Billionaires are almost always created by starting with substantial familial wealth, taking large financial risks, and getting lucky. They then generally misattribute this luck to personal excellence, causing them to underestimate future risks.

On the other hand, they also induce institutions to change in ways that really do insulate them as a class from the consequences of risk. Both of these factors would tend to reduce their fear of losing their wealth and status.

Who do you think he is, Generalissimo Francisco Franco?

This isn’t great, but it’s what I ended up resorting to for my mom who refused to use any service, browser setting, or saved file:

• Make a “master” password with upper-case characters and digits (e.g., M45T3R). Memorize it or write it down.

• Interleave the characters with those of the domain the password is for (e.g., for google.com: gMo4o5gTl3eR). She can type the master password first, then put the cursor at the start and type each letter of the domain name hitting the right arrow after each letter.

As long as she remembered the master password, she could reconstruct the others on the fly. A human could still look at the result and figure out the pattern, but at least it protected her from automated tools.

OP says part of their problem is that their mom wants to access the passwords from her phone.

Well obviously that just shows that you’ve successfully sublimated those urges. /s

Am I missing something, or does karma (as a cumulative per-user measure) not play any functional role in Lemmy anyway?

Ossetian.

Between the various cortical layers and white matter, what part of the brain’s structure do these implants typically target? Do they sit on top of the outermost layer of some specific region of the cortex (effectively creating a new layer), or do they make long-distance connections to other brain structures?

Along the same lines, do deaf people compose poems in ASL? What aspect of that language plays the part of rhyme?

Thanks—I meant “formal” as in “formal grammar”, not that it wasn’t described in the published protocol. As in, there’s nothing in the protocol’s explicit form that distinguishes between this implied meaning and a real extra recipient—so it simplifies the parsing but adds an extra post-parsing step.

Why not a binary flag or something? Is it just to avoid making it a formal part of the protocol?

Does ActivityPub really send copies of all activities to www.w3.org?

I thought diarrhea was (at least sometimes) caused by too many of your gut bacteria getting killed by fever so they can’t digest solids enough to extract the water.

Doesn’t a song have words by definition?

If you’re looking for musical compositions, I’d say Schubert’s Death and the Maiden quintet or Grieg’s In the Hall of the Mountain King.

Does a Chinese chef get extremely angry at an Italian chef for making pasta?

I believe that an out-of-the-box lemmy instance will remove deleted content from federated instances automatically.

My point is just that site maintainers can modify the software to do whatever they want, or run software that implements ActivityPub but whose functionality is completely different from that of lemmy.

As another commenter has said, this is likely just a feature of the interface and not a reflection of what other users see.

But you should keep in mind that, due to the nature of federation, your posts are copied to all other instances that are federated with yours—which in theory includes not just lemmy instances but any software implementing the ActivityPub protocol. Whether those instances actually remove posts you’ve marked as deleted is up to their discretion.

A number for which that is true is called a normal number. It’s proven that almost all real numbers are normal, but it’s very difficult to prove that any particular number is normal. It hasn’t yet been proved that π is normal, though it’s generally assumed to be.

No, summer and winter are reversed in the southern hemisphere.

But more than that, the seasons aren’t even consistent within each hemisphere—the exact beginning and ending dates of each season vary from region to region depending on the local climate.