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- Comment on Does the USA simply have no food safety standard at all? 3 days ago:
I’m willing to bet that you’ll get more microplastics from the food itself (meat, plants, water) than the bag.
- Comment on I choose innovation. 1 week ago:
And while we’re at it, why not connect the blinds at the seams? Then no water leaks out.
And honestly you could make them out of a softer plastic so it’s easier to open and close… something like sheet PVC would be perfect.
- Comment on Does anyone else think the NYPD photos of the UHC CEO shooting suspect don’t match? 2 weeks ago:
I bet they stop releasing info because of the public reaction. At this poiny, they want us to forget and not have copycats. They’re scared.
- Comment on Why do bugs drown themselves, what idiocy is this?! 2 weeks ago:
Wait- fly fishing isn’t fishing out of the back of a water plane?
- Comment on Checkmate 3 weeks ago:
Nope, the game ends with checkmate. The king is the only piece that can’t actually be captured. It’s in the rules, look it up.
- Comment on why is my whisky evaporating? 4 weeks ago:
Theres no safe level of lead, it accumulates in the body.
- Comment on flouride 4 weeks ago:
0.08mg per half cup serving, but may vary depending on water used.
10mg is the accepted daily upper limit. So 62.5 cups of oatmeal to reach that max safe limit.
Acute poisoning symptoms may appear as low as 10-15 mg/kg, lethal dose might be 32-64 mg/kg.
So 200 to 400 cups of oatmeal per kg you weigh for a lethal dose.
- Comment on Palworld Developer Reveals The Pokémon Patents Nintendo Claims It's Violating 4 weeks ago:
Patents shouldn’t exist! Mostly.
- Comment on You Pay For It, We Own It - Sony's $7.9B Lawsuit 5 weeks ago:
I think that’s called conversion. Or unjust enrichment.
- Comment on Dear Americans, be prepare to get screwed! 1 month ago:
FYI: companies will do 2 things to make black friday kinda suck these days
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Prices will go up before black friday so they can have an exagerated sale/discount.
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Some companies will make units specifically for black friday. Usually cheaper, less features, and sometimes less reliable.
Figure out what you want now.
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- Comment on There are Minimum Wages, Why Not a Maximum Wage? 1 month ago:
I think we should be setting these max/min wages as relative values, not absolute values. Otherwise we have to pass laws every time the min wage needs to be adjusted. And we’ll end up with stagnation.
For example, a person’s wage can only be X% higher than the lowest wage of someone a step below them in hierarchy. Including contractors and suppliers so they can’t skirt or find loopholes.
There still might be some haywire incentives that require more thought, but it should hopefully encourage labor to be valued at an appropriate proportion of value. Either everyone makes good money, or nobody does.
Should also probably deincentivize layoffs, stock buybacks, etc. at the cost of shareholder earnings / value.
- Comment on I'd have to hear her argument, but... 2 months ago:
Funny joke ?
- Comment on I'd have to hear her argument, but... 2 months ago:
Macroscopic creatures are made of different types of cells and stuff… what constitutes a living thing?
People didn’t lose half of their cells, it was all or none.
- Comment on How can I get a screw like this out? 3 months ago:
A dab of super glue in the screw hole, find a screw driver you don’t really care about, add a drop of superglue accelerator
- Comment on When was the last time you made Jello? 5 months ago:
Yeah but it’s not like you eat it anyways
- Comment on Photographers Push Back on Facebook's 'Made with AI' Labels Triggered by Adobe Metadata. Do you agree “‘AI was used in this image’ is completely different than ‘Made with AI’”? 5 months ago:
Film too, any trickery in the darkroom should be labeled because it cannot show which parts are real and which are not.
- Comment on Photographers Push Back on Facebook's 'Made with AI' Labels Triggered by Adobe Metadata. Do you agree “‘AI was used in this image’ is completely different than ‘Made with AI’”? 5 months ago:
Generative fill on a dummy layer, then apply 0% opacity
- Comment on Handy temperature conversion scale. 8 months ago:
Apparently there is, called the Planck temperature
- Comment on Whoops 8 months ago:
Say you were a spy, and you think there’s a laser guarding the largest diamond in the world.
There’s no way to detect if the laser is there without putting some form of matter in the way of the laser. Be it a hand, or spray bottle.
Now at the museum, a mist won’t set off the alarm, but you’re still reflecting some of the photons out of the beam and into your eyes. Otherwise you wouldn’t see the beam…
But for a quantum experiment, where we care about each individual photon, spraying a fine mist will affect the experiment. Sticking anything in that laser beam path will affect the measurement.
So how do you make a measurement without interacting?
- Comment on Not buying a shaver from Philips again.. 8 months ago:
Yeah that’s a regulatory requirement in some regions
- Comment on Why do people wear shoes inside the house? 9 months ago:
Because in public, the ground is probably more gross than your feet (dogshit, car oil), but in your home, your shoes are probably more gross than your own feet.
Similarly, in public, seeing other people’s feet is gross. But not as much at home.
- Comment on Would Nuclear Weapons be as destructive in ship to ship space combat, as they are on the ground in an atmosphere? 11 months ago:
If we’re talking about a direct hit, the radiation is going to be substantial
- Comment on Would Nuclear Weapons be as destructive in ship to ship space combat, as they are on the ground in an atmosphere? 11 months ago:
That would have to be a big ship to feel a shock wave without being consumed by the ball of plasma
- Comment on The more you know 11 months ago:
When is the pizza ready? When has it approached zero?!
We gotta get these pies moving cousin. 10 minutes or less or it’s free, that’s what big Tony says. We never should have let you take over operations, cousin, not with your fancy math degree. I felt bad because you couldn’t find job anywhere else. But what gabagool. What will mother say? You’re going to make her cry.
- Comment on The more you know 11 months ago:
Bro this is a pizza hut
- Comment on I got this popup ad on my TV **while watching a DVD** 11 months ago:
That’s exactly how air tags work currently.
- Comment on I got this popup ad on my TV **while watching a DVD** 11 months ago:
There’s a pretty good chance they’ll get around it- if they aren’t already.
Samsung TV? You have a Samsung phone? There’s an easy way to jump the air gap.
Neighbor has a TV connected to the Internet? Send data to that TV and pretend you’re not connected to anything so the user doesn’t catch on.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 11 months ago:
I mean I’m sure someone honestly believes that. But to be fair, people believe the earth is flat.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 11 months ago:
100% agree, society is so radically different today from even 200 years ago. Most discernable minor changes are from 10+ thousand years ago. Major changes are more on the order of 100k-millions of years.
We’re 100% not “made for” the world we’ve created.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 11 months ago:
Just linking to an article about collective decision making isn’t really that helpful without quoting the article for your points.
So that article you posted talks about animal behavior, and that an economic view on collective decision making is a good approach for animal behavior.
As motivated in the Introduction, our review has focused primarily on an economic view on collective decision-making. The economic view is a staple of behavioural ecology, and motivates the tools of optimal decision theory for the study of animal behaviour.
Nowhere did they make the conclusion that collecting decision making is superior, especially in the context of humans.