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- Comment on $37 for a burrito 22 hours ago:
If you ever read about the pirate age in the Caribbean, they sometimes talk or “pieces of eight,” aka “pesos,” which are 1/8 of a Spanish Real (the dominant world reserve currency at the time).
- Comment on $37 for a burrito 22 hours ago:
It’s the overly perfect chalkboard style lettering. It’s like it’s rounded sans serif but hand written in a way that’s too even.
- Comment on 👴☝️I did that 1 day ago:
TVs were always cheap compared to cost to make the things - it’s not just the “oh, they have advertising now” thing.
Yes, and the cost of making them keeps dropping. When you were selling TVs in 1991, a 30 inch TV cost about $500 in 1991 dollars. The technology back then just basically made it complex and labor intensive to manufacture, and they were so heavy that it actually took significant number of human labor hours just to get it from factory to store to the specific store’s display. Merely putting a 30 inch TV in the window of a store was probably a 2-man lift.
Whereas today it’s a bunch of robots in cleanrooms automating production of high volumes of solid state LCD components to where full color displays can be put in cheap appliances, and finished 30 inch TVs being thin and light enough to be moved with one hand while sipping a coffee with the other.
I’m not surprised it’s much cheaper today, even a tiny fraction of the time period you’re talking about, even when back then they were selling at a loss.
- Comment on 👴☝️I did that 1 day ago:
TVs are made from components that are made through almost entirely automated processes at such large scales that the underlying raw material and cost of shipping become the main driver of cost. Paradoxically, that means that TVs that have gotten thinner and lighter use less material and therefore have a lower floor of how little it can cost.
Once a production line is set up to make the components, each additional one produced costs very little, so making high volume runs is the key: lots of shared parts between brands and models, very long production runs to minimize the cost of redesign or retooling or downtime.
- Comment on Fuq 1 day ago:
“Giving straight teeth” = letting her teeth scrape up against dick during a blowjob
“Pull a girl” = go home with a woman who wants to have sex with you
“Bad” = Sexy, hot
“Lock In” = concentrate and perform at a high level
- Comment on 👴☝️I did that 2 days ago:
There was a Planet Money episode that broke down where the $4/gallon went in 2022:
$2.40 for the price of crude oil when priced at $100/barrel.
$0.65 to the refiner that turns crude oil into gasoline (this was the prevailing spread in 2022, maybe different now).
$0.184 in federal taxes
$0.30 in state taxes
$0.20 to $0.50 for transportation from the refiner to the actual retail station.
Remainder is for the retailer (usually about $0.30 but fluctuates wildly).
That’s how it is in the U.S. In other countries, it might be higher taxes, higher cost of refining, higher costs of transportation from the refiner, and higher margins for the retailer.
- Comment on Fuq 2 days ago:
It’s fucked up, but there’s a reason why I had the best time with women who were insecure in their formative years. Even if they later realized they were beautiful they had a sense of needing to work to be desired.
And I could be all sorts of different reasons: used to be fat, grew tall way earlier than everyone else, was the only person of their ethnic group in their school, has a prominent scar or birthmark. But their adolescent experiences helped drive their attitudes towards others, and I found it most fun to date or even befriend people who had once had something to prove.
- Comment on Anon is married 6 days ago:
Relying on society, when it works out, still usually leaves you with over-extended or strained relationships
No, framing that as the best case scenario is just a complete lack of imagination. I’m closer with my friends and family now because we have regular meetups and more scheduled social contact. The idea that this kind of stuff would strain my friendships is actually pretty foreign to me. We do things for each other, and that brings us closer rather than piling up one-way resentment for the people who give more than they get.
I find life to be less stressful when I’m around people I love. And that was always true, before I had kids, too.
All that, and have you seen divorce statistics. Jesus FUCK, have you SEEN divorce statistics?
Divorce rates have been dropping over the last 40 years, are especially low for college educated couples who got married after the age of 30.
Take a deep breath and realize that lots of people are living lots of different lives. Try to imagine that some of us are happy, too.
- Comment on Anon is married 6 days ago:
I don’t know how Jewish it is, but it is part of a general trend of how society treats marriage.
Generations back, marriage was considered the beginning, a cornerstone for building an adult life on. Now, it’s shifted more towards a capstone, a thing that you can add to your life once you get your shit together. That has shifted expectations in dating, as well as expectations of how independent young adults need to be.
And it has pushed back expectations of what it means to be ready to have children. And once a higher percentage of parents have more money when they have kids, it also subtly shifts the expectations of parenting, as well:
“Having kids is too expensive” is just the straight-up truth for anyone who isn’t uncommonly comfortable relying on charity and/or society.
What’s wrong with relying on society? Having a good family and social circle is basically the most important part of being ready to have kids. My wife and I waited till we were rich before having kids, but we still heavily rely on our family, friends, and neighbors to enrich our children’s lives, while also being there for them and their children: rotating babysitting duties if some parents want to go on a date or even go out of town, rotating dinner hosting so only one family has to cook and clean, getting the kids together so that they can play and socialize, etc. We can’t do the parenting thing in isolation, but I don’t think society expects us to.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
I’m willing to feed the revolution more fighters though
- Comment on Perfect crime 1 week ago:
Ok these are awesome. I’m probably gonna buy this dude’s book.
- Comment on Perfect crime 1 week ago:
I feel like the article you linked doesn’t support your conclusion, at least for the technique described in the article as an improvement over what people were doing before 2013. Those NIST researchers seemed to conclude that their 3D scan techniques can reduce the false positive rate to very low numbers, even when comparing 9mm rounds fired from consecutively manufactured handguns of the same model. At least if they recover an undamaged bullet that didn’t get mangled by the actual shooting.
But yeah, the previous method sounds about as reliable as the My Cousin Vinny expert testimony: maybe getting things down to a range of possible models, but not specifically identifying a specific gun.
Now I kinda wish I had a mythbusters budget for comparing bullet and casing markings to both replicate the NIST study and to just compare whether different manufacturers have very different markings for the same caliber.
- Comment on Break the conditioning, maximize your horsepower. 1 week ago:
Would NeverBrokeABone consider using this stuff cheating? 🤔
As far as I can tell, that community talked a big game about the dietary reasons why their bones might be strong but were generally inactive people who never pushed their bodies (and bones) anywhere close to their limits.
- Comment on Anon watches redditors talk about bodycount 1 week ago:
being notary sounds like a super easy job
It is, which is why basically nobody is only a notary. It’s like being CPR certified. Great, but your day job is gonna be something else.
If you look up where notaries are in your state database, they’re in places like law firms or banks or insurance companies, where their day jobs are something different (paralegal, bank teller, locksmith, etc.), and where they can sign a few documents for $20 and record it in their ledger.
- Comment on References: [1] out of his ass 2 weeks ago:
This strikes me as the kind of conjecture that has no predictive power, and therefore must be discarded
Maybe it doesn’t provide much in itself, but can help with providing an alternate framework for thinking about observational anomalies in the future.
Heliocentrism didn’t actually improve the predictions of planet movement over geocentric models with epicycles, at least until Kepler swapped out circles for ellipses. So heliocentrism didn’t give an immediate advantage, but laid the groundwork for later improvements that could surpass the limits of geocentrism.
- Comment on Just animal noises 2 weeks ago:
I got along with my parents really well in my 20’s and 30’s, and it’s kinda hard watching them age now, but we got 2 good decades, maybe 3, of both generations being functional adults who love each other and enrich each other’s lives.
I enjoyed being childless in my 20’s and early 30’s, and anticipate enjoying having 20+ year old children in my late 50’s onward.
Babies and toddlers are whatever. I love my children but still don’t really like other people’s children. But as they (and their peers and their cousins and their friends) grow older, I can definitely see personalities form and become future adults who I will really enjoy spending time with.
- Comment on The Cock-of-the-rock is one of the most difficult Brazilian birds to find in the world. 2 weeks ago:
In Brazil
- Comment on baby blues 2 weeks ago:
In the US, pizzas have basically been standardized by the national chains to be 10 inch (25cm) for a small, 12 inch (30 cm) for a medium, and 14 inch (36 cm) for a large.
Honestly, this is probably the most effective way to communicate circle sizes to me, as I am quite familiar with exactly how big each of those sizes are.
I’m obviously familiar with other lengths as lengths, but for flat circles, there’s not really a better intuitive comparison.
- Comment on I'm now doing sculptures all based on beer cans. This was my first effort 3 weeks ago:
Give the real artist credit. It’s made by Brock Davis, and he created this in 2009:
- Comment on Fancy pants 3 weeks ago:
I think if I’m working over hot fryer oil I’d want a secure grip on each part, so I’d probably still be using something pinchy to smoothly pull through. One loose stick seems like it wouldn’t be enough control to move quickly and safely.
- Comment on Fancy pants 3 weeks ago:
Boneless corn dogs, yes. This is a good idea.
When I make corn dogs with my own batter, the little sticks are helpful for dipping the hot dogs in the batter before frying. That said, I bet I could batter them with the stick, and figure out a way to release them into the fryer with some tongs or tweezers so that I can keep the even batter thickness and radial symmetry.
Ok I’m trying that this summer.
- Comment on A long-ass way to write 'not parmesan'. 5 weeks ago:
Rapesan
I’m not familiar with this anime character.
- Comment on A long-ass way to write 'not parmesan'. 5 weeks ago:
Any food where they use maltodextrin to make powdered fat (that is, many flavored chips) tends to catch fire really easily. Great kindling, because fats are high in energy and turning it into powder really increases the surface area to mass ratio so that any free oxygen will quickly react and make fire.
- Comment on A long-ass way to write 'not parmesan'. 5 weeks ago:
the process in processed cheese allows them to go as light as they want with the real cheese, I’m sure some government regulation has a minimum but the core point is that not all American cheese is the same
For the formal legal definition, American cheese can only be mixed with water and cream, such that the fat from the cream is less than 5% of the total product.
They’re allowed to add:
- Water but the total moisture content of the cheese can’t be more than 40%, and the fat content must be at least 47% of the solids (that is, the non-water part) in the total.
- Cream or milkfat but not so much to where fat from this cream/milkfat exceeds 5% of the total product.
- Acidifying agents but have a minimum pH
- Salt but it still needs to taste good
- Spices and flavorings that don’t taste like cheese, but still need to taste good
- Smoke but it still needs to taste good
- "Harmless artificial coloring" which by its nature isn’t going to constitute a significant percentage of the total weight
- Mold inhibitors up to 0.3% of the final product
- If sliced, lecithin may be added as an anti-sticking agent up to 0.03% of the final product.
Basically I can’t think of a way to make stuff that can legally be called “American Cheese” without using at least 90% cheese as an ingredient. If you cut it with too much water you’ll run afoul of the milkfat and moisture minimums. And everything else you’re allowed to add is never going to constitute more than 1% of the end product.
- Comment on Theories on Theories 5 weeks ago:
Outliers are treated fundamentally differently between them, they are treated as bugs in economics, but as features in medicine.
I don’t understand what you mean by this.
Let’s take for example a simple example of the outlier of the person who smokes a lot of cigarettes but outlives the person who doesn’t smoke. Does this break the model where smoking harms health and increases all cause mortality (which we know through epidemiological observation of deaths, which is not in any sense a double blind test)? Where does this observation fit into medicine?
Or take the example of a discontinuity regression in economics. A jurisdiction passes a law increasing the minimum wage above the market-clearing wage in that area, which shares a border with another jurisdiction that has a similar market clearing wage. Can we observe the differences on both sides of that border to see whether the minimum wage increase leads to an increase in unemployment? Yes, it’s just applied math at that point.
Where does behavioral economics fit into your ideas of how economics expects a rational actor? There are differences in behavior that have been measured by economists in different situations, and those are important ideas in economic behavior and observations. So why do you assume those models have been discarded in favor of some sort of doctrinal insistence that humans behave in a particular way?
And if you’re describing the reluctance of practitioners to abandon the core ideas of their models, or the core paradigms of their disciplines, I’d observe that you’re largely correct but wrong to assume it doesn’t happen in things that you’d probably call science, from medicine to meteorology to epidemiology. Things get overturned slowly, and sometimes these paradigm shifts meet a lot of resistance for an entire generation: phlogiston proponents slowly coming around on oxygen, cosmologists saying “fine I guess dark energy exists.”
The critiques you lob at economics are valid. I just think you under appreciate how much they apply to hard science, too.
- Comment on Theories on Theories 5 weeks ago:
Plenty of medical science doesn’t lend itself well to double blind studies. In vivo infection models can’t ethically be tested with double blind studies, and can only be observed. Lots of medicine advances through observational studies, too, like almost anything relating to nutrition or lifestyle or trauma. There’s no double blind study on how survivable car accidents are.
Plus double blind studies themselves don’t necessarily have any kind of explanatory power (see the entire field of anesthesia where we know how much of each anesthetic it generally takes to put people under, but we don’t know the underlying mechanism it uses to make people go under). Or, for that matter, Tylenol (whose mechanism of action remains a mystery).
- Comment on Theories on Theories 5 weeks ago:
how does that relate to Popper?
When a weatherman’s prediction is falsified, the model itself is not disproven. The fact that the practitioners of that discipline stick with it even when a prediction is falsified starts to look like the pseudoscience side of Popper’s falsifiability criterion.
- Comment on Theories on Theories 5 weeks ago:
In what way? And how does that differ from how medicine measures pain?
- Comment on Theories on Theories 5 weeks ago:
What definition of pseudoscience would capture economics without capturing medicine, ecology, or meteorology?
Everyone’s just using models here, and the way we incorporate statistical observations to define the limits of the models’ scope, and refine the models over time, or reject the models entirely, applies to economists, meteorologists, seismologists, and many branches of actual human medicine.
Popper would define pseudoscience as predictions that can’t be falsified, but surely that can’t apply to the idea of the weatherman predicting rain and being wrong, right?
Kuhn came along and argued that science is about solving problems within paradigms, and sometimes rejecting paradigms in scientific revolutions (geocentrism vs heliocentrism, Newtonian physics versus Einstein’s relativity), but it wasn’t a particularly robust test for separating out pseudoscience.
Lakatos categorized things further at explaining how model-breaking observations could be handled within the structure of how science performs its work (limiting the scope of the model, expanding the complexity of the model to fit the new observations, proposing specific exception handlers), but also observed the difference between the hard core of a discipline, in which attempts at refutation were not tolerated, and auxiliary hypotheses where the scientists were free to test their ideas for falsifiability.
But when you use these ideas to try to understand how science works, I don’t think economics really stands out as less scientific than cancer research or climatology or other statistically driven scientific disciplines.
- Comment on Dr. Jesus and the half chimpanzee man. 1 month ago:
It’s not photoshop it’s slop.
Which part? The entire image, with the exception of the patient, is just the AI image Trump posted last week. The patient’s face is just the photograph of that Israeli settler from the cover of some magazine.
Combining two images with Photoshop is a pretty normal way to use Photoshop. Complaining that a particular source image is AI ignores the actual reason why it was posted, and why there was an editorial reason to want to post an otherwise faithful copy of the original, modified in a specific way.