Yondoza

@Yondoza@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now that the DOW is below 50,000, are we allowed to care again?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a useless metric for the state of the stock market. It’s used because it has been around forever and people hate change.

  Why is it useless? It is calculated by tracking 30 companies on the stock market and pretty much adding up their current stock price. This is a meaningless metric because you could have one company that is worth $100 that offers two shares of stock, each worth $50. Another company worth $100 chooses to have 50 shares of stock each worth $2.

  The companies are the same value, but their stock price is vastly different. Let’s say they’re both on the DOW list of 30 companies. When the first company doubles in value, so does it’s stock price. Now the company is with $200 and the stock is worth $100. That means the dow increased by 50.

  When the second company doubles in value, it’s stock also doubles to $4. Now the DOW increases by a value of 2…

  This is why the DOW is useless. It’s intent is to measure the general trend of the stock market, but with the two examples above it clearly fails at doing that. There are many better stock market indexes that provide a more reliable insight intoarket trends, the S&P 500 for example. The DOW is meaningless and anyone who is using it as a reference for the health of the stock market is an idiot.

  Anyone using it to talk about the health of the economy overall is out of their gord and should be in the loony bin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is #FFFFFF white, but mixing red green and blue paint is black?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This was a fantastic ELI5. Thank you for your effort in writing this up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Home renovations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shorts are unintended low impedance paths.

  it’s just an incredibly tiny amount Indicates you are not describing a short.

  Sure, there is technically current flowing, but it is small enough to be considered an open circuit for engineering purposes. There is leakage current for every insulator, we don’t call it a short.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨another Freud meme for the day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Please don’t fix it. I laughed so hard when I read it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sad Ganymede noises⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids sit at Lagrange points. Material found there is not counted in the ‘clearing the orbit’ calculations. They are in stable orbits caused by the mass of the planet in question, not in lieu of a massive enough body.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks about wheat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You can boil whole grain wheat down into porridge. It’s not the go-to use for wheat now, but the rice cooking method still provides a nutritious meal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Orange man good⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is the fanciest ping pong paddle satchel I’ve ever seen! It’s also the first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I promise I'm not⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And price controls have a pretty terrible track record of providing a net benefit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just in time⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Plus, probably still required to do military service, only you get no armor and face knights in full plate who have trained their whole lives to kill you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whats your dumb purchases?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Onewheels are so much fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Encouragement⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it seems like a demise built around suffering and helplessness. If you crave the sweet release of death, this isn’t it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't like AI⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. The people pushing AI are not concerned with the social or economic reprocussions of pushing AI. They just want line go up.

  The “Don’t Look Up” greed + willful ignorance will crush us all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i 💚 animals.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the most reliable way to advance a scientific field is to find a technique used in a different field and apply it to yours. Even more reliable if you use techniques from theoretical math.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intelligent Design⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s so weird thinking about how we’re just copying DNA. That’s pretty much the purpose of life; replicate these strange molecules as much as possible. Consciousness is some unintended byproduct of the ‘copy forever’ algorithm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Worldbuilding⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is chemical energy more readily available from plastics than from wood? You’d have to imagine it is if they’re that quick on the uptake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In racoon we trust⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not really sure what you’re asking or getting at. Could you be more explicit?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In racoon we trust⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_recycling

  Aluminium recycling is the process in which secondary commercial aluminium is created from scrap or other forms of end-of-life or otherwise unusable aluminium.[1] It involves re-melting the metal, which is cheaper and more energy-efficient than the production of virgin aluminium by electrolysis of alumina (Al2O3) refined from raw bauxite by use of the Bayer and Hall–Héroult processes.

  Recycling scrap aluminium requires only 5% of the energy used to make new aluminium from the raw ore.[2]

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In racoon we trust⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cans and glass are infinitely recyclable. Recycling aluminum saves 96% of the energy of producing new.

  Paper is semi recyclable, but it degrades, so it can only go through the process a certain number of times.

  Plastic is marginally recyclable. Only about 10% of plastic that goes into a recycling bin gets recycled. It was a hoax by petro-chem to make plastic seem more sustainable than it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SLAYYY⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a bird, so that’s prob the he.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump supporter Rick Fuze was arrested in CA for using a stun gun on peaceful protesters outside a Tesla dealership. The woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor with 16,000 citations.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  1 fascist beating ~= 10 citations.

  Get to it, bud!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨👁👄👁⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They also quite demanding of what types of food to eat to the point where they make us crave what they crave.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reserve your Cybersub now!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Electric subs have been around since 1881… So almost the first, but just missed the mark. Sorry to fact check.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Poetic take" on the state of the US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also ancient Greek and Rome which were republics 2000 and 2500 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes to boot camp⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Switzerland has it too, and while English isn’t the official language almost everyone speaks it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saviour⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish we had a brave new world, we’re getting 1984. While a brave new world was unsettling, almost every character enjoyed their lives. We’re getting “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-forever.”

  I know you were just using that title because it conveniently fit the sentence. I just needed to get this off my chest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My reaction when⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ever heard of plastic explosives?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well, I guess that settles it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Subscribe to The Tale of Ronald now. Written by @aeronmelon, narrated by Sean Connery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reactor goes brrr⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Great call! Completely forgot about batteries and potato power sources!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reactor goes brrr⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, fantastic explanation!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reactor goes brrr⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hydro, wind, solar, and wave/tide energy capture are not.

  The crazy part is photovoltaics are the only power source that doesn’t spin something to make electricity. Truly an outlier.