calcopiritus

@calcopiritus@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modern Monetary Theory: Musk Edition⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is actually true though. Basically every country has done it.

  If printing money results in enough value created, there is no inflation.

  Of course, you have to create a lot of value per money printed, which no country has achieved. And that’s where taxes come in and fill the gap.

  Many of the “economic miracles” involved printing a lot of money. But since their value output increased so fast, (and again, taxes) they experienced little inflation.

  It is theoretically possible to print money without taxes and not have inflation. That would be more than a miracle though. If you get even more efficient with money, even deflation would happen.

  It’s the same reasoning behind debt. Debt is “bad” because you have to pay more than what you were paid. But if you are smart with that money and create more money from it, you can pay back the debt (including interests) and get some extra money for yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British public more likely to prefer Count Binface wins Clacton by-election than Nigel Farage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s easy to point and laugh from another region, even from another country.

  But you have to consider that the people of Clacton will intimately have to live with whichever one wins the election. They have to vote with their brains, for the person that will ultimately bring them more pris than cons. That’s why I cannot blame anyone for voting for mcbinface, at the end of the day, it’s just the best option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stereotypes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. Dying your hair crazy colors will get you attention. But it doesn’t mean that you dyed your hair because you wanted attention.

  If my dog goes too far away, I will shout its name very loud so it hears me and comes back to me.

  Doing this will inevitably draw the attention of most of the people around me. But that was not my intention though, I just wanted the attention of my dog. The attention of the other people is just an unavoidable side effect. It may even be an unwanted side effect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I agree with don⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When standing up it’s definitely harder to get the last drops out. Sitting is easy as fuck, just use TP. On urinals there is no TP, so can’t get rid of the last 1-2 drops. Never have that problem when sitting due to TP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not what they mean when they say they want the report on their desk EOD⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They were (mostly) safe when manufactured. Who knows after 80 years. Things degrade

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The land before time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think the difference is the minimum education for entry.

  I’d say the difference is how much of your paycheck is because of you specifically and how much is for just general labor.

  So a physics researcher job is “skilled” because most of the pay is because the specific researcher knows about physics.

  But a waiter job is “unskilled” since the skills needed to do the job are the skills needed for basically any job:

  • Basic maths skills
  • People skills
  • Willingness to work
  • Physical endurance
  • Enthusiasm to work
  • Memory
  • Handling stressful situations
  • Other relatively basic skills

  Of those, only physical endurance and people skills are “exclusive” to being a waiter. There are some actual jobs that require no physical endurance. And some jobs don’t require as much people skills as being a waiter does. But the rest of them are general across basically every job.

  Of course, "unskilled job"s do require skills, I just listed a bunch of them. But most of those skills, any other worker that does any other job would have. Therefore I count payment for those skills as payment for “general labor” and not “payment for you specifically”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valid point⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What the fuck

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valid point⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You guys don’t pay with cash?

  So every purchase you make, doesn’t matter how small, you give a cut to the payment processor? I’d be fucking pissed if I were a small shop selling to you. In fact there are many shops that just refuse to sell if you buy something too cheap through a payment processor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If buying is piracy, piracy is not stealing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#StopPayingGames⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was just regurgitating yours

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#StopPayingGames⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t have to stop playing games from these companies. You just have to stop paying for them.

  Piracy is and has always been easy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#StopPayingGames⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re probably being down voted because uninformed people giving their “opinion” has been a huge issue for SKG. Since big companies have been fighting hard for people to think that SKG means that companies would need to pay for servers infinitely.

  Just mentioning that as a possibility could be harmful as it plants the seed of thought of “SKG sounds good, but they could be scheming this evil shit in the shadows”. Which is NOT the case, SKG has been very explicit in that they DON’T want companies to pay for maintenance for servers. They only want access to the server software in order for anyone to be able to run it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#StopPayingGames⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The average consumer has pirated a videogame. It’s not hard to do. We only not do it because steam is slightly easier, and you lose online/achievements, and because it’s not morally right. However, that one last barrier has fallen.

  If buying is not owning, using without paying is not stealing. There is no moral issue on pirating videogames, just do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#StopPayingGames⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ackchually, the heat death of the universe means that nothing lasts forever. Therefore, boycotting asshole big game companies run by billionaires that oppose the stop killing games makes no sense!

  Also, why do we punish murderers? Their victims would die anyway, it’s a scientific fact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#StopPayingGames⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t need to list every company.

  You know which ones are the big ones. If you see a “6” next to a game title, don’t pay for it. No indie game dev makes 5 sequels to a game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oh bless yer heart, pepperidge farm 'members!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Go tell that to the people/slaves of the countries I mentioned.

  As I said, USA is no good, but it’s not the worst.

  You don’t seem to understand the meaning of “worst”.

  “Bad” is absolute and can be judged with just the USA.

  “Worst” is relative and you have to consider the other ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oh bless yer heart, pepperidge farm 'members!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The United States is pretty bad, especially for being a supposedly rich country. But no, it’s not the most brutal.

  Even though I would not travel to the USA under any condition, if I have to choose between USA, north Korea, Iran, or some other random authoritarian country such as the UAE, Saudi Arabia, sudan or somalia, I’m going to USA. Even though I’m a non-gay male.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oh bless yer heart, pepperidge farm 'members!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So a guy got imprisoned by the most brutal government in the world. And then he fell into vegetative state. But said government has nothing to do with the vegetative state?

  Do people just do that? Do people just go “eh, I’ve had enough, maybe I’ll just turn my brain off for a while”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flock of scissors⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is a pair of scissors separated in halves? Shouldn’t a pair of scissors be separated into 2 unit scissor?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yay, sponsored emojis!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course the random dude I replied to on Lemmy owns a set of semaphore flags. What else would I expect?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yay, sponsored emojis!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a simple concept.

  You need at least 2 people to form a conversation.

  One of them has Whatsapp, Telegram, signal, MSTeams, smoke signals and those flags that ships used to communicate.

  The other only has Whatsapp.

  They are going to communicate over Whatsapp.

  Even if the dude with 1000 communication methods meets another dude with 1000 communication methods, they are going to use WhatsApp, because they are used to using Whatsapp with everyone, so it’s just easier to have everyone on WhatsApp.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm doing my part⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because the instance your account is on ends in .de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They can wipe their tears with the millions of dollars he “extracted” from his customers and his own workers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good riddance

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is leadership valued so much over expertise?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can also have shit leaders that micromanage. What even is your point?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is leadership valued so much over expertise?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s 24h in a day for leaders too. A leader cannot achieve infinite output by being infinitely good, just like an expert cannot achieve infinite output by being infinitely good.

  Expertise is also a force multiplier.

  A single expert in a team of juniors can do so much more. Because it can delegate the junior work to the juniors while doing only expert work. Thus ending up with more expert work done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you read my comment through an LLM summary? Your response has no connection to my comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Humans can be held accountable though. Which means they would rather say “I believe this is because …” than “you are absolutely right! If you remove the voltage regulator from the power supply, it will provide more power!”. And if they don’t, they can be fired or put in prison, where they can stop doing harm.

  If your LLM repeatedly lies to you, there’s nothing you can do about it. Maybe try another LLM, but there’s not many of them and they all lie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If that were true, there would’ve been a software explosion, since LLMs have “killed manual programming” for some years now according to the guys that earn money when people believe that.

  There hasn’t been any perceivable increase of software products over these years. Nor a decrease in their price.

  The only notable differences are:

  1. LLMs shoved into every software product.
  2. Microsoft software getting even worse since they claimed they were using so much LLM.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Local news did an entire segment featuring a guy who's mad about having to drive more carefully.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You either make driving fast less safe, or you put a speed camera on every corner with the appropriate punishment. Cameras are expensive, and drivers will complain about them. If you make driving fast less safe, only the ones that remember how the road was before can complain about it.