benni
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- Comment on Is it worth investing if I can only contribute $50 a month? 16 hours ago:
Why would the absolute amount of money matter for investing vs. saving cash? Assuming he finds a broker for which absolute transaction fees are negligible, the only important factors should be time window and risk tolerance, both of which are independent of the absolute saving rate.
- Comment on Is there anything Lemmy has more/better content for than Reddit and other mainstream sites? 1 week ago:
For me, it’s not about having good content that is not on reddit, but avoiding all kinds of bad content that is on reddit. I can scroll through the “top of the day” list of my subscriptions in a relatively short time and find many posts that I enjoy or that interest me. When I used reddit, there was always so much noise, ragebait, clickbait, sometimes interesting questions with only bland answers, etc.
- Comment on Do you ever get a profound sense that everything in you life has happened before? 1 month ago:
All that I wanted were things I had before.
All that I needed, I never needed more.
All of my questions were answers to my sins.
All of my endings were waiting to begin.
- Comment on Here we go again 2 months ago:
When you reinstall Skyrim
- Comment on Did the concept of 9-5 included a 30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks? 2 months ago:
Same in Germany, I think this common in many countries, no?
- Comment on Just So 2 months ago:
I agree with your sentiment about positive social interactions being important.
But the thing is, and I think that’s what the poster you were replying to meant, that you need zero knowledge about evolution to notice that. Everyone notices it in daily life. Scientific studies give us evidence about our social nature. If we didn’t know about evolution, the conclusion would still be the same: we are deeply programmed to be social. If the same conclusion is reached with or without a specific piece of information, then that information is useless for predictions, like the previous poster said. Or are you in all seriousness telling me that the reason you gifted your XBox to a kid was that you have an understanding of evolution??? And without that understanding, you wouldn’t have thought of making that gift?
- Comment on Anon finally touches grass 2 months ago:
Moderation isn’t necessary if you’re willing to just throw the whole site away when it turns to shit.
Well, yeah. Storing your potatoes in the dark is also not “necessary” if you’re willing to just throw them away when they sprout. But wanting to preserve things we like is a given to most people.
- Comment on The mark 2 months ago:
Wtf??
- Comment on Title 3 months ago:
So they were proven right, got a lunch, and paid nothing… The conclusion is that there is a free lunch.
- Comment on Title 3 months ago:
Very interesting, thank you.
- Comment on Is assasin's creed origins good? 3 months ago:
As a background, I loved the Ezio games and also enjoyed AC3 somewhat. I also love open world RPGs in general. But I hate grinding and mandatory generic side quests.
I tried it years ago, but did not like it and stopped playing after some hours. Assassinations via sneaking up and one-shotting were not possible AFAIR, which ruined the fun on assassinations for me. RPG mechanics like leveling and skills were present, but were designed in a way that added nothing of value to the experience while requiring a boring grind. There were many side quests, but they felt boring and generic and. I could have overlooked these things and concentrated on the main story, but engaging in the level grind and the generic side quests was to a large degree mandatory to be able to continue the story. That made me feel like I’m wasting my time and made me stop playing.
Overall I felt that the game tried to find some compromise between story-based action adventure and open-world RPG, but just ended up combining the worst of both worlds. It felt like the RPG features were pushed in top-down (“everyone is doing open world, levels and skill trees now, we should put that in the game”) without any regard to WHY these features work well in some games and how they have to be integrated in order to make the experience more fun.
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- Comment on Fractals 6 months ago:
Do you know what the B in Benoît B. Mandelbrot stands for?
It’s for Benoît B. Mandelbrot.
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- Comment on Can willpower be trained ? 1 year ago:
Is this not just a (mildly oversimplified) framing of what psychologists call ego depletion [1]? This appears to be a well-replicated finding. I don’t see any reason to call it “wildly incorrect”.
[1] The strength model of self-control. psycnet.apa.org/record/2007-18261-013
- Comment on Can willpower be trained ? 1 year ago:
This blog post summarizes the science nicely: …stanford.edu/…/a-conversation-about-the-science-… TL;DR: You can train your willpower. It does act like a limited resource. But most importantly, it is strongly affected by your sleep, nutrition and stress level.
I found that mindfulness meditation was helpful for me. Practically, you can achieve an effect that is similar to having strengthened willpower by organizing your life in such a way that you don’t encounter many temptations in the first place.
- Comment on Do you think these guys should expand to the international market? 1 year ago:
It’s a “Büromöbel” (office furniture) company.
- Comment on Philosophy meme 1 year ago:
Honest question: if a person living in the west in the 21st century thinks they should have the right to take people of a different race as their own personal slaves, do you think there is no basis to call this person immoral? The best we can do is say that this person is incompatible with the time and place they are in?
