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Having checked the mod logs I avoid anything from there. They regularly show up a deleting insightful comments - I thus wish to ‘punish’ the instance by ignoring is. I hope that makes it less valuable to everyone who uses it.

alone I’m almost nothing of course but others are like me and together .ml is the worse.

yes but you have to open both shutters at the same time. The ground doesn’t have a shutter.

Sockets with flaps are code in the us too and have been for a while.

All will if there is a load. Doesn’t matter ac of dc or even load. Plug an ethernet cable in and there will be a spark.

Most of the time the spark is tiny and you need a good lab to measure it though.

True is not one in C. You can always compare a value to 0 if you need false but comparing to any single value for true is wrong. Often functions will return some calculated value which would be zero for false and who cares - it isn’t zero so return it for true. Thus all defines of true are suspect.

That is one option that is sometimes used. More commonly if you want the company you just buy 10-20% which you can get fairly quickly without affecting the price too much, then you use your large stock holder privileges to go to the board and ask them to sell for current price + small margin. The board will almost always put this to a shareholder vote and is it likely enough will go for it (you already control 20% of those votes so you need just 31% to defect). Most large companies have rules around this so you might need more than 50% of the vote, but still odds are you can get enough votes.

What Porsche did to VW is different. The German government owns 25% of VW and are not selling and have laws in place to ensure that VW cannot be bought. That forces Porsche to instead buy the remaining shares but they can never just buy the company. It is an interesting case, but it is an exception to the normal rules and so be careful not to apply it elsewhere.

Even if all cars sold were Teslas their value is more than all the combustion car manufactures. Most combustion car manufactures also have electric cars and will make more if/as the market demands. (some of them are not making good electric cars, but they are likely to improve)

There is are laws that ties them together. When then company goes bankrupt all shares stop trading (not when they declare bankruptcy, it will be later in the process) thus forcing the value to zero. When someone else buys the company all shares are force sold aa an agreed upon price (you get to vote on the price but if you vote no and lose you still sell) thus forcing the final trading price. There are also ways for a company to be delisted based on something the company does - the stock can still be traded but it becomes much harder without an exchange and so the effective value is zero (or maybe a few cents if you can figure out how to trade anyway).

However the above are all things that don’t happen very often to any one company. Nearly every week has several companies do one of the above, but if you are looking at a specific company it will probably be decades before the above happens and those are decades where the price is whatever supply and demand wants it to be. Because of the above threats long term the value of a company tends to correlate to the company size / value, but that long term can be decades.

One of each. There is a small chance that drives made in the same factory will fail at exactly the same time for the same reason when used in RAID 1. While this probably won’t happen (if it does it would be in the first month and you will hear about others with the same failures), why risk it. Besides you want hard drive makers to stay in business - all hard drives will crash in the future, the only question is when.

I didn’t take my advice for a RAID I built years ago. I just placed the order (one hour ago) to replace a WD red with a Seagate. God only knows when the next drive will fail. I’ve overall been fine, but I only have one disk redundancy in my zfs system until Thursday.

Unfortunately janky media files seem to be the rule.

@ryujin470@fedia.io Most good languages are a variation of ALGOL, Psacal, or LISP. They have added a lot more syntax, but there are only so many ways to represent blocks (both named and unnamed, calling functions, loops and the other basics within the limits of 7 bit ASCII. Even if you expand any language (including symbols you makeup), those still remains the basics and we have learned from painful experience what makes things bad.

In theory yes, but in practice no. Before we used fossil fuels (say 1000 years ago) the earth was on a slight cooling trend because a little organic matter still gets converted to coal. I can’t find the amount, but IIRC it was something like enough for -0.1C every thousand years. That number is so small that even a tiny amount of fuel use would keep us even.

@bricked@feddit.org javascript wasn’t written to be like java. Java was the big thing so some marketer found a way to attach java to the name

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The world is not a zero sum game. that alone defeats your premis-

Build where? if in us ports the us will cliam it- if you bring stuff out to sea they will claim it because of the stuff.

it comes down to taxes. They want you to pay. Thus they will doeenerything they can to decide it is theirs.

As for being a pirate. The us constitution allows letters of marque which is permission to be a pirate against specific against vessels of some country. the last one was 1815 so good luck getting one but theoretically you could.

The marine hymn ‘the shores of Tripoli’ refers to a marine battle to stop Libya from issuing letters of marque against us vessels. I believe nealy all old time pirates were registered with Libya operating under a letter of marque and not the storybook idea of stateless ships doing what they want. (anyone enough of a historian to verify)

registration is not about the flag. You are still registered in the us even I you have a french flag up. if you claim to be frence without properly registerng with france (i have no clue how you would do this properly) that is misrepresentation and france would (could) send an internanional warrant to the us and have you arrested since you are still us registered by default.

even if you don’t register with the us you are considered US - you just broke the law by not regestering (paying taxes) and so us law applies.

when a ship is registered in panama there is a company in panama that buys the ship and then because they are a panama company the country that the previous owners were in allows the sale and thus registration. Of course the owners of the panama company are a company in a different country.

I doubt you could find an unregistered vessel. Maybe sealand. If you pirate a registered vessel the navies of the world will hunt you down.

You can maybe stretch that 4 hours to several days. However you must get enough solar in 4 hours to provide more than 1 day of use. You will probably get to 6-8 hours of production from your panels, but the production is reduced in the off hours and there are almost always a few clouds reducing your output even at peak times so until proved otherwise just count on 4 hours. (prove can be several years worth of data, or careful local climate calculation possibly with various devices to handle the sun moving)

That depends. If you declare you are not registered at all that makes you an illegal pirate with no protection at all. If someone else with a yacht decides to sink yours that is probably legal for them - if you fight back they can call their navy to defend them. Regardless of who their yacht is flagged under calling their navy for help probably means they asked the nearest navy (which is almost always the US navy - even if the US hates the country in question the US doesn’t want the seas to be a free for all and will come) to help.

If you become self sufficient out there probably nobody will care and you can be there for years no problem. Just don’t cause problems and nobody really cares. However if you cause problems expect issues. If one person on your yacht steals from another that is your business, nobody will get involved. If someone steals from someone with a country that country will get involved to protect their own. If kids are born on the yacht they might not have a country which could make life hard (particular as the yacht gets old and is no longer safe!). If you have kids born and then sexually abuse them several countries (in particular the US with their large navy) have declared that illegal anywhere and so they will come in to stop you.

The hard part is to become flagless in the first place. What every country you set out from will just assume the boat has their flag by default. They generally won’t let you choose to take it off - they will let you sell it to someone in a different country and then change the flag, but there is nobody with no country who can take ownership of it. Maybe a lawyer can find a work around, but it will not be easy.

Libera, Panama, and Marshall Islands must be pretty convenient since those are countries most ships get registered.

The people register ships care about minimum wage (none), taxes (low), and other such things. They want laws about murder in case the staff turns on the company.