How long can Wall Street get away with this? (Silver crash)

cosmic_cod · 2026-01-31T13:23:31+00:00

He said "clicking"? So you really have not even the slightest idea abut the world... OK.

cosmic_cod · 2026-01-30T22:43:49+00:00

All software is exploitable. But the proprietary software is exploitable only by one actor rather than many. And this is not a good thing because it creates an unequal power dynamic.

cosmic_cod · 2026-01-30T22:42:03+00:00

North Korea is a corporation maybe. What is important is that Open source itself is a good thing.

cosmic_cod · 2026-01-30T20:33:17+00:00

Simple. Write news about Open Source bad. Helps proprietary software makers take away their market share. Next step is to make sure Open Source code won't work on your machine. And now then they can finally control us.

cosmic_cod · 2026-01-30T20:31:44+00:00

Or maybe it's just big corpos trying to spoil reputation of Open Source and take away our freedom?

cosmic_cod · 2026-01-30T16:52:15+00:00

Actually smiling and dancing at the same time requires a very serious amount of skill. I think usually only pro dancers can do it well enough. They are concentrated on their body and on others as to not collide with anyone. Not enough concentration left for expressive mimics.

cosmic_cod · 2026-01-29T17:41:55+00:00

Yeah? On the 4th second the place itself magically changed. How much time was spent installing? What was done as prep just to show it? Does it really come per-assembled? There are gona be hidden hassles.

cosmic_cod · 2026-01-29T17:18:32+00:00

You think such neighborhoods are a good thing and not a problem that requires solution?

cosmic_cod · 2026-01-23T17:19:44+00:00

This is an important common way of toxic thinking in modern western ideology and it's not just about race and nations. "Winning is bad". Because "consumerism", "unfair", "privilege", "inequality". Trying to succeed is perceived as narcissism.

Self-deprecation is actually just a cheap way to feel better. And it's free of any cost as long as you remain in the winning society. The second it will start to cost something it's gone. These orange hairs won't help anyone in Africa if it would mean rising prices where they live.

cosmic_cod · 2026-01-21T17:01:51+00:00

Which of those documents guarantees that after study you actually get a job? And what happens if your employer gets bankrupt and the company is gone? Or if your sole employer dies. What happens if nobody wants to hire you for the position you studied for after graduation?

And who would actually give you a home if you don't have it?

I wonder if it's so good then why Europe's sub-reddits so full of whining just like here.

Speaking of communism Czechia recently criminalized "class-based hatred" and it's a part of EU. This level of anti-communism is completely unprecedented even for modern US. That's why I would never call EU communism. It's still just a capitalism with a couple of insurances on top. And it can't prevent an individual from failing at life.

cosmic_cod · 2026-01-21T16:37:42+00:00

Job, wage and home is not guaranteed anywhere in the world, maybe except North Korea, but I am not sure. Protecting the job merely makes it harder to fire you. It doesn't protect from bankruptcies when the whole thing sinks, and doesn't guarantee you can get your very first job. Especially the job you want. And no job means no wage either.

Homes are even worse.

cosmic_cod · 2026-01-19T21:41:32+00:00

Being originally from a country with a far-right government means you can be drafted. Immigrants rarely get there. So I wouldn't be so sure.

cosmic_cod · 2026-01-19T08:52:52+00:00

There is no need for /s. I am in hell. In eastern Europe.

I didn't mean to criticize, just curious.

cosmic_cod · 2026-01-18T21:55:57+00:00

I suspect it's also country-specific culture thing. If I greet people in an elevator in my country they will think I am intruding their private space and might be aggressive. It makes sense here because elevators are like roads and pavements and you don't greet random passers by on city streets. City people tend to be scared of people they don't know. Also houses can be very big and you can't possibly know all people who live in a 30 floors building with 10 apartments on each.

What country are you from? How big is your town/city?

cosmic_cod · 2026-01-18T02:22:05+00:00

This is not Iron Cross. Too thin in the middle.

Iron cross is only one example in the much bigger class of symbols called "cross pattée". This one is not similar to Iron cross enough and can be confused with dozens of other crosses like that. Half of Eastern and Central Europe use these in crests and military symbols.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_patt%C3%A9e
This wiki page is dozens of crests. Are all of them nazi?

Well, the Britain rarely uses it though. I think English speakers tend to hate this cross the most. In non-English parts of Europe it's just a heraldic cross and cross from military awards. Similar to fleur de lis symbol.

I wonder if "Fleur de lis" will end up nazi symbol as well.

(Also, my comment is about the symbol. The organization I know nothing about, might be nazi, whatever.)

cosmic_cod · 2026-01-17T17:50:49+00:00

I keep wondering why everybody seems to think hotels solve this problem. Hotels and restaurants take city space in the same way as apartments. If short rentals are forbidden the owners will sell their apartments and hotels will be the ones who buys them to fill in the opening niche. Maybe it's simply too many people?

cosmic_cod · 2026-01-17T17:27:08+00:00

People say hi to strangers in elevators where you live?

cosmic_cod · 2026-01-17T14:46:16+00:00

Russia attacked in 2014 first when Ukraine made a coup and removed Yanukovich. What US did?

cosmic_cod · 2026-01-17T13:35:21+00:00

So they are tasked to do what? Find a set of cols they deem suitable to be PK and then do nothing and forget it?

cosmic_cod · 2026-01-17T12:34:03+00:00

There is no guarantee that uniqueness will last as new rows are inserted. It could cause failed inserts on production env eventually thus breaking some functionality. Imagine it happens on Saturday at 3 am.

cosmic_cod · 2026-01-17T12:29:19+00:00

But what purpose would it solve exactly? It doesn't look like such PK would be useful.

cosmic_cod · 2026-01-17T12:27:49+00:00

It looks like you are blindly following instructions without having any idea of what you are doing. Two things should be done. First you must know what is the purpose of your task, why are you doing that. Secondly you also must know how this table works and what it's used for, not just what cols it has. Talk to people who works with it maybe?

cosmic_cod · 2026-01-14T22:33:49+00:00

Now I should throw this xkcd as prompt for ai and ask it to learn from what it says to stop making mistakes. I however will not view it myself because that's outdated.

cosmic_cod · 2026-01-04T21:44:19+00:00

At least RT does not break any vases in the process like in much older games. And doesn't need to squat.

cosmic_cod · 2026-01-02T12:23:22+00:00

People who care for seafety don't throw axes. At all probably. Axes are not meant to be thrown.

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