RustyEarthfire

@RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well, Athens wasn't built in a day.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sisyphean Effort is actually a thing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta has suspended several Threads and Instagram accounts that track the private jets of celebrities such as Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian, and Donald Trump⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  omg Toad, you can’t just ask people why they’re purple!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Free P-Values⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this p-hacking?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just So⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, that is precisely what I was attempting to say. Thanks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just So⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is there isn’t anything “useful” for understanding humans. Yes we can come up with plausible evolutionary justifications for behavior like cooperation, but they are basically untestable and useless for predictions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do our brains process reality? I heard our eyes were just low-res cameras and our brains were doing all the heavy lifting in 'rendering' reality.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That assumes “you” are just the conscious part. If you accept the rest of your brain (and body) as part of “you”, then it’s a less dramatic divide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bananas⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For anyone wondering, this doesn’t actually work, because the bananas will realize they are upside-down.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Birdwatching⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Industrial strength anthropic principle

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh man, don’t stop

  You got it! Here’s some other consumer protections the administration has introduced recently:

  • Direct filing with the IRS
  • Price limits on asthma inhalers and insulin for seniors
  • Requiring ISPs to provide consistent up-front information and pricing
  • Restrictions on college junk fees and disallowing witholding of transcripts

  Hungry for more? Check this out:

  White House Statement on Junk Fees

  That’s from October, so some of it overlaps, but among other stuff there’s still a “Click to Cancel” rule working its way through the FTC.

  Sadly Biden has been spending a bunch of time on lame crap like climate change, human rights, health care, infrastructure, election integrity, etc., so it might take a bit longer for him to single-handedly usher in consumer utopia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This seems entirely opposite to my observation. I’d say Biden and his administration are unusually focused on unfair or annoying business practices. In just the past two weeks the Biden administration:

  • Set clear rules requiring cash refunds for flight delays
  • Banned non-compete clauses
  • Set new rules on “junk fees” for credit cards
  • Increased the minimum salary for overtime exemption
  • Expanded fiduciary duty to retirement "advisors"
  • Announced a lawsuit against Live Nation (TicketMaster)
  • Re-instated net neutrality
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All the data so far is showing inflation isn't going away, and is making things tough on the Fed⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a long-standing observation of economists that government spending leads to inflation. Probably the simplest model is that the government is increasing demand without increasing supply.

  Note that in this model, taxes have a deflationary impact because they reduce demand from individuals.

  This is not an opinion on how much government spending is affecting current inflation (nor how much inflation is to blame for any particular category of goods).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explain yourselves, comp sci.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But how would they be able to live on that?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not a wealth tax, that is an income tax (+4% for the 1M+ tax bracket).

  Countries that have a general wealth tax are Norway, Spain, and Switzerland. Countries with a selective wealth tax (beyond property taxes) are Belgium, Italy, and the Netherlands. Source: pgpf.org/…/what-is-a-wealth-tax-and-should-the-un… (under the heading “How have wealth taxes worked in other countries”)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why there are 861 roguelike deckbuilders on Steam all of a sudden⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it’s fair to call Slay the Spire (StS) a clone. While Card Quest introduced a lot of the key elements years earlier, StS adds enough innovation that it feels like a totally different game. Definitely would be more fair to say StS popularized a lot of the mechanics rather than invented/pioneered them though.