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- Comment on The Circle of iLife 6 hours ago:
“technology is cyclical.”
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 1 day ago:
Makes me wonder how ‘real’ roman gladiators were.
- Comment on Some things are a mystery ig ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 5 days ago:
Sounds impressive in theory, but I’ve actually seen it; it’s this weird guy from the '80s singing about quitting cigarettes or something.
Does not live up to the hype.
- Comment on Unpopular popular opinion - fiat 6 days ago:
Most money is not really created by central banks. It’s created by private banks when they make loans. They literally add a number to their assets, and to the borrowers liabilities - and the borrower can now go spend that new money.
Central banks are supposed to try to regulate bank lending to try to stop the pyramid spiining out of control.
Governments also take out loans though (by selling bills, gilts, bonds) - so they are also involved in money creation process, that money typically goes to pay public services and public servants.
But the majority of money creation is typically private loans - and much of that goes ino property price bubbles , which does indeed benefit the rich.
- Comment on How wil people react if Trump is right about Tariffs? 2 weeks ago:
Tariffs don’t “work” or “not work” it’s not a binary outcome. Just as measuring “the economy” is pretty much impossible, so is attributing economic outcomes to one single feature of the regulatory environment, They interact with the rest of the economic environment and some variety or work, production, trade, investment and distribution will occur. Over time all aspects of the system will change, adapt and react. Most changes have winners and losers and they can be counted or balanced off differently.
It it were paired with bank regulation and asset ownership regulation and a coherent industrial strategy, maybe also forex controls, maybe some counter cyclical macroeconomic policy (extremely unpopular these days) the outcomes would likely be quite different from a low regulation free for “all”. “All” is probably “a few with relatively unconstrained access to enough capital or credit to hoover up assets of the losers”.
But then a smaller subset of those things might also change the outcomes on their own. Either way it would be a matter of time and adaptation of a complex system.
It also depends what you think the objective is before you understand “success” or “failure”, the goals might well be social as much as economic. If the objective is trash the small scale asset ownig middle classes and enrich the elites economically then it might be working already.
- Comment on Request for FPS recommendations. 3 weeks ago:
One of the main level designers for original Doom “Sandy of Cthulu” was a pretty serious mormon christian.
“I have no problems with the demons in the game. They’re just cartoons. And, anyway, they’re the bad guys.”
- Comment on What's the community for stuff like this? 3 weeks ago:
Ongo Gablonion
- Comment on Now that's an interesting question 4 weeks ago:
There’s a less popular name “Jago” in English that would fit. I think that also comes from Jacob or Iago.
So I reckon “Saint Jago”
- Comment on frenly warnin 5 weeks ago:
Maybe they emphasise “children” to encourage more of the current adult generation to sacrifice themselves. And to manage expectations of when the benefits arise.
- Comment on A squirrel-inspired robot that can leap from limb to limb. 5 weeks ago:
Looks a wee bit like Calculon, facially at least; a bit skinnier in the torso.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 1 month ago:
it’s a pointless statement to say if everyone did anything
I was agreeing with this part, except that I think OP statement was ‘hyperbolic’ not ‘pointless’; an exageration for rhetorical effect.
What I think is pointless is taking hyperbole (and most rhetoric) at face value and arguing about it. It is better to try to determine the underlying point being made (there probably is one if you look hard enough or enquire about it) and think about some more realistic scenarios.
I don’t think the original point was about <hyperbole> the vulnerability of the economy of mauritius due to overconcentration of the dodo industry </hyperbole>; or, the sustainability of a street entirely owned by landlords. Maybe someone wants to <hyperbole> make some Ronald Coase type speculation about how property rights could have saved the dodo </hyperbole>.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 1 month ago:
ok, nice and realistic. No hyperbole here.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 1 month ago:
Are you’re saying that if an economy has an increse the concentration of farming activity then economic ouput will deteriorate as fast as if it were to have instead had the same increase the concentration of parasitic activity? Very interesting idea.
Maybe I’m dense but the only way I can see that working is if the parasites become super-effective livestock and can be turned into food that is either more nutrious or has a longer shelflife than the feedstock.
- Comment on Tesla sales crash continues in Europe, with Germany down 70% 1 month ago:
And those from the fucking UK apparently.
Very similar though - just waiting for them to elect farage to gut UK public services.
- Comment on The upside of the cyberpunk dystopia 1 month ago:
The Three Stigmata of Palm . . . Dick
- Comment on The upside of the cyberpunk dystopia 1 month ago:
Martian Time Dick
- Comment on How do people doctor shop? Don't all doctors pass info on all their patients between each other? And in this day and age how do they do it.? 1 month ago:
They can’t if if they’re “difficult”.
- Comment on smort 1 month ago:
That’s why scientists ( I assume they’re supposed to be the right hand side) claiming to measure “intelligence” should pick a more specific term for what they’re measuring.
If they use the word “intelligence” I’d be extremely suspicious about why they’ve chosen that word. I would assume they have a decent understanding of how the word is likely be interpreted by the other 97.5%, if not they need to get out and do some fieldwork.
- Comment on How did people end-up agreeing on the name of rivers/mountains and seas ? 2 months ago:
You dont even need 2 languages, just a bottle of whisky.
‘Loch Lochy’ in Scotland.
- Comment on Before they hired me THIS was part of the process. Had to submit an answer as to what she was holding 2 months ago:
Chicken?
- Comment on Bluesky now has 30 million users. 2 months ago:
Can I get the icon in cornflower blue? https://youtu.be/4NomQYQK1bE
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 3 months ago:
"Hey, there’s Evan. "He’s a young guy. “He likes the Stereophonics.”
- Comment on Do you want me to heat that up in the "Michael Wave"? 3 months ago:
I only use my Erin Friar these days.
- Comment on Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community! 3 months ago:
Thanks.
I’ll have a look if I can sandbox in lineage first, then maybe apply for the beta test if it looks possible.
- Comment on Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community! 3 months ago:
When you say “android” does it depend on any google services? Or will it run on lineageOS with no(minimal) google stuff?
- Comment on Horse denier 5 months ago:
neigh
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 5 months ago:
How do they if you dont plug them in to the network, do they have cellular, or some sort of PLC? Can they hack WPA? maybe they’re more powerful than i’d creditt them for.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 5 months ago:
Linux doesnt “force” chip makers. It tries to collaborate , that’s the point of what Linus has been saying and doing for several years. I don’t know which market you’re talking about though, embedded - which is relevant here, or consumer PC. I don’t even think MS gives a shit about consumer PC, it’s worth next to nothing to anyone - maybe apple does.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 5 months ago:
I’d think most people woud go for a cheap used ultra Small Form Factor pc or raspberry pi set up as an htpc. Plug in to either tv screen (via hdmi ) or monitor / projector directly. Never connect the tv to the internet - or even to your LAN if you’re really paranoid. You can arse around with a remote control a bit bodgy, or just use wireless Keyboard/mouse.
I cant imagine spending the time to jailbreak a tv to get less functionality for more hassle - but i’m sure some crazy will have done it - good luck finding them though.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 5 months ago:
I think he needs to work with HW manufacturers and chip designers/manufacturers to get drivers. They’re always going to have some proprietary HW and FW and communication protocols somewhere in their stuff. I think if he pisses them off too much he has to to bit-bash or reverse engineer all drivers for loads of stuff - which is never going to happen.