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Dollar coins could make for a lucrative show.

Who was DenverCoder9?

He would’ve screwed you anyway. “Equity” is so laughably easy to dilute to nada in startups through various means that there are numerous articles and parodies of it out there.

I worked for a startup that didn’t meet its VC’s “valuation” goal even though we were stupidly profitable nearly from day one. Market-forces driven downround. When I left, the options I had were previously promised to be worth hundreds of thousands but because of dilution, weren’t worth the paper they were printed on. I didn’t let them give me options “in lieu of base comp” though, so I ended up ok but not everyone did.

Well you see some bidets have a “TURBO” mode which shoots a bunch of water up your ass and softens your turds.

No seriously. I’m not even joking about this one.

Schism and Split! Let’s have multiple factions of Catholicism! Even multiple popes!

To be fair here, technically throwing neutrons at matter has only some probability of causing it to fission, and statistics tells us how many do. It’s just that there are so many more neutrons and nuclei than there are people, so we can say with statistical confidence that under such and such conditions, y will occur when x happens.

Not that different. Just more samples and observations.

Please share. It’s a very common problem.

I don’t think we can just get rid of compound interest. It’s akin to “just get rid of F=ma”.

Compound interest is an economic law of physics. In every day, in every moment, we make choices. Big or small, those choices affect the next opportunity, which affects the next, and the next after next, and so on. A series of really good choices can lead to exponential growth, and vice versa to poor choices. Compounding interest is a mathematical model to represent that. It’s literally the opportunity cost of capital.

When you take a loan for {principal} over {n_periods} compounded by {frequency} at {percentage}; it turns out that there’s a mathematical formula that results in the exact cost of the loan. You can negotiate any of those parameters to achieve that flat-rate equivalent.

But watch out. Because lenders that will agree to flat-rate lending are also most likely to do so on an absolute cost-basis; meaning there is no benefit and perhaps even penalty for early payment.

Compounding isn’t all evil. Debt isn’t inherently evil, either. Like any instrument, it can be tool to improve your life and/or others’, or it can be a weapon to harm yours or others’.

It's probably the only Distro I'll use from now to the end of time, because I'm quite content with it.

Or you’ve invested so much time setting it up that you don’t dare abandon it (sunk cost).

I jest but there may be a grain of truth to it anyway. We humans tend to get comfortable with what we know and when we spend so much time installing, configuring and tinkering a system that we use daily, we end up knowing it pretty well.

I like to try a new distro on a personal computer every year or so, just to keep my agility of computing systems nimble. But still I usually end up back to Pop!OS and MacOS. Although that practice did pull me away from Fedora to Pop!

Why are you referring to him in the past tense? AFAIK he and his cat are still ranting about tech rights on the daily.

They can AI gen Yogurt just like they did with Admiral Tarkin.

There are several comments ITT that mention the “just works” distros, like Mint or Pop!_OS etc. But make no mistake, these distributions are every bit as powerful as any other distribution. They’re not “dumbed down” versions by any means, it just means that they’ve paid close attention to crafting a polished user experience.

Case in point: I’m a seasoned Linux user and still I prefer Pop!_OS. Some of my even more experienced Linux colleagues use Mint, Fedora, etc. because we’re paid to write code that solves customer problems, not tinker with our operating systems on our workstations. I don’t think I actually know anyone in real life that uses Arch (btw)—is it even a real distro or is it just a meme?—or even Debian (unless it’s for a server and even then we’re more likely to use Alpine and install+configure everything we want and nothing we don’t).

Here in Amuricastan, we don’t need no stinking class to learn how to drive a 3000 pound death missile. A signature, a 70% on a multiple-choice exam, and a cursory vision check (can you see through your eyes) is all we need for our FREEDUM MACHINES. First aid is for sissies.

Galt’s Gulch is in Colorado; they’ll be fine.

The enshittification will continue until morale improves. Fall in line, USER.

Apple will happily sell you a MagSafe dongle to dangle in the sink beside your neighbor.