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- Comment on Hail corporate (they did it tho) 5 days ago:
Most people would understand “profit” to mean the net flow of money, not value. If you redefine it this way, then you can no longer look at the “profit” line of a company’s sheets and say that they’re stealing because the number is positive.
- Comment on Hail corporate (they did it tho) 6 days ago:
Profit can also be the value of the labour you put into something. If you buy wood, build a table, then sell it for more than the value of the wood, then that profit is the value of your labour.
- Comment on What if programmers rewrote the English language? 6 days ago:
And we’re constantly doing this. If a word is used a lot and the word is long, we’re going to shorten it.
- Comment on If a person were paranoid about a potential food shortage in the next two to three years, what should they stock up on now? 6 days ago:
That will last the average adult about 20 days, and you’ll probably be constantly feeling hungry during that time. Adding a sack of dry beans would make a huge difference.
- Comment on If a person were paranoid about a potential food shortage in the next two to three years, what should they stock up on now? 6 days ago:
Vitamins degrade over time. You’ll want to make sure that what you get will actually last for the period of time when you intend to use them.
- Comment on We're so back 6 days ago:
The bar for a lot of us is also at “about to lose a limb from infection”. The only difference is that we don’t get a hospital bill to go with that visit.
- Comment on She only wanted the ring bros 3 weeks ago:
This is why both parents should get parental leave. I just took care of all the nights and slept through half the day. Neither of us had to deal with sleep deprivation.
- Comment on Whats a good etiquette to show you are doing a U turn in a left turn, so the cars behind you know? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t understand the problem with the car in front doing a U-turn. How does that increase the probability of rear-ending or missing a light? Even if it were a regular turn, some people turn faster and some slower, some people take longer to respond to a light change, and some wait for a larger clearance in oncoming traffic before turning. Whatever they decide to do, you just follow their lead.
- Comment on Random Choice in Newcomb's Paradox 3 weeks ago:
And you’re saying that those two things are somehow contradictory? Because if so, I don’t see how. If this super intelligent computer knows how you’re going to choose ahead of time, then it must also know how the coin is going to land ahead of time.
- Comment on Random Choice in Newcomb's Paradox 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know what you’re getting at. Did I say something to suggest I misunderstood this part?
- Comment on Random Choice in Newcomb's Paradox 3 weeks ago:
This is a hypothetical where a human beings actions can all be predicted with high accuracy. Your actions are constantly being influenced by the inputs you receive, so in order to predict your behavior, you’d also need to predict everything you’re going to be experiencing. This necessarily includes the results of that coin flip and the Geiger counter readings.
- Comment on The person who mounted a spice rack into the fucking studs so a fridge won't fit there 4 weeks ago:
Having a shitty day-to-day life tends to make minor inconveniences extra infuriating, and vice versa.
- Comment on Has society or scientists ever solved definitively the Chicken and the Egg theory? Or is it just like a whose on first thing? 5 weeks ago:
By the well ordering theorem, no matter what you choose as your definition of “chicken”, there must be a first.
- Comment on When if ever did "Throw Money at The Problem:" actually work? Instead of being about 75 percent useless? 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month 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. 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month ago:
Thanks for informing us that you’re rich, I guess?
- Comment on What does DLSS do, and what's up with DLSS 5? 1 month 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? 1 month 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. 1 month 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. 1 month 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. 1 month 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? 2 months ago:
Probably makes more sense to kill their dog or something like that. Hint that there’s more where that came from.