theunknownmuncher
@theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
- Comment on How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More... 1 day ago:
If you think the number of people that use ad blockers is not a fraction of a percent of internet users, you’re in a bubble.
Go outside, talk to people, friends, family, especially of different generations. Even people I know that I consider much more “tech savvy” than average have no clue about ad blockers or how to begin using them.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Cryptocurrency has transaction fees. They start out as the newly mined coins, paid from the pool of unmined coins. Once the finite number of coins have been mined and that pool is empty, the miners will begin charge fees for each transaction directly to the users making the transactions.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
They genuinely don’t make sense as “currency”. Having a public, permanent ledger of all transactions is pretty bad. Buy groceries, pay your rent, and get paid in crypto? Now your landlord, employer, and grocer can see every transaction you’ve ever made, how much your account is worth, and how much you spend. Wonderful!
Sure, you could use a service to obfuscate your transactions, except oopsies, you’ve just reinvented centralization but worse! Wasn’t the whole purpose decentralization??
Cryptocurrency sucks because it genuinely doesn’t make sense at a fundamental level. That’s not even getting into the economic problems, like deflationary currency, or technical problems, like the exponential cost of hosting a node or the fact that it can only be scaled up to handle at most a teeny tiny fraction of a percent of transactions that a service like Visa handles every day.
What is actually a good currency? Cash.
- Comment on OP has a realization 1 week ago:
Well “zero gravity” doesn’t really mean zero gravity. It’s free fall (due to gravity). If you’re in orbit, you’re moving so fast “sideways” that you perpetually “miss” the Earth and just continue falling forever.
- Comment on Why does everyone put celery in soup stock? 1 week ago:
I like celery. I add it when making stock (both ribs and leaves), chop up a few ribs and cook it in soup with carrots and onion, and I like to eat it raw as a snack.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Optimus Robot shuts down after reproducing the gesture of its human operator removing their headset 2 weeks ago:
I want to see footage of the backroom where the controllers are located so badly. Imagine how silly it must look, just a room full of people wearing VR headsets while trying to make their movements look as robotic as possible.
- Comment on the same people who protest AI, would have protested the printing press 3 weeks ago:
Nah, the printing press doesn’t threaten the water supply.
- Comment on Reddit global rank is going down 3 weeks ago:
It basically already is
- Comment on Bread mold 3 weeks ago:
I’m talking the cheddar that’s been in the fridge too long and has some spots on one end. I just cut it off a generous portion and still eat it anyway unless the cheese itself tastes badly of mold
- Comment on Bread mold 3 weeks ago:
But cutting around the mold on cheese is fine, right? Right???
- Comment on Anon thinks we're being bamboo-zled 4 weeks ago:
That’s not how citations work.
- Comment on Anon thinks we're being bamboo-zled 4 weeks ago:
most of the citations are improper/broken
…citations… to books… not broken links lol.
[19] (tr. adapted from Harper 2013: 185, 205)
And on page 185, we find the exact text cited
- Comment on Anon thinks we're being bamboo-zled 4 weeks ago:
there are no registry of panda before the 1800
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo_(Chinese_zoology)
Why do they lie about facts that are so easy to disprove?
- Comment on Did the Buldak spicy ramen get less spicy? 4 weeks ago:
It’s still the same spice where I buy it. There is also the 2x spicy
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 4 weeks ago:
There are times I can be “sucked into” a book. I’m in there, seeing the story like its real. I forget about everything else momentarily. Very jarring when my concentration is broken, and suddenly I remember who/where I am.
- Comment on Is this too corny? 4 weeks ago:
Not a deepfake, not misinformation, not trying to disguise itself as an authentic, serious artistic work, not an ad, not taking your job
Just a simple meme that was once a dream
- Comment on Can I make a Bluetooth button to skip YouTube ads on the computer? 4 weeks ago:
Install KDE Connect on your PC and Phone (supported on Linux, Windows, Android, iOS, Mac OS), pair them together, use your phone as a media remote controller for the PC.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Buy one (you now have 1 stuffed animal), get one (you now have 2 stuffed animals)
- Comment on Racism restaurant 4 weeks ago:
4 pints
- Comment on Cloned Gmail with Epstein's emails 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Jeopardy wall calendar pretending that the coastline paradox doesn't exist 5 weeks ago:
Hmm I’ve consulted a mathematician that I know, and they say thay cardinality isn’t really the same as “size”, but comparing the two infinite sets of the same cardinality is basically meaningless because even though one set is sorta kinda “bigger” than the other set
- Comment on Jeopardy wall calendar pretending that the coastline paradox doesn't exist 5 weeks ago:
Alright, I concede. I did it wrong but still ended up with the right answer. There are other responses in this thread with correct explanation for why Asia has more coastline
- Comment on Jeopardy wall calendar pretending that the coastline paradox doesn't exist 5 weeks ago:
Go ahead, try to label every real number with an integer, I’ll wait.
Why would I be trying to do this though? You’ve got the argument backwards.
- Comment on Jeopardy wall calendar pretending that the coastline paradox doesn't exist 5 weeks ago:
Not all infinities are equal, friend. Asia does have more infinite coastline than other continents.
- Comment on Got a little drunk last week gave money to a cult. Again. 5 weeks ago:
In court, free speech is free speech, and that’s the only position the government should have.
Out of court, FUCK the KKK and whatever they have to say, I’m not listening.
- Comment on Scandal 1 month ago:
Narcissists don’t suck dick? That’s the best you can do?
- Comment on Scandal 1 month ago:
Bro I didn’t ask for this
- Comment on Scandal 1 month ago:
I wish you were right, but that genuinely doesn’t make any sense.
What even could be “the photos” of someone kissing someone’s ass in a metaphorical sense?
Especially when the context is a conversation with someone who owns a literal depraved-and-illegal-sex themed island designed specifically to generate blackmail on the wealthy and powerful.
- Comment on Scandal 1 month ago:
email supports font selection
- Comment on Scandal 1 month ago:
