cmehdy

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   by cmehdy 6y ago

   > initiate lightning strikes by shooting rockets into clouds That's what should be shared when people think that science isn't heavy-metal enough.
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   by cmehdy 6y ago

   IIRC you can right-click on the column with line numbers to the left of the main editor and you'll have that option too
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   by cmehdy 6y ago

   If the ratio of real money to fake money is zero, there's either infinite fake money or no real money. That's already either 100% off or an infinity off from your previous message. By the way, you're the one who called it fak
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   by cmehdy 6y ago

   I'm saying that when the person mentions it's not a zero sum game, their modelling the system in the simplest sense is one of a function of time. That's a model for discussion and that's fine, because obviously everythin
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   by cmehdy 6y ago

   It's the same point over and over again. A bank can give out a loan because it is operating in a place where the government (a.k.a people) give it a place to operate, in a system of currency regulated by governments, and ultimately has
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   by cmehdy 6y ago

   If something is a function of time and no other variable, from a simplified model, it is constant at a constant time. If you've ever dealt with physics I'm sure you've encountered functions of (t,x,y,z) for one, which do not
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   by cmehdy 6y ago

   And when they fail and the money that didn't exist needs to exist, we save them with real money. It's not because we're allowing a lot of risks to be taken with regards to money that those risks don't have a value, i.e.
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   by cmehdy 6y ago

   But that's.. literally what money is. 1 dollar is a dollar to every person aware of a dollar. What you're talking about is what the PROMISE of a dollar right now in some hands can be, in which case you're not solely putting v
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   by cmehdy 6y ago

   This zero sum saying needs to die, it doesn't say anything useful. What you MEAN to say is that it is not zero sum when you look along the time variable (as in sum(t+1) != sum(t)), because total value is not constant over time as we va
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    by cmehdy 6y ago

    https://blogs.imf.org/2019/01/02/new-data-on-global-debt/ "The private sector’s debt has tripled since 1950. This makes it the driving force behind global debt. Another change since the global finan
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    by cmehdy 6y ago

    That's the whole discussion around money itself, isn't it. As soon as you do something other than exchange an apple for a goat (and even then, really), you're potentially creating money in one person's eye and not in the
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    by cmehdy 6y ago

    There aren't just two rich people on earth, you know? https://theconversation.com/fact-check-us-did-some-americans... https://www.thestar.com/business/2020/08/15/as-the-pandemic-...
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    by cmehdy 6y ago

    You can call it populist if you want, it's just mechanically true. For money to be lent out it's coming from somewhere where the money is existing or the risk can be handled, and in both of those cases where money exists or risk c
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    by cmehdy 6y ago

    The reality of it shows up when you zoom in: overall during the pandemic richer people got richer and poorer people got poorer. The "world" doesn't owe the "world" that amount, it's people in already tight situ
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    by cmehdy 6y ago

    Naive question from an outsider with an interest in understanding pentesting and information security (mostly out of curiosity, but also to contribute to projects with security in mind): do you think putting time into a cert like OSCP is wo
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    by cmehdy 6y ago

    When I get angry about npm, I remind myself there is gradle.
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    by cmehdy 6y ago

    For some users I would argue brew was indeed better - I can't judge for the technical level, but definitely so for the UX and troubleshooting. I might have liked MacPorts with my current experience, but when I first needed to install C
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    by cmehdy 6y ago

    I've got to reference Patrick Wilson's "How To Speak" course from MIT OpenCourseWare here[0]. An hour of life well spent! [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY
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    by cmehdy 6y ago

    This reminds me of the typical criticisms that Daniel Dennett[0] has faced throughout the decades where he tried to argue the point that we can talk about consciousness through similar tools as those of computation (amongst other things) an
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    by cmehdy 6y ago

    Writing Groovy scripts in JMeter (for some custom requests) when doing distributed performance testing was a good way to enjoy pretty much anything else afterwards. I suppose I should more accurately call that thing JSR223 + Groovy, all sto
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    by cmehdy 6y ago

    I mean, I suppose if you zoom in on the shitty parts of life and you want to debate whether there are zones of stability in crappiness, all the best to you. That there are local extrema doesn't really deal with the global analysis, whi
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    by cmehdy 6y ago

    I've tried to think about what you're saying and my (perhaps incorrect) take is that you're saying people homeless below certain thresholds (say, amount of time for example) might have benefited from the homelessness (negativ
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    by cmehdy 6y ago

    I initially thought about writing what you're concluding, but after giving it more thought my conclusion wasn't that one has to strive to be kind but instead to be sincere. Kindness for its own sake might even be upsetting to me,
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    by cmehdy 6y ago

    Anecdotally, I can confirm that it's similar in essence and just overwhelmingly stronger in effect. It's a bit like having finally decided every single one of the big decisions of life in the same split second (because that's
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    by cmehdy 6y ago

    I assume you mean that he should have done that when he noticed the domain was pending renewal? (edited to "renewal", not deletion) He definitely acted decently overall (and did reach out to the people you mention afterwards). But
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    by cmehdy 6y ago

    There might be a difference between colloquial terms and control theory/system modelling there. Negative isn't pejorative when referring to a loop, it's (mostly) stabilizing. A negative feedback loop example is a nuclear reac
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    by cmehdy 6y ago

    Thanks for this article. The one thing I'd love to see however is whether we'd find the same proportions of nutrients in a more scientific breakdown too. Humans aren't necessarily able to know purely from the experience itsel
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    by cmehdy 6y ago

    Being from Europe I actually wondered how much of a difference there can be between US and EU when it comes to that issue, and this[0] StackExchange message was particularly interesting to see EU cases being much more prevalent than US ones
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    by cmehdy 6y ago

    And that, friend, is Cunningham's Law[0] in action. [0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law
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    by cmehdy 6y ago

    I don't think there's hatred for the ecosystem, it's just one that you don't get to see unless you're exposed to it by chance or pushed into it for a specific reason. .NET is in the corporate world but you'll h