moobythegoldensock
@moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub
- Comment on I balance my checkbook every day. I manage my bank acount . Why does the goverment have so much problems with this? I get large payouts and such but it always seem they are in the neg?? 2 days ago:
80% of government “debt” is actually in the form of bonds. People voluntarily give the government more money than they’re required in taxes because they believe the government will be strong enough to pay them back interest later. The government does not have to pay down all that debt because the bonds are being cashed out at a predictable rate and people are buying new bonds all the time.
For example, someone in 1995 buys a series EE bond at $100. It’ll be worth roughly $200-215 now, which is 30 year maturation. But due to inflation, $100 in 1995 is worth $212 today. So even though the US government paid out over $100 in interest, due to inflation it was basically a wash, and they had 30 years to invest that money in infrastructure. So this “debt” was actually a good deal for the US government.
The short version is the government is fine as long as it can pay the interest on its loans without needing to print so much money to do so that it causes hyperinflation. You don’t have the ability to do that with your personal debt.
- Comment on I love authoritarians yum yum 2 weeks ago:
Oh, I misunderstood. My apologies.
Hepatitis B takes 60-90 days to incubate. Because of the slow incubation, the vaccine works best if started within 24 hours of exposure, and can still work if administered up to 7 days after exposure. Newborns are typically exposed during birth, not while growing in the womb.
Compare to, say, the COVID-19, where the incubation is 2-14 days. The vaccine takes about 10-14 days to set in, so if you take it post-exposure in most cases you’ll be done with the actual infection before the vaccine even starts working.
- Comment on I love authoritarians yum yum 2 weeks ago:
Would you prefer to test your smoke alarms by:
- Pushing the “Test” button on your smoke alarm?
- Lighting your house on fire?
The entire point of the vaccine is to prevent the virus. If you wait until you’ve been exposed to the virus, you’ve defeated the entire purpose of the vaccine.
- Comment on Protein time 3 weeks ago:
All you had to do was phosphorylate the damn ADP, CJ!
- Comment on Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think 3 weeks ago:
Seriously, on older games pushing up to look forward was the default. It was only later that they decided to call it inverted.
I just don’t get why anyone would use non-inverted. Why would I tilt my head forward to look up?
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 1 month ago:
They’re the same thing. You just take the square root of both sides to get i = sqrt(-1).
- Comment on Microsoft faces a lawsuit over cutting Windows 10's support as it's accused of monopolizing the AI market 1 month ago:
You too!
- Comment on Microsoft faces a lawsuit over cutting Windows 10's support as it's accused of monopolizing the AI market 1 month ago:
A single developer named Jerry Nixon said it a single time at a conference. Microsoft never confirmed that it was an official policy, the “ton” of other employees saying it never existed, and it never was a tagline nor appeared in a single ad.
- Comment on Microsoft faces a lawsuit over cutting Windows 10's support as it's accused of monopolizing the AI market 1 month ago:
Which ad? That’s a video from a random YouTuber, not an official Windows 10 ad from Microsoft.
- Comment on Microsoft faces a lawsuit over cutting Windows 10's support as it's accused of monopolizing the AI market 1 month ago:
It sounds like a pretty weak argument to be honest. I wouldn’t bank on this actually delaying the EOL date.
- Comment on quick thinking 2 months ago:
The heart was going “kethumpathumpadump,” the doctor put a finger up the guy’s butt, and then his heart reset to a normal “lub dub, lub dub.”
- Comment on After 18 years, a surprise Half-Life 2 update makes it once again possible to beat a honking train on Highway 17 2 months ago:
Nah, it’ll be Half Life Alyx: Epsiode 1.
- Comment on You don’t see articles like this about moms with three two jobs who still manage to take care of their kids. 2 months ago:
Bud claims he’s “working” during his full waking hours. Nah, having a job where your decision making and planning is spread out throughout the day does not mean you’re working all the time.
No NVIDIA employee is going to buy that he’s continuously working while going to the movies, playing golf, hanging out with work buddies over lunch, etc. while they’re physically sitting at a desk working. Sure, there are pockets of work in there and productive things may happen, but he’s not working in the same sense his staff is.
- Comment on You don’t see articles like this about moms with three two jobs who still manage to take care of their kids. 2 months ago:
Thinking about work is not the same as working. Maybe he should invest some money into therapy for his work anxiety.
- Comment on How Apple’s iOS 26 and Google’s Android 16 Will Change Our Phones 2 months ago:
Apple’s going to add some transparency to buttons and call it a groundbreaking redesign while Android is going to go all in on AI.
So iPhones will become more Apple and Android will become more Google.
- Comment on Listen here, Little Dicky 3 months ago:
It was a fraction in Leibniz’s original notation.
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 3 months ago:
It doesn’t. You said Belloq hired them to be his personal army, which paints the Hovitos as complicit in working against their own self-interests. As in, they were the betrayers of their own people and were selling out to Belloq for some cash.
But no, the reality is both Jones and Belloq were out to screw them: Jones by directly robbing them, and Belloq by first scamming them and then robbing them. Both were being imperialist and the Hovitos were the victims.
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 3 months ago:
He didn’t know Belloq was there until after he had robbed them.
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 3 months ago:
Where do you get that he hired them?
The opening scene is them discussing that the tribe would kill them just for being in the area, and then Belloq taunts Jones saying he can’t warn them that he’s scamming them because Jones doesn’t speak Hovitos. No where does it say he hired them.
- Comment on THE PERIODIC TABLE OF TAYLOR SWIFT👩🏼🔬🧪🧫🧬🔬 3 months ago:
Yep. Like if I did Metallica, I’d put the Black album on the far left followed by Ride the Lightning, and Master of Puppets would go on the far right (the Noble Thrashes) along with Ride the Lightning and Kill ‘Em All. Load, Reload, and St. Anger would be Transition Metal; Death Magnetic, Hardwired to Self Destruct and 72 Seasons would be the Metalloids, and then of course at the bottom I’d have the Luluthanides and Garage Inctinides.
Except actually putting that together sounds like way too much work, so I’m just going to pat myself on the back for the puns.
- Comment on THE PERIODIC TABLE OF TAYLOR SWIFT👩🏼🔬🧪🧫🧬🔬 3 months ago:
It’s just album track listings? You could do this with any artist, and probably better than just doing it chronologically.
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 3 months ago:
Gotta love how the first movie opens with him stealing an idol from an uncontacted Peruvian tribe, and the heroic music swells as he narrowly escapes with spears flying around them.
Granted, this takes place in 1936 and his actions were the norm for the period, but despite coming out in 1981 the movie plays this scene out rather uncritically.
- Comment on ANIMAL FARM | Exclusive First Look 3 months ago:
Seth Rogen is playing Napoleon, the dad character in the scene.
But yeah, the tone doesn’t seem right based on that clip.