mcherm

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by mcherm 6y ago
No, there is not a massive scheme to create counterfeit shares of GameStop which is being covered up by all the major players in the financial markets because they are all in on the conspiracy. There are no grand conspiracies, participants
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by mcherm 6y ago
100% as it already happened. The exchange didn't suspend trading, several brokers widely used by small investors did. And some of them didn't suspend all trading, just purchases (sales were still allowed). There may or may not hav
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by mcherm 6y ago
> Isn't this theft, [...] presuming the user wasn't buying on margin Yes. It's also murder for hire, presuming that they contracted with someone to have the user executed. Honestly, I'm not sure why you would assume t
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by mcherm 6y ago
No, it's not unusual. And, in fact, the exchanges HAVE used brief halts in trading to curb volatility in GameStop stock. But those were done in accordance with standard policies that simply reference a certain amount of change within a
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by mcherm 6y ago
> yes, a deliberate attempt to trigger a short squeeze is securities fraud Can you provide a source for that statement? > Yes, it's probably going to be the "little guys" holding the bag at the end of this. I agree 100%
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by mcherm 6y ago
> Sometimes you just have to do joins across large tables. There just isn't any other way. Your query is going to run for 5, 10, maybe 30 seconds. While that is true, I would speculate (based on my own experience, not any actual res
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by mcherm 6y ago
But it is NOT widely done. Why? Perhaps only a few people value this? Or perhaps it hasn't yet been marketed properly?
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by mcherm 6y ago
Several useful features there that I wasn't aware of.
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by mcherm 6y ago
The readme.md file should probably include a paragraph telling what this is used for.
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by mcherm 6y ago
I am very concerned about the ease and speed with which they have been deplatformed. I am not a big fan of Parler, but I am a very big fan of free speech, and if the various actors who have driven them out of business can act this quickly i
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by mcherm 6y ago
Look, if you can assume that the legal system will start caring about specific edits along the way to the final draft, and you can assume that essentially all tools will start tracking the history of these changes, and you can assume that t
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by mcherm 6y ago
The article says that by adding heat to raw materials such as carbon dioxide and some catalyst they can produce jet fuel. Which can be burned to produce carbon dioxide and more heat. I'm glad to know that according to this article&#x27
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by mcherm 6y ago
The article says: "investors greatly prefer paying indirect fees, through opaque arrangements, to paying explicit costs". This is not true. Investors prefer paying indirect, opaque fees to paying explicit fees AND indirect, opaque
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by mcherm 6y ago
> Can't that argument be made for just about any crime? No. The argument is only effective for crimes that a large percentage of people do frequently but which is only seldomly enforced with criminal sanctions. And I am hard pressed
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by mcherm 6y ago
Yes - the vast majority of open source projects are run this way. The down side is that you don't get paid. And I think that's pretty consistent -- no one is going to pay market rates for you to spend 80% of your time on "wha
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by mcherm 6y ago
As usual, Scott's take on it was far more comprehensible to me and more useful than the article itself.
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by mcherm 6y ago
Seriously... like, do they want to consider open up some of the support for that UI to external contributions?
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by mcherm 6y ago
Perhaps. In other countries -- the US for instance -- we have restrictions on connecting jobs to people. We prohibit, for example, job boards that are explicitly designed to favor (or be exclusive to) members of one race. Even if there are
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by mcherm 6y ago
> their explanation does make some sense, that if IRCTC is super fast and efficient, then people with cash to spare/with computers and good internet access will hog all the tickets, denying people in rural areas a fair opportunity t
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by mcherm 6y ago
I'm still using Mercurial, and I don't regret that decision. I only regret that everyone else appears to have STOPPED using it, so that I am isolated in my own little world away from community like Github.
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by mcherm 6y ago
That omits what I consider to be a key part of the insight: that the conditions might no longer be able to give rise to new life because today existing organisms would exploit the rich molecules before they had an opportunity to produce pro
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by mcherm 6y ago
I am not - I am a US citizen. Fortunately, all the countries I have ever attempted to travel to have been extremely accommodating about providing a visa, or (in many cases) not even requiring one. I hope that generous attitude continues.
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by mcherm 6y ago
Details of how one worships and how one interacts with one's parents are rarely ever relevant in the context of a conference. What I am saying is that even if all conference attendees agreed that the ten commandments were at the root o
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by mcherm 6y ago
The reason we do not make backups of our books is because there is no reasonable technological way of doing so.
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by mcherm 6y ago
The text of the article clearly states that clone time was reduced by 99%. The only way build time could have been reduced by 99% is if every part of the build other than cloning is negligible. It is far more plausible to assume that the ti
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by mcherm 6y ago
> I don’t think people complained that IE6 was the only option. Some people did. I complained -- at the time -- that the monoculture was harmful, and I used Firefox as my primary browser for that reason (but there were lots of sites that
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by mcherm 6y ago
> Go’s simplicity tends to be brought [...] mostly by those who weren’t yet woken up by a page that required them to quickly read, debug and fix things. Or even jump into another team’s codebase to do the same thing. Last thing on your m
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by mcherm 6y ago
> I'm actually positive that I have a bank account that doesn't have a login info I don't know where you are, but in the US it is actually illegal for a bank to offer financial services without collecting a significant amo
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by mcherm 6y ago
The big advantage of a monorepo is that dependency on changes to a "library" or component that gets reused in multiple places can be made explicit. A user can commit a change that safely modifies a library or component in a non-ba
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by mcherm 6y ago
And... how was the food?

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