@realcaseyrollins You might want to check out wolfballs.com. It's a lemmy instance more focused on freedom of speech. I've subscribed to a number of their communities in my lotide instance.
@pleb @Moon @pernia I'll catch shit for saying it, but I love FreeBASIC, an open source implementation of QuickBASIC for protected mode MS-DOS, Windows, and Linux. It has been written in itself for 15 years.
Would you want to use it for a big project? That's tough to say. Really depends on the project, I'd say. I like it because it is easy to get up and running with something quickly since the basic library gives you a lot of simple stuff without thinking too hard about it, but I could understand if a lot of people would turn their noses up at it because it's a dialect of BASIC.
That being said, it has a lot of modern features that are pretty neat. Once I read the documentation I was able to do multithreading really easily which I think is awesome.
Would you want to use it for a big project? That's tough to say. Really depends on the project, I'd say. I like it because it is easy to get up and running with something quickly since the basic library gives you a lot of simple stuff without thinking too hard about it, but I could understand if a lot of people would turn their noses up at it because it's a dialect of BASIC.
That being said, it has a lot of modern features that are pretty neat. Once I read the documentation I was able to do multithreading really easily which I think is awesome.
@grey (Your wife is working. What, are you supposed to sit and cut yourself the whole time?)
@realcaseyrollins Former cult member: "Thanks CNN for making me feel so wanted and loved for following the message and for giving me a clear enemy to oppose! This is nothing like when I was a member of a cult!"
World's end harem: It is the year 2045. The man killer virus called communism has killed all men, only 5 men remain. Those few brave based and red pilled men must restore all of society including raising hundreds of thousands of children so they don't grow up to become strippers.
@Linux_in_a_Bit @tek_dmn I never understood why fan controllers aren't dynamic. It isn't like a PC lacks the horsepower for a PID...
@jeffcliff Good thing we've implemented papers please nation-wide! That's really 15 days to slow the spread'd.
@Linux_in_a_Bit The recording booth literally has sound absorbing materials on the walls so this doesn't happen! And the mic is somewhat directional to try to prevent it too!
@billblake2018 @wjmaggos Since corporations will never be abolished because they're too useful as effective agents of the government, we'll never know for sure.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.10.21261846v1.full.pdf
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Early Child Cognitive Development: Initial Findings in a
Longitudinal Observational Study of Child Health
This is a shocking study the way it was reported that the average IQ had dropped substantially, but the reality is worse. The average IQ for kids went from about 100 to about 78. That's bad. But then you realize the spread is wider, so the best kids are barely affected, but the worst kids are incredibly debilitated! The worst hit kids are massively harmed, probably for life.
Early childhood is the time when the brain is wiring itself. This to me says we're going to have a cohort of children who are significantly constrained by the conditions of their first few months.
This isn't caused by COVID. It's caused by government's reaction to COVID.
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Early Child Cognitive Development: Initial Findings in a
Longitudinal Observational Study of Child Health
This is a shocking study the way it was reported that the average IQ had dropped substantially, but the reality is worse. The average IQ for kids went from about 100 to about 78. That's bad. But then you realize the spread is wider, so the best kids are barely affected, but the worst kids are incredibly debilitated! The worst hit kids are massively harmed, probably for life.
Early childhood is the time when the brain is wiring itself. This to me says we're going to have a cohort of children who are significantly constrained by the conditions of their first few months.
This isn't caused by COVID. It's caused by government's reaction to COVID.
@billblake2018 @wjmaggos An owner of a sole proprietorship may not be held criminally responsible for the actions of his employees if he or she does due diligence, but when a business goes under and takes a bunch of the owner's personal assets with it, other business owners will take notice and strive to be more careful with their own assets. If we assume arguendo that public stock markets remain, if buying a stock in Lehman brothers or Enron meant that your personal assets might be seized to pay back creditors, then individual investors would be much more invested (ahem) in ensuring sustainable growth with managed risks.
The nudge towards more conservative operation of businesses would naturally limit the upper size of businesses because nobody would want to have their money in an Enron or a Lehman Brothers, and people would lay awake at night worrying that they are investing in a Theranos. The bigger the company, the bigger the fall. There'd be a gravity that pulls businesses downwards.
At the moment, there's no such gravity. Businesses make more money easier by being massive, and if they screw up the investors walk away with only their initial investment lost (and perhaps less than that if they can dump their shares quickly enough -- something that would be a lot more difficult if people who were buying shares cheap were also potentially taking on debt greater than the cost of the investment they made)
The nudge towards more conservative operation of businesses would naturally limit the upper size of businesses because nobody would want to have their money in an Enron or a Lehman Brothers, and people would lay awake at night worrying that they are investing in a Theranos. The bigger the company, the bigger the fall. There'd be a gravity that pulls businesses downwards.
At the moment, there's no such gravity. Businesses make more money easier by being massive, and if they screw up the investors walk away with only their initial investment lost (and perhaps less than that if they can dump their shares quickly enough -- something that would be a lot more difficult if people who were buying shares cheap were also potentially taking on debt greater than the cost of the investment they made)
@waltercool @p @Moon @graf @sjw Hello, fellow fed(i)posters, would anyone like to suggest some crimes they might wish to commit? Please speak into the microphone while doing so, we have a large crowd and it would be unfortunate if your voice wasn't clear.
@billblake2018 @wjmaggos Good point. Replace LLCs with corporations in general. Businesses can continue to exist as something individuals own and control and must take responsibility for, but I think that would naturally limit the size of businesses because beyond a certain point the corruption of a business that the owner would be taking personal responsibility for would be such that you can't grow any further.
@sunbearshaman All housing is local, but if you want to try buying a house this year you should immediately go down to the bank and get pre-approved. What this should do is let you lock in at today's interest rate for up to 120 days depending on where you are.
It's free, there's no obligation to use the pre-approval, but if you do then it's possible you end up with the bank basically paying you to borrow money because interest rates will be going up worldwide this year, along with all loan costs. In my jurisdiction, I've heard from a trusted source we could see 5-year mortgage terms at 4%, which would be significantly higher than my 10-year mortgage.
The other side of that is when interest rates rise, prices will either freeze or drop. Buy for housing, not for investment.
It's free, there's no obligation to use the pre-approval, but if you do then it's possible you end up with the bank basically paying you to borrow money because interest rates will be going up worldwide this year, along with all loan costs. In my jurisdiction, I've heard from a trusted source we could see 5-year mortgage terms at 4%, which would be significantly higher than my 10-year mortgage.
The other side of that is when interest rates rise, prices will either freeze or drop. Buy for housing, not for investment.