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Comment · 4 years ago
> conceptual meaning consistent across all accounts.

Except programmers quite often get the conceptual meaning wrong and incorrectly generalize further. Credit and debit just mean increase or decrease in account balance. You cannot know how it affects liabilities or assets without knowing what type of account is being modified.

Comment · 4 years ago
> When an account is CREDITED, this always represents an increase in liabilities[0] (or equivalently, a decrease in assets).

> When an account is DEBITED, this always represents an increase in assets (or equivalently, a decrease in liabilities).

This is where you're wrong. You can credit and debit Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable. If you credit AP, you're increasing liability, if you credit AR, you're increasing assets.

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I want to run a honeypot for doing more research on bots and the economics for them, but I get bogged down quickly in the planning stages. I should just start with a vulnerable wordpress site or something.
Comment · 4 years ago
My golden rule of sys admin is if you can't fix it, you reformat and replace it.

If you reproduce the error, congrats, now you get to figure out where to file the bug report with reproduction steps.

Comment · 4 years ago
almost like life is an MVP that could pivot at any time
Comment · 4 years ago
Whoops! As a result of your action, your userbase has now hyperfixated on follower counts as a proxy for status.
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A few (but not too many) years ago I inherited a custom compilation of python2.x to make unicode strings work properly. You made the right call, lol.
Comment · 4 years ago
You're missing the point. There is no internal network in this new model.
Comment · 4 years ago
This didn't happen all of a sudden in Sept 2021. The flu vaccine has always been about harm reduction and began seeing widespread civilian use in 2007-2008.
Comment · 4 years ago
what broke?
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