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- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 9 hours ago:
It already jumped up about 10% on monday simply because the service launched. Even if the service crashes and burns, they’ll jump to the next hype topic like robots or AI or whatever and the stock price will stay up.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 23 hours ago:
Oh right, I forgot that history started on October 7th.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 1 day ago:
Iran is simply countering the terrorist state known as israel.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 2 days ago:
Iran has the right to defend themselves and israel has proven again that Iran is in need of this defense.
- Comment on Nier creator Yoko Taro reveals the sad reality of modern AAA game development, “there’s less weird people making games” 4 days ago:
The weird people are still there, but development teams are much larger now, so their input is not as prominent. Plus the budgets are so large that a flop can heavily damage a company or even ruin it, so they’re very risk-averse. We need more AA or A games instead of relying so much on heavy-hitters.
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 1 week ago:
I think at this point Android is the king of operating systems in terms of what the majority of consumer devices run. Perhaps the path forward is people plugging their phone into a dock and being presented with a more productive interface.
- Comment on Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting 1 week ago:
Not sure, but they anticipate a lot of children having this device in their hands, so they’re going to design it for that, perhaps even over-design it, just in case.
- Comment on Majority of Australians think China will be world’s most powerful country by 2035, poll finds 1 week ago:
That’s true, but the time between rise and fall takes a while. From the looks of things, the US empire is in the process of falling, which would clear the way for China to take over the top spot. This may change depending on how things go, but if China can grab that spot then it’ll take a while for their turn to fall.
- Comment on Majority of Australians think China will be world’s most powerful country by 2035, poll finds 1 week ago:
We wouldn’t have semi-affordable (depending on your situation) iPhones otherwise. They be impossible to build at scale. Really eye opening.
Yes we would, they’d just have to lower their ridiculously high profit margins: cnbc.com/…/apples-gross-margin-hits-record-as-ser…
For many years in the iPhone era, Apple’s gross margin would predictably come in at between 38% and 39%, reflecting the company’s tight grip over its supply chain and its pricing power in the market.
- Comment on Spicy food never affects my gut and everyone thinks it's really weird. How unusual is this and what could be happening to explain why spicy food doesn't affect me? 1 week ago:
I felt the same until I had one of those challenge peanut things that add straight up capsaicin crystals. It made my tummy feel not so good when I had it on an empty stomach, but I never had the “spice burns twice” effect until I had malatang and I asked them to do a spice level above their written max level.
- Comment on YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto 1 week ago:
I’m grateful I have the basic technical knowledge of how to install an adblocker. 🙏
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 1 week ago:
I wasn’t on reddit, but I did hear a lot of buzz about lemmy around that time, so I decided to check it out. It’s been one of the better places I’ve enjoyed for discussion.
- Comment on How's it going? 2 weeks ago:
Completely nude?
- Comment on Happy anniversary of the day absolutely nothing happened at nowhere square! 2 weeks ago:
The information is freely available because you can do nothing about it. The student protests about israel were shut down. If it was deemed a greater threat, then even more violence would have been used.
- Comment on Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄 2 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, that’s another thing! They made it tedious to make progress, probably in an attempt to squeeze out more money, but I ended up just losing motivation for actually learning because it became a drag.
- Comment on Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄 2 weeks ago:
That’s a shame. Duolingo was never great for learning kana, so I guess they thought to use it more in lessons, but they should’ve just improved the dedicated kana lessons instead. I had learned kana before using duolingo so it was a smooth transition to take on sentences introducing more and more kanji. It sucks that they’re just making things worse since there were some nice things about the app before.
- Comment on YSK: You can disable scores (upvotes and downvotes) in lemmy, and I think it's great! 2 weeks ago:
People will upvote and downvote for any reason, but often do so simply because they agree or disagree with the post. A good moderator does not moderate based on their personal opinions. I would rather not rely on votes for moderation because it’s terrible for that purpose.
- Comment on Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄 2 weeks ago:
I stopped using duolingo a couple years ago because I noticed I was just doing the bare minimum to maintain my streak instead of actually learning something new.
- Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! 3 weeks ago:
Memory manufacturers purposely cut production to help justify cost increases: tomshardware.com/…/memory-prices-rebound-due-to-r…
But yeah, they’ll also take advantage of demand (real or imaginary) to jack up prices: tomshardware.com/…/micron-confirms-memory-price-h…
- Comment on Calm down 3 weeks ago:
I AM CALM!!
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 3 weeks ago:
Yep, that’s leverage. They sold notes which can be converted to shares of microstrategy. So while they don’t have to issue more shares right now (which would dilute shareholders and lower the value of individual shares), they will have to in the future given the conditions on the convertible notes. If they have to convert those notes into shares while the price of bitcoin is dropping, it’s a double whammy because the value of their holdings (which their value is entirely based on) drops AND they’re diluting individual shares by having to issue more shares. This wards off investors which will tank the price even more.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 3 weeks ago:
What argument? You pointed to the price of bitcoin going up and I pointed out that scams go up in value. Then you think it doesn’t apply to bitcoin because…? Oh, that’s right, you didn’t make any argument other than “number went up”.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 3 weeks ago:
The point did fly over your head, you’re right about that. Pointing at the current value of your scam investment as proof of it not being a scam does not make it legitimate.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 3 weeks ago:
Crypto is not used to bypass regulations.
From the very beginning it was sold as a way to work outside the existing banking system and all it did was recreate the earlier days of banking with little-to-no regulation.
It is easier to regulate crypto because of the public multiple ledger system that is the Blockchain, allowing you to trace tokens all the way back to their conception.
The key to regulation is enforcement. While some regulation was put on the books, the government has been very lax with enforcement. Obvious pump and dump schemes, which would be illegal with securities, are left completely alone with crypto. Ridiculous amounts of leverage has been used to pump up the value of bitcoin, including fraudulent printing (see Tether). Also, while the bitcoin ledger is public, you can shuffle and obscure entry and exit points enough to make it anonymous.
The purpose of Crypto is that it removes the need for a bank for transactions and holding of nonphysical currency. Adoption rate proportional to total population is what gives them stability and makes them less susceptible to scams or pump and dumps.
It removes the bank and introduces mining consensus. In the case of bitcoin, this consensus is slow and costly so people have built more centralized networks on top of it. Those are your new banks right there. Plus there is the issue of mining pools becoming too large and thus having more say in the consensus. Now talk about Proof of Stake and you’ll find it’s just a system where the more you hold, the more power you have (i.e. like the rich who hold more money).
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 3 weeks ago:
My Enron stock disagrees.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 3 weeks ago:
Yes. That bitcoin dogshit fell and rose with the covid fall and rise of stocks. You think bitcoin is some profound new way of currency, but it’s really just another avenue for wall street to steal from main street.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 3 weeks ago:
What does “financialize their bitcoin holdings” mean? Do you mean they use leverage (i.e. debt) to buy bitcoin than they could otherwise? That’s nothing new and is a common ETF strategy (see BITX). And yeah, it also means the bad times hit much harder.
- Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! 3 weeks ago:
No thanks. I’d rather have 4TB SSDs that cost $100. We were getting close to that in 2023, but then the memory manufacturers decided to collude and jacked up prices.
- Comment on you are now witnessing the peak of online discourse 4 weeks ago:
Your fart ends where my face begins.
- Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen" 4 weeks ago:
I didn’t want borderlands even when it was cheaper.