Saledovil
@Saledovil@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Lmao 11 hours ago:
Some humans want to travel even when they’re perfectly happy.
- Comment on The Art of Surrender 5 days ago:
The democrats don’t prosecute their political opponents, because that would be weaponizing the justice system. They ignore the fact that using the justice system against people who are doing extremely illegal shit doesn’t constitute an abuse of the justice system. How they are portrayed by their enemies is more important to the Democrats than accomplishing any sort of political objective. It’s the sort of pathetic that is really hard to respect.
- Comment on The unAbomber. Otherwise, I agree. 2 weeks ago:
Thing is, Hitler didn’t make the trains run on time. The Autovahn was already being build when the Nazis took power, which they then took credit for. Germany’s economy was basically a shell game of debt.
- Comment on Annon was too spicy 3 weeks ago:
In that particular way, yes.
- Comment on Annon was too spicy 3 weeks ago:
Only /b/ has no rules (There’s actually some rules that are enforced, e.g. no posting illegal content), and that also applies to moderation. As in, a moderator can just ban you for any reason they want.
- Comment on Blessed be the Civ 2 Gandhi 🙏 5 weeks ago:
1000 years, that’s when the region becomes habitable once again.
- Comment on The three archetypes 5 weeks ago:
He got into working satellite internet before everyone else
Satellite internet has existed before Starlink. What’s novel about starlink is that the satellites are much closer to earth, which allows for a low ping, but comes at the cost of needing to replace the satellites every few years, as they’ll deorbit by themselves, and needing a whole lot more of them. It only offers an advantage over cheaper alternatives (terrestrial internet or satellite internet in geostationary orbit) when you’re somewhere without proper infrastructure, and those areas tend to not be wealthy. So, the question is, is there enough demand to pay for replacing the entire constellation of satellites every few years?
- Comment on Anon is going to be rich 1 month ago:
Yes, it’s so far fetched that Anon expects the cops to be called.
- Comment on Anon is going to be rich 1 month ago:
Yeah but then if they pass your id and agree to the bribery they’ll give you the 100$? It’s the wrong way around to be bribery.
The bet is that Anon is 24, but if the id says they’re 21, then they’re of drinking age, but still lose the bet, so the clerk gets the money. ID is passed, and money is paid.
- Comment on Anon is going to be rich 1 month ago:
See my reply to Krafty Kactus.
- Comment on Anon is going to be rich 1 month ago:
It could be constructed as an attempt at bribery. You see, when you bribe somebody, you can’t just go up to them, and tell them “Here’s a hundred bucks, look the other way”. Because, what if you’re an undercover cop? You need to offer the money in a way that offers plausible deniability. So, the next step could be to show a poorly counterfeited id that says you’re only 21, with the implied subtext being, “I’m giving you 100$, but in exchange you don’t look too closely at my false id”. Of course, there’s always a risk that the person you’re trying to bribe doesn’t catch on.
- Comment on Anon is going to be rich 1 month ago:
It isn’t sustainable. No clerk will take the bet more than once. Also, the clerk doesn’t have to take the bet to interpret it as bribery and call the cops on you. In addition, there’s the risk of the clerk simply not honoring the bet.
- Comment on "Capitalism rewards innovation!" 2 months ago:
I’ve read about guilds literally banning innovation in a 12 part series on German history.
- Comment on "AI is Theft, I Have to Use It, Otherwise I'll Get Fired": GDC Reports One-Third of Game Workers Are Using GenAI for Daily Tasks 2 months ago:
Nobody did that by hand even before Gen Ai was invented. Even before photography or computers, there were techniques to get textures without manually drawing them. The splotches, for example, could be accomplished by shaking the brush at the canvas.
- Comment on Student Parking 2 months ago:
Car transit is literally the least cost efficient method of travel, and only affordable because it’s heavily subsidized.
- Comment on Greedy bastards 2 months ago:
The problem isn’t the data center, but rather that the data center is being wasted on running AI. AI is a uniquely wasteful application, like crypto mining. If the data center does something actually useful, then it might provide utility greater than its expenses and externalities.
- Comment on Adtech is not tech 3 months ago:
People claim to be effective altruists when they can’t claim that they’re altruists.
- Comment on Anon's wife hears voices 3 months ago:
He’s imagining them as physical things that can be hurt. And apparently, the voices can feel his violent fantasies. At least, that’s what’s implied by the story.
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 4 months ago:
Million dollar company sounds impressive, but I don’t think that is impressive. Like twenty employees already imply a million or more in expenses annually, and require corresponding revenue to sustain.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 4 months ago:
Yeah, that is a problem.
And thanks for the compliment.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 4 months ago:
Well, if Grace is already well known, then her public key should be available.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 4 months ago:
Bob would have to know and trust Grace beforehand. Grace could be the IRS, for example. The idea here being to have somebody who already knows your age vouch for your age.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 4 months ago:
We could just make the middle man somebody who already needs that information, e.g. the IRS.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 4 months ago:
Here’s my idea: Bob gives Alice a token, assigning her an unique random number n. Alice goes to Grace and tells her, “Somebody assigned me number n, can you verify that I’m allowed?” Grace then writes: “User n is allowed, signed Grace”. Alice then takes this letter and shows it to Bob. Bob now knows that Alice is allowed, but nothing else. Grace only knows that somebody wanted to know that Alice is allowed, not who that somebody is.
Of note here: This system does nothing to protect against an allowed user helping a not allowed user to gain access, but I don’t think it’s possible to protect against traitorous users.
- Comment on Scientific Exposure 4 months ago:
What does PI mean (first sentence of your post)?
- Comment on Radon 4 months ago:
I bury corpses.
Hmm, that actually sounds like you run body disposal for organized crime.
- Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition 5 months ago:
Or a Bethesda style creation club is coming.
- Comment on Fictional 5 months ago:
If it turned out they exited, wouldn’t you want to study them?
- Comment on Why would I buy this? 5 months ago:
Reviews are mixed: not a great start
More than not a great start: Only people who have bought the game are allowed to review it, so reviewers are already biased towards liking the game, because only somebody who thinks they would enjoy the game would spend money on it. It’s basically impossible to get a strong negative score by just being run of the mill awful. So “mixed” means that about 50% of people who though they would enjoy the game, didn’t, which is quite damning.
- Comment on Upload Me Into The AI God Hivemind 5 months ago:
I kinda feel like the uncertainty principle is the 🐘 in the room whenever it comes to 🧠 uploading.