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- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 11 hours ago:
The potential of an unhatched egg means that the egg can’t be accurately described as belonging to the offspring, until the offspring actually exists.
The proto-chicken egg does become a chicken egg, but not until a chicken exists. While the egg that will eventually become a chicken egg does exist before the chicken, it is not a chicken egg until the chicken exists. Until there is a chicken, it is just the egg of a proto-chicken.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 18 hours ago:
you define a chicken egg as an egg that came from a chicken, then if you have a dozen of eggs you cannot know whether they’re chicken eggs or whatever eggs unless you know specifically a chicken laid them
Correct, but that is information that can be known, whether it is actually known or not. When you eat a bird egg, you can know what bird it came from. You cannot know what bird it would have become, specifically because you prevented it from ever becoming that bird.
You could speculate that it could have become a new species, based on the genetics within the egg. But, even if you didn’t eat it, it could have failed to mature for any number of reasons. It might have become a new species of bird; it might have become a rotten egg.
The aphorism “Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched” specifically warns us against considering the future possibilities of the egg.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 1 day ago:
The act of giving it a name is irrelevant.
The distinction between “chicken” and “egg” is biologically irrelevant: they both refer to the same organism. The terms are descriptive, not prescriptive. The organism will progress the same way, regardless of what we decide to say about it.
The chicken/egg argument is purely one of semantics. “Giving it a name” isn’t just relevant to the discussion, it is the only factor relevant to the discussion.
The way you would have us describe the egg prevents us from accurately and consistently defining an egg. An egg laid by a chicken could mature into a new species, and by your arguments, should be described as an egg of that new species.
This creates a linguistic uncertainty in any case where the egg’s potential is not and cannot be known. Is there a Shicken egg among the dozen you bought? A Blargleblat egg? Do you have the eggs of a dozen new evolutions with a common chicken ancestor? You cannot say with certainty.
However, if we describe the egg as the product of the creature that laid it, we have no such uncertainty. If we describe it as the possession of the offspring within it, we have no such uncertainty. The uncertainty only arises when we try to define it by an unknowable condition that may or may not occur.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 1 day ago:
My bad, I was making a different point with that analogy, and I had moved on some time ago. The app I’m using makes it difficult to read back up the thread.
I think we are making similar arguments. I would say that the egg Amy hatched from is the first “chicken’s egg”, but it is only the first chicken’s egg because it belongs to Amy, and it did not exist until chicken-Amy existed, which was some time well after the egg was laid.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 1 day ago:
Amy is a proto-chicken. Her offspring, Brenda, is the first creature containing the mutation that distinguishes chickens from proto-chickens. Brenda is the first chicken.
Amy’s egg couldn’t be a chicken egg because there was no such thing as a chicken when she laid it. There would be no such thing as a chicken until Brenda existed, at which time the egg that would become Brenda also became a chicken egg.
The chicken egg could not have come first. The first chicken egg was laid by something that was not quite a chicken, but it didn’t become a chicken egg until it had developed into a chicken.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 1 day ago:
it didn’t somehow cease to have been an egg just because it doesn’t hatch.
Correct. But, it was an egg laid by a proto-chicken; it is a proto-chicken egg.
Our proto-chicken couple also laid an egg that would have become a “Shicken”, if I hadn’t eaten it first. But, because there was never a “Shicken”, there could never be a “Shicken” egg; the egg was only a proto-chicken egg.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 1 day ago:
So, it doesn’t become a Chicken’s egg until Brenda has come into existence. Brenda being the chicken.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 1 day ago:
That’s about where I got to as well. A proto-chicken’s egg that contains the genetic code for a chicken doesn’t become a chicken egg if I eat it first. At best, the creature has to have become a chicken before the surrounding egg can be described as a chicken egg, which means that the chicken has to come first (or simultaneously). The egg cannot come first.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 1 day ago:
There is no question as to the biology. The first egg that would hatch a chicken was laid by a proto-chicken. The genetic mutation that delineated chicken from proto-chicken first existed in that egg.
By your argument, the status of the egg is dependent on what it contains.
Suppose that proto-chicken pair laid an egg. And instead of it hatching into a chicken, I ate it. This egg never became a chicken; it was only an egg. It couldn’t be a chicken egg, because it never contained a chicken. It could only be a proto-chicken egg.
The egg that the chicken hatched from only became a chicken egg once there was a chicken inside it. The chicken egg, therefore, could not precede the chicken.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 1 day ago:
I agree, and I’ve made the same argument. It’s perfectly valid, Unless the egg belongs to the creature who laid it, instead of the creature that hatched from it.
If the egg in question is a “proto-chicken’s egg” because it was laid by a proto-chicken, then the chicken would have come before the chicken egg.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 1 day ago:
Amy is a chicken. Amy lays an egg. Brenda is a chicken. Brenda hatched from the egg Amy laid. The egg in question is clearly a chicken’s egg, but is it Amy’s egg, or Brenda’s egg?
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 1 day ago:
Is a “chicken egg” an egg laid by a chicken, or an egg that will hatch into a chicken?
- Comment on But how would they be able to live on that? 4 weeks ago:
So the IRS seizes an option on the shorted position rather than the position itself, which comes due when Or, any liability for a position is assessed back to the investor rather than the government. Or any number of other rules are established to keep the IRS from assuming liability for losses.
And, of course, the three men who collaborated are charged with securities fraud and conspiracy.
Liquidators would also have rules allowing them to react to market manipulation and other artificial market influences.
- Comment on But how would they be able to live on that? 4 weeks ago:
Is the government meant to take the profit in stocks?
Yes.
There is no need for the billionaire to liquidate their stock in order to pay a tax in dollars. The IRS just confiscates an equal percentage of every position they hold, and liquidates it over time, selling no more than 1% of each position’s total traded volume per month, so as to not radically impact the stock price.
When they pack up and move, we say “mission accomplished”. Let them leech off an adversary’s economy.
- Comment on We never agreed to only buy HP ink, say printer owners 5 weeks ago:
HP CEO Enrique Lores has made no secret of the fact that
it hopes to pull customers into a print subscription business model.he wants to be added to The List. - Comment on /c/OptimistsUnite - dispelling inaccurate doomer myths and showing how we are living in the best time in recorded history 1 month ago:
I’m looking forward to Trump’s state funeral.
- Comment on This is a Test 1 month ago:
That’s “B”.
- Comment on This is a Test 1 month ago:
Most modern handguns do not have a (manually operated) safety.
“A” is the answer closest to “remove all of the ammunition”.
- Comment on I still don't get why people spend money... there's tons of it for free 1 month ago:
I used to suck dick for porn.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Yes, but, it is also possible to achieve greater than 100% efficiency in converting electrical energy into heat. You can use electricity to move heat from where you don’t need it to where you want it. The amount of heat energy you move can be greater than the amount of electrical energy put into the system, so it’s greater than 100% electrically efficient. It’s well below 100% thermal efficiency, of course.
- Comment on Real! 2 months ago:
It’s when everyone pays their own bill at the restaurant.
- Comment on Police Departments Are Turning to AI to Sift Through Millions of Hours of Unreviewed Body-Cam Footage 3 months ago:
File a complaint, and you get to view the video. If nobody files a complaint, there is no need to view the video.
Indeed, nobody should be looking at the video unless a complaint is filed.
- Comment on Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ will start cracking down on password sharing | CNN Business 3 months ago:
I think about them regularly, while polishing my guillotine.
- Comment on Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ will start cracking down on password sharing | CNN Business 3 months ago:
That’s fine. I’ll set up a VPN server at my house, and have my friends and family use it to access my accounts. We’ll all look like we are signing in from the same IP.
It will also give them direct access to my media library.
- Comment on Cold calling real estate agents - is there a law against it? 3 months ago:
To drive us toward such a system, we can provide significant property tax advantages to owner-occupants. Investors can only get those advantages by getting the occupant of a property to qualify as an “owner”. A renter would not qualify, but a tenant under a land contract would.
Basically, we phase in an increase in property taxes, and a commensurate (or greater) owner occupant credit. Current owner-occupants will pay the same (or less) than they currently do. Investors who adapt, and convert their “tenants” to “buyers”, will also pay the same (or less) than they currently do. Investors who refuse to convert will pay higher property taxes, while also serving a smaller pool of tenants with better options.
- Comment on Cold calling real estate agents - is there a law against it? 3 months ago:
The practice of “renting” needs to die in a goddamn fire. Single family homes should never be “rented”. Temporary (6-month to 5-year) occupancy of a single family home should be done under a “land contract”.
Basically, the occupant starts making mortgage payments (principle, interest, taxes, insurance) but title stays with the landlord. The landlord receives only the “interest” part of the payment. The “principle” part of the payment is held in escrow, in an interest-bearing account. This is the occupant’s equity in the home.
If the occupant stays through the term of the contract, title transfers to the occupant, the escrowed principle payments transfer to the landlord, and the contract converts to a private mortgage. If the occupant leaves before the term of the contract, the principle payments are returned to them.
Land contracts build tenant wealth and drive people toward home ownership.
- Comment on World’s five richest men double their money as poorest get poorer 3 months ago:
There is an equitable solution to this problem.
If your last name starts with A to D, forward all your outstanding and future medical bills to Elon Musk.
E to J, forward to Bernard Arnault
K to M, to Jeff Bezos,
N to Q, to Larry Ellison
And R to Z, to Mark Zuckerberg
We’ll just privatize universal healthcare by having the richest 5 people in the country pay for everyone’s. If they don’t want to do it, they can spend themselves into 6th place or lower, enact a national universal healthcare system, or face the guillotine.
- Comment on When your crush walks into class but you're homeschooled... 4 months ago:
they had no right to leave the union under any circumstances.
I wholeheartedly agree with you on every other part, but that particular sentiment is rather disturbing. The particular reason they gave was not an acceptable justification for leaving the union, but the idea that they have no such right at all is extraordinarily problematic.
I mention this because we are a year away from a scenario where several states may determine that a particular candidate is unqualified to even run, let alone win the presidential election. We may very well find ourselves in a situation where half the country recognizes one person as president, while the other half recognizes a different person.
The idea that the states representing the majority of We The People should not be allowed to dissociate from a self-described dictator is a big fucking problem.
The union is only valid so long as we have the right to leave it.
- Comment on 'I told police who my burglar was - but they did nothing' 4 months ago:
The suspect says he did not burgle Sarah.
Well, there you have it, folks. She’s trying to frame an innocent man.
- Comment on Australian woman used her BYD electric car to power her son's dialysis machine during a blackout 4 months ago:
Locomotives have done this for small towns. Ships have done this for coastal cities.