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- Comment on A succulent meal 2 hours 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? 3 days ago:
Play your cards right and one of them might pay you to pull on it.
- Comment on BASED? 4 days ago:
No idea. You should ask raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world about that.
- Comment on BASED? 4 days ago:
Why is it any more okay to create conflict with less secure people?
- Comment on Start-up idea 4 days 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 4 days 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.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
That majority of people that are worse than AI slop are also not producing anything, so we’re not flooded with human slop. And when they do, we’re supportive because you need to practice producing bad stuff before you can start producing good stuff.
If humans produced slop at the same rate as AI, I guarantee you that everyone will be complaining about it just the same.
- Comment on RentAHuman.ai - AI Agents Hire Humans for Physical Tasks 1 week ago:
So, did you do it?
- Comment on Why I gave up electronics club 1 week ago:
Turns out Benjamin Franklin had it right, and it was this time traveler that caused him to flip it to the wrong direction.
- Comment on Is it possible that the rich are so rich that they have created inflation? 1 week ago:
Not malicious in the sense that the intent isn’t to cause harm to us regular people. If buying those properties raised our prices and didn’t help them keep their money, they wouldn’t do it. If it didn’t raise our prices and helped them keep their money, they would still do it.
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 1 week ago:
But does his boss have the authority to allow it?
- Comment on Anon likes pizza 2 weeks ago:
No /s
This is a great variant to regular pizza when you happen to have the ingredients on hand. I do it all the time.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 2 weeks ago:
If that’s what you meant to say, then it would help to actually say that. Regardless, the argument doesn’t hold water. If Teams has poor support for older hardware and non-Windows operating systems when other apps don’t, then that’s a Teams problem. If it takes someone who specializes in Teams to be able to work with it effectively when other apps require minimal training, then that’s also a Teams problem.
- Comment on Is it normal that you feel very shaky as soon as you start to get hungry? 2 weeks ago:
Thanks, that’s good to know. I’ve been experiencing this too and I know T1 diabetes runs in the family, but I ruled it out because I thought it wasn’t a symptom of diabetes. I should check with a doctor.
- Comment on Is it normal that you feel very shaky as soon as you start to get hungry? 2 weeks ago:
As far as I’m aware, diabetes will lead to hyperglycemia, not hypo. Taking insulin for diabetes in excess of what’s needed or not eating enough while on insulin will lead to hypoglycemia.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 2 weeks ago:
go into any business in Canada or the US with more than 200 employees
That’s like, 2% of businesses in Canada. Even if they all use Windows, it doesn’t prove the point that few businesses use MacOS.
- Comment on r/Silksong joins lemmy! 3 weeks ago:
Might be a Boost bug, but the link doesn’t include anything past the hyphen.
- Comment on If the United States of America was renamed, what should it be? 3 weeks ago:
Perhaps the U.S. could be named after gold
The United States of Aumerica
- Comment on With all this talk about Ai not being profitable why aren't we using it in video games? I dont mean replacing developers I mean in NPCs in the game. I make them more realistic. 3 weeks ago:
I’d love to see it being used by enemies so they’re challenging without cheating, though.
Check out Sony’s work with GT Sophy
- Comment on Cant Decide 🤖 4 weeks ago:
You can also tell me that someone out there won the lottery this week and have it be true. It’s not the same as seeing this person’s live reaction to learning about it. It wouldn’t be the same if you watched that person act out the scene exactly as it happened. AI generated is so much further removed from all that.
- Comment on Cant Decide 🤖 4 weeks ago:
The info provided is that there exists another happy dog out there doing happy dog things and I briefly connected with it, which made me happy. This information would be incorrect if it was AI generated.
- Comment on How do you think a socialist President would win the 2028 election? Would they use the exact methods used by Zohran Mamdani which earned him the office of Mayor of NYC? 4 weeks ago:
So what you’re saying is that Andrew Yang should run again.
- Comment on Should speakers hum when they're connected to a stereo, but the volume of is turned all the way down? 4 weeks ago:
Part of the reason Amazon works is because they sell high volumes of each product, allowing them to distribute products ahead of time across warehouses to match expected demand. You can’t do that if you only have exactly one of each item.
- Comment on Great Mug 4 weeks ago:
Plus, statistics make up the basis of pretty much all of our science. If you dig into the foundations of stats, you’ll find that it’s basically just formalizing our feelings. It just happens to be formalized in a way that appears to reflect reality accurately enough to be useful.
- Comment on Is Winnie the Pooh considered "racist" now or are .ml folks using it as an excuse to defend Xi Jin Ping? 4 weeks ago:
Did Xi actually take offense to it? I thought it was just others being overly heavy-handed in their censorship, thus Streisanding the whole thing.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I’ve always just done lots of water and waited it out. I see medication at the pharmacies labeled “cold medication”, but I never looked into what they do.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Meaning that it’s just marketed as cold medication without doing anything specifically for colds?
- Comment on How do you "process" hundreds of tabs you haven't gotten a change to go through? 5 weeks ago:
For each tab, I find the project(s) associated with it, find my notes for that project, save the URL for that page in the appropriate place in my notes, then close the tab.
If it’s something that isn’t for a specific project (e.g. reading something because it looks interesting), then I just close it. It’s not important. There’s plenty of entertainment to be found without those.
- Comment on Anon's dad is a tailor 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Metal Exclusionary Radical Astronomy 5 weeks ago:
It’s not an analogy. It’s a counterexample. One that is irrelevant because I appear to have misunderstood your argument, but you’re not clarifying, so I have nothing new to add here.
