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zie
·9 dagen geleden·discuss
That generally turns out to be the same thing as me, just said more succinctly. I agree with your thinking.
zie
·9 dagen geleden·discuss
Sort of True-ish. There are lots of different kinds of ownership. Ownership with little to no say in how things are run to ownership with basically all the control.

If you are an owner with all the control, i.e. you are on the board or in corporate leadership(CEO/CFO/etc), then hey guess what,there is a really great cell here at the local prison just waiting for you, depending on how involved you were.

If you are an owner with little to no control, i.e. most shareholders that just vote for the board, etc. The assets would get liquidated, bond/debt holders would get paid back, and then anything left over would go to these shareholders.

This would incentivize shareholders to care more about what they are owning, this is a good thing. Even if it's pension funds and individual retirement accounts. This would get sorted pretty quickly as soon as the new normal is known and adjusted for.

SpaceX for example just went public, but if you read the docs, the control was not given to the public. Elon Musk 100% controls SpaceX still. Even if every public shareholder unanimously agrees against Elon Musk, guess what happens? Elon Musk still gets his way.

I don't know what the parent comment was thinking, but to my mind, the ones with the most control get the worst of the consequences. So Pension Funds/etc that hold little to no control would get paid out before those with more control.
zie
·12 dagen geleden·discuss
It's hilarious reading! :)
zie
·12 dagen geleden·discuss
It's an interesting way to apply for the eBay CEO job for sure.
zie
·17 dagen geleden·discuss
They almost certainly need fans on the outside of the building to cool the 55C water back down to 45C. But correct, no fans on the servers themselves or even in the building. Except perhaps for the humans, so they can stand to work inside the building, when needed.
zie
·24 dagen geleden·discuss
LOL exactly, It was not meant in seriousness :)

Clearly the engineering team didn't know ahead of time that Electrify America would be the end result of dieselgate. Had they known, perhaps they would have been more eager to do the engineering work though! haha

It was just a fun inside joke, since nobody could have assumed the fines would create Electrify America. Personally I'm glad Electrify America exists, though the way it happened was probably not the best path to get here.

EA even has successfully moved on from just being an org forced into existence and are actively trying to take care of customers and produce a good product now that they have some competition.
zie
·24 dagen geleden·discuss
That was just engineers engineering their way into creating Electrify America :)
zie
·vorige maand·discuss
> Recovery rates are on average about 45-55% (since 1987 according to research by S&P).

Exactly.
zie
·vorige maand·discuss
Indeed. Category #4 "high yield corporate bonds" are also known as "Junk bonds" because they kind of suck at the stable cashflow part, since they tend to go to $0 sometimes, much like stocks.

Technically when bonds "go to $0", you actually get priority over any corporate assets vs stock ownership, but if the bond went to $0, there is likely not a lot of assets left either. So you can't expect to get saved completely from whatever asset sale happens.
zie
·vorige maand·discuss
While partially true, that "If you have better behavioral tolerance for volatility" is HUGE. Most people can not do this. Once they see their net worth go from $x to $x/2 or worse, they panic sell. People are emotional beings and it's very very hard to not let your emotions dictate what's going on.

If you haven't lived through a market panic and crash(last one in the US was 2008/2009), then chances are you shouldn't count yourself as being able to do it.

Also, their 100% equity time frames are measured in many lifetimes, not in a single lifetime.

If the goal is to have the biggest $ balance, then sure 100% equities for the win, but if the goal is to survive your retirement with little worry, 100% equities is a terrible idea.

Bonds provide stable cash flow. Equities provide growth/return. Use both in the appropriate amounts for your situation.
zie
·vorige maand·discuss
Very different risk profiles.

Bonds are about steady cash flow, not about total return. "stable" dividend stocks are almost never really stable when the financial world crashes.
zie
·vorige maand·discuss
Their definition of long run and your definition of long run are probably different.

Also, it should be noted, just because it's the optimal to have the most $'s that shouldn't be the goal. The goal should be to survive your retirement with "enough".

And it should also be mentioned, most people can't stomach holding 100% equities, for a very good reason. When the 40-60% market crash happens, people get emotional and make emotional decisions. Sure there are the lucky few that can hold out, but most can't. Are you going to be one of the few lucky ones? If you haven't yet been through it once(last one in the USA was 2008/9), how do you know for sure?
zie
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
I'm with you, once an RCE is known, it's usually just a matter of time before it gets script-kiddied and easy to run. Don't put yourself through the pain, just upgrade nginx.

I just finished upgrading a weird embedded box that required compiling a static nginx binary and moving it over. It's more annoying than apt update;apt upgrade or whatever your OS distribution needs, but it's still not that hard.
zie
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
I would think you could do this with a comma.ai device too.
zie
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
<3
zie
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Just depends on if that's something grandparents/kids can/want to afford.

Personally, If the hardware is working great, seems like a waste of money replacing it, just to upgrade software. Especially with Debian oldstable -> Debian stable where it's usually quite easy and painless.
zie
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Yes, a bonus would be more context, but already this can show stuff you know you don't want. If you see doubleclick.net for instance you know it will be ad-ridden disasters, or whatever.

With just the domain, you can search the code repo and see exactly where it's calling github.com to see what exactly it's trying to reach on github. So it gives you an easy place to track down what's going on. An extra bonus would be clicking on github.com and it would link to the line in the file that makes the github.com call.

Clearly they aren't done covering all the bases, but I think this is a great start! Way more than I expected to be honest.
zie
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Yes, for sure. More context is a bonus. like clicking a link takes you to the code that calls out to github.com. Or for some sites like github, instead of just showing the domain, it shows the repo in question or it's a gist or something it says whoa nelly! and marks it questionable, etc.

But already they have a great start here.
zie
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
I love that under disclosures "Plugin might make requests to 1 external domain", if you click on it, it shows the domain: "github.com". great work!

Example from https://community.obsidian.md/plugins/zotlit
zie
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
Clearly you disagree with the debian stable perspective. That's fine, it's not for everyone. You can just run debian unstable or debian testing, depending on where exactly you draw the line.

If you want the rolling release like distro, just run debian unstable. That's what you get. It's on par with all the other constantly updated distros out there. Or just run one of those.

Also, Debian stable has a lifetime a lot longer than 2 years, see https://www.debian.org/releases/. Some of us need distros like stable, because we are in giant orgs that are overworked and have long release cycles. Our users want stuff to "just work" and stable promises if X worked at release, it will keep working until we stop support. You don't add new features to a stable release.

From a personal perspective: Debian Stable is for your grandparents or young children. You install Stable, turn on auto-update and every 5-ish years you spend a day upgrading them to the next stable release. Then you spend a week or two helping them through all the new changes and then you have minimal support calls from them for 5-ish years. If you handed them a rolling release or Debian unstable, you'd have constant support calls.