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> Penny Stocks Are Booming, Which Is Good News for Swindlers

The editorializing agenda is right there in the title. This isn't news it's propaganda and as usual the NYT lies through omission. Please name one reason the state lotto is ok but investing in penny stocks is not. You don't see any NYT articles about that though.
I don't think most developers have ever administered proprietary software so they don't really "get it".

A developer mindset sees having source access as about developing the software. For an administrator, though, having source access is the difference between fumbling in the dark and looking like a fool (or paying vendor tech support to act like a fool for you) versus being able to look at the code and understand what's happening when documentation doesn't agree with reality, etc.

Many of us are forced to integrate proprietary software. We have to live with the compiled artifacts we're given (for "support" reasons, because license agreements say we can't reverse-engineer/decompile, because we want our Customers to have systems that aren't one-offs that can be supported by the "next guy", etc). When I'm stuck fighting with proprietary software and unable to see the inner workings I find myself pining for free/open-source software.
Sahil Lavingia interview: Gumroad’s bet on the creator economy
Just my personal opinion....

Normies will be buying their bitcoin on cash app, paypal, etc. In this way I feel CoinBase is a niche product with limited growth capabilities long term. The more CoinBase makes, the more the big names in tech/finance will expand their efforts to compete. CoinBase is a decent short to medium term play imo, whereas bitcoin itself is a longer term play.
To add to this, I have used tmux for automated testing of full-screen interactive command-line apps. It comes out like PhantomJS: send-keys + capture-pane is pretty awesome (once you overcome dumb timing stuff).
Would you really write a function find_prime_factors() that takes an input of type "integer" and an output of type "prime", that you have previously defined? Then if you want to sum or multiply such primes you have to cast them back to integers. Maybe it makes sense for you, but for me this is the textbook example of useless over-engineering.

The same ugliness occurs when using unsigned types to store values that happen to be positive. Well, in that case it is even worse, because it is incomplete and asymmetric. What's so special about the lower bound of the possible set of values? If it's an index to an array of length N, you'll surely want an integer type whose values cannot exceed N. And this is a can of worms that I prefer not to open...
Makes you wonder how life operated near the beginning, before "how to behave sustainably" evolved. Before individual death, before sex, before speciation, before children, maybe even before genes.

The world must have seen some wild, explosive action in its day.

Immortal organisms still exist (two-headed planaria!), but on the whole the ecosystem seems pretty well calibrated by now.
Stocks are heavily regulated as well. Regulation and fraud are orthogonal to each other.
What is Lieferando doing wrong?
I'm not sure what employee actions they're supposed to support.

MS didn't get a chance to 'support' this, these guys did the thing on their own.

If I'm MS I'm not sure I want to do a lot to "support" them after the fact as I really don't need groups of other employees stocking the shelves with fake products...

Any prank that looks like it has someone else's name on it, or approval... but isn't approved is just always going to have a risk associated with it.
Even more awesome: vim-repl (https://github.com/sillybun/vim-repl) uses the :term feature to provide convenient communication with any REPL, with extra support for some languages such as Python.

(In fact there are a host of these; for example, vim-slime now can communicate with Vim’s built-in terminal.)
This would be a massive SEC violation at minimum.

A prison sentence would not be surprising at all.

The only reason they likely didn’t get it in 1995 even is that MS PR (the one this person derides as PR flacks) apparently successfully convinced the world that this wasn’t done by MS insiders.
This is an excellent point and should be reiterated often.

The lottery is one of the more innocent gambling game. The delayed reward, low chance of winning small amounts, and fixed schedule makes it so that it is not nearly as triggering of addictive behavior as other gambling games.

Personally I think the lottery should still be illegal, but it provides a good baseline. Any gambling game that has more effective contingencies then the lottery should at least be heavily regulated (possibly banned). And stocks definitely do.
Wait, MS wasn't working on Java at that time? When did they try to release MS Java and were forced to rename it into J++?

I remember getting a box of MS dev tools with J++ included just a few years after this. It was already a well settled product.
Eh, closed software is often criticized for being difficult too.

To me in this general form it is a valid observation, not an attack. Especially since quite a bit of published open code chooses that perspective intentionally: Feel free to use it however you see fit, but it was written because the author wanted it to do a specific thing for them and it's on you to make it useful for you. Which is still massively better than if they hadn't published it, but not for every audience, and that's totally fine. It's just something to be aware of. And understandably the messaging around this is mixed, because different authors and communities have different views on this.
What does the latter link have to do with deregulation?
LOL, nice :-)
Depending on your definition of political freedom, USA might fit: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5-usa. It's expensive, since practically no phones are produced in USA. Alternatively, https://puri.sm/products/librem-5 has its components produced in China and assembled in USA.
There's a big difference between "with perfect certainty" and "with any degree of certainty". We can't be pefectly sure that the scenario you outline didn't happen but the timing and the idea of a virus acting like that are so improbable that we can be almost entirely certain it didn't play out like that. We're not perfectly certain it was the impact, but we are very certain with all the evidence that has built up.
>the documents were given to Jeremy Scahill, a reporter at The Intercept, who used the documents as part of a series of critical reports on how the military conducted drone strikes on foreign targets.

Here's that series: https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/
Drought alone cost $10-14B in 2019 and are increasing due to climate change.

https://www.resources.org/archives/economic-impacts-drought-...

Similar with flooding, and increasing pestilence due to warmer winters.

As the saying goes, past events is no guarantee of future performance.
Productivity is output divided by input.

So in farming it can be yield divided by labor (labor productivity), yield divided by soil addenda (e.g. fertilizer), yield in dollars divided by all costs of production, etc.

Sometimes factor productivity will have a specific name. For example capital efficiency is the productivity of capital (output divided by cap ex) which, due to the very nature of capex, is usually used to find a change due to investment. The productivity of energy use, typically measured on a whole economy basis, is called “energy intensity” (gdp/GW) though some industries are called “energy intensive”
Thanks. Your article echos the claims in the JBIS article of gravitational perturbations affecting the orbital dynamics of comets, etc. There's also the interesting (though highly speculative) dynamic of dark matter particle accretion in the Earth's core leading to temperature rise on Earth. The area outside the galactic middle plane is apparently DM-dense.
Bocconi Hired Poorly Qualified Computer Scientist
Are you looking for SRE roles ?
That's why the study looked at a control group, to try to account for that bias (as the abstract says, the control group was chosen to match "personal and clinical characteristics").

It's always possible they missed a factor, that's always a risk in such research, but they worked hard to address that possibility.
OK, but most of what we consider fact about any era (including the present) is a consensus understanding/belief based on the best available evidence -- if we're lucky.

Everything we are told or taught is a simplification, or a model.

The distinction between "fact" and "theory" is not always as clear as you imply.
Convenience Is Destroying Us
> If you want an ultimate root cause you need to turn to theology

No, you do not "need" to turn to theology. There are plenty of explanations that do not involve invoking myths.

> all death is ultimately caused by sin

So the pedestrian was secretly a pedophile? That's a pretty strange explanation...

I'd say in this case the blame likely rests on city planners, for creating situations in which travelers can collide.
This is a good example of how human language is ambiguous. You should read it as in the worst case in prison and in the best case fired.
Oops, my bad. (Finns are not considered Scandinavians, and I conflated Scandinavians with Nordics.)

Thanks for correcting my mistake.
Stupid people seem incapable of understanding how color-blind solutions are able to still address racial disparities.

If you were to, say, implement a program to help poor people, rather than "people of color," then to the extent that "people of color" are overrepresented among the poor, then so, too, would the solution disproportionately assist "people of color."

The benefits would be:

1.) we don't enter an infinite teeter totter of people arguing on behalf of the victimization of their identity groups

2.) we actually arrive at an equilibrium more rapidly

3.) we don't institutionalize the concept of race, and reinforce the idea that the color of your skin is a concept worthy of being categorized by

4.) we stop treating race as a proxy stand in for privilege, or competence (which is exactly what racists do), and instead target the direct thing that race was proxying

5.) by targeting the actual thing we're trying to remediate, we help all people affected by it, rather than limiting ourselves to the identity groups with the best PR. we also don't unnecessarily target people who belong to those identity groups and aren't actually in need of assistance, but are perceived to be simply by association through the color of their skin

Just to reiterate: assume 1/6 people in a city were "people of color." Assume that 4/6 people who were poor in the city were "people of color." If you add a policy to help the poor, without considering race at all, 4/6 of the people that you help are going to be "people of color," despite them only being 1/6 of the population. It automatically targets the people who are affected disproportionately...
Also, go to the Compiler Explorer and compare the generated code for C++ "num / 2" when num is an int, and when num is an unsigned int.

While there are a few cases where the compiler tends to do a better job of optimizing signed ints than unsigned ints (generally by exploiting the fact that signed integer overflow is undefined), they are not as fundamental as "num / 2". Being forced to write "num >> 1" all over the place whenever I care about performance is basically a dealbreaker for me in many projects; and I haven't even gotten into the additional safety issues introduced by undefined overflow.
it is financial advice tho?
Not to be confused with their forensic analysis tool, Microsoft COFEE.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Online_Forensic_Evi...
> But we all know that's not why they're being sold.

This line of suspicious thinking doesn't make sense to me. Options can be used as a speculative instrument, or for one of a number of other purposes (yield enhancement, insurance, volatility hedging, stock replacement, arbitrage, commodity market access, even multi-year investment), but the thing that makes options trading dissimilar from gambling is the simple fact that you are not playing a game of pure chance. There is a large element of uncertainty in the public markets but they are driven by information, and that is why some participants are able to make money.

If people want to blind themselves to information, then sure, you can call it a game of chance. But if I'm analyzing vol and backing out information implied by pricing in order to take directional views around underpriced catalysts for assets that only a handful of people really have the skills to evaluate in that way, am I gambling or am I speculating?

Some may say "all speculation is gambling" but I see a difference between those two activities. It would also be risky to rent drilling equipment and prospect for oil, but there is a science and method to wildcatting and few people would refer to it as gambling in the sense of playing slots or roulette.

Personally I also believe that people who play card games based on probabilistic reasoning are doing more than just gambling. In a sense, that's what casinos do. It's business at the very least, a form of work that in casinos provides a profit opportunity from entertainment and in the public markets provides a profit opportunity from contributing to the information efficiency of financial instruments.
Sure, there is research all over the place - but HIFU also hasn’t made a real impact clinically, maybe it will in future.

Most of this stuff gets interest in papers for a few years , turns out to be impractical for whatever reason and dies on the vine. That’s ok, it’s worth trying .
It gets really problematic when the money market doesn't allocate capital to productive investments. That's its ostensible and actually the only socially acceptable purpose.

We see people investing in dodgy companies, look at Theranos, not because the business idea is sound, but because the investors have powerful backers and can extract outsize return from inferior product.

And then there's bitcoin, which is not a medium of exchange, not a store of value, not a unit of account, but a pure object of speculation and now even Goldman Sachs advise to put the money there. The real world is not improved by clear-eyed people allocating funds to a Ponzi scheme.
Sure, and this is a major factor behind the number of deaths among drug users too. Bad product such as opiates cut with fentanyl or "bath tub crank" methamphetamine with nasty contaminants chases out purer (and thus lower margin because it's harder to make) product.

(I'm not advocating use of these drugs, just pointing out that less harm would be done if they were pure instead of nasty street jank.)
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Very Nice Job !!

Do you plan to include GraphQL queries ?
So on top of the free piano, they also want a free piano delivery service, free piano tuning and maintenance, and free piano lessons?

The word that comes to mind is entitled..
Do you think this is any different than any time throughout history? There have always been and always will be people without senses of humor in all walks of life.
Do you really think this post expresses "hate" for free software?
Yeah, just like looking the gift horse in the mouth. Entitlement is so ugly.
I can understand that they hope to reduce the income gap between different races, but I don't understand why that means the selection criteria should include race.

I would think that it makes more sense to select based on 'wealth' (income, capital, etc.) instead. Since people of colour are disproportionately represented in the poorer population, this would help to reduce the income gap between races (since more people of colour are accepted into the program), without excluding the few white families that could also really benefit from this.
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Is there any reason to believe that this actually happened? Conveniently, it was published on April 1st. The story itself would be a great April Fools' prank. :)
extrakto is really a "killer" plugin. I'm starting to wish for an emacs plugin with similar functionality.
You can buy an American-made Purism phone, which may or may not fit your definition. It's not cheap, though.
They also make money when people sell.
Well, why do you think Robinhood is valued at $11.7e9 on $0.68e9 in revenue? It's not people investing a fraction of their pay cheques once a month.
I like this one: https://www.theonion.com/microsoft-patents-ones-zeroes-18195...
The crater was well known to oil and gas people long before that, but the knowledge didn't make its way to academic geology until the 90s.
what a strange way to obfuscate that GNAA acronym!
Yes, but that seems like a very relevant type of control group. If a person got COVID and ended up in the hospital, and that person wants to know what possible long-term harm that could cause them (that is, compared to had they not gotten COVID and not been hospitalized), then the article focused on exactly that.
Ummm, actually you do. Editorials and Op Eds as well.
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Getting a big price for the company isn't the only motivation for going public. They have employees and investors to take care of, even if they'd be 2X bigger in 2030 or something.
> This is no longer true of C++. As of C++20, signed integer types are defined to use two's complement. [0] I don't think C intends to do the same.

As no good language lawyer discussion should be free from pedantry, there is no such thing as "As of C++20". C++20 is just a new version of the C++ standard. Projects that target C++11 or C++14 or C++17 are all still here and won't go away any time soon, and the respective C++ rule still apply to them. Passing a new revision of the C++ standard changes nothing with regards to which rules actually apply to those projects, unless project maintainers explicitly decide to migrate their projects.
I thought that at first, but it doesn't make any sense, because:

You don't have any way to know which of the measurements is wrong.

You don't know what correction to apply. The best you can do is shrink along one or more of the dimensions in the direction of a mean of something, which may or may not be relevant to that customer. In return you intentionally mess up the orders of many customers, wasting their time in the process.
The tax problem is actually relatively simple to solve. Tax at the point of consumption. Unfortunately, people would rather have an ineffective game of cat and mouse where they FEEL like it's progressive, even though the rich still aren't paying.
Not everything. This subthread is literally about options trading. Lets bring the Wikipedia definition of gambling into focus:

> Gambling (also known as betting) is the wagering of money or something of value (referred to as "the stakes") on an event with an uncertain outcome, with the primary intent of winning money or material goods.

Seems like a fit to me. Even if the expected outcome is positive, it is still uncertain, hence it is gambling. If you go to the casino and count cards at the black jack table, you have a positive expected outcome, however you are still gambling.
I believe it came a close as 0.16 AU (tracing the path backward), which is 66 times further than the moon.

Being an interstellar object though, it moves faster than the escape velocity to the sun, so it would pack a higher energy per unit of mass than a regular comet or asteroid. Fortunately such objects are also somewhat rare.
Just because there are some things the government does not protect people against, does not mean that investments are the only thing the government protects people against.

> State lotto

Most gambling is either highly regulated or outright banned.
Also, gambling is a financial product, which arguably falls under the category of "investment".

> Supplements/vitamins of dubious value

Because these products are very carefully designed and marketed to avoid the heavy regulation that is applied to medical products

> Regular stocks with wildly ridiculous P/E ratios

These are investments, so this example doesn't really fit into your thesis that the government only regulates investments.

> Various forms of "insurance"

Insurance is a financial product that could also be viewed as an "investment". Further, many types of insurance are highly regulated.
The NYT has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, more recently via a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded in 1969. A. G. Sulzberger and his father, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr are the current leaders of the Sulzberger-Ochs dynasty.
The NYT is as establishment as it gets, despite the endless posturing of 'investigative reporting', a fig leaf for quiet reinforcement of the status quo.
Its equivalent in the UK is arguably the Financial Times, who are in comparison very straight forward supporters of globalization, WEF 'great reset' etc along with the Rothchild/Agneli magazine the Economist.

There used to be a common descriptor of the Soviet era Pravda that you had to read between the lines to get near the truth. I broadly feel the same way about all of the above media companies.
His blog is hosted on the modem but it does not actually use the cellular network, he routes traffic back to the host using adb port forwarding and then to some other host via USB and then to the Internet.
Please explain to me how I can lose money by writing a covered call option.

> Naked options

Us plebs aren't allowed to write naked options, that privilege only belongs to institutional actors.
> There were attempts at making it more efficient (see ironpython, which is dead now).

IronPython seems to be on life support (it had a bugfix release for .NET 5 late last year), and no longer an MS project, but its not quite dead.

But pointing to IronPython alone is weird, as that was more about interface woth the rest of .NET than machine efficiency, and there are a number of major, live projects with efficiency as one of their central goals: PyPy, mypyc, Cython, for instance.
these are all good observations but they miss coalescing an approachable framing of understanding, not the least of which, by accepting expertise as a legitimate concept in the first place.

one elucidating observation is to realize that the term 'expert' is largely a mediopolitical assertion. that is, people who have no qualifications in a given field use 'experts' to assert the credibility of their narrative by choosing a single/small voice from that field to represent the entirety of it's esteem. that's quintessentially a political act, to influence others, perhaps unduly, perhaps against their own interest, which is where the trust dies away.

trust develops among humans through direct interaction and obseration, and most experts haven't gained that directly with an audience. at best, they've done so among a small, arbitrary (to observers) group of people around the 'expert'. moreover, trust isn't a singular concept. people trust others for their political motivations much more often than technical skill, for instance. bury that under many layers of credentialism, an abstraction specifically designed to convey trust where it can't be built naturally, and where we go wrong societally starts to become clear.

when seeking information in a mediopolitical context (e.g., all of social media and news), the most reasonable course of action (for most people most of the time) is to disregard expertise entirely, because the purpose in that context is to mislead via an appeal to (constructed) authority, even if subtly and relatively benignly. it's propaganda built on top of slivers of factuality loaned in from 'experts', in a grand jostling for voice, relevance, and power. none of it should be taken seriously from a technical point of view.