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  • Some (many? most? IDK) gold sellers are scammers. They will sell you overvalued stuff and insist it’s extra-valuable because of some feature they made up. They are the ones being loud on the web and making you hear about it all the time. So, if you hear an ad, and buy gold, you’ve probably fallen for a scam.

    But investing in gold by itself is just like any other commodity. And just to say, the rule on that last phrase is valid for almost everything (it’s absolutely valid for stocks and investment funds).


    • You should really not need to do a PR across multiple repos. If you need, you are breaking your code wrong. Some functionality may require multiple PRs, but you should always be able to do those at different moments and test them separately.

    • The monorepo tools are exactly software that emulate the features of a multi-repo so that you can have thousands of people on the same repository. We also have multi-repo tools that emulate the features of a monorepo, but people don’t hype those online because they are simple and free.


  • The amount changes all the time, and depends on what you define “money” as.

    Almost every country (every one on the WTO) publishes monthly volumes. Here’s the one for the US if you consider that money is cash and the contents of all the bank accounts:

    https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL

    That “M1” is a standard definition, that is easy to search for any country.

    If you start to add things like credit card balances and government papers that can be used in most large transaction, you arrive at the other definitions. There’s a wiki page for them:

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

    The M1 to M3 set is an international standard, but many countries add other definitions to their publications.

    EDIT:

    And of course, I didn’t tell how the amount changes.

    Each kind of money changes by its own particular process, that is actually quite obvious once you think of money that way.

    Cash is printed by the government, and destroyed mostly by it too (but some times by accident). It’s a form of government debit.

    Bank deposits are created when banks make loans (that is, they get somebody’s money and give to another person, but still keeping the first person’s money on their account), and destroyed when the loan id paid back.

    Credit card debit is created when people buy stuff on credit, and destroyed when they pay it back.

    And so on.



  • officially informed when Brazil achieved enrichment capabilities in the 80s

    That one was about the official nuclear program, that wasn’t intended to create nuclear weapons. The Brazilian nuclear weapons program was a secret out of the clearance level of the official nuclear program so there was never any interaction between them.

    And yes, it was in the later 80s, when Brazil was trying to repair the damaged relations with Argentina.



  • During the last dictatorships in South America, Brazil and Argentina were in a bit of an arms race.

    One day, the Brazilian government created a nuclear program that over the course of several years managed to enrich some nanograms of uranium. The Argentinian gov started their own program as a response.

    When both countries published their data, the Argentinians had plenty of spying documents saying that the Brazilian program had incredibly security, they could only discover a small lab and some people digging missile silos.

    (And yeah, the Argentinians managed to enrich milligrams of uranium, beating Brazil by 2 orders of magnitude.)






  • marcos@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldmeme
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    Tried Suse and Red Hat before Fedora existed… Also a lot of stuff that isn’t on this graph, and made a system from scratch two times because of strict requirements.

    No plans of moving from Debian. Why TF can one argue that those two are more productive? The only reason to use Fedora in particular is if you are stuck with it due to some hardware or contractual requirement.