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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • Completely agree, and anyone with any foresight would insist on something more robust. But very often the courts have to deal with situations where the parties did not have that foresight and instead proceeded to do business with one another on the basis of informal or very flimsily documented arrangements. And it falls to the court to look at what little evidence there is and determine (to the extent they can) whether there was an agreement and, if so, what the agreement entailed.

    You would actually be surprised just how much business is conducted like this.







  • I was planning to sign up at BeeHaw because it seems pretty active and with high quality discussions. When I heard that it had defederated from Lemmy.ml and Lemmy.world I decided not to sign up to any of those three as I would rather have access to all of them (though I can understand why BeeHaw defederated). So I just went with VLemmy.net as it was one of the recommended ones (on join-lemmy.org and the Awesome-Lemmy-Instances GitHub) and seems to be very broadly federated.

    I don’t think it matters too much, though I think if you were signed up on the same instances as all your favourite communities it would be a bit more convenient.



  • Donations, or with a small enough instance a server admin might just pay out of his or her own pocket. Maybe if Lemmy were ever to get much bigger there might be paid or ad-supported instances.

    I think a big part of the point of federation is that the costs of hosting servers can be distributed so no one has to spend millions to keep their server running. That way there is less of a need to monetise an instance (and less of an incentive, as if you start doing anti-user stuff, people can just move to a different instance).


  • A Random Walk Down Wall Street is a great book and one I think every day trader should read. At the heart of it is the Efficient Market Hypothesis, which basically says that asset prices reflect all known information and thus it is impossible for a trader to beat the market over the long term (on a risk-adjusted basis).

    The strongest (and most controversial) form of the hypothesis is that even professional traders cannot consistently beat the market. Even if you don’t agree with that, it seems clear to me that professional traders will always be able to obtain, and analyse, new information before “hobbyist” traders, and therefore by the time a hobbyist trader gets relevant information it will already be priced in.

    That book convinced me that the best way to invest is just to dump money into low-fee, highly diversified ETFs and forget about it. I’m not saying others would necessarily have the same reaction, but at the very least I think an aspiring day trader should read it and be able to justify why they don’t think the points made in the book apply to them.




  • It’s good that they mention the refurbished option. The most eco-friendly phone is the one you have, the second most eco-friendly phone is one someone else is getting rid of. Of course, the repairability promise of phones like the Fairphone is exciting and might make them a good bet longer-term.

    I plan on using my current phone into the ground but I’m not sure what I will do when it finally dies. I think if there is a Fairphone 5 with modern specs by then, I would strongly consider it. I know constant new releases kind of goes against Fairphone’s philosophy so there might not be a 5 for a while, but with the Fairphone 4’s specs I would worry about how long it will remain useful. If there is not an improved Fairphone out by then, I would still consider a Fairphone 4 or would likely buy a refurbished Pixel.