Saledovil
@Saledovil@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on The Prisoner's Trolley Problemma 3 weeks ago:
Unlike the classic prisoners dilemma, this isn’t a nash equilibrium. When I know that the other person pulls their switch, I’d improve my outcome by not pulling mine. Compare to the prisoners dilemma, where not snitching when the other side snitches earns you five years in prison.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 4 weeks ago:
Users don’t cost much to keep around, especially if they don’t post. The data needed for the account would be authentication data, and post data, the second of which doesn’t apply to users who don’t post, and the first one being negligible compared to the amount of space available on a common hard drive. So, why not just give them a chance?
- Comment on Dear Americans, be prepare to get screwed! 1 month ago:
The joke is twofold:
- Some people, mostly authoritarian communists, claim that the ‘tankie’ is being used to describe anybody too far left.
- Democrats are by now very right on immigration.
- Comment on Dear Americans, be prepare to get screwed! 1 month ago:
Plus the only places that are left to build giant factories are distant from population centers.
You’re forgetting about eminent domain. Clearly, giant factory on American soil is a public good, even if it’s privately owned. Hence, the government will seize the homes and give the land to the corp. The prices of the houses will fall first, because who wants to buy a house that’s going to get bulldozed, reducing the compensation the government has to pay to the homeowners, potentially causing them to be upside down on their mortgages. This will leave them with nothing, or potentially even debt, when their homes get sized.
- Comment on Dear Americans, be prepare to get screwed! 1 month ago:
Plus the only places that are left to build giant factories are distant from population centers. And I doubt there will be mass transit into them. So more pollution from personal transportation. And more pollution from local factories. Ripping the EPA to shreds will help with that, and that’s a part of agenda 47.
- Comment on Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit? 2 months ago:
I figure with Lemmy having much fewer users, there’s less potential for toxic communities to form.
- Comment on I make games and this literally happened to me this morning 2 months ago:
The break even point would be at a balance of 23.08$. However, if the account balance doesn’t expire, buying your own game to put you over the threshold would be checking the couch cushions for loose change level of desperation.
- Comment on Sorry to be a bother... 2 months ago:
I really like brutalism, especially when contrasted with greenery. A set of brutalist apartment blocks, with ample space between each of them, which contains native flora would be rather beautiful. The space between the blocks could also be used as a communal barbeque place. Or a fitness trail.
- Comment on Anon plays The Sims 2 months ago:
If he’s playing the Sims 4, which the screenshot is off, then how did he manage that? It’s quite easy to lead your sims to success in that game.
- Comment on Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread 3 months ago:
In Germany, shopping carts typically have a deposit system, where you have to insert an Euro into the cart to use it, which you get back when you return it. So that is basically a build in fine for not returning it.
- Comment on Anon checks out politics on reddit 3 months ago:
Antifa is a politically diverse group, only defined by being opposed to fascism, as sane people should be. If you were to ask 2 antifascists about how society should be run, you’d likely get 2 different answers. Same as for any group not defined by support for a political ideology.
- Comment on Anon checks out politics on reddit 3 months ago:
And antifa can be violent, though it’s not really an organization. Wikipedia describes it as a movement. And given the fact that fascists have ruined every country where they took power, violence against them is wholly justified.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
If I met a human who needs constant blood and urine tests, I’d assume said person is ill.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
It’s a little known fact, but if you killed an animal yourself, its meat is vegan.
- Comment on Anon casts a healing spell 3 months ago:
Where do the casting costs come from? Are they reagents for the spell?
- Comment on Anon offers a harsh truth 3 months ago:
If you steal something, at which point does it truly yours?
- Comment on YouTube now vs then 3 months ago:
Money?
- Comment on Anon makes a deal with a demon 3 months ago:
What if you’re dealing with a demon who isn’t weak to salt? What if the rules on salt circles require the salt to be on the ground, so a salt ring in orbit does nothing? What if the salt ring doesn’t meet the salt density requirement to ward off demons? What if the demon never leaves earth, instead hanging out at a coffee shop, and thus the demon doesn’t have to cross the salt circle to get to you? What if the demon simply grabs your soul after you die?
- Comment on Go already 3 months ago:
0 upvotes 0 down votes at time of writing. I agree with you, though.
- Comment on Liz Truss leaves stage in Beccles as 'lettuce' banner unfurls 3 months ago:
My hypothesis is that they put the gilts up as collateral so that they could borrow money to invest. So, interest rate goes up, and the value of existing gilts goes down, because why buy a gilt with 1% interest when you can get a new one with 2% interest? Pension funds need to add more collateral to their accounts, because the gilts became less valuable.
- Comment on Liz Truss leaves stage in Beccles as 'lettuce' banner unfurls 4 months ago:
Thanks, but how did the pension funds hedge against interest rates in a way that they had to pay up when the interest rate went up?
- Comment on Liz Truss leaves stage in Beccles as 'lettuce' banner unfurls 4 months ago:
Thanks. I’ll check it out in the evening.
- Comment on Liz Truss leaves stage in Beccles as 'lettuce' banner unfurls 4 months ago:
So, this minibudget included tax cuts, coupled with a massive increase in government spending, which then caused the currency to devalue. Still don’t fully understand how it got this bad, though.
- Comment on Liz Truss leaves stage in Beccles as 'lettuce' banner unfurls 4 months ago:
What did she do to make people’s mortgages go up?
- Comment on Picture Unrelated 4 months ago:
You could also just take any conversational LLM, and tell it that it’s playing a psychopathic character.
- Comment on Ah sweet! 4 months ago:
Yeah, same principle.
- Comment on Ah sweet! 4 months ago:
If you’re eating yourself, no. If you have a disease to pass on, you can’t catch the disease, because you already have it.
- Comment on The problem with sleeper ships 4 months ago:
If we assume that the ship, while traveling, always moves towards its destination, but it might be off by up to 1 degree. Then the margin of error for its position would grow until about the midway point in the journey. I have no idea how to calculate this, unfortunately, but I’d image there’d be a lot of space you need to cover if you want to find the ship.
- Comment on Anon finds a plot hole 4 months ago:
Sure, but that’s never really explored beyond a one-liner from a grade school kid.
I think the implications are explored in “Harry Potter and the cursed child”, where causality does get violated.
- Comment on Anon finds a plot hole 4 months ago:
They do use it to meddle, though, its how the plot in “Prisoner of Azkaban” gets resolved. Also I’m pretty sure that Hermione mentions at one point that people have killed their past selves using time turners, which would not constitute a closed loop of causality.