stevehobbes @ stevehobbes @lemmy.world

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Most of the time they don’t own the actual gas stations, they’d need to get their franchisees to do it and invest in it.

Burn it down.

Or ask them why they don’t just use Cascatelli for everything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascatelli

Definitely makes sense to me.

100% same

Certainly in the US home inspectors carry insurance and bonds for this, and would have been responsible for substantial portions of any repairs.

That’s plenty of data to trade on. If you believe in efficient markets the priced should be more or less the same globally, you can make a lot of money if you know what the market price in Tokyo should be because you know the price in NY first, or vice versa.

They aren’t using it to complete a trade across it. You use it to send information about what is happening in, say, NY to trade locally in Tokyo or São Paulo before anyone else knows what happened in NYC and adjusts their own trading strategy.

You basically are arbitraging people’s access to information.

They’ve been doing this from NY to Chicago (using higher throughput) radio links for a while. See flash boys.

But if you have sophisticated algorithms moving fast enough in NY to only send the information that is worth trading on, this sounds compelling.

I tend to have a dim view of HFTs - I think they’re more or less just stealing pennies from lots of folks while pretending that’s liquidity, but I’m not an expert.

Because it’s fucking weird to comment on your pet’s tits.

This is awesome, very fun and creative.

Awesome! I’m on the TestFlight build and loving the rapid progress. I think it was still a little janky for me and after a second double tap I’m not able to swipe the image away.

Apollo had a lot of years to polish - what you’ve done in such a short period is absolutely amazing. I donated via your buy me a coffee link, but you should absolutely charge something for this app. Putting notifications behind a paywall is perfectly reasonable.

Personally I loved the one-time Ultra purchase and would occasionally just throw some cash in the tip jar on big releases.

I’d love to see the images behave a little more like Apollo, which allowed zooming out with just a double tap (which also zoomed in, or opened the album to swipe through), but to get it away, it was just a double tap to zoom out and swipe it away.

I’m actually on the TestFlight for Memmy and it’s getting much better very quickly.

But I was an Apollo addict and that is a very high bar.

Wefwef reversing the colors on upvotes and downvotes triggers me, and at least on iOS it has a pretty annoying WebKit related bug where it stops scrolling until you tap something.

Memmy is quite good though, the functionality is there and the polish will come!

It really really hope Lemmy takes off. For me, there’s enough here that I’m set. I look forward to the apps getting better and the platform getting more stable.

I don’t know that much about aether, but I have a hard time imaging a voting system of governance that can’t be gamed.

True decentralization is nice but not a big deal for me. Given the open nature of Lemmy, the bar to moving instances is significantly lower than leaving Reddit. It would of course be very inconvenient, but so, it sounds, is aether.

Ultimately, to be accessible to average users, you need some amount of centralization it seems. Everything else is pretty science-projecty.

If you could migrate a community from one instance to another and have subscriptions update automatically, it makes the rogue instance admin a little less scary. But still a risk of course.

lol. Thanks for actually participating in this thread.

But taking help from a community and presumably getting paid for it by your clients and never giving back does in fact make you look like a prick, mate.

Isn’t aethers big thing that everything is ephemeral? If you look at reddits value from my perspective, it isn’t that.

It’s that there’s a huge amount of actual human experience and information available to me through google. Sure there’s a lot of astroturfing happening, but if I wanted a quick glimpse of what people thought about a product, my google search was “$product Reddit” to get a pulse. And then join those communities if I bought the product.

I don’t care about censorship resistance. Though I think the governance model improvements are a great thing that Lemmy could implement.

Reddit or lemmy is not a survival situation. Prioritizing your own needs to the exclusion of all else is selfish.

OP self declared that he never prioritizes anyone else.

You’re inferring gray where none seems to exist.

We live in a society, other people’s needs should be your needs when you’re able to easily help or provide. It costs virtually nothing to contribute back.

If everyone acted like OP, no one would get questions answered or receive help here or on Reddit.

People without empathy surely should learn some, and shame is what society uses broadly to enforce positive (and sometimes negative…) behaviors.

Prioritizing your own needs above all others should be shamed. To quote George Costanza, we live in a society. Being selfish isn’t a good thing.

Literally only taking and never giving by his own admission isn’t something that should be supported.

I didn’t say thank every comment - I said literally say thanks to the one that provided the correct answer, and maybe even an indication that it was the correct answer. Is every other user supposed to try every suggestion in a thread because OP was too lazy to say “thanks, that was it”?

Posting a thread then not engaging in that thread is pretty weird behavior.

Would I shadow ban him? No. But I could also see why someone might mistake that for a spam bot.

No, that’s a fair point, it doesn’t. But my usual view is that there’s always more to the story, and when they’re suggesting what they’re doing is totally fine but sounds kinda shitty, the things they aren’t telling us that they know are shitty are going to be really shitty.