JohnDClay
@JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Chloroform 🌸 😋 💕 💕 3 days ago:
Constantly
- Comment on Chloroform 🌸 😋 💕 💕 4 days ago:
I don’t know, have you tasted a nose?
- Comment on Time travel is easy, it's just lame 6 days ago:
Unless you’re traveling close to the speed of light!
- Comment on Photons 1 week ago:
So made this meme is eating ice cream when it’s below or near freezing? Because you still get ice melting below freezing due to radiation.
- Comment on If you save, we will charge you more 1 week ago:
That example breaks down with electricity sources with a fuel cost. But it makes more sense as the grid moves to more energy sources without fuel.
But also, if energy supply is higher than demand on a large grid, they can decrease investments into new solar plants so they fall below the replacement rate from facilities aging out. In your example there’s only one solar farm, but in reality there’s many being built on a grid at any time.
- Comment on Communism 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I agree. If people don’t have a relationship with everyone, that sort of reputation model would be hard, so it wouldn’t scale well.
- Comment on Communism 2 weeks ago:
But which ones? Were they religious communities? Hunter gatherers such that centralization was less advantageous?
- Comment on bird flu 2 weeks ago:
Do we have an effective bird flue vaccine yet? The trouble is the couple of years before one is created.
- Comment on Communism 2 weeks ago:
Curious, what small scale examples are you thinking of? Those might be a good model.
Just trying things and seeing what sticks puts millions of lives on the line. Seems risky. But maybe eventually we can predict mass human behavior well enough to develop a control loop that keeps an unstable system stable without succumbing to selfishness/power grabbing? But that seems dangerously close to just hoping AGI will save us all.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if some mysterious force started to jam every radio frequency, how would modern day society adapt to this? 3 weeks ago:
I wonder if there’d be enough fiber communications to get by.
- Comment on Y'all get those "Weird Amazon Shenanigans" where ordering later get you an even faster delivery? (like wtf?!?) Well I just witnessed this shenanigan. 3 weeks ago:
For me they quoted next day, but it took 5 since they had already shipped the one in the close delivery center by the time they had processed my order.
- Comment on The Greatest Cover Song of All Time? 3 weeks ago:
I really like this choral cover by Eric Whitacre too.
- Comment on Would I lie To You? - When James Acaster Didn't Get What He Wanted For Christmas 3 weeks ago:
It’s from a year ago
- Comment on If investing in the S&P 500 is such a surefire way to make money, then why isn't everyone doing it? 3 weeks ago:
We want to hold the owners of Amazon or oil companies accountable, and what makes them the owners of they hold a of of stocks. Holding fewer stocks seems like you’re enabling the compromise, just at a much much lower amount.
Russell 2000 is the top 3000 companies minus the top 1000 companies. So it doesn’t invest in the really big ones.
- Comment on If investing in the S&P 500 is such a surefire way to make money, then why isn't everyone doing it? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t like investing in the S&P 500 because it’s supporting the biggest most monopolistic companies out there. Russell 2000 helps, but it has green concerns. But since big companies usually get bigger because the US has laughable anti trust/monopoly legislature, betting on the big ones is pretty safe.
As for sustainable in the long run, it lets those companies effectively have really low interest rates. It benefits big struggling companies like Boeing so they can borrow at low rates to prop up their business for a while. But with too much investment, you’d give even more leeway and safety nets to the biggest companies.
- Comment on Do you know what people mean when they ask - “know what I mean?” 4 weeks ago:
Do you need more clarification?
- Comment on Justice should be equal 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, first degree requires a deep look into the motives, which is really good for him.
Here’s some legal analysis by legal eagle youtu.be/vXkH-G_8xew
- Comment on Shitposting 4 weeks ago:
Thank you, that makes more sense.
- Comment on Shitposting 4 weeks ago:
Sure, I’d just only heard lib as an insult by them before.
- Comment on Shitposting 4 weeks ago:
I don’t get lib as an insult. Seems like pretty much everyone on Lemmy is on liberal side of center. I’ve seen some hexbear users use it to refer to anyone who isn’t as tankie as they are, but I don’t get it.
- Comment on Is there a theoretical limit to profit? 4 weeks ago:
Maximum profit would be achieved by charging the most for the least stuff. And minimizing the cost of that bare minimum. You can do that by eliminating competition so that your prices are the only option. You’d end up with something like feudalism.
But it also depends if you target maximum profits as compared to the population, or maximum profits over all. If maximum profits over all, you’d want to grow the work force as much as possible, maybe colonizing other planets or inhospitable regions of earth.
But maximizing the value of those profits to you requires development to get you more value for less resources. Being a king hundreds of years ago still didn’t get you decent plumbing. So you’d want effecent ways to maximize your pleasure for the lowest cost. Some brain computer interface could be useful there, so that you can create full planets more cheaply.
What happens after all of humanity are enslaved as software devs for the god kings personal virtual reality, I couldn’t guess.
- Comment on Happy birthday, peon 5 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s fine, I try to use all my paid time off to, I just usually take it in larger chunks with family.
- Comment on Meep meeep meep 5 weeks ago:
I didn’t know if that’s a goth beaker, a post explosion beaker, or possibly both.
- Comment on Happy birthday, peon 5 weeks ago:
Do people usually stay home for their birthday? I didn’t know of any companies that specifically give you off, so I’d think you’d use PTO.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 month ago:
But what is taking advantage of them? If someone owns a house outright, isn’t charging any rent charging more than you need to? At that point, they’re not contributing anything. I agree that’s not what most people are talking about, but I don’t see how it’s categorically different.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 month ago:
But you would be the one getting ownership from the mortgage, so I’d think charging less than the share of the mortgage would be fair. But that ratio depends on your and their particular time value of money, which is hard to pin down. And once you paid off the house, the rent should go to zero?
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 month ago:
If you rent to house mates, is that stealing? Do you need to have joint ownership with everyone?
- Comment on sampling bias 1 month ago:
Which means 0.2% lied
- Comment on Not voting for genocide, explained 1 month ago:
Is this advocating voting third party? Because that isn’t how first past the post works, third parties won’t win.
- Comment on Forbidden magic 2 months ago:
With how small feature sizes are on chips, I wonder what sort of easter eggs the designer have hidden in them.