Tbf, for a lot of people, high risk is the only way they can expect to grow their savings to the point they can ever retire or anything. I know I'm in higher risk (not cryptos high risk) than I'd like, but if I don't then I might as well not save because the purchasing power of money is shrinking a lot faster than the 2% per year they claimed.
You should always try to have a number of different options because even a minor monopoly can be abused, but I had some really good luck with 7digital.com buying legally licensed DRM-Free MP3s.
A while back I realized that a lot of streaming services were starting to become potential vectors for censorship and social engineering so I wanted to make sure I had a copy of the music I liked on my own storage. That way I know I have my music and they can't disappear the songs I care about.
Some people like the streaming aspect of streaming music. For that, Nextcloud Music lets you use most ampache or subsonic compatible apps to stream on your phone. Then you have access to your full music collection on the go without necessarily using up all your local storage.
A while back I realized that a lot of streaming services were starting to become potential vectors for censorship and social engineering so I wanted to make sure I had a copy of the music I liked on my own storage. That way I know I have my music and they can't disappear the songs I care about.
Some people like the streaming aspect of streaming music. For that, Nextcloud Music lets you use most ampache or subsonic compatible apps to stream on your phone. Then you have access to your full music collection on the go without necessarily using up all your local storage.
Nature is incredible in that way, it isn't a static thing, but all kinds of life striving to survive and coming up with unexpected ways to do so (even if in the case of stuff like pathogenic bacteria, we'd prefer it doesn't)
That's cute, and I love the name for a frog.
Is it kosher bringing an australian frog to new zealand? I know the australians have some trouble from importing some American toads a long time ago.
Is it kosher bringing an australian frog to new zealand? I know the australians have some trouble from importing some American toads a long time ago.
If you go back 1000 years to central America, there were all kinds of "experts" with literally books full of data saying that if you didn't keep on sacrificing people to the Gods, the sun would decide not to rise anymore (almost all remaining books from the time and place are about this topic). A lot of people would get very worked up if you said that maybe you didn't need to sacrifice people to keep the sun from rising. I'm sure they'd explain in detail what would happen if the sun stopped rising and why we must continue to sacrifice people.
This is going to sound stupid, but my preferred language is a dialect of BASIC that does multithreading really well -- I made a multithreaded multiplayer game back in 2005 that worked out pretty well. I assumed that Java would be similarly straightforward...
"who are you going to believe? Me when I wrote that article, or me when I wrote this article?"
These publications need to stop using the word "baseless" since they themselves are the basis.
Having participated in and run a number of OSS projects, it's self-evident that the people who did the work of writing the original program and popularizing it get the power to steer the project. For most projects there *is* nobody else. For a lot of projects there aren't even users or financial backers or even other developers. It isn't until much further down the line that there's even anyone else in the room to ask about governance. By the time there is someone else to ask about things, the Hot shot developer who actually did all the work is firmly in charge because they've done all the work, they've made all the decisions, and that work and those decisions ended up being successful.
With FOSS anyone is free to fork the project and run it differently, but that isn't really what most people want to do. It's a lot of work, and it's fairly thankless work.
With FOSS anyone is free to fork the project and run it differently, but that isn't really what most people want to do. It's a lot of work, and it's fairly thankless work.
When people say socialism doesn't work (and in this case I'm talking about socialism not as Marx's conception of socialism as a totalitarian dictatorship that sits in between capitalism and stateless communism, but the definition of more social programs and the like), I'd say it doesn't work on a practical level.
As a middle-class individual I give over a dollar of tax money to the government for every dollar I get to bring home, and yet there are still homeless people begging for food at the supermarket.
My great grandfather didn't pay income tax for a good chunk of his life, and here I am paying half of every dollar I make, and I'm still seeing homeless people begging for food at the supermarket. That's an epic failure.
As a middle-class individual I give over a dollar of tax money to the government for every dollar I get to bring home, and yet there are still homeless people begging for food at the supermarket.
My great grandfather didn't pay income tax for a good chunk of his life, and here I am paying half of every dollar I make, and I'm still seeing homeless people begging for food at the supermarket. That's an epic failure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuQZrA4cl5E
This was really incredible to watch. Gives you an idea of some techniques used previously. The results are really something else.
This was really incredible to watch. Gives you an idea of some techniques used previously. The results are really something else.
The hypocrisy of people who supported Trump's first impeachment being totally OK with Trump being indicted now is not surprising, but it's disappointing.
I never knew that Leonard Cohen released a cover of "Happy happy, joy joy" in the tone of the original.
"Hello! It'sa me! Senor Tato! I don'ta know who this Tate guy is! He soundsa like a bad hombre!"
I like to say all my services are run off of "parts scavenged from a roadside sign" because it's all fanless sign PCs, commercial grade and designed to be on 24/7/365 for years at a time. Really nice being low power, no moving parts to fail whatsoever, and if you find a good deal on ebay ridiculously inexpensive.
Meaning that they just needed to fudge the numbers by 0.1% to pretend there wasn't a recession.
My stagflation call was right on the nose!
My stagflation call was right on the nose!