netvor

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened to us Pirates? We used to sail the web and never even thought about reprecussions just sharing. Now it seems like it costs to be a pirate like a VPN and such. WTH happened?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  or someone who flexes their “downloading skills” on everyone they meet.

  many years ago a colleague of mine tried to flex on me without really knowing my position on ethics of piracy.

  (i have no problem with as long as it’s about enabling access to media and art that would be inaccessible rather than making money. on the other hand, if an artist decides to do Spotify instead of Bandcamp i generally tend to respect their wish and avoid them like the plague.)

  incidentally the same guy complained some months later that he got some notice from police.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people say "my taxes"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Generally if you are employee and all your income comes from single employer, your taxes are done by the employer and simply withheld from your paycheck. Some are paid continuously and then balanced (excess returned, never the opposite) some time in the spring, but as employee you don’t have to fill any forms. (With small exceptions – IIRC we had to sign one “pink” form every year, I don’t recall what exactly it was for.)

  For long time when I was employee I also had income from stocks, so then my employer did not have to do taxes for me so I had to do it on my own (ie. I used advisor.)

  If you are self-employed then it depends on the type of business license / trade and turnover: you may need to track every expense and then compute & fill form in April (this term moves to June if you use accredited tax advisor).

  There are also license types where you don’t need to keep expenses, you only need to report yearly income and tax based on that number. The license has a percentage number assigned and it’s just assumed that your expenses was that % of your income. When I was freelancing as a programmer, I used this kind of license. It was pretty comfy for me, even though i still used advisor since I can’t come close than 2m to a tax paperwork or I’ll star panicking :D

  Once you get past some turnover (i think it’s 2 million CZK per year–about $100k) you need to use more complex system which requires you to do extra papers/taxes related to VAT, plus there’s more tracking. (You need to track expenses precisely and keep the invoices/bills for some amount of years.) The rules are probably also different for different kinds of corporations, for some regulated trades, etc. For even larger businesses some of these are done half-yearly or quarterly.

  Social & health insurance (both of these are mandatory, ie. they are basically taxes) is paid separately from the above (for businesses. for employees this is still done by employers) as advance payment and then balanced based on your reported income. (Then there are several small taxes like public broadcasting, land taxes or city taxes, but those are usually really easy to pay, they are either same per capita, or in case of land taxes you just report your land size and the burreau will compute it for you and send you the bill.

  Of course there are also deductions based on whether you have kids, spouse, mortgage, charity gifts, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  or it’s a chatbot asking one someone’s behalf. i’ve already blocked the account.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ten thousandth six hundred and forty third

  damn! … that’s my favorite number, I wanted to be that … th.

  (my second favorite number is a 999999 so i better rush…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  they also have ai slop artwork on their profile. could be a bot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come people don't compliment other people on great word usage? If someone use the word lets say ecclesiastical or something like that they do not get complimented it shows they respect English.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally I’d be put off by that. It sounds like talking down to “kids these days”, which i find really poor attitude, and usually pretty dumb.

  I think compliments work best if they are generic. Just say “you are well spoken”, or “you come off as educated, deep thinking person”. Or even “you are good with words”.

  Also it would detract from the compliment if it was made while interrupting conversation; it may be distracting and uncomfortable, even if agreed upon by all participants.

  It may be cultural but complimenting for a specific thing sounds either patronizing or sarcastic. Maybe it’s because specific compliments and praises are typical to developing children: a child is learning not just to do the “good” things but also which things are good, so it often helps to be specific. (Especially if during longer period the kid also does a lot of not-necessarily-so useful things – while all should be treated with love, it helps to point out the “grown” behaviors, as most children will eventually subconsciously start trying to mimic adults and look for the feedback.)

  Making a compliment too specific may imply “unlike the other things you did/said”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come people don't compliment other people on great word usage? If someone use the word lets say ecclesiastical or something like that they do not get complimented it shows they respect English.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I just love the correct use of the English language.

  ok, you asked for it :)

  How come people don’t compliment other people on great word usage? If someone use uses the word lets let’s say, ecclesiastical or something like that, they do not get complimented it shows they respect English.

  (I can’t quite fix the last part, “it shows they respect English”…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you explain protocol to a 5 year old ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Great way to explain it at any age.

  It’s just language that computers use to talk to other computers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you explain protocol to a 5 year old ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Mostly right but it has little to do with computers being “dumb”. It has more to do with predictability.

  Protocols are simply the standards used in he communications, much like people have standards for post mail, shipping, etc: where to write the address, what ZIP codes mean, how to mark packages en route, etc. It’s not that people are “dumb” but it’s just far more efficient to have most packages marked in same “language”.

  Sure, computers are “dumb” (and also universal) but that’s why programming languages exist, protocols are not quite as good example of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come people don't compliment other people on great word usage? If someone use the word lets say ecclesiastical or something like that they do not get complimented it shows they respect English.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, nice use of the word “How”. You really nailed it!

  😛

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people say "my taxes"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I do my taxes. I renew my driver’s license. I pay my electric bill. I don’t understand how else someone would say those things.

  “I do taxes. I renew driver’s license. I pay electric bill.”

  “I do the taxes. I renew the driver’s license. I pay the electric bill.”

  As a non-native English speaker I know “my taxes” just sound most natural because–but only because–that’s how lot of people say it. :D

  (Not that it’s relevant, but In my native language, Czech, we would not stress the “my” part, maybe only in case of the driver’s license, and even there, only indirectly by grammar. But I’m aware Czech is weird to most of the world… :D))

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is it about Mark Zuckerberg's appearance or demeanor that creeps people out?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s [1][ZDD (Zucc Dysmorphic Disorder)]. From Wikipedia:

  Zucc dysmorphic disorder (ZDD), also known in some contexts as zuccmorphophobia or simply zuccmorphia, is a mental disorder defined by an overwhelming preoccupation with a perceived flaw in Zucc’s physical appearance. In ZBDD’s delusional variant, the flaw is imagined. When an actual visible difference exists, its importance is disproportionately magnified in the mind of the Internet. Whether the physical issue is real or imagined, Internet ruminations concerning this perceived defect become pervasive and intrusive, consuming substantial social network bandwidth for extended petabytes each day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If internet means wires, then how come my mobile phone gets connected to the internet ? I'm roaming everywhere with it inside my pocket.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, originally (roughly around in 2023, although there’s ongoing debate among historians suggesting it might be as late as 2033) it was actually donkeys and farts in general direction of target. Then straight to the wi-fi. Then some hipsters complained so wires were added – both to the technology stack and also into the word “internet”. (As you have probably noticed, the letters ‘i’ and ‘t’ are made of wires.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lost count but I’m confident it’s somewhere between zero and 23423431.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is chess the most frustrating game to lose in?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lava is horrible but at least it’s fast and often you don’t need to ponder if or how you should come back, you can just go straight to mourning (your precious diamonds). Poor horse, though. 😢

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is chess the most frustrating game to lose in?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t played chess in a loong time but when it comes to crushing my soul I doubt it would beat Minecraft when you spend 3 hours on a trip across the whole map, collecting tons of resources (many of them for the first time) only to be blown by creeper somewhere in a the crevice of a deep cave.

  If you have a backup map copy, vaguely know where the cave was and its layout, and if are fast you can theoretically go back and pick up your things. So you do it and keep running around looking for the cave, then run inside, start looking for the pile of items but can’t find it. Although in this cave you were rather meticulous with torches (yeah it is unfair!) so it’s not crawling with zombies and you sort of know your way around, you don’t really remember 100% where you met the creeper. After all of this was because of a moment of absent-mindedness. The only way you can really tell is by the pile of items scattered around. But if they’ve already de-spawned you would not know for sure, and could be running around passing the spot several times.

  So over time, the feeling slowly sinks in: if they already de-spawned you might just be running in circles.

  I don’t think I’ve ever played a game that managed to pull the band-aid so slowly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what is this???⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s not the center, though. this is the center:

  Image

  (and it kind of looks like a newt)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  i’m no expert in global politics so take this with a grain of salt but i would not say trusting US was a “mistake”. there are tons(*) of trustworthy Americans out there. and every alliance always comes with some amount of risk but it’s just how we humans work.

  (* - yes I mean tons, plural, I’m pretty sure it’s at least few tons :D)

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s not forget that there are people who love simplifying regulations. (And they even have significant influence nowadays in the EU. 😞 )

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we dance and hop when we desparstely need to go number 1?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know, but while we’re at it, I’d be interested in this related observation:

  in cases like when i reeeally need to go, my ability to guess when exactly i will be at the right spot seems to affect my ability to hold it in. as if my body is only going to do as much effort holding it in as necessary but not more, while the idea of “necessary” can be “negotiated” by lying to my body.

  imaginge this typical scenario: you sit in the tram, legs crossed, then you are running home, now you are opening front door, now you are quickly running to the bathroom and just about make it. doesn’t it always feel like you just about made it? like there’s never a reserve?

  now if one extra inconvenience stands in your way (eg. oh, turns out today for some reason you put your keys in your backpack instead of your front pocket!) then it becomes this critical moment of disagreement between your body and your brain: you can either just pee yourself or hit the emergency break to override and hold it in anyway which makes it almost painful and may even sort of “push it back”, which i reckon is not a healthy thing to do.

  at the same time, i’ve learned that I can actually prevent this from happening by “lying” to my brain early on and overestimating the exact time it will take before we are ready. like, i imagine my house is one block further. or I imagine that there’s construction and we need to take a slightly longer route. or that i have my keys in a wallet on the bottom of my backpack.

  this lie tends to work, surprisingly, calming the whole reaction down and (unless there actually happens to be construction or another inconvenience that negates it) make the whole thing much more manageable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we dance and hop when we desparstely need to go number 1?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  i’m not an expert but I don’t think that the panic response invalidates it. it could still be advantageous to refrain from doing 1 or 2 all over the place just to not make it easier for predator to detect you, i guess. When in fight/flight mode it’s already too late so better get rid of the weight and also probably disgust or confuse the predator a bit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do they prepare "normal" people in quiz shows?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  we’re talking about [Cortex][co] podcast

  [co] www.relay.fm/cortex

  I don’t know about Metafilter but on cursory search, it seems unrelated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do they prepare "normal" people in quiz shows?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  (I’m in the middle of #22, “16-hour Search for Wallpaper” now.)

  I tried not to let he end of HI sour it for me and I think I’m still holding up. After all, it’s not unlike Grey to quit like this, in “rip the band-aid off” way, and as Tim although I don’t completely resonate with it, I do feel like Grey has been transparent about this aspect of his personality, it’s also common topic of discussion on HI. Also I vaguely recall Grey mentioning something about some sort of immunity problem with someone in his close vicinity (his wife, I assume) which made me realize that the COVID time was indeed very different for different people; we don’t know what he was going through. (I’m trying not to speculate here.)

  Also ironically, in a “selfish” sense, the end came in handy, because just before few of the last episodes, I gathered the confidence to file the whole podcast on MusicBrainz, thinking that adding new episodes is going to be a long-term commitment that I’m going to eventually fall back on. Little did I know that I only had to add one or two more episodes. Also my safety blanket has a finite size now there’s no question about waiting for the next episode, it’s just 136 -> 1 :D

  Anyway, I don’t mind in the end. Grey is just being Grey. It’s OK to fall in and out (and maybe back in again) of favor. After all it’s not a real relationship. Many of his ideas have influenced me greatly in my life philosophy (often on the basis that I had similar feelings about things, just never words to describe them), some of them I had to revise and abandon, but many still hold, and that’s good.

  Anyway, nice chat!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do they prepare "normal" people in quiz shows?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a huge Tim (as in Hello Internet listener) and always thought I would want to listen to Cortex but never got around, there was always this little fear of what if I did not like it and it would spoil my perfect parasocial relationship with Grey :D So I ended up just re-listening Hello Internet over and over. (Re-listening HI is kind of my safety blanket now :D)

  Ironically, I was not aware about Grey leaving and I only noticed Cortex again because of Technology Connections and Simone Giertz interviews, which were obvious “must listen” for me (and they were great!), but it’s not enough for long term sub.

  I’ll check out Upgrade and Connected though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do they prepare "normal" people in quiz shows?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a podcast called Upgrade where

  OT, but is Myke just doing podcast 24/7/365?

  (I only knew about Cortex, now I clicked around the site and looks like he has … well, let’s just say he has a lot of podcast.)

  Great episode, thanks for the link… (Listening to it right now…)

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Socrates is one of the most well know ln philosophers of all time and there isn’t any proof he ever lived.

  when is the fact about the level of certainty we have about Socrates’s existence relevant, though? it depends.

  • if someone just mentions some specific idea that is often attributed to Socrates, then it’s probably totally irrelevant and you would be just "well, actually"ing someone. (which will backfire esp. if they actually know that full well and can/will stand for themselves)

  • if someone is defending a specific idea using an argument from authority of Socrates himself, then it’s probably pretty relevant. at best it’s an invitation to skip a bad argument path and take the focus back to the potential merit of the idea itself. (ofc this is regardless of whether you like that idea or not, learning what the other person perceive as valuable about the idea is usually more interesting than who they think came up with it)

  • if someone does the same but based on moral authority, then it’s the same principle, but probably much more important

  • if someone creates religion based on teachings of Socrates, then it’s pretty much important (although often seemingly ineffective, and in some cases, risky)

  • If someone starts asking questions about Socrates as a historical person (and heck, even questions specifcally about history of Socrates’ state of mind–see title of this whole post), then it’s obviously the most important thing they need to learn before continuing their research or pondering.

  The last point bullet point describes what @Phoenixz did here, in the beginning of this sub-thread. (Just for Jesus Christ, not Socrates, of course.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  LOL, I didn’t read your post and made basically the exact same argument.

  at least I’m happy I’m not wasting my time on social media alone 🙃

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  plumbers exist, so do people named starting with M or J. so do people who walk around and yap about end of the world and/or resurrection. and even people who listen to them.

  however…

  plumbers that can jump 5 times their own height? people named with M that grow 2x when they eat a mushroom? people that turn water into wine? that’s a completely different story.

  sentence like “Jesus did not exist” always need to be interpreted in context. when someone says it in context of religion or adjacent, and you respond by “but people called Jesus existed” then you’re just being obtuse.

  or rather, playing Motte and Bailey: f…ing OF COURSE you can defend the that Bob—different one than in the story, in particular, a tigerless Bob—exists, but that’s not what is being disputed. what’s being disputed is the existence of Bob with the tiger, and the motivation is to challenge the whole story.