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- Comment on Scott Bakula Eyeing Star Trek Return In President Archer Series Pitch From ‘Enterprise’ Producer 22 hours ago:
…gettin’ from there to here…
- Comment on Cutting sucks 3 days ago:
A fellow member of boiled, unsalted chicken club!
Don’t forget the tabasco.
- Comment on Anon learns a new spell 5 days ago:
- Comment on Nintendo sold almost 6 million Switch 2 units in less than a month 1 week ago:
- Comment on I explained economics to my nine year old 1 week ago:
Oh, there are certainly very big ones, but even the big ones sometimes don’t have predicted impacts because at given times some things that USED to be drivers might not be just now. For example, a 2% sales tax increase, depending on the current state of people’s buying, could have a minor impact or a major impact. If people are already buying only what they need, the impact to demand could be negligible. If they’re splurging but wages are stagnant, maybe it has a huge impact. If they’re splurging AND wages are increasing, maybe it has a negligible impact again. The basic point is, even if you understand the major drivers, without a bigger picture of the macroeconomic picture and what specific forces are driving behavior at the moment, your impact could be anything from dulled to the exact opposite of your intention.
Also, some of those factors, front running, insider trading, and market manipulation, which are evidence of a more predictable market, BECOME additional variables that impact decision making because they themselves impact other factors.
Weather forecasting might not be the best metaphor here… it’s more like the human body. You might know that some protein causes some favorable condition that you want to boost, but increasing that protein production might ALSO increase production of an enzyme for breaking it down, reducing bio-availability of one of the building blocks, leading to a reduction of another protein that’s critical for immune function. All of these pathways function together in ways that are extremely hard to predict, and it’s natural that very often you’ll be wrong.
But that’s not to say I’m being defeatist… you build better models and you try things anyway - because that’s what we do. I’m just saying economics is very, very, very hard, and there’s not just a limit to our current ability to predict, there’s a limit to how much we certainty we CAN achieve.
- Comment on I explained economics to my nine year old 1 week ago:
It’s true, but it’s not because of their lack of knowledge, it’s because of the nature of the system they’re talking about. The economy is based on thousands of tiny variables, and which ones are relevant changes depending on the current state. Small changes to one part create feedback loops that effect other parts. It’s also not linear. You can change one thing by 1% and wind up changing other parts of the economy by 50%.
Economists take their best guesses based on the models and understanding they have right now, but it’s not like engineering - it’s notoriously hard to predict what the real causes and impact of anything will be. So you’re absolutely right - everything is an estimate because the system is in inherently chaotic.
- Comment on I explained economics to my nine year old 1 week ago:
That’s true too, but you’re also talking about a chaotic system, and chaotic systems are stubbornly hard to accurately predict even with perfect knowledge.
Economic forecasters are like weather forecasters. The really good ones give you their best guesses, but it’s still not a guarantee of anything - there are too many variables and even the tiny ones can have a huge impact on results.
- Comment on I explained economics to my nine year old 1 week ago:
The 9 year old aside, I’m skeptical when anybody on social media claims they’re going to explain ANYTHING about economics. Even the best people in the world at it only KIND OF know what they’re doing.
- Comment on When will we have reached enough productivity? 2 weeks ago:
Actually, ironically, that would be BETTER than what we have now. Billionaires increasing their consumption would at least mean they’re SPENDING their money on something which is paying SOMEONE.
Instead they hoard and do nothing with it.
- Comment on hubris go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 2 weeks ago:
If only. They’ll fill it with sycophants until the explosions stop. They’re just more resources for them to use.
- Comment on yum 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on This is the smallest print size i've ever seen 5 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Anon has a warning for incels 5 weeks ago:
Then you’ll be more valuable to your corporate masters. Everybody wins!
- Comment on Anon has a warning for incels 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam 1 month ago:
I also don’t like how things are legally speaking with DMCA, but the main takeaway is - the creation and distribution of an emulator, without DRM protections, is unequivocally protected and legal. ROM backup is certainly in most cases not, but if you are making your own copies for your own use, even while illegally breaking encryption, it would be difficult to prove and prosecute on an individual basis.
The right we must continually remind people is NOT even REMOTELY in question is the right to create and distribute emulators. This is by far the more important one, because people cannot reasonably develop their own emulators - it requires an open, collaborative community to ensure future preservation, and it’s a constant battle to keep people from actively trying to cede this right because they have nebulous loyalties to soulless companies that return no such feelings.
- Comment on The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam 1 month ago:
Not to be a stickler, but this does not make copying illegal - it makes circumvention of drm methods illegal. You can make drm’d copies as you like as long as you don’t circumvent the drm method. If your game isn’t encrypted, and the emulator doesn’t implement the drm, you haven’t circumvented drm - you are playing your legal copy on a device that does not implement the drm. It’s distinct from removing the drm from a device that implements it.
- Comment on The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam 1 month ago:
Copying your own game and materials for backup purposes is no grey area, and neither is development or use of emulators, and panicky, uninformed spewing of gut feelings are how public knowledge of your actual rights gets muddled into people with zero knowledge waxing poetic about how they THINK it works because they like games and think that makes their ramblings valuable.
- Comment on One gamer got so tired of waiting for Valve, he made his own 'Steam Controller 2' out of Steam Deck parts, and it even splits in half like Switch Joy-Cons 1 month ago:
Absolutely. I want to skim the important parts at my own pace. Not dedicate multiple minutes of attention to a video.
- Comment on One gamer got so tired of waiting for Valve, he made his own 'Steam Controller 2' out of Steam Deck parts, and it even splits in half like Switch Joy-Cons 1 month ago:
Now do Half-life 3.
- Comment on Too wordy a shitpost? 1 month ago:
Not wordy enough
- Comment on I'm not worried you're worried 8 months ago:
I’ve learned no lesson. I secured a permanent residency abroad the first time this chucklefuck was in office, and I’ve already bought my plane ticket out. I feel so, so awful for people who voted reasonably and are stuck there, and I encourage everyone who can to get out now, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to let the self-righteous attitudes of people with no sense try to punish me for exercising logic.
- Comment on I'm not worried you're worried 8 months ago:
Nobody’s “souls” matter anymore. The world is completely fucked and our physical bodies are going to be going through the ringer very soon. I hope you’re on the right side of the people who can now do whatever they want with absolutely no guardrails. Otherwise you’re about to REALLY experience solidarity.
- Comment on I'm not worried you're worried 8 months ago:
If it’s any consolation you and everyone else are likely to get a firsthand lesson in it in the near future.
Now EVERYONE is fucked. Congrats!
- Comment on Anon plays a guessing game 9 months ago:
Exactly. Nothing wrong with an “Nuh uh. I’m not falling for this. You can tell me if you want me to know.”
- Comment on Naughty Dog’s next game will reportedly offer ‘a lot of player freedom’ | VGC 9 months ago:
Yeah. Valve invented most of the attention direction techniques for Half-life (light, motion, etc, etc.) Trailblazers.
- Comment on Naughty Dog’s next game will reportedly offer ‘a lot of player freedom’ | VGC 9 months ago:
“Let’s give them lots of player freedom this time!”
Play testers continually don’t look at a set piece vista the developers and artists spent 400 hours creating.
“Well, that’s enough of that. Back to the rails.”
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 9 months ago:
Bees are pollinators because they go to flowers and collect and move pollen.
Mosquitoes don’t have time to hang out in flowers because they’re busy screaming in your ear at 2 AM.
- Comment on Where do donut holes come from? 9 months ago:
I’ll never forget those glazed eyes…
- Comment on Is there a subsect of the minimalist community that's focused on portable living? 9 months ago:
Oh, I know. I’m not specifically talking to YOU. Just making a general comment in the second person.
- Comment on Is there a subsect of the minimalist community that's focused on portable living? 9 months ago:
Just move the whole setup towards the camera by about 2 feet and you’ll not only hide that power outlet, you’ll get the recliner out of what looks likely to be a VERY poorly insulated front door. I can feel the cold radiating off of it in the winter already.
