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This is also why taking about a country's debt is often more complicated than people think. Because when I go into debt on my credit card or whatever, that's bad because the credit card company starts feeding on me.

But when a properly functioning government goes into debt, it's to me! What I get out of it is a bridge or train or something now, greater economic opportunities associated with that, and then also I get my money back later with interest, so it gives me a reliable way to grow my own money. Or, like I said, for banks or investment firms on my behalf to use these tools as some of the tools in the box to grow both my and their money.

It's only a problem when the debt gets to the point that it doesn't seem like the country will be able to pay it. Or, similarly, when the investment in infrastructure doesn't produce enough extra value to fund this repayment.

But again, when a government is in debt, it's in debt to investors who are using that debt to grow their money while the (well-functioning) government is using the money to grow the country.

This is the problem any time the news talks about countries' debts.

The answer is others of us. The government wants to build a canal or something, but they don't have room in their budget. So, they make some bonds that say we give them $100 today, they give us $105 in 5 years, and a bunch of people buy them and now they can finance their project.

And who are they in debt to? Us, the people who bought the bonds and who they have to pay back later.

And if some of the buyers if that investment was China, then you could say the government is in debt to China. Sometimes if just normal Chinese people buy it, the news will report the government is in debt to China, or "owned by China", even though it just got some money and owes some money to normal Chinese citizens who just took a solid-looking investment.

And if one person buys such investments from two countries, or is part of a mutual fund that does, then perhaps they may own hundreds in dollars of debt from two countries.

So I assume in this case they took the debts of various countries and added them up. But the answer of who the governments are all in debt to is us, normal people, and also banks and investors and other governments, etc.

XMPP/Jabber via a web client like movim.eu sounds like it ought to work!

You can also look into Snikket as a host for small groups like friends or family, but can continue to use the Movim web client even if you're hosting with Snikket rather than Movim itself.

If I could momentarily be a douchebag for a good cause: I've been to Japan and visited gardens there, and when I saw this photo I thought it was a photo from a place I've been in Japan, so this garden seems pretty legit to me! Beautiful!

Who? Vivian's dad?

OpenOffice for all intents and purposes has been dead for a decade, but LibreOffice (included in the graphic) is a fork which remains active and has community and is the de facto successor.

There are things about it that are like Factorio, but also some philosophical differences.

Most obvious difference is that it's 3D and "pretty", whereas Factorio is 2D and brown. Which is fine! But this game gives you opportunities to stand on a cliff and look out over some plains and visit some non-hostile animals. You can also build upwards to create tall stacked factories.

On the flip side, what that first person perspective costs is that it's a lot harder to manage things as a guy running around inside and amongst the buildings compared to a zoomed out, top down, view. So the scale is never the same simply because it's unmanageable.

Also, unlike Factorio, there's a pretty sharp divide between the things you can assemble and the things you make in hand. Like, IIRC you never end up with factories that build buildings in Satisfactory. You have drills that collect resources, and factories that turn those resources into components, but all of the construction you do yourself. At least that's my recollection.

I think at least part of the problem is that Democrats believe in The System. So when someone cheats and whines about fake votes and stuff, they can resist that with faith that the system is working, but when the system willingly chooses the other side they have no choice but to concede that this must just be the Will of the People. And who are they to stand against the system they uphold...

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume what you said was simply confusing, but not wrong.

So just to be clear if your raid array fails, and you're using software raid, you can plug all of the disks into a new machine and use it there. But you can't just take a single disk out of a raid 5 array, for example, and plug it in and use it as a normal USB hard drive that just had some of the files on it, or something. Even if you built the array using soft-raid.

I don't want to sound like I'm just correcting you for the sake of it, but it's actually important. Mastodon is the most popular right now, but Mastodon actually wasn't around at the beginning! Before that was StatusNet, and before that was identi.ca and laconi.ca

So those services already existed, they were the ones built for federation, and so Mastodon was started as another compatible implementation of an existing network protocol. All of that is to say that Mastodon didn't need to make the right choices at the beginning, and they have already benefitted from this kind of network dynamic! The system has already worked once!

Maybe I'm just pedantic, but if it's on a phone or tablet, isn't it not "PC gaming"? I'm honestly a little confused what they're going for. I guess "mobile games of the graphical calibre expected of PC games"? But, like, Myst is a PC game. Monkey Island is a PC game. Thomas Was Alone is a PC game. There's a wide range there in graphics... And phones are mobile...

I get what you're saying, but I think the issue with optional memory safety features is that it's hard to be sure you're using it in all the places and hard to maintain that when someone can add a new allocation in the future, etc. It's certainly doable, and maybe some static analysis tools out there can prove it's all okay.

Whereas with Rust, it's built from the ground up to prove exactly that, plus other things like no memory being shared between threads by accident etc. Rust makes it difficult and obvious to do the wrong thing, rather than that being the default.