tatterdemalion
@tatterdemalion@programming.dev
Professional software engineer, musician, gamer, amateur historian, stoic, democratic socialist
- Comment on Bro 😭😭 1 day ago:
Coullier looks good bald. Stamos, not so much.
- Comment on The g spot is in the ear canal 2 weeks ago:
BTW if you end up with an impacted ear drum or you just want to deeply clean your ears: peroxide. Just tilt your head sideways and pour it in. Let it sit for a while and it will break up enough wax to dislodge it. You might find that you can hear much better after.
- Comment on Beware 3 weeks ago:
I’m leery of Larry.
- Comment on Eat lead 4 weeks ago:
I thought carbon dating of fossils was our best argument against the 4000 years myth.
- Comment on Chatbot that caused teen’s suicide is now more dangerous for kids, lawsuit says 4 weeks ago:
This makes me so nervous about how AI is going to influence children and adolescents of the coming generations. From iPad kids to AI teens. They’ll be at a huge risk of dissociation from reality.
- Comment on So bad it was actually entertaining 4 weeks ago:
They have that in Chicago.
- Comment on Society 2 months ago:
Watch detective Pikachu and it might help.
- Comment on Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread 2 months ago:
I do this by necessity because the medium-sized carts are most popular and they’re usually only available in the parking lot anyway.
- Comment on Tensors 2 months ago:
Matrices are linear endomorphisms. They are isomorphic to (1,1) tensors, but not any other rank of tensors.
- Comment on Anon checks out mobile gaming 3 months ago:
Layton is baby puzzles. Or at least it made me feel that way after two levels.
- Comment on Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way 3 months ago:
So we’re reinventing
scpnow? - Comment on Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way 3 months ago:
Only because IPv6 and self-hosting is not mainstream yet. But if it were commonplace for everyone’s home to have something as simple as a public file server or SSH server, then this problem would be trivialized.
- Comment on Movies that “go from 0-100” in the last 15 or so minutes? 7 months ago:
Does Neon Genesis Evangelion count? It ramps hard into abstract psycho-theological weird territory.
- Comment on Cloudflare Employee records her final meeting where HR tries to fire her 10 months ago:
Actually making good on insurance claims would defeat the point of insurance, which is to make money off of people in need, i.e. those who can’t afford the financial burdens that insurance purports to protect you from.
- Comment on Why are so many countries in the world “developing” and poor, while essentially only Western countries have a high standard of living? 10 months ago:
I’m not convinced, considering the US and many other countries with high standard of living are also leading the world in external debt (both total and per capita).
en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_countries_by_external_…
Maybe you mean debt to GDP+wealth ratio? Or more specifically, bad credit with international banks.
I’m not an economist though, so I’d be curious to hear if there is more explanation for why you consider debt to be “the main reason.”
I am aware that some countries have been “screwed over” by large banks that had specific detrimental stipulations for debt forgiveness though. For example, look at the Latin American Debt Crisis.
…the Fed convened an emergency meeting of central bankers from around the world to provide a bridge loan to Mexico. Fed officials also encouraged US banks to participate in a program to reschedule Mexico’s loans (Aggarwal 2000). As the crisis spread beyond Mexico, the United States took the lead in organizing an “international lender of last resort,” a cooperative rescue effort among commercial banks, central banks, and the IMF. Under the program, commercial banks agreed to restructure the countries’ debt, and the IMF and other official agencies lent the LDCs sufficient funds to pay the interest, but not principal, on their loans. In return, the LDCs agreed to undertake structural reforms of their economies and to eliminate budget deficits. The hope was that these reforms would enable the LDCs to increase exports and generate the trade surpluses and dollars necessary to pay down their external debt (Devlin and Ffrench-Davis 1995). Although this program averted an immediate crisis, it allowed the problem to fester. Instead of eliminating subsidies to state-owned enterprises, many LDC countries instead cut spending on infrastructure, health, and education, and froze wages or laid off state employees. The result was high unemployment, steep declines in per capita income, and stagnant or negative growth—hence the term the “lost decade” (Carrasco 1999).
- Comment on Fortnite has changed 10 months ago:
This is fake, right? Right?