Takumidesh
@Takumidesh@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 5 hours ago:
Funny how nuclear power plants are taboo, but building thousands of nuclear warheads all over the globe is no issue.
- Comment on Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky 2 days ago:
Why?
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 2 days ago:
Well, a lot of stock trading isn’t as simple as just stock picking, buying and selling individual stocks.
Much of the market is made up of derivatives trading, such as options, where you aren’t trading the stock itself, instead you are trading the option to buy the stock.
The value of the option is derived from the value of the underlying asset, but it is not absolutely coupled to it (this is how a lot of the money is made, by finding market inefficiencies and capitalizing on things like slippage, where there is a mismatch in the value of the derivative and it’s underlying)
What the person above is saying is that, when it becomes no longer profitable to trade underlying assets directly, new derivative markets will be invented that trade around other underlying assets.
Think about unregulated Bitcoin trading for example, while contrived, imagine a crypto currency that is coupled with the price of another asset (these exist, like USDcoin) such as a stock, future, option, or something else.
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 2 days ago:
You know, you can just do things. Like, laws don’t need to be applied unilaterally. You can, at the same time, tax a 100,000,000 dollar loan, and not tax a 1,000,000 dollar loan.
Kind of like how generally, low income people do not pay much or any income taxes, or how certain products are subject to additional sales taxes.
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 2 weeks ago:
Damn, you just SLAMMED me.
- Comment on Nintendo's new music app is a clone of YouTube Music. 2 weeks ago:
Yes, honestly the fact that ‘youtube music’ is literally just a different frontend for YouTube drives me nuts, it goes both ways, the YouTube app for TV doesn’t have proper features either, it’s unclear if you are getting the music or video version and the most egregious of them all imo, on the TV app, you can’t freaking browse for a different song while music is playing, you have to stop the song to go to the search bar.
- Comment on I present: Managarr - A TUI and CLI to help you manage your Servarr instances 2 weeks ago:
Cli doesn’t make much sense to me either when the *arr suite has a well documented rest API already.
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 2 weeks ago:
They don’t convey the same information.
Infinity isn’t really an amount of something.
- Comment on Matrix 2.0 Is Here! 2 weeks ago:
With docker it’s quite easy (assuming you are familiar with docker)
But docker / containerization is a skill that becomes really really helpful to learn if you are interested in this type of thing.
- Comment on Privacy Guides is Hiring 2 weeks ago:
I’ll take the L… but I’m gonna blame it on sleepyheadedness, lol.
- Comment on Privacy Guides is Hiring 2 weeks ago:
A resume with no PII, how are they gonna call you for the interview?
And what is the point of encrypting it? If they can’t decrypt it then you just sent them a jumble of bits, and if they can, then what was the point?
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
That’s possible though, if there are some really bad drivers screwing the average.
- Comment on Robinhood admits it’s just a gambling app. 2 weeks ago:
Yes, general investing is not zero sum, however many methods of advanced trading are. Options trading, which is prominent and easy to access on Robinhood, is much closer to gambling (and is treated that way by many users) and is zero sum.
Most active trading strategies require successfully arbitraging, or extracting inefficiencies out of the market, and you can’t do either of those things without someone else losing money.
Passive investment is investing in the companies that underlay the market, active trading is extracting value out of the market itself.
- Comment on Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June 3 weeks ago:
It’s easy.
It’s closer in spirit to buying a pack of smokes, it’s easy to just grab one on the way somewhere, less of an issue if you lose it or have to toss it(like at some concert venues), easier to give to your friends, and generally they are much smaller, so easier to conceal.
- Comment on Why is voting before the deadline in US elections referred to as 'early voting'? 3 weeks ago:
Sorry 15 years 2010 midterm and forward.
- Comment on Why is voting before the deadline in US elections referred to as 'early voting'? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve voted 'early, in every election I’ve participated in. For as long as I’ve known, which is about to be 4 presidential and all of the elections in between, the polls have always been open for weeks.
That’s approaching 20 years, I don’t think it’s a new concept really at this point.
- Comment on Why is voting before the deadline in US elections referred to as 'early voting'? 3 weeks ago:
Right I get that.
But why is it marketed, for lack of a better term as early. Why wouldn’t it be, ‘the polls opens on October 20th, and you can vote late up to November 5th’
- Comment on What kind of special knowledge or equipment does piracy groups have? 3 weeks ago:
TPM isn’t inherently bad, it’s just a way to cryptographically store keys. TPM overall is great as it gives you a very secure way to store things like encryption keys.
You also don’t need TPM to lock down a system. Locked bootloaders have existed for decades and platforms have historically rolled their own encryption modules as they wanted, like your ipad example, or any video game console in the last 20 years, or most mobile phones, etc.
The ‘knows enough to be dangerous’ crowd has been fearmongering about tpm since it’s been introduced, it isn’t some magic bullet for vendor locking, since vendor locking is already achieved.
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- Comment on Tinkerers Are Taking Old Redbox Kiosks Home and Reverse Engineering Them 4 weeks ago:
I got downvoted for this before, but, when you sublet your property like this, you take on an inherent risk. This isn’t any different to a bad tenant, or an investment not panning out.
Any business who accepted these red boxes should have either a) established contingency with Redbox themselves or, failing that, b) established a contingency through their own means by keeping liquidity to handle disposal of the machine (or something like insurance)
Don’t feel sorry for these businesses, they took a calculated risk, likely made lots of money over the last decade, and now are faced with potentially needing to use some of that revenue to dispose of the machines. Any normal business keeps assets and liquidity available to cover expenses of doing business, the same way a landlord needs to use some rent money to clean up after a bad tenant, it’s part of their business model. If a business thought these machines would just live there forever and magically go away when they aren’t making money anymore, that’s their fault.
- Comment on Woman Finds Herself In Legal Trouble After Calling Ranking Of Kings Manga Creator A Pedophile & Right Winger 4 weeks ago:
These isekai titles are getting too much.
- Comment on UBO Lite Pulled from Firefox Store by developer 1 month ago:
Is the lite version more performant?
- Comment on Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games 1 month ago:
People generally don’t want to make games free because often 99% of what makes a game good is not the software aspect. People like games for interesting mechanics, story, art, and music. Those aren’t things that generally haven’t worked well being free and open
FOSS generally works because people use foss to create end products, and have an incentive to contribute because it benefits them financially (and the side effects is that it benefits others too).
Making a game FOSS rarely benefits the creators since it is the end product, even if it benefits the game or community.
There are cases where it works though, such as rhythm games, where the end product requires immense collaboration, but those often exist on the borderline of acceptability (due to copyrighted music use) and they end up with a need to be foss since licensing 10,000 songs is basically impossible.
(Shout out Quaver)
- Comment on AI coding assistants do not boost productivity or prevent burnout, study finds 1 month ago:
I basically exclusively use LLMs to explain broad concepts I’m unfamiliar with. a contrived example would be ‘what is a component in angular’ or ‘explain to a c# dev how x,y, and z work in rust’ The answers don’t need to be 100% accurate and they provide a nice general jumping point to get specific information.
- Comment on AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs 1 month ago:
It’s a combination.
Not captchas goals generally aren’t 100% prevention, it’s to put a workload in front, this makes spamming the site cost money, a bankrolled attempt could just as easily outsource the captchas to real humans.
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 1 month ago:
DNS sinks can often cause elevated traffic numbers because the client is constantly failing and retrying.
I bet if you enabled it to test the numbers would drop dramatically.
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 1 month ago:
So an HDMI connected device that is streaming Netflix is getting screenshot?
I mean, even if it wasn’t a streaming service, but let’s say, video game content, or a blu ray, that is still a violation, and of course, if I’m playing content I made, then it’s violating my copyright.
- Comment on Crypto bros have discovered idle games, and the results are incredibly boring 1 month ago:
While trading in general is zero sum, if you believe the product you’re trading has intrinsic value, then no one needs to be holding a bag.
If I sell you a car and you get to use the car, you wouldn’t be holding the bag, because you wanted the car. This applies to stocks, and stock derivatives, as well as commodities.
The problem arises when there isn’t an intrinsic value (or the intrinsic value is very small), such as with NFTs or many cryptos in general.
There are cryptos that have some intrinsic value like monero, since they have fungibility and a use case, but most do not.
- Comment on Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, Inc. 1 month ago:
The steam deck didn’t exist when the switch came out, it innovated and filled a niche that turned out to be a severely underserved segment of the gaming market.
Nintendo struck gold with the switch, and a ‘switch 2’ likely isn’t going to cut it.
It’s not like Nintendo is infallible, remember the console before the switch was the Wii u.
- Comment on DeArrow is an open source browser extension for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube. 2 months ago:
If your video can be replaced by a title, it probably wasn’t with watching