

The difference with stock being that if you have 1T monies, you can buy stuff worth 1T (after ice cream cones run out, buy a factory or switch to candy). With 1T of stock, you can’t.


The difference with stock being that if you have 1T monies, you can buy stuff worth 1T (after ice cream cones run out, buy a factory or switch to candy). With 1T of stock, you can’t.


Stock valuation has always seemed like play/imaginay money to me. Until I sell my stock and buy that large purchase, I treat mine like just a number.
Imagine you’re the richest person on the planet, and own 1 trillion monies in stock of Omnia Corporation. Can you buy 1 trillion ice cream cones for 1 money each? No, because you can’t sell 1T stocks without utterly devastating the stock price… But you sure can take a loan backed by this imaginary money. Boggles my mind.
I wish someone with economics background would correct my thinking.


It certainly does not look cloud-connected, AI-enabled, or requiring a subscription…


In my country, we get asked to blow into the breathalyzer. That’s the only thing they haven’t figured out how to make digital.
LD_PRELOAD - you can override library functions (if the program is dynamically linked), and change their behavior. Like add adblocking to libcurl, or fix the RNG, or such.
A somewhat similar trick works with virtual functions from C++ (or function pointers in C, but these are rare) - you read the original function pointer outta the vtable, then substitute yours, add some fun behavior, then call the original behavior in the end. Note that this might not be possible these days as code might live in a read-only region of memory.
I vote for Fennec. Though I haven’t used any Reddit clients, so I don’t know if it’s similar.