stackghost

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   by stackghost 2mo ago

   >We're nowhere near the "it's meaningless to talk about why you don't like it" threshold. We crossed that threshold at least a year ago.
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   by stackghost 2mo ago

   This is such a weird response because nothing about index fund inclusion rules has anything to do with whether or not a fund is a person. Complete non sequitur. Can you explain what you mean? Did you accidentally reply to the wrong commen
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   by stackghost 2mo ago

   I'm not sure why that's relevant. The original discussion was about who's forced to buy NDX 100 stocks like SpaceX. The answer to that is "index funds". Asked and answered. Whatever cute point you're trying
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   by stackghost 2mo ago

   >QQQ and /NQ or /MNQ futures are the most popular instruments for getting exposure. QQQ tracks the Nasdaq 100. It's an index fund. If the index includes a new ticker, then QQQ has to buy it. Buying QQQ doesn't seem
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   by stackghost 2mo ago

   Index funds, for starters.
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   by stackghost 2mo ago

   Electron and React apps, perhaps. It's completely feasible to build a webapp that is lightweight. I have done it several times.
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   by stackghost 2mo ago

   At Microslop? Evidently, lots.
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   by stackghost 2mo ago

   Outstanding username, btw
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   by stackghost 2mo ago

   Exclusionary isn't the term. I'm not sure there is one specific term in English, but today's high culture all seems to be predicated upon feigning enlightenment, or pretending to have a deep understanding. My wife's sis
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    by stackghost 2mo ago

    >You will not be able to sync health data with your Samsung account and your health data will be deleted unless retained pursuant to applicable law. If retention is required, we will erase it as soon as the required retention period ends
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    by stackghost 2mo ago

    >peanuts No kidding. I have a few personal services running on Internet-facing servers and they get hammered 24/7. One of my projects is written in Rails and I had left the server on the default verbosity during development. It ac
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    by stackghost 2mo ago

    >Whether you're in violation of the law is irrelevant because the laws are so numerous and ambiguous that everyone is always in violation of the law and the only thing that matters is if the prosecutors want to charge you. This situ
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    by stackghost 2mo ago

    >liberal judges are typically soft on crime. You're going to need to back that claim up with statistics
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    by stackghost 2mo ago

    Perhaps I should have written "I don't think this is well suited for gaming, despite the marketing copy"
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    by stackghost 2mo ago

    I don't think this is for gaming. It has arrows plus two buttons, probably for conceptual equivalents to "tap/click/enter" and "back/escape". If you want a DIYish handheld for gaming there are much b
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    by stackghost 2mo ago

    My original account dated to 2010 and even then he wasn't very active
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    by stackghost 2mo ago

    >increasingly I lean towards communities where that is a given for any legitimate shares. I have a hard time finding these communities
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    by stackghost 2mo ago

    >Other factors like weather, currents I'd be interested to know how much progress she made/lost due to drifting overnight. I feel like that alone would have a drastic impact. It would really suck to check your GPS track in th
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    by stackghost 2mo ago

    For me it's astigmatism. I have fairly mild astigmatism and I can just barely read the text if I try very, very hard.
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    by stackghost 2mo ago

    RMS may be legendary but he's no John Carmack or whomever else. I use emacs every day, and nobody who does the same can honestly say the foundations are good. The performance is atrocious. The UI locks up when you make network calls
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    by stackghost 2mo ago

    Why are Rust people so insufferable? We get it. You like Rust. It's not a panacea.
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    by stackghost 2mo ago

    Designing the game and having codex shit out the code is how I roll.
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    by stackghost 2mo ago

    ...every nah'n'then I get a little bit terrified, I see the fuckin look in your eyes
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    by stackghost 2mo ago

    Other than gopher/Gemini, not really, no
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    by stackghost 2mo ago

    You mean centralizing the web? Doesn't bother me. Most of the web is a dumpster fire of AI slop anyway. There's more to the Internet than the world wide web, though. NNTP and IRC communities remain vibrant, if diminished in siz
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    by stackghost 2mo ago

    That's an interesting choice of analogy because I despise doing jigsaw puzzles. I don't see where the entertainment is supposed to be.
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    by stackghost 2mo ago

    And to the sycophant, pointing out real and obvious drawbacks is being a curmudgeon.
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    by stackghost 2mo ago

    >Now tell me what is cool Piracy is cool. Information wants to be free. I hate the corporate bootlicking that is so prevalent here.
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    by stackghost 2mo ago

    There needs to be another rule against being a techno-sycophant.
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    by stackghost 2mo ago

    Technically, any conversation possible exists somewhere in the digits of pi.