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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mother told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was under the impression that hearing loss is usually a gradual thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mother told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  if something really is as bad as someone says then why does everyone do it?

  Remember when everyone smoked and we were taught that it was good for our health?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dyslexia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting how everyone misread it the same way.

  Meanwhile, me: “Cloth only grown? Huh?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This one goes out to Dennis Prager⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Keyword: infant

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨you're untapped value⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My local grocery store recently renovated and reorganized the whole store. They placed the rotisserie chickens right by the checkout, next to the impulse purchases rack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bank Workers, Rejoice!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Plot twist: he was actually the serial killer hiding in plain sight

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t place my bets on any individual stock/asset. You need to do a lot of research and have a lot of money to invest before that can be a safe decision. Instead, put your money in broad market ETFs, which is effectively just a bet on capitalism. Then either capitalism wins and you also win, or capitalism loses and you still win. But make sure you have an emergency fund first because not having that is one of the few ways that you can lose while capitalism wins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a lot of stuff going on in my head that needs my full attention. Dinner planning, a work problem that I’ve been slowly chipping away at, toying with some random ideas, etc.

  I understand that for some people, especially if you have ADHD, it can be easier to attend to those thoughts with music and other stimuli present. That is not the case for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2³² will get interesting...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No need to trust infinite people. You just need to get past 33 forks before you run out of people to operate the switch or to be tied to the tracks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Idea That I Could Get Behind⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this is that the unmodified version looked like

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chaotic Evil⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If the port was easily accessible, I would. This problem only comes up when it isn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We always hear/read about Goverments cencoring the internet. What is something that the US is not knowing is being censored?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it hasn’t already, that post and its links need to be archived.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always question those who are the "teachers"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can only use it in a self-deprecating manner if you are yourself an educator, in which case, you’re still minimizing educators.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She is making a GREAT point⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I needed to know if there was any validity to the claim. And if I’m doing the work anyway, I might as well share it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She is making a GREAT point⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s say you save exactly one pill and it works on anyone. Also assume 100% pregnancy rate, so if you are paired with someone and neither have the pill, then it’s an automatic pregnancy. Our goal is to minimize number of pregnancies.

  • “Max promiscuity”: Say we have a complete bipartite matching. if it’s given to a male, then no pregnancies have been prevented since every other male can impregnate every female. If it’s given to a female, then it reduces the number of pregnancies by 1 since none of the males can impregnate her.
  • “Traditional”: Say we have a bijective matching (i.e. each male is paired with exactly one female, and vice versa). Then the pill can be given to anyone and it will always reduce the number of pregnancies by 1.
  • “The Harem”: Say we have a matching where males have more than one pairing but females have at most one pairing each. In this case, giving the pill to the male with the largest number of pairings will reduce pregnancies by however many pairings they have.
  • “Reverse Harem”: Same scenario as above but flip male and female. Giving the pill to any female will have the same effect of reducing pregnancies by 1. Giving it to a male will have no effect.
  • “The Cliques”: The population is split into disjoint graphs, but each of these disjoint graphs are complete (bijective) bipartite graphs. In this case, if the pill is given to a male, then it will only have an effect if that male only has a single pairing, thereby reducing pregnancies by exactly 1. Otherwise, there will be no reduction in pregnancies. If given to a female, then it will always reduce pregnancies by exactly 1.

  As far as I’m aware, the real world operates most like a mixture of “Traditional” and “Cliques”. At least, in places where birth control is an option. But in the real world, we have more than one pill.

  If we have enough for either all males or all females, then the effect is the same regardless of who gets the pill. It will always lead to 100% pregnancy reduction.

  Let’s say we have enough pills for all but one male, or all but one female.

  • “Max promiscuity”: If the pill is given to the males, then we still have one male that can impregnate everyone, so there will be no reduction in pregnancies. If given to females, then you will end up with exactly one pregnancy.
  • “Traditional”: As before, there’s no difference. Any decision will lead to reducing pregnancies to exactly 1.
  • “The Harem”: giving to all the males except the one with the smallest number of pairings will reduce pregnancies to however many pairings that one male has (more than 1). If given to females, then it will reduce it to exactly 1.
  • “Reverse Harem”: Giving it to the males will reduce pregnancies to exactly 1 since they’re only in 1 pairing. Giving it to females will also reduce it to exactly 1.
  • “The Cliques”: if given to the males, then it will only make a difference if there exists a clique with exactly one male. It will reduce pregnancies by the largest number of females in a clique with a single male. If given to females, then it always reduces pregnancies to exactly 1.

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  So with the goal of minimizing pregnancies, it either makes no difference or is optimal to have the pill on women (unless you’re in a harem). This is highly reductive though. We have many other considerations when deciding who should get access to birth control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When washing, should I turn garments inside out?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fahrenheit makes sense. The Tide website recommends washing at 16C minimum for regular detergent and 4C minimum for cold water detergent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never buying milk from Walmart again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The brands I see that produce regular milk also make lactose free milk here, so I’m guessing they’re all processed the same way within the brand but just with added lactase at some point. Different brands probably do things differently. It’s usually 2-3 weeks for both regular milk and lactose free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never buying milk from Walmart again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is your lactose free milk prepared/packaged differently from your regular milk? The two keep for just as long here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨School pickup lines are wild⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not a criticism of people participating in a shitty system and have little say in the matter. It’s a criticism of a system that forces people to make shitty decisions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I learn to estimate the likelihood of real-world events?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For one off events like 9/11, you can’t. There isn’t an accepted definition of “probability” for things like that. Either The question is completely nonsensical (Frequentist view) or the numbers are more or less all arbitrary (Bayesian view).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok, boomer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People will always need a place to live, yes. We also always need food, and general safety from harm. A home is no good if you lose any of the other two while living there. That can happen if, for example, the government or your neighbours decide that your kind is undesirable, or an arbitrary trade war forces businesses in your area into downsizing/bankruptcy and losing you the jobs that paid for your food, or the same happening to farms in the area. How big these risks are will depend a lot on where you are and who you are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok, boomer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rent often isn’t too far off from the cost of buying. The main financial advantage of buying comes from appreciation, which I would say is a pretty big gamble.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're so predictable⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Jokes on you, my toddler makes me count the steps each time we go up and down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We gotta be more encouraging⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends if you count undergrad. One that comes to mind is the RWKV paper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mercy merci⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Starlight tour, but for spiders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depending on the gym, some are a lot more third-spacey than others. I’ve been to a smaller gym where people just hang around after their workouts to socialize, with occasional impromptu dinner outings when the gym closed for the night. I miss that place. You still meet people at bigger commercial gyms, but it’s not the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do people get rid of or sell stolen jewelry? I ask cause the news says the the Louve thieves can never sell it because it so known?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t be surprised if I heard they actually wear them to parties and such, surrounded by other wealthy people who are also above the law.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Require a specific interaction from the user to display your actual email (e.g. click on a button). Even if they run a headless browser, they’ll still have to parse the page to figure out what to do and then do it. That’s much more expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is forever alone⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand why you’re commenting if not to take part in this community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not promotings violence. If someone or some group puts a bounty on a presidents or kings or pm's head how does a person collect and do they give you safe haven in country?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s usually the job of governments to enforce agreements. If you take them out, then you’re on your own.