Shorting means you expect the shit to go down in value. Usually to short something you borrow a stock from someone (not everyone can borrow stocks), pay the fee to the source, sell it for 100, wait, buy it back for 90, give it back to the original owner. You made 100 - 90 - fee.

Borrow 1000 usd from a bank (1), sell if for your target currency (2) that you think will raise compares to usd, wait, exchange 1000 usd from the target currency (2) and give it back to bank + rates (1).

What is left over in currency (2) is your profit.

It’s not just finding obvious errors but it catches logical error that no human would have caught.

I’m not having the same experience.

You buy foreign currency and then sell it back for USD when you want to realise it.

When compared to other people living in vans? Absolutely.

Where is the line though

The line is “do you need to work ever to maintain at least the current living standard”. That’s the division between working class and wealthy class.

If I was to start van living (hard as I can’t drive) and rented out my house I wouldn’t have to work another day in my life

Not maintaining at least current living standard.

Preflight it? If you ask external API every 6 hours about known range of host IDs with a date, then 1h before you need that information call the external API and check if it works or returns garbage? That way you can get some extra time to maybe react earlier to an incident? It honestly depends on the nature of your job and the qualities of your traffic, but generally speaking the problem you have is unfixable and the best you can hope for is early detection (if that matters for you).

If however you’re a pass-through API to the external one, eg. a different service calls your API with a hostID and the hostIDs are not a known finite pool, then you can forget about preflighting.

So to sum it up:

• API breaks responses only for new data
• API does not provide any metadata, like versioning
• API doesn’t host it’s spec
• the problem isn’t that the API mutates, but that it starts returning garbage for new data, but not historical.

You’re out of luck. You can’t prevent it. You can’t foresee it, unless you know beforehand what you’ll call the API with and you can pre-flight it and detect it earlier.

Im not arguing anything. Im just saying that progress in sience does not matter if it comes from goverment, or billionare, or dude in a barn.

Ah. I see. Yet you failed to include an example of a progress made by a billionaire. And made 3 typos in that sentence, but who’s counting.

Im trying to fight urge to say, “i bet you are often confused.”

And fuck you too I guess.

I’m sorry, what are you trying to argue here? I’m genuinely confused?

imaging improvements used to scan moon

But that wasn’t privately owned company but public institution though?

medical innovations

In the past ~30 years (I haven’t read older data) no drug research in US was privately founded. They all consume massive government grants for it. The “cost” the big pharma is so loud about is manufacturing and treatment testing. But the actual research is founded by your taxpayers.

Oh, I read the OC idea as a symptom cure. It’s not as good as curing the cause, but symptoms need to be addressed too.

I have no problem with the rich. In fact I love them! I’d love to have as many rich as possible.

Unfortunately, that means, the gold hoarding dragon monsters we have currently at the top need to go.

I’d go for 200% after 5 bil, because their wealth needs to be lowered.

Still haven’t answered my question? Yeah, let’s block you.

Still haven’t answered my question and started name calling? Eh, username checks out.

It says all the children were given an option to pick up to 3 answers. Given the small sample size, it’s likely there were questioned by the same person and that person didn’t convey that to children properly.

Or they are all very focused on only 1 path.

Does that suddenly make what NK did less evil? No. Then what are you trying to say here? “Ukrainians deserved it for helping US invade the Iraq”?

Exclusives are a bastard child of oligopoly, where the distribution platform has more power than the publisher.

Before Steam physical games were NEVER sold only in ToysR, they were sold in all shops.

More competition does not always mean things are better for the consumer [cut], e.g. streaming services

I don’t believe this oligopoly is competing with each other?

(I’m not arguing with the rest of your post because capitalism bad :) )