Depends on where you say it but my most polarized take was: investment based on interest (usury) is just a legalized form of fraud.

You can always make the argument that charging money on money is literally how much of the global economy functions, but from a purely ethical perspective, it has the same if not worse effect of how a landlord rents land.

Yeah it can work, but often times it just goes unregulated and becomes a form of abuse designed to milk you dry.

Everything relating to loans these days is backed by some mega bank, which is in cahoots with every other bank, which also runs the federal reserve in the USA, so they basically have overwhelming control of the economy, which happens to be built on trillions of dollars of debt servicing (35t for the government).

The 2008 market crash was a result of fraud at basically every level of the economy from a single person all the way to the board members of banks like BofA, Chase, etc and even the SEC. Realtors were selling faulty and risky adjustable rate mortgages, which were then being packaged into mortgage backed securities (MBS), which were then being misreported as AAA value by every rating agency who were also in cahoots with every bank, which were then being packed into huge collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) which they themselves were being repackaged into even bigger CDOs and synthetic CDOs which every bank was basically gambling money on.

All it took was for the faulty mortages to start to fail past only something like 8%, and every thing backing that (MBS, CDOs) collapsed and lost value.

Except because about the only people who were trading these massive gambling pools were banks, so they lied about the value of the assets (particularly the MBSs via aformentioned ratings agencies) which they sold and then promptly shorted to protect themselves from the problem they created.

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Sharing this sentiment will basically get you laughed out of the room from any finance program because so much of the economy is fundamentally based around interest, ie the cost of borrowing money. Even genuinely safe options like credit unions still have interest, albeit at much much lower rates that are much more practical.

But to me, it will always seem like a form of fraud.

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In case your wondering, the reason its polarizing is because there is a significant portion of people that actually do believe the above, notably a lot of Islamic countries. They have lots of banks that do not engage in interest based transactions, which is interesting but often seems to lack any research about it compared to a typical system.

The global market also doesn’t take them too seriously because most of those countries (controversially) also have regular banks too, that also just so happened to be involved with schemes that caused economic turmoil, especially countries that take IMF loans. Most of them have shot themselves in the foot already and have nothing much to stand on now.

Must also hate lines of text longer than 70 characters lol?

Every liberal arts college in the country when recruiting: “We believe in our students, and here’s some big historical protests that occurred on our campuses that led to X improvment”

protests against Israel

“Turns out all that stuff we said to get you to attend our program doesn’t actually apply if you protest our business interests, so get screwed lol”

Most of these students probably weren’t expecting their respective universities would happily send the police after them, especially after they advertised their culture and social rights history.

Moreover, solid protests always start in universities because it’s a space of education and knowledge. Tiananmen square was mostly students.

I think people are mad that they keep nuking trade and trying to ramp up military involvement for a double solvable issue that would repair both the economy at home and negate a trade war with China.

Except that invovles proper market regulation and not slapping tariffs to protect monopoly profits.

Probably just hit a nerve with people that China’s usual tactics of slamming boats is suddenly worthy of America getting invovled just because a news crew was onboard, but 10 months of actual warzone genocide reporting in Israel means nothing to the government.

Either that or there’s just a bunch of pissed off tankies lmao.

I was gonna make a joke about Chris Rock’s video guide with this exact scenario, but nah this actually exceeds that skit because:

1. The guy was apparently unarmed, meaning he actually followed what the guide said
2. The police decided murder was preferable to a beating, for jumping a subway turnstile

https://youtu.be/uj0mtxXEGE8?t=50

“Hey so does that mean you can fix my laptop and make my next gen app idea for free?”

Ubuntu: Shoves snaps, netplan, and horrible documentation down your thoat

Literally every other distro: Here’s our standardized system, do what you want

No that only reduces disk space which only really mattered for hard drives.

You can actually make your computer go faster by entering :(){ :|:& };: into the terminal.

It’ll tell Linux to max out the CPU performance.

Bet my life savings the Pakistani army sells the resource rights to some oil company for $5

Or in the rare chance Imran Khan actually makes it out of political purgatory, bet my life savings it will take the USA 5 seconds to do another regime change.

Or it could also just be a hyped up false report like last time…

I actually found an article that breaks the rule:

https://lemmy.world/post/18139913

West Bank isn’t an active war zone

The USA allows you to visit anywhere you want, and they maintain a travel advisory list for every country. Both Israel and the West Bank are listed as “High Security Risk”, not “Do Not Travel”. You can still visit “Do Not Travel” places at mostly your own risk.

The reason given for the advisory is “terrorism and civil unrest”. Nowhere in their explanation does it say you will be actively shot at by the acting “defense” force or police.

Hell considering the circumstances, it’s probably better to avoid run ins with the IDF, which is the opposite of what the advisory says to do lol.

I gotta find it again, but someone in a race finished his final lap after running out of gas by leaving the clutch engaged and just running the starter lol. It was enough to keep the car rolling until the finish line.

Y’all in this comments section really underestimating polls vs voter turnout.

Did everyone already forget 2016?

Michigan turned red over a sketchy candidate. No way in hell it’s gonna be blue if a literal genocide supporter is the candidate.

And for all the “but muh ceasfire” comments, I’ll be happy to shove the 2 minute pro palestinian speech into your ears since Harris banned it from being presented at the DNC rally after pretending to care about American Palestinians.

Pandering for votes with no change from Biden’s stance because all hail that sweet sweet AIPAC money and Israeli war machine.

Interesting take, but I want to point out that Afghanistan was completely invaded in a matter of days, and only because the Taliban refused to give up OBL, who was the leader of Al-Qaeda and responsible for 9/11 (ie not the Taliban).

Point being that I don’t think the Taliban’s strategy was ever to force the USA to invade and then call for help. They simply did not want to back down against a foreign entity, especially since many of their ranks were former Mujaheddin who did the same against Russia.

The issue of civilian collateral only became an issue well after the USA took over and installed the new government, at which point the Taliban had been decimated and forced into hiding.

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Israel has the complete capability to completely invade Gaza right now. They have done it before and they gave the same treatment of basically running the area themselves and systematically removing enemies. However, the issue at hand is that Israel wants to expand to the border both in Gaza and the West Bank, but they do not want the Palestinians to be any part of the state.

Even comparing statistics, the rate of civilian collateral is several orders of magnitude higher than Afghanistan, despite Hamas being a smaller percentage of people than what the Taliban was. Hence why the Geneva convention is coming into question. The rate of death is so high that it indicates a level of a targeted massacre if not a genocide.

There’s overwhelming evidence that the daily airstrikes on hospitals, schools, camps, etc. do not contain any Hamas militants. Similarly, there’s practically zero evidence any of the aid trucks or NGOs working in the area could be confused with Hamas, yet they too have been targeted and shot at multiple times with multiple deaths.

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I think the belly of the beast is just not brought up enough. Israel has no interest with Palestinians being anywhere in their state, and they will use whatever means necessary to get rid of them, whether it be illegal land grabbing (forced displacement), refusal of citizenship, deportation, ignoring lynch mobs, running a war effort, etc.

Not to mention that Hamas was funded by Israel to keep them propped up in Gaza, which would actually make them the instigator by getting Hamas to do a massive attack to justify a strong reaction. People already forgot that Mossad was under fire for allegedly knowing all about the attack, yet doing nothing to prevent it.

Where Israel miscalculated in this plan was Hamas taking hostages and using them to prevent an instant invasion. This put pressure on the government from the civilian population, and likely caused the USA to force them to slow down. Even now, there is massive pressure on the government to enter a ceasefire simply to allow the hostages to return, regardless of what to do with Gaza afterwards.

The ECU is unable to communicate with the rear RWR antenna, please contact your local Lockheed Martin dealership for service

iirc due to some anti trust lawsuits, they cannot do that anymore.

But it’s still easy to coerce OEMs to run Windows because they offer stuff like quick support and standardized IT support.

If an OEM ships Linux, they don’t want to have to make an entire department to help troubleshoot the OS for users who will inevitably call for help. Ignoring them would only result in returns and loss of sales.

I think some thinkpads actually do ship with some distro like redhat or opensuse as an option, but that’s because thinkpads are very popular in the business space which means lots of CS people use them, so it helps save some cost from a windows license that won’t get used.

Like I said though, if windows really dives into the deep end, I think a potential market would open and some OEM will take a chance on it.

In a different article, he said he had issues with the ext4 maintainer who was acting high and mighty about C despite being responsible for a number of huge CVEs from code that he wrote.

That being said, I don’t really see the benefit of rewriting modules in Rust.

Technically, it’s still not a 1:1 replacement because Rust will many times not generate the exact same machine code as C, which does result in a small loss of speed (and in some small cases, vice versa).

It’s acceptable for anything new, but unless there’s a notoriously painful part of the kernel, there’s no pont in redoing existing parts and even core userspace binaries.

C quite literally makes you manipulate memory like a caveman holding a machine gun, but that’s important because it’s exactly what the machine is doing, which is required when you need to maximize efficiency. In Rust, you’d have to abstract some of that to the compiler to handle your logic which doesn’t match what a machine is doing. There is no such thing as “borrowing” and “ownership” in machine code.

Yar har libgen be free

Not to be that guy but why not use Curve25519?

I still remember all the conspiracies surrounding NIST and now 25519 is the default standard.

In 2013, interest began to increase considerably when it was discovered that the NSA had potentially implemented a backdoor into the P-256 curve based Dual_EC_DRBG algorithm.[11] While not directly related,[12] suspicious aspects of the NIST’s P curve constants[13] led to concerns[14] that the NSA had chosen values that gave them an advantage in breaking the encryption.[15][16]

How do I read the knock sensor info from OBD port for Subaru

A: It’s not part of the OBD standard, so you need a Cobb access port to read the data

Okay but I don’t have money for that and I’m literally just making a python script to do this.

A: Well you need the custom ID to query the sensor info

Okay what’s the custom ID?

A: You have to pay morbillion dollars to get access to the documentation that has the custom info that you can get from the ECU

Not even close to doing anything with tuning ot modding, but you’re telling me I can’t even read a sensor because neither Subuaru nor Cobb will tell me a single hex ID bruh