Just the mods

Interesting. I’ve never made that distinction between reinforcement and punishment.

Positive reinforcement is the act of adding either a reward for good behavour or a punishment for bad behavior.

It seems like both of you are doing that.

Yes they are telling you tomorrow.

Some derivatives aim to lower the risk, so the active decision to buy it would be to ungamble then? Or is it just gambling wyen you choose not to buy it?

Do you have insurance on your house or do you gamble that it will be fine without it?

Exactly! Which is why it is mad trying to outlaw or frown upon “gambling” with stocks.

There are many great wxamples in this thread already of why derivatives are necessary to a functioning society.

Wow that got complicated very quickly. Bummer no-one can come up with a simple example of when quicksort is useful.

They don’t, as others have pointed out. It’s just a standard single board computer with some addons and a case.

I disagree. That’s like saying insurance shouldn’t be allowed.

Highly regulated would be anotheratter though.

I think you have a very specific definition of gambling which I don’t share. To me, gambling is much broader. Wikipedia summarizes it well:

“Gambling thus requires three elements to be present: consideration (an amount wagered), risk (chance), and a prize.”

That’s it. It doesn’t make an opinion whether the bet is fair. There doesn’t have to be a casino involved at all. It also doesn’t require you to put “most or your life savings” into it for it to be gambling.

I think you are conflating high risk, high stakes and even the precence of a casino into the same concept and call it gambling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling

That doesn’t make sense at all. How would you - given two stacks of papers - know which stack the correct form is?

One of the most prestigious purpose a computer can have!

And fuck your versioning system. And you dependency management. And tooling. Why are there like five different projects trying to lock down the python environment? Conda? Venv?

Even Ubuntu tries to lock down python so that it doesn’t brick the install due to dependency conflicts.

And micro transactions

Most companies have adapted to that by now. The raise the orice for (at least) rhirty days so that it still looks legit.

The one in your example seems like a failure at that.

You are arguing against yourself. In the first paragraph you say that the parents should keep kids from social media.

In the second, you say that it would be a violation of privacy if parents would keep kids from social media.

Kids need policing, it’s going to need to be done by the parents no matter what the laws are. Personally, I don’t think the laws matter much in this regard.

I’m on the fence about that one.

There’s an app called ‘buycott’ that does exactly that!

Any professional would have a code repository and probably a build server which spits out binaries left and right, off site of course.

Bonus points if that is the easiest way to deploy the software, so all developers actually use it.

Edit: typo

Good point. Touché.