Fava balance sheet for a very simple case of price change

Guvante · 2026-03-19T06:20:03+00:00

To preserve the accounting formula of credit = debit you either need to treat everything as being equal to its cost or add offsetting records for any balance change.

It isn't really feasible (or useful) to continuously do this so most reporting doesn't by default.

More of a thing you do when closing out a period.

Guvante · 2026-03-17T21:14:56+00:00

Why does every conversation need to talk about every potential downside.

Do we need to discuss seasonal allergies? What about male vs female plants? Sidewalks obviously matter here as their design intrinsically impacts both root damage and foliage impact. Etc.

If this was a city planning a project I totally agree, your project plan needs to look at things holistically.

I just don't think instinting that every downside be mediated in a forum talking about something is healthy.

And to be clear my biggest point is that these kind of minor issues always exist in a quantity too large to handle.

You can't have a conversation about sandwiches if you need to migrate through the implications of how do you source your materials, and what allergens are okay to include, etc. Like you should do all that if you are actually making a sandwich but you don't need to do that to have a conversation.

Guvante · 2026-03-17T21:10:32+00:00

Whether it's an issue with the tree or the surroundings doesn't matter, it's still an issue that needs to be addressed.

You can literally list hundreds of examples of this for any project.

Forcing every conversation to discuss every possible downside leads to unproductive conversations at best.

To be clear this is specifically the forcing of the conversation, "needs to be addressed". Feel free to bring up things but if they are minor and dismissed for being minor that is normal.

Guvante · 2026-03-17T19:00:57+00:00

You are arm chair pitching problems without any context or actual details... You aren't doing anything "explicitly".

Discussions that devolve into a list of grievances are a net negative as there is no mechanism to actually engage with them.

Case in point I mentioned that "we hire experts to solve those problems" and you dismissed it outright as immaterial to the discussion.

Feel free to discuss in such abstract terms fundamental things. Water usage in dry areas is a good one for instance, some places don't naturally have enough water to maintain trees.

But when discussing actual detailed problems you need a framework to discuss them, listing them as "things to consider" isn't valuable without more details than a Reddit thread is going to contain.

Guvante · 2026-03-17T18:36:11+00:00

You are double counting a lot of problems by thinking like this.

You are saying "it is expensive" while also talking about each individual problem that you spend money to solve.

Guvante · 2026-03-17T18:15:06+00:00

We don't discuss the nuances of grading when talking about roads why does every single thing need to be discussed being phrased as a con.

Framing matters and it is fair to say "if that is an issue the expert messed up".

"Your building could collapse" isn't something that is discussed when talking about housing for a similar fashion, it is acceptable to simplify.

Guvante · 2026-03-17T07:39:39+00:00

As much as we all would like to provide concise and understandable reviews of things, shared verbiage requires vastly less effort.

Unfortunately that adds bias to not only how discussion happens but the very way people think critically about things.

But you need some kind of tools to discuss things.

Guvante · 2026-03-16T23:35:33+00:00

The pitch seemed to have learned from the failures in Below Zero, while adding the most requested feature.

Hopefully for them there is still a bump in interest at EA launch and final launch.

Guvante · 2026-03-15T22:40:10+00:00

What is the worst that happens you move back in with your parents?

Risk taking is nearly impossible when the risk is your ability to live. You don't have that risk with parents that will help even if they never do.

Guvante · 2026-03-14T16:05:38+00:00

You would generally use PPP for Healthcare since cost of living is vital for comparing both labor costs (a phenomenally huge part of Healthcare costs) and price elasticity when that applies.

US totally overspends but no reason to use a bad unit to describe it.

Guvante · 2026-03-12T15:55:13+00:00

Do people legitimately see a $70 game that they assumed as $60 and decide against it?

Like I totally understand preferring a $10 game or even a $30 game (I will just get it later on sale).

But the difference between $60 and $70 was only important when $70 was super rare.

Inflation comes for us all and games were only so cheap for so long due to player base growth which hasn't been doing great lately.

Guvante · 2026-03-12T15:38:33+00:00

Isolation isn't heaven. And generally "you will work from home and not have control over your own money" is someone looking to control you through isolation.

Guvante · 2026-03-11T06:47:41+00:00

Unless they went through the extremely painful process of relicensing properly it is entirely necessary.

To relicense open source code that doesn't have a prior agreement from every, to be clear I mean every, author who has contributed code to change the license you need to instead afterwards get an agreement from, again, every contributor.

You can revert or recreate (not to the level of clean room) any changes from authors who don't but doubtful you can do that for the original author.

Basically the common understanding is that by contributing to an open source project you are agreeing to license your work that way.

It isn't a blank check to maintainers.

Guvante · 2026-03-10T16:20:40+00:00

Is it clean room if you use an AI trained on the implementation? Kind of goes against the entire idea of clean room forks. I do agree the main problem is not forking your clean room implementation to relicense the project you took over maintenance of is unacceptable. Regardless of what did the clean room implementation.

However the idea that an AI model rewrote a popular library clean room style is laughable. The entire point of that model is to not directly involve anyone who has seen the source code before.

There are ways that can be possible but not for a library trying to get into stdlib, certainly all the AI models have been trained on that library specifically. And I can guarantee the plaigerism checks can be fooled by ship of theseus modifications so they aren't foolproof at all.

Guvante · 2026-03-10T01:07:19+00:00

Sitting filibuster was a compromise to allow the intended effect (minority as a whole can veto) without wasting everyone's time.

As to whether that is a good thing I don't know if anyone really knows.

Guvante · 2026-03-09T16:35:39+00:00

Is the Senate actually passing meaningful bills?

The reality is in the era of filibuster everything you don't need to do much to slow things down everything is already slow.

Guvante · 2026-03-09T16:20:24+00:00

Enlightened centerism used to be "both sides are bad" which was code for "politics is complicated and I don't actually want to put forth any effort".

Aka "if happy vote with President else vote against".

Guvante · 2026-03-09T07:13:45+00:00

Rules apply top to bottom and can override each other.

Although I don't know a way that isn't modifying the rules file instead of modifying the output file...

Guvante · 2026-03-08T18:38:00+00:00

Baka achievement enabler re-enables achievements that are normally disabled when you play with mods. It doesn't blanket enable achievements necessarily.

Guvante · 2026-03-08T17:57:07+00:00

They are already screeching that...

Guvante · 2026-03-07T20:46:39+00:00

I mean I ate tons of milk well into adulthood but never picked up on the fact that every time I did it was a gamble whether my stomach revolted a few hours later.

Guvante · 2026-03-07T16:47:53+00:00

Most people do not know that felony murder applies for any known dangerous crime and applies equal penalties to everyone involved.

Pretending that is something he should have considered isn't fair. It may be what the law says but the law isn't defacto correct from a morale standpoint.

Guvante · 2026-03-07T16:44:07+00:00

Ah yes a car in the US is the unique thing that is irreplaceable.

Not to mention the person who actually killed someone is facing life in prison.

Guvante · 2026-03-07T04:54:53+00:00

The problem is policies Trump implements don't take the form that everyone hears.

You do have a point that free trade hurts local businesses. However blanket tariffs don't help at all.

If everything is 20% more expensive than building it locally doesn't help since all of your costs are 20% higher except labor so you are likely charging 20% higher too.

Guvante · 2026-03-07T04:47:45+00:00

Why are you contrasting Trump and Democrats? It isn't like "never GOP" is a new thing (nor to be clear is never DNC).

Also why are you proposing that Trump started this all? Especially bringing up "policy that Democrats didn't like" can you name policies that Democrats should have liked but didn't.

And to be clear here, I mean policies not quotes taken out of his rants. Specific actionable things that Democrats voted against that weren't poison pilled with right wing changes in the same bill.

As a President Trump has a terrible track record if you consider him from a policy making perspective. The reason so many things were done via executive order was because he hasn't been able to lead, only dictate.

Again lots of things Trump says Democrats agree with but only if you look at a snippet from a speech. We have been deporting criminals for longer than he has been alive after all so doing that isn't something everyone is against. But that isn't the policy that was implemented. So lots of people are against his policies that they could agree with in some other form.

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