special interest rooms, and finally the service itself, even as some put-upon employee named "Robin" had to write various upbeat missives about Yahoo improving the service on the Yahoo Messenger Chat blog.

You see, they had done one thing really right in the beginning with their chat rooms -- they made a series of location-based rooms, first by continent, then country, then (for the US) state and even occasionally city. So many people either want to talk about what is going on where they live or just talk to locals that this was a great success. And yet ... destroyed. It was indicative of what I had often heard about the company, that there were some brilliant engineers with some great insights, and also that there were just metric tons of business people businessing very hard and capable of driving absolutely anything into the ground because of their inability to leave well enough alone.

It is a little amazing to me that all of these corporations just decided to shutter messaging and chat rooms in lockstep. And I suppose one did it, so they all had to or fall behind something or another.
They've been growing like crazy the past 12 months - I think they've been doing pretty well based on some of the numbers I've heard.
The value is in reselling the game when you are done with it. Instead of buying it on steam and then being stuck with it, you resell your token( which is the equivalent of having bought the game on steam) to the 2nd hand market. Same as you did with old games but digital.
Well there is a big innovation in the business model, something MS missed, that the internet could be cheap on good phones and that chat apps could replace expensive SMSes. In fact, in France where SMS were free very early,whatsapp failed to pierce for much longer than elsewhere to a point the EU blamed our telecom companies from blocking innovation by being too cheap.

MSN was a stupid senseless loss for a long while nonetheless, even in France, as Facebook took time to regrow the networks already made via MSN.
> many investors will have bought their share in the company, and that is worthless.

That's just part of the risk. We're now talking about the bill that is still on the table. If the "investors" were fully responsible for their "investments" they would not have worthless shares, but they would have to pay up for what the company still owes. That their risk stops at "shares being worthless" is exactly what I mean by them being shielded.

I learned the energy firm was a coop: they have no shareholders.

But the discussion is still interesting, well at least to me :)
See also the follow-up article: https://residentcontrarian.substack.com/p/being-poor-ish-rev...
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I'm not sure if it's since Microsoft but this has been happening A LOT. I've experienced roughly 5-10 outages over the past few months. Most were minor, but they still interrupted our development workflows for several hours.
I read it clearly as the latter; "open reqs" as in "open positions" they (the hiring companies) can't fill.
What's especially annoying is that most PRs seem to get a green checkmark for me as if checks have passed, when tests actually just haven't been started. It seems like it ought to be possible to do better than this. Right now the risk of accidentally merging a PR that hasn't run through CI is way too large.
Here are some quotes of people complaining about "youngsters these days".

1. The world is passing through troublous times. The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they knew everything, and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for the girls, they are forward, immodest and unladylike in speech, behavior and dress.

2. The children now love luxury; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are tyrants, not servants of the households. They no longer rise when their elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize over their teachers

3. I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words... When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise [disrespectful] and impatient of restraint

#1 was written in the 13th century, #2 in the 5th century BC and #3 in the 8th century BC. Old people always think young people are worse than ever.

I say this not to invalidate your feelings of frustration with how people are coding these days compared to the good old days. But ask yourself if your skills haven't improved in that time. Bugs that you would miss 10 years ago are now obvious to you. Also, there's just a lot more code out there than there used to be, judging by number of repos. The friction to put something into a public repository is lower than ever. That gets us some gems that might not have existed otherwise, but also some turds.

Rest assured that 10 years from now, devs will be talking about the good old days of today and how much better it was compared to 2030.
My experience is similar. I seem to stumble upon two different types of libraries:

- One that is so specifically designed to fix the authors' original problem. It is implemented in such a way that it doesn't cover a lot of use cases.

- One that is actually designed to be a general purpose library and to be used everywhere; but because of this there is a lot of feature creep and very complicated interfaces.
No single weather event can be reliably tied to climate change, though. Presumably it's on the insurance company to prove that an event falls into an excluded category, so it's a matter of time before someone fights them on it and wins.
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> As insanely inefficient as this all sounds, it was actually done back in the day.

Java, Python, Perl, Ruby, and a host of others say this isn't a dead technique.

Another reason for it back then was to only need to port the interpreter to each different architecture and platform, an important consideration in the 80s with the bloom of CPUs and machines.
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If it was just you, then it is not just you. Github should own the fact that they are responsible for the continued work of their infrastructure and the normal workflow of people can't be responsible for it not working.
I think it's also about trade offs that are made. For example, TV dinners (from an article in another thread here) for us was not a staple, it was a luxury. They kept for a long time, but they were also high cost to calorie ratio. We got the cheapest cut of meat we can in bulk and frozen it.
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The labor market isn't fully efficient but I don't believe it's "almost entirely decoupled" from the value employees provide. If you provide with certainty $100k/y of value and your employer pays you $30k/y, there'd be no shortage of entities willing to bid up that price. Who wouldn't take profit within their risk tolerance? What mechanism do you think would prevent this from happening?
I agree. 64kb is so small for modern PCs and browsers but it's still so big for microcontrollers that most of them can't afford it and is wasteful cosidering their application size.
magic pixie dust for x86/amd64 executables which makes them run on bare metal, windows, linux, freebsd, ..., unchanged. it's a giant hack in the best possible meaning of the word.
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One issue I had is that it was constantly using the WiFi connection instead of the wired one. So I created a shortcut where I replaced the hostname with the wired IP address, this solved a lot of problems for me.

For my usecase of development, it works fine. No noticable lag, even as I type this comment, also video calls and web browsing/scolling/youtube are fluid on 2560x1440 using around 7MB/s.

With 3 5K screen I could image video memory or some GPU bandwidth being an issue, limiting the screensharing although sharing only 1 screen. But the problem must be either one of lag or one of bandwidth. Maybe try measuring network throughput and ping?
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Maybe they don't allow you to use that option? I'm using European number, so it's some strict requirement.
I'm flabbergasted that any founder would respond like this.

A lot of people who would have given you the benefit of the doubt just got the opposite impression of your company after reading this response.
Vulkan is really hard and is not really a "true" replacement for OpenGL. It's too low level, and not a good API for people making "games" to interact with. Sure, big engines and AAA games are definitely going to be implementing it, but it will always be alongside D3D and Metal.

But IMO Vulkan is way too much for most indies, small studios and solo developers to work with. I doubt we'll see many games targeting Vulkan as "the" multi-platform API like we've seen with OpenGL in the last 15 years. Anyone having to target Vulkan will have to use Unreal/Unity3D. Or maybe someone will develop a wrapper that converts OpenGL calls into Vulkan calls.

Honestly I see Vulkan as akin to regulatory capture. It will only enrich the big players by forcing small companies to use big engines.

EDIT: To give a concrete example, we (part time indie team) have an unfinished renderer in Vulkan, and it's already almost 5x larger than the other (finished) ones. To use Vulkan effectively, even on small games means you need a substantially large abstraction layer. Sure, it doesn't matter on AAA or for commercial engines, but not everyone is on such large projects.
Thank You! Very informative.
The concept of installation was very simple – just put clips on wires.

However even with my entire electrical panel switched off at the main breaker, the supply from the meter is always live. So with the panel cover removed in order to install the clips, it would have been possible to touch the supply lines and get a lethal shock.

If you have any qualms about working safely in an electrical panel, hiring an electrician is the way to go.