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- Comment on When if ever did "Throw Money at The Problem:" actually work? Instead of being about 75 percent useless? 2 days ago:
Any problem that requires active work to solve will benefit from having money thrown at it.
- Comment on When if ever did "Throw Money at The Problem:" actually work? Instead of being about 75 percent useless? 2 days ago:
That must be why they need so much more money than the rest of us.
- Comment on Star Wars and Jurassic Park music composer John Williams, aged 94 3 days ago:
I don’t drink coffee, my breakfast is usually a meal replacement shake, and I work from home on most days. I wonder what long series of extremely improbable events would have to happen for me to end up owning any coffee at all and then somehow having it end up in my shaker bottle while I’m on route from the kitchen to my office.
- Comment on I've been waiting for this for a long time. 3 days ago:
That falls into the “not purchase” category. Regardless, their point still stands. If it’s not worth it for you at that price and you still want to play it, you might as well pirate it now because the price isn’t changing.
- Comment on Can you also do this with languages that use the Latin Alphabet? 6 days ago:
There’s “honey bee” if you want to specify that you’re talking about the type of bees that produce honey, and there’s “bee honey” for the honey they produce, as opposed to the kind made by wasps.
- Comment on Is 71° F (21° C) the ideal weather to wear shorts? 6 days ago:
No, it’s exactly 21.00⁰C. It’s like a bell curve. Once you go above or below that, it’s back to pants.
- Comment on How would you actually tax the ultra wealthy? 1 week ago:
I feel like that just overcomplicates things. As long as they can’t use the money, they’re not causing harm, right?
If you want a more continuous stream of income, a wealth tax would make more sense.
- Comment on Me watching someone on Lemmy getting cooked for having the same opinion as me: 1 week ago:
It’s especially nice to see a comment go from -5 to +5 after you do so.
- Comment on The Art of the Deal 1 week ago:
Bring the money to Canada and build it here!
- Comment on Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead 1 week ago:
It’s insane that this happens. I’ve had memberships at six different gyms over my lifetime. For all but one, I’ve had to explicitly tell them that I want to renew, or else the membership gets automatically cancelled at the end of the contract term.
- Comment on Why do people call Fiji and Voss Water “Rich People” Water? 1 week ago:
Thanks for informing us that you’re rich, I guess?
- Comment on What does DLSS do, and what's up with DLSS 5? 2 weeks ago:
TAA as in temporal anti-aliasing? Is that not frame generation? It’s interpolating between frames to create a frame that wasn’t previously there. Just like how spatial anti-aliasing generates pixels that weren’t previously there.
I think maybe we have a different idea of what “generation” means. I’m guessing your idea of “generation” is when it surpasses some threshold of information added through the process.
- Comment on What does DLSS do, and what's up with DLSS 5? 2 weeks ago:
Upscaling = artificially increasing the sampling rate through some sort of inter/extrapolation.
Temporal = it’s happening on the temporal axis.
Samples on the temporal axis are frames.
Therefore, temporal upscaling = artificially sampling more frames = frame gen?
- Comment on Genius. 2 weeks ago:
I was just talking about the bread that one tier up from the basic grocery store sliced white bread. But yes, when you have actual good bread, the crust is an essential part of the experience.
- Comment on Genius. 2 weeks ago:
I think this might be correlated with the type of bread. When you have the really sweet highly processed white bread, the crust tastes very bitter in contrast. With higher quality breads, the crust is just a little dryer, but not too different from the rest of the slice. I never liked bread crust as a kid, nor did my partner. But my kid never complained about crust and this is my hypothesis as to why.
- Comment on Genius. 2 weeks ago:
You can just leave milk out at room temperature for a few days and you’ll get yogurt. There’s tons of lactobacilli floating around in the air and on every surface. You might need ants for a specific strain, but you don’t need them if you just want any yogurt.
- Comment on Do rich people get addicted to drugs? 3 weeks ago:
Probably makes more sense to kill their dog or something like that. Hint that there’s more where that came from.
- Comment on spoopy figs 3 weeks ago:
You could say the same about humans working exploitative jobs. You can be unhappy and still stay because the cost of quitting is too high. It’s only when it gets really bad that it becomes worthwhile.
- Comment on ‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI 3 weeks ago:
Ethics/civics would only be useful if you saw this as a possible outcome. Most of us are just looking to solve problems and make everyone’s lives easier.
- Comment on Anyone remember that "First is the worst, second is the best" rhyme kids used to do? Where did that come from? 3 weeks ago:
It does rhyme. The e in second and best are assonant.
- Comment on Avocado. Is it really so untasty or I am doing something wrong? 4 weeks ago:
It does taste like a block of earthy butter. It’s absolutely delicious on its own. Even more delicious if cut into thin slices; that somehow intensifies the flavour.
It sounds like you’re just not into that flavour. It’s not for everyone.
- Comment on How do you cut a cucumber so that the round slices don't roll all over and off of your cutting board? 1 month ago:
Definitely. For the average home cook, that convenience is much more valuable than making your knives extra sharp.
- Comment on How do you cut a cucumber so that the round slices don't roll all over and off of your cutting board? 1 month ago:
Do the diamond stones need any kind of maintenance? I’ve read that you need to regularly flatten the surface of your typical whetstone.
- Comment on I saw your face in a crowded place 1 month ago:
We have both of these things in Canada.
- Comment on A succulent meal 1 month ago:
There are parts of plants that aren’t edible. One definition of vegetable is the edible part of a plant.
- Comment on What should I NOT do in front of rich people? 1 month ago:
Play your cards right and one of them might pay you to pull on it.
- Comment on BASED? 1 month ago:
No idea. You should ask raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world about that.
- Comment on BASED? 1 month ago:
Why is it any more okay to create conflict with less secure people?
- Comment on Start-up idea 1 month ago:
Then you’d run into the same problem you have with insurance where they refuse to fix/replace your appliance because of “misuse” or something like that.
- Comment on Start-up idea 1 month ago:
Subscriptions are like insurance and gym memberships. They’re profitable only if they represent value that is never fully realized by the consumer.
Think of your monthly spending as a probability distribution. They provide value by reducing variance of that distribution at the cost of increasing the mean.
Consider at a more concrete example. You’re provided with two options:
- You get $100 a month guaranteed
- Flip a coin each month. On head, you get $200. On tail, you get nothing.
The expected value for both are the same, but option #1 is predictable. It’s the better option of the two unless you’re in a situation where getting $0 is effectively equivalent to getting $100. You would need to increase the amount you get in option #2 to make it worthwhile. Similarly, you can decrease the amount you get in option #1 and still have it be the better option.
By default, life is like option #2. The value proposition of insurance and the like is to give you option #1 with an amount lower than the expected value of #2, and in exchange, they get the difference as profit.