musicalphysics
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- Comment on one step closer to 100%'ing life!! 2 days ago:
You think most of the artists that made famous art got paid?? Plus you think people don’t care if artwork that is claimed to be authentic is actually fraudulent??
Thanks for demonstrating you don’t have serious or informed opinions.
- Comment on one step closer to 100%'ing life!! 2 days ago:
If a museum advertises a Picasso but it is fraudulent most people would consider that a bad thing.
I care about artists getting paid. Sure, hate collectors all you want, but getting rid of them reduces the purchases artists do get.
- Comment on one step closer to 100%'ing life!! 2 days ago:
Of course provenance matters in appreciation of art. Do museums put up fake artwork or do they only try and show actual pieces from the artist.
People who buy art absolutely care if the artwork they paid for is genuine. Collectors absolutely care if they can prove they own something that others don’t.
Sure, if you don’t care about artists getting paid at all, or you don’t care about authenticity, then NFTs aren’t for you.
- Comment on one step closer to 100%'ing life!! 2 days ago:
Provenance is the biggest issue in Art. NFTs aren’t stupid, thinking that computer generated ape artwork with no actual scarcity is a good investment is stupid.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Cons Officially Have A Pay-To-Press Button 4 days ago:
How long should Nintendo save your data when you aren’t paying them? Why should they keep it for any length of time?
Nintendo has qualification processes because bad games almost destroyed the industry in the 80s.
Steam doesn’t ensure quality. How would steam possibly try to charge for internet access on a device they didn’t produce, control, or sell you?
Businesses charge users for things that users value. Simple as that. It isn’t unique to Nintendo or the games industry. Cell phone folks charged for texts that didn’t cost them anything to deliver. Why? People valued texts and were willing to pay. We got out of that because of Apple but now people are angry at Apple about it.
- Comment on The price of soda in 2017 4 days ago:
The cost to create more coke is essentially zero. The price to ship and stock the different sizes are about the same though.
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 4 days ago:
Unlike you I can actually read and follow the basic math steps in calculating the tax for social security. If income is above the max, per page 9, then the social security tax is 0. Goodbye.
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 4 days ago:
I already posted the IRS form that demonstrates that fact.
There is a wrinkle that during the year until your received income actually exceeds the max you pay in. After that though the IRS will return the money when you file.
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 5 days ago:
Downvote reality all you like, it won’t make y’all any more correct. www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040es.pdf
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 5 days ago:
I have more than the bare amount of knowledge. I correctly conveyed actual tax code for the us. My initial point was not wrong in the slightest and I linked to actual irs tax forms to prove it. You are misinformed and shouldn’t try correcting people on items you clearly don’t understand.
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 5 days ago:
It is a qualifier. The tax code doesn’t exactly make sense but I’d expect if self-employed doesn’t have to contribute why would an employee. Self employed people have to pay both the employer and employee portion, while employees only pay to employee part.
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 5 days ago:
Yep. Same boat.
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 5 days ago:
Yep. It also shows if you are making above the SS limit then people don’t have to contribute to SS.
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 5 days ago:
What piddling argument do you think I’m making when I state facts about the tax code.
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 5 days ago:
Go through the irs form here, page 9. Self employed folks making more than the max put in 0 for SS. www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040es.pdf
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 5 days ago:
Believe it or not it is true.
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 5 days ago:
If you make more than $184k you pay zero dollars into social security. The other part is you aren’t getting any benefits.
- Comment on Why do posts continuously end up "*Permanently Deleted*" here? 1 week ago:
I came across it on a post about why universities are expensive. At first it had all the standard Reddit answers but I used my experience in the university system to provide more accurate answers. My responses started generating responses and then the whole thing was shutdown. I thought they were farming for LLM content and didn’t like the answers. I am definitely less likely to participate now.
- Comment on She's just defending her country 4 weeks ago:
I’d say he is complicit given how much pleasure he clearly derives from Israel’s genocide.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Texas, and probably other states, are openly attacking and censoring higher education as well. The provost for a place I was at carried around spreadsheets of costs since overall the university was always losing money. They are in for a tough time if populations get smaller as you say.
- Comment on The red bull guy who jumped from space what was going on with his body when him and his suit broke the sound barrier? 1 month ago:
Correct. No complete stop.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Textbooks have more features than they used to, like online homework and the like. The online component makes it easier for companies to push new versions. Professors are overworked, and intro classes, where book prices/versions rule the most, are massive. The dept probably doesn’t have funds for a full TA so grading becomes a massive undertaking. It isn’t possible in many cases to manage lecture halls without the features from the textbook publisher. So what is a young faculty member likely to do? Pick a text from a major publisher. Generally speaking, faculty aren’t out to get you, they are trying to teach you.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Sports programs that can afford expensive coaches don’t cost the university money. Big football programs pay for themselves and fund a wide variety of other sports, which don’t make money, at the university.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Universities got more expensive as state support generally declined. Features expanded as you said to draw students as universities had to compete more to get students. Plus you have these lists that rank each university. That drives students to demand more and requires more funds from universities to compete over listing items.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The guarantees for student loans actually go the other way - the guarantee is for the lender. Given the amounts people generally need for an education, along with a complete lack of income, students wouldn’t be able to get a loan of sufficient size without government stepping in as a backstop.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
State governments realized they could reduce their funding towards universities (or keep it fixed while it devalues due to inflation) and push the cost onto students. Administration has also exploded in numbers. Many get paid much more than faculty. Universities have also expanded services and features to make students want to come. Universities can’t raise prices higher than students are willing to pay. Note students are also not guaranteed to get federal loans plus there are limits. Private loans aren’t guaranteed either but have a variety of programs.
- Comment on The red bull guy who jumped from space what was going on with his body when him and his suit broke the sound barrier? 1 month ago:
Perhaps not a complete stop but numerous aircraft were destroyed as they tried to break the speed of sound. The air building up in front of you can in fact form a wall. We shouldn’t discount the force supplied by air. It is a pressure wave from bombs, not fire, that causes explosive damage.
- Comment on Can energy be associated with/related to spacetime ? 2 months ago:
In physics theory doesn’t mean some random guess. Theory means it has been experimentally validated.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
If you buy stocks that money goes to the previous stock holder, which is most generally not the corporation.
- Comment on The speed of light 2 months ago:
In relativity both the planet and the ship see the other as moving slow. Not one fast the other slow.