NateNate60
@NateNate60@lemmy.world
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 2 weeks ago:
According to some right-wing spaces (r/conservative on Reddit), there is apparently evidence to suggest that the shooter was an outlier within their otherwise hard-right family.
Is there any evidence to the contrary?
- Comment on September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations 3 weeks ago:
Based on the fact that four times as much was spent on R&D, and almost three times as much was spent on sales and marketing, and even administration spent 50% more, I’m pretty confident that most employees are not working on the product itself.
Your bringing up admin salaries is a perfect example of economies of scale. You can easily mind a 1,000,000-user community with ten or twenty moderators. But 10,000 users still need at least two or three people minding them. Anecdotally, smaller online public groups seem to have more troublemakers per capita, to an extent.
- Comment on September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations 3 weeks ago:
15.3 million is the same order of magnitude as 10^7^. I don’t see what the issue is with saying the cost of hosting is “on the order of 10^7^” here, unless you somehow think they are spending US$5 million a year on salaries of people who are directly involved in the provision of the product to the users? That would be US$60 million a year or enough to pay 600 people a six-figure salary, which I guarantee their employees are not all so well-paid.
- Comment on September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations 3 weeks ago:
The “cost of revenue” is the figure that I am using. In business, cost of revenue is defined as the costs incurred directly to deliver the product to the customer, which is basically just hosting fees.
Thus I believe 10^7^ USD is correct.
So the difference is about one order of magnitude, which is still not insignificant.
Although, it would not surprise me if Reddit makes up most of that order of magnitude in terms of economy of scale, since at some point you would just rent some warehouses and run your own server farms, or at least negotiate better hosting rates if you’re spending millions on hosting every month.
- Comment on September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations 4 weeks ago:
That doesn’t seem right. There are some 37,000 active Lemmy accounts within the past month.
lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats&months=6
It’s well-known that lemmy.world is the biggest instance (or close to it). In addition, there are hundreds of thousands of Mastodon users, of which at least a good few per cent are mastodon.world users.
This would give the Fedihosting Foundation a user count on the order of 10^5 users. And since their hosting cards are on the order of 10^4 EUR, this would mean each user costs on the order of 10^-1^ EUR.
- Comment on September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations 4 weeks ago:
Oh, fantastic. I’ll double my monthly donation. Thanks!
- Comment on September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations 4 weeks ago:
It’s not being “split”, they give a flat 50 € regardless of whether you donate 0 € to them or 1 million €. In fact if more people donate to .world this will, infact, water down the percentage.
If the organisation had a monthly revenue of 1 000 000 € and gave 50 € to them, this would be such a vanishingly small percentage (0.005%) that it could well be argued to be negligible
- Comment on September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations 4 weeks ago:
Question about BUNQ: There’s this string that looks like an IBAN (
NL78 BUNQ 2108 3219 85). If I send money using a recurring bank transfer to that, will it work? Will substantial fees be incurred as a result? - Comment on We can't all be astronauts. 5 weeks ago:
r = 50 m by court order, but m~2~ is also now 135 kg.
- Comment on We can't all be astronauts. 5 weeks ago:
How do you get LaTeX in the comment?
- Comment on He took it literally 5 weeks ago:
Your lawyer would be more than happy to learn that they tried.
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 5 weeks ago:
Words become more acceptable over time. In centuries past calling someone a devil or saying that they should go to hell would have been deeply offensive. Today these insults are so mild that even schoolchildren say them to each other. Even twenty years ago the word “fuck” was viewed with nearly as much taboo as racial slurs. Now, it’s a very common word that people will throw around in a casual context.
At the same time, new words emerge and get labelled profane. For example, the word t****y (slur that means “transgender person”) would not have meant anything twenty years ago, and now it’s one of the most offensive words in the English dictionary. Similar story with the word f****t (derogatory term for a homosexual person).
- Comment on I knew I should have cancelled the order 😑 1 month ago:
While it does sound unfair, eBay policy requires you to upload a tracking number by policy. If there is no tracking number eBay will treat it as having never been shipped. This is laid out in their policy pages. You can only satisfy the shipping requirement by using a tracked service and the one indicated by the buyer.
It’s a strict logical operation. eBay sides with the buyer unless all of the following are satisfied:
- A tracking number is uploaded within the specified turnaround time on your listing (I believe it defaults to 2 or 3 working days)
- The tracking number corresponds with the buyer’s indicated shipping service (ex. using USPS Ground Advantage when the buyer indicated Priority Mail will fail this requirement)
- The package was shipped to the exact address given to you by eBay
- The tracking status indicates “delivered” or "available for pickup"
- If the order total exceeds $750, you required a signature for the package
If you fail any of the requirements, you are at the buyer’s mercy. It’s harsh but it’s fair.
- Comment on I knew I should have cancelled the order 😑 1 month ago:
Shipping without tracking is pretty dumb though. I can’t speak for Canada Post but in your neighbour to the south, USPS in my experience has lost about 3% of letters with handwritten addresses and about 1% of those with a computer-printed address.
- Comment on Where has the tax money "saved" in uk austerity gone? 1 month ago:
The Sovereign Grant was some £86 million, which certainly sounds like a lot, but the reality is that heads of state are actually just really expensive no matter whether you have a republic or a monarchy. Maybe you could argue that a president could just quietly exist in the background while people expect a monarchy to be lavish and fancy, at least to a degree. There’s a lot of pomp and ceremony associated with the head of state, because they not only represent the government of a country but also serve as a cultural symbol for the nation as a whole.
For comparison, in the US, excluding the policy departments within the Executive Office, the White House Office and Executive Residence and presidential salary budget lines totalled almost $94 million in FY 2025. This does not include the cost of Secret Service protection (paid by the Department for Homeland Security) nor does it include the cost of Air Force One trips (paid by the Department of Defence). And while Brits complain about their monarch not having to pay tax, I think the fact that the American president, or at least the current one, cheats on his taxes is also a somewhat open secret.
I’m American and technically also British despite never having been there (I hold a type of second class citizenship through Hong Kong), and I honestly think £86 million is a bargain for the UK monarchy considering their cultural draw and the fact that they’re not just the head of state of the UK but a dozen other countries as well.
- Comment on Do gangs that collect protection money actually do any protecting? 1 month ago:
Did they (the gangs who asked for protection money) actually ever catch the people responsible or blamed to be responsible?
- Comment on Anon learns a new spell 2 months ago:
Rowling was always known to be slightly racist but people mostly dismissed it as a sort of fantastically stupid racism. As in, the “ha ha this racist stereotype is so dumb, see how ridiculous it looks when I put it in my wizard book” sort.
I don’t think it was until she started going full TERF that people began to realise that she’s not making fun of the stereotypes; she actually thinks casual racism is a funny and cute thing to do.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 2 months ago:
Most of the large ones only take bank transfers and cryptocurrency now.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 2 months ago:
How’s this confusing? They’re a Puritanical group. They do Puritanical things. Literally nothing deep about it.
- Comment on Uber Eats or something idk 2 months ago:
So what did you mean when you began your comment with “actually it’s the inverse”? Inverse of what?
- Comment on Uber Eats or something idk 2 months ago:
I’m a bit confused by what you’re trying to say here. It seems non sequitur if you are trying to say “borrowers of higher interest rate benefit less from inflation”.
- Comment on Uber Eats or something idk 2 months ago:
Your maths is not right. Inflation, in absolute terms, is a larger benefit to people with higher interest rates.
Let’s consider the scenario where inflation is 10% for simplicity, and two borrowers who each borrow $100, but Borrower A at 5% annual simple interest and Borrower B at 25% annual simple interest. Both borrowers borrow the money at the beginning of Year 0.
Borrower A owes $105 in Year 1 dollars at the beginning of Year 1. This is equivalent to $95.45 in Year 0 dollars.
Borrower B owes $125 in Year 1 dollars at the beginning of Year 1. This is equivalent to $113.64 in Year 0 dollars.
Compared to a 0% inflation rate, Borrower A saved 9.55 Year 0 dollars and Borrower B saved 11.36 Year 0 dollars. Borrower B saved 1.81 more Year 0 dollars than Borrower B due to inflation (but paid 17.55 Year 0 dollars more overall because of interest).
- Comment on Uber Eats or something idk 2 months ago:
Inflation reduces the real buying power of the money used to repay the loan by the inflation rate each year, regardless of your loan interest.
In absolute terms, inflation is better the higher your interest rate is, because the number of dollars it saves you goes up.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I think one other factor that people have not considered is the monitor. To run all games at 4K maximum settings, yes, this type of PC might be required. But at lower resolutions, such as 1080p or 1440p, this is overkill and one would be able to run any game as maximum settings even with a computer costing a third as much.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Important distinction: A triangle is a three-sided polygon. For example, a quarter-circle is not a triangle, despite being a three-sided shape.
- Comment on Speak American 4 months ago:
I think you’re overthinking it slightly.
- French flag represents the language called "French"
- Spanish flag represents the language called "Spanish"
- Russian flag represents the language called "Russian"
- German flag represents the language called "German"
- Portuguese flag represents the language called "Portuguese"
- Japanese flag represents the language called "Japanese"
- Korean flag represents the language called "Korean"
- Chinese flag represents the language called "Chinese"
- Italian flag represents the language called "Italian"
- But somehow, the British flag doesn’t represent a language called “British”, but rather, one called “English”, despite there existing an English flag
- Comment on Speak American 4 months ago:
Scottish people having to click on a British flag knowing it will display English (there is a perfectly good flag for England that people refuse to use 🏴)
- Comment on Elon Musk Cuts Funding for Internet Archive 5 months ago:
- Comment on What is it about humans when society rewards individuals with the power of millions they want to use it to fuck up society? 5 months ago:
If the question is asking about Trump, Orban, Putin, or your other favourite dimwitted world leader, it’s because these people usually don’t actually want to fuck everything up. They want to make their country (or their notion of the groups of people they regard as their country) prosperous and glorious. But they’re just unable to take in the fact that their policies and leadership are actually leading them further away from this goal. It really is just a deadly combination of incompetence and inability to self-criticise.
In the case of Trump, who is a pre-eminent example of this, he really does think that tariffs will make the US richer. He is a moron, of course, but that’s what he thinks. He doesn’t “know” that tariffs will damage the American economy and America’s international reputation, because he doesn’t grasp the concept at all. Anyone who has observed his thinking for any period of time after he got into politics can observe that it is very feelings-driven and not very fact-based. And a lot of his government’s policy is also ego-driven, which explains why it is seemingly always falling for Russian propaganda and why he wants to be on good terms with Putin. Though Putin is no universal genius either, one thing that he is very good at, as a result of his KGB training, is manipulating others to get what he wants. It certainly does help Putin a lot that Trump is pretty easily manipulated. And as for Trump’s comments about wanting to take over Canada, take over Greenland, take over Panama, &c. &c., most non-US observers describe that as clear evidence of his mental decline. J. J. McCullough, a Canadian political commentator, described it as being “obvious” that Trump is “losing it”.
And ironically, since Joe Biden’s mental competence was called into question in the last US election, while Biden’s senility manifests mostly in the form of stutters, speech blunders, and random mostly-inert goofiness, Trump’s senility seems to manifest in a desire to take over the world and become God-emperor of Mankind, which is objectively more dangerous for a world leader.
