GaMEChld

joined 1 year ago
[–] GaMEChld 29 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Counterattack: Task Manager

[–] GaMEChld 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Hmm... Interesting analogy. What about breaking in an engine properly? Would that be considered rest? I have no point with this, I'm just noodling around with the analogy to see how apt it is.

[–] GaMEChld 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the problem sounds like we should be not allowing recursion, or regulating how many levels of recursion of allows for a reasonable level of liquidity and velocity of cash in an economy. Allowing for it to infinitely nest guarantees a bubble is going to pop somewhere eventually.

[–] GaMEChld 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's ok, thanks to Nvidia's amazing value, I have a whopping 10GB on a 3080 that I paid way too much for! My old Vega 64 had 8GB which was from 2017.

[–] GaMEChld 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Is there a newer version than the bivalent one? Are those strains the ones currently circulating?

[–] GaMEChld 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did they say they chose his greatest love? I thought they simply chose a women he had an emotional connection to, and accidently chose one that didn't exist.

[–] GaMEChld 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I agree that it doesn't rub me the right way. The mechanism is interesting though.

Essentially what it is is you borrow a share of stock of Company X from John Smith.

You now owe John Smith 1 share and you sell that share for current market value of $100.

You now have $100 but still owe John Smith 1 share of stock, and interest based on how long you take to give him his stock back.

The stock now drops to $10.

You buy 1 share of stock for $10 and return the stock back to John Smith as well as some interest.

You now have a net +$90 (minus some interest) you didn't have at the start of this. Voila, profit from stock going down. John Smith's share is worth less now, so he loses out.

Why would John loan someone a share of his stock? Well if it maintains it's value or goes up, then it's you who lost because you owe John a share that you have to purchase for the same or more than you got for it, plus interest too.

The heart of the mechanism is loaning stock, aka loaning property of value. So preventing it might be tricky.

[–] GaMEChld 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you! I completely forgot about the importance of atmospheric pressure.

[–] GaMEChld 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Without a functional protective magnetic field around itself, a terrestrial planet such as Mars would be extremely vulnerable to harsh solar winds and lose all the water on its surface, making it incapable of sustaining life.

Why does solar wind strip water from the planet? For some reason I thought Mars' smaller size and less gravity was more the reason for it's state.

[–] GaMEChld 10 points 1 year ago

Sticks were our toys when we were little. They were our swords, our guns, etc.

[–] GaMEChld 2 points 1 year ago

My life is way better. But mental health is a never ending journey. I'll always be one bad day away from death.

We're all going to die sometime. Just trying to keep that number chugging along for as long as I can. I'll be dead soon enough. Whether that's next week or next century, it's still soon enough. No need to rush it.

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