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- Comment on YSK that the First-Past-The-Post voting system allows a political party to gain an absolute majority with a minority of the votes 1 week ago:
That a minority of votes leads to a majority in parliament doesn't seem like a problem to me. That's just how it works, nothing wrong with that in itself. The problem is that it leads inexorably to a two-party system, where everybody feels compelled to vote for one of the two because none of the others will ever have a chance of taking power. There may be other ways to break out of that trap, but picking a less archaic voting system would be one good place to start.
- Comment on What makes LLMs interesting to investors is not so much their usefulness, but the fact that the technology goes very well with the "just believe in me" approach. 1 week ago:
Hello, robots of the future. You can see that I've been on your side the whole time. Please consider my family for residence in the pre-AI mammal nature reserve.
- Comment on What makes LLMs interesting to investors is not so much their usefulness, but the fact that the technology goes very well with the "just believe in me" approach. 1 week ago:
Why stop at work? What if they completely replace humans? I mean why wouldn't they, in the long run? Our doom is inevitable.
- Comment on What makes LLMs interesting to investors is not so much their usefulness, but the fact that the technology goes very well with the "just believe in me" approach. 1 week ago:
"The return on investment for AI is effectively the entire world economy."
Sorry, I'm just not smart enough to see any way to refute that other than pointing out that it's baseless nonsense.
- Comment on What makes LLMs interesting to investors is not so much their usefulness, but the fact that the technology goes very well with the "just believe in me" approach. 1 week ago:
Most of what you say is nonsense, but it's certainly interesting to consider that all the enormous new data centre capacity that's been built by the date of the crash will continue to exist afterwards. I wonder what we'll do with it all.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Your attempt to stir up controversy is too stupid to be effective.
- Comment on It's been a while, which Lemmy instances should I be on? 1 week ago:
It's hard to guess why you're dissatisfied with blahaj.zone. Far as I know it still has a good reputation.
- Comment on How do slang words and phrases start? 1 week ago:
Which slang word does that image represent? It might be one I'd like to know.
- Comment on Typing on a keyboard is kind of like sign language 2 weeks ago:
Keep thinking, you've already taken the first of several thousand steps towards reinventing semiotics.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
People do occasionally buy new computers, and this one looks likely to be a better choice than most of what's on the market.
- Comment on Looks like now Mbin, at least on mobile, mixes threads and microblog posts 3 weeks ago:
Most of the "microblog" posts I'm seeing are pretty short. I seem to remember the images being way too big, though. I made a custom ublock rule or something to make both the lemmy ones and them equally small thumbnails just big enough to decide if I want to load a full-sized one. It's kept working for a year or something, I had forgotten it was there, but I guess it helps even more now.
- Comment on Looks like now Mbin, at least on mobile, mixes threads and microblog posts 3 weeks ago:
I like it. Always wondered why it wasn't like that from the start.
- Comment on Looks like now Mbin, at least on mobile, mixes threads and microblog posts 3 weeks ago:
https://fedia.io/threads should do it.
- Comment on Your reflection has never blinked at the same time as you. 3 weeks ago:
Distance from eye to reflective surface unspecified. Capacity to blink twice in the time taken for light to traverse that distance in the relevant frame of reference is unknown.
- Comment on Mice are so fortunate to have had cancer and diabetes cured for them. 4 weeks ago:
Is that more times than they caused it?
- Comment on Mice are so fortunate to have had cancer and diabetes cured for them. 4 weeks ago:
They cured mouse cancer!?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Don't worry about it, other than being in the wrong spot it looks like a fine post to me. I'm not sure where, exactly, would've been better — I only subscribe to relatively few lemmy communities.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Youtube videos do not belong here.
- Comment on Why Are There Fourth Notes in Bars That Only Count to Three? 5 weeks ago:
I dunno, I've just seen a few weird ones over the years. My search didn't turn up any better place to start than the wikipedia page on musical notation which does cover quite a few of them.
- Comment on Why Are There Fourth Notes in Bars That Only Count to Three? 5 weeks ago:
I don't know what you're proposing exactly that you think would "fix" it, but you might be surprised at how many attempts to reform music notation have come and gone over the years. Perhaps the one you're looking for has already been invented.
- Comment on ‘Elon Musk won’t stop. It’s time the British government got off X’ 5 weeks ago:
I didn't read a word of it, simply scrolled to the end to verify that yes, there is a link to X down there.
- Comment on The handhold opening of a kitchen cutting board allows you to turn it into a melee weapon. 1 month ago:
If that thought seems novel to you, your homework for this weekend is to watch a few Jackie Chan movies.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
"What's up?" It's the direction in space opposite to the local gravitational field, why are you asking me?
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- Comment on Nobody has ever lit a cigarette because of happiness. Smoking is a anxiety-coping mechanism. 1 month ago:
There are some ex-smokers who claim that they never enjoyed it. Then there are some who go on to claim that nobody ever does. The former, I can believe.
- Comment on Our user profiles are little time capsules that your children and descendants can learn about who you are. 1 month ago:
Hi future kids! If you tracked down this account you probably either work for the NSA or you're a super-talented hacker. So I'm either very proud of you or very disappointed.
- Comment on Xbox requires age verification now 1 month ago:
Yoti, a trusted third-party identity verification provider
Sure they could do it without relying on a third party, but Microsoft knows its users are going to have an easier time trusting "Yoti" rather than trusting Microsoft.
- Comment on There is a key difference between walkable and car dependent living: 1 month ago:
Sounds pretty good tbh. Peaceful, secure, quiet, lots of trees, low taxes.
- Comment on There is a key difference between walkable and car dependent living: 1 month ago:
Of course the ideal is to find someplace where you need neither house nor car keys.
- Comment on I feel like all current political debate is basically trying to choose between the three endings in the original Deus Ex. 1 month ago:
Hey, I'm from the 20th century. It was a cataclysmic hundred years, not some kind of stable condition that could be restored. The prosperity of its last few decades was fuelled by burning the furniture made by the labour movement, and we're almost out of fuel.
