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- Comment on How does the private equity bubble compare to the AI bubble if at all? 6 days ago:
The thing with PE is they only invest what they’re willing to lose, which the vast majority of their investments do, but the tiny fraction that don’t make enough money to fund profits and cover losses.
If 95% of companies in the stock market lost money, that’d be the end of days, but that’s because generally once you graduate to an IPO you have to be pretty profitable.
- Comment on Is there a mechanism in the USA to undo presidential pardons years later if political corruption has been proven as motivation to give these pardons? 6 days ago:
The whole point of a pardon is “we know you did the crime, but don’t think you should be punished.” It can only come about if there’s an ulterior motive, like corruption or if you agree to work with the government towards their goals, initially working on dangerous projects etc. Allowing it to be overturned later would undermine that as it wouldn’t make the danger worth it.
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 1 week ago:
Essentially: it’s not designed as a change from North/East/South/West, it’s designed as a from-scratch way to refer to those directions.
The sun rises in the East and sets in the West, so let’s say East is “Sun” and West is “Setting-Sun.”
Polaris/The North Star is in the North, so let’s call that direction “Star” and the other direction “No-Star.”
When you say “Setting-Sun-Sun-Star,” you’re saying the direction is more similar to the path the sun takes through the sky than it is to the North Star, and in the direction the sun sets.
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 1 week ago:
I was assuming a conlang situation where “north” referred more to the axis, rather than the direction.
Anti-north-north would be more “reversed-vertical-vertical” meaning it’s reversed vertical (south), and closer to the vertical axis than the horizontal axis. North would just be “vertical” without being reversed.
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 1 week ago:
In all cases, 2 at most.
North North-north-east North-east North-east-east East Anti-north-east-east Anti-north-east Anti-north-north-east (south-north-east is impossible so the second anti would be redundant) Anti-north anti-east-anti-north-north (reversed word order to distinguish it further) Anti-east-anti-north Anti-east-east-anti-north Anti-east Anti-east-east-north Anti-east-north Anti-east-north-north
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 1 week ago:
anti-north-northeast doesn’t sound unreasonable, but that’s being logical instead of just thinking about two directions, as written in text, as OP is
- Comment on Don't like the 'left liberal bias' of cited and sourced Wikipedia articles? Not a problem, our lord and savior Elon is introducing Grokipedia. 4 weeks ago:
Elon is one thing, but the Grok developers have recently done a surprisingly good job at making it neutral and unbiased in matters of opinion, but also allowing it to tell people they’re wrong in matters of fact, which is why there’s so many screenshots around of conspiracy theorists getting shut down by it.
I can’t say whether this will be the same, but if the devs take “without bias” to actually mean “without bias,” rather than what Elon intends it to mean, it could actually be somewhat useful to filter out obvious promotional content and any small levels of bias.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 1 month ago:
Or they just don’t know if they’ll want to raise children later…
Sure you could say they should adopt, but they may see some value in the experience of supporting their partner as they go through childbirth in forming a bond to the child.
- Comment on Germany 1 month ago:
The flags are the nationalities, he gave germany as an answer
- Comment on Anon thinks it's over 1 month ago:
It doesn’t say anything about LLMs, they just do lyrics, and they’re definitively shit, and you can tell right away.
Image generation models actually aren’t terrible at generating melodies, so for genres like Jazz and EDM they make surprisingly acceptable music.
- Comment on Wear your seatbelt 2 months ago:
Same even in the UK, and I think the UK and Germany are are the most likely in Europe to do random things like the US, so it sounds like it’s just their thing
- Comment on Asking for a chocaholic friend 2 months ago:
Germanic speakers moment
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 2 months ago:
떡볶이us (or 떡볶이ius I guess?)
no complaints actually it sounds kind of cool
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 months ago:
The Leif Erikson one is very subjective though; you could celebrate:
- The first humans to cross the Bering Strait, which is a long extinct lineage
- The earliest ancestors to settle the Americas, whom we don’t even know the descendants of
- The first Europeans to reach the Americas, ie Leif Erikson (Polynesia did it much later)
- The first people to cross an ocean to get to the Americas, most likely Polynesians but possibly Columbus
- The first Europeans to form a permanent settlement in the Americas, ie Columbus
- The founders of the forerunner to the US, ie Walter Raleigh & co
- The founding fathers for founding the US
And plenty more I’m sure you could come up with
- Comment on STRAIGHT 2 JAIL 3 months ago:
And yet the type of woodland in Deadpool & Wolverine appears almost exclusively in Europe, and so (given how much they’d have to go out of their way to find somewhere like that elsewhere), must be European.
If anything I’m generalising that all North American woodland is either primeval or modern plantations, but nowhere have I said that there isn’t woodland like that in Europe.
- Comment on STRAIGHT 2 JAIL 3 months ago:
Yeah there is, it’s in the growth patterns where you can tell the trees were either planted or allowed to grow in an arrangment that maximised yield, and historically but not recently regularly trimmed for wood and sticks without chopping them down.
Asia and Africa (other than Japan, which did it with evergreen trees) historically used other materials (mainly grasses/palms), and in the Americas they used different construction methods both pre- and post-colonisation, so you don’t get (as many) old managed woodlands.
- Comment on STRAIGHT 2 JAIL 3 months ago:
Watch Deadpool vs Wolverine. The entire woods scene was so clearly filmed in a European woodland, it ruins the whole film.
- Comment on Expand North! So much room up there. 4 months ago:
The border with the ocean probably, humans love to live on the crust of the land
- Comment on You wanted the secret to getting rich? Here it is 4 months ago:
The $1m isn’t in cash… You forget that the average house price in London is around $900k, and for Sydney it’s $981k.
That means your pool for your car, furnishings, investments etc. are either minimal, or you have a mortgage, and definitely can’t live passively off $30-40k per year unless you’re living in cheaper than average housing (one would call this “not super wealthy”) and definitely not if you’re supporting a family.
- Comment on You wanted the secret to getting rich? Here it is 4 months ago:
Most, sure, but Europe, Korea, Japan, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and more are still a significant part of the world where $1M puts you firmly in the same “well-off and comfortable, but certainly not rich in the way billionaires are” territory you’d be in the US
Worldwide, I think it’s definitely safe to say most millionaires’ lifestyles are much closer to average than they are to billionaires’ (ie still having to make regular payments for housing, but mortgage rather than rent, and still having to perform most tasks for themselves rather than having PAs to do it for them)
- Comment on Microsoft concedes that 'The Outer Worlds 2' retail price was too high — Xbox says it "will keep our full priced holiday releases at $69.99," with refunds incoming 4 months ago:
Would it though?
If the requirement is “worth paying 50% more for than the average worker” then instead of picking someone worse for cheaper at random then you’re making sure that only jobs where there likely isn’t an adequate supply for due to how bell curves work,
- Comment on Microsoft concedes that 'The Outer Worlds 2' retail price was too high — Xbox says it "will keep our full priced holiday releases at $69.99," with refunds incoming 4 months ago:
The H1-B visa is fundamentally broken though, so you apply for just under 10x as many as you need and end up with the number you want, so it’s not Microsoft’s fault the US Government is actively encouraging importing cheaper, average employees by using a lottery rather than filtering based on “you must earn n% more than the median income in that sector” or a similar metric to avoid reducing wages for Americans and companies using them to cut costs…
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 4 months ago:
There’s no need to instantly hate on Christianity without further context. If you’re going to one of the cultish hate-spreading or profit-driven churches, sure, but there are also many community-focused denominations which are good to go to as a place you’ll be welcomed at a low point in your life. I don’t attend any and am not particularly religious, but I imagine if I felt truly alone and had nowhere else to turn that an Episcopal/Methodist/similar church would be quite high on the list of physical places it’d be good to go.
- Comment on Meta Takes Hard Line Against Europe's AI Rules 4 months ago:
That’s one interpretation and implementation of free speech. The EU define it as “freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers.” which would be very easy to argue includes public authorities altering the legality of receiving and/or imparting information via AI.
- Comment on Why do people hate coldplay? 4 months ago:
They’re popular because they’re broadly appealing and inoffensive, so for people who are passionate about music they’re likely comparatively boring, whereas people who don’t really care about music aren’t going to go out of their way to support or defend them.
- Comment on Age + BUN = Lasix dose 4 months ago:
looks like a zoom + colour change of his left foot (on the right side of the image)?
- Comment on we are creators 5 months ago:
The problem is time.
You’re just considering human spaceflight. Keeping humans alive and more importantly sane for years is very different to sending a probe somewhere, and we’ve been getting better at the latter
- Comment on Jeremy Corbyn confirms new ‘socialist alternative’ before next election to fight Starmer 5 months ago:
The Greens also have a terrible name, they’re a left wing party that don’t particularly care about environmental issues. Meanwhile the Lib Dems just stand for whatever the government doesn’t, which changes depending on who’s in power.
- Comment on Why does everyone hate Income tax ? 5 months ago:
Idk about you but if the government took 24% of my money I’d be ecstatic, currently it’s much closer to 55-60%, a too-big percentage of which goes on privatising profit and nationalising losses.
- Comment on Cursed 5 months ago:
there’s a gap on both, just in different places and you can get from one to the other just by sliding. The constraints are elsewhere so wouldn’t allow you to twist.