bitcrafter
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- Comment on The guy behind Shit Rentals has made a free public database for tenants 1 year ago:
Given their choice of logo, I am advocating for everyone to start referring to it as Twitter/X11.
- Comment on It's not just about facts: Democrats and Republicans have sharply different attitudes about removing misinformation from social media 1 year ago:
Teaching critical thinking has absolutely nothing to do with presupposing the existence of objective truth in political matters.
- Comment on Here's a breakdown of the cost of an EV battery 1 year ago:
But there are % signs after all the numbers…
- Comment on Which language you wish would really grow and reach mainstream adoption? 1 year ago:
I’d be interested in hearing what it is about the language that has gotten you so excited about it.
- Comment on One year after being bought for $44 billion, X is worth $19 billion 1 year ago:
Pretty soon he’ll have so much control over his platform that he can practically cron kings and manipulate outcomes to fit his personal political agenda.
Huh… do kings normally consist of commands that need to be run on a regular basis at scheduled times?
- Comment on How to deal with annoying co-worker 1 year ago:
Sure, but what’s the end game supposed to be, then? Just making the same request over and over again indefinitely?
- Comment on New York sues crypto firms for losing over $1 billion 1 year ago:
Ok where do I invest my money then?
Well-diversified mutual funds, or something equivalent to that, and in particular you want a mixture of asset classes such as stocks and bonds. You also want to have a hierarchy of investments, ranging from very low-risk but also low-growth investments for your emergency savings that you can tap at a moment’s notice to high-risk but also high-growth investments for savings that you do not need to tap for a long time (such as for retirement, assuming that is far off). “High-risk” in this context doesn’t mean “risk of your investment disappearing” so much as “risk of your investment suffering from a dip in value at the time when you need it”.
But to reiterate: the most important thing here is diversification, because diversification means that some of your investments can drop in value by a lot or even become worthless without causing you to lose everything. Putting all of your money into a single asset or kind of asset, such as a cryptocurrency, is basically the opposite of what you want to be doing.
- Comment on If you could play one game for the first time all over again, what would it be? 1 year ago:
Being absolutely terrified of the ambient noises in Doom.
Yeah, when I was a kid and Doom had first come out, I got scared to death when I walked around a corner and ran into my first pinky; it was horrifying!
- Comment on People Are Okay With Wind & Solar Installations In Their Neighborhoods, Studies Say 1 year ago:
If that is what you are worried about, then isn’t the easy solution to build thicker walls?
- Comment on People Are Okay With Wind & Solar Installations In Their Neighborhoods, Studies Say 1 year ago:
Nice parks are one of the amenities that can be put in a “15 minute city”; the nicest city I’ve ever lived in, Brisbane (in Queensland, Australia), had beautiful large parks within easy access of the downtown areas.
By contrast, currently I live in a suburb, but it doesn’t really give me a nature fix when I need it so I have to go to elsewhere anyway.
- Comment on Sam Bankman-Fried is going to jail 1 year ago:
Given how politically sensitive prosecuting Trump is, I would conjecture that they want to give Trump a great deal of rope with which to hang himself so that when he does so it will be undeniably clear that he has violated the terms of his bail and so cannot be permitted to stay free.
- Comment on What's the difference between communism and socialism? 1 year ago:
OP, if you take nothing else away from this conversation, it is that different people have different notions of what exactly the word “socialism” refers to, which in practice makes it a useless word to use in the context of discussing public policy because you just end up with groups talking past each other. In the most extreme case, if someone thinks you are proposing “socialism”, then they might abruptly stop listening to what you are actually saying and assume that what you are actually proposing is to turn over the entire country to a corrupt authoritarian government because that is what the word “socialism” means to them. For this reason, should you find yourself in a discussion about public policy, it is generally better to be very specific about exactly what policies you are saying are good or bad and why you think they are good or bad without resorting to using what are in practice ambiguous and loaded terms like these. (Just to be clear, I am not saying that this state of affairs is reasonable, just that this is how it is at the moment.)
- Comment on What's the difference between communism and socialism? 1 year ago:
You make an excellent point, sir! It’s not like this is a community geared towards answering stupid… umm… nevermind.
- Comment on Metaverse could be renamed to escape 1 year ago:
In a way this naming makes more sense, because an important aspect of the virtual worlds in science fiction that many people seem to idolize is that they were as appealing as they were due to a large part because the real world was such a dystopia that they were desperate for an escape from it, even if it meant living inside a world that existed only inside a computer.
- Comment on 'FUCK SPEZ': Reddit Users Unite to Turn r/Place Mural Into a Protest 1 year ago:
That does sound like a reason to be hopeful for the future. Thank you for telling me about this.
- Comment on 'FUCK SPEZ': Reddit Users Unite to Turn r/Place Mural Into a Protest 1 year ago:
We all use social media in different ways. For me, I use it primarily as a relatively mindless activity I can engage in when my brain is too tired to do something that I actually care about. For example, at work I often write comments when I am stuck or feeling burned out, and taking the time to rest in this way helps my brain recover and often after a while the solution to my problem pops into my head and I can proceed.
- Comment on 'FUCK SPEZ': Reddit Users Unite to Turn r/Place Mural Into a Protest 1 year ago:
Reddit wasn’t always the shining beacon of communities you think it currently is.
You are putting words into my mouth that I did not speak nor do I think; I have only pointed out that there are communities on Reddit that do not have a strong presence here whose absence I miss.
People move and adapt.
While I hope you are correct in this case, this is not always true. Sometimes good things are simply lost.
Activity Pub is a clear improvement over Reddit, and separating from Spez’s incompetence is a bonus.
I agree, which is why I have shifted the vast majority of the time I spent on Reddit here instead.
- Comment on 'FUCK SPEZ': Reddit Users Unite to Turn r/Place Mural Into a Protest 1 year ago:
I get it, and that is a totally valid experience that you and probably many other people have had, but I personally never considered myself to be doomscrolling when seeing what was new with the Haskell programming language, going through what crazy experience people have had playing Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup lately, learning from the the really insightful in-depth explanations of history that were posted to AskHistorians, and so on. I do not consider the subtraction of these things from my life to have ultimately been a benefit, it just makes me feel less in the loop about the things that I care about.
- Comment on 'FUCK SPEZ': Reddit Users Unite to Turn r/Place Mural Into a Protest 1 year ago:
As much as I’ve been enjoying Lemmy and really like it as a platform, I don’t think any of this this is fine because there are just too many niche communities that are either unwilling or unable to just pick up and move, which means that in practice to the extent that I only participate here and not on Reddit I am missing out on a lot of content that I used to look forward to.