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- Comment on **How** should I properly document my homelab? 9 hours ago:
Do you use this for physical machines too?
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 11 hours ago:
Depends on how reliable you need this system to be. For example, do you need to handle the scenario where an adult verifies their age to access a website, then lets a minor use that website in their place? That would be a much harder problem to solve than if you just need to verify that an adult was present on the other end at one point in time. For the latter, device-based age verification seems to be trivial to set up from a technical standpoint.
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 6 days ago:
There are people who are fully owners and don’t do any labour, and those who subsist entirely on their labour and don’t own anything. Would it be fair to say that the middle class is anyone who works but still owns a non-zero amount of appreciating or revenue-generating assets?
- Comment on Google’s Sundar Pichai says the job of CEO is one of the ‘easier things’ AI could soon replace 6 days ago:
Easy for computers doesn’t mean it’s easy for humans, and vice versa.
- Comment on iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots." 1 week ago:
Calories are expensive, and I’m not made of money.
- Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mom told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering? 1 week ago:
I was under the impression that hearing loss is usually a gradual thing.
- Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mom told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering? 1 week ago:
if something really is as bad as someone says then why does everyone do it?
Remember when everyone smoked and we were taught that it was good for our health?
- Comment on When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No? 1 week ago:
Right, that’s a fair criticism with regards to microtransactions. I don’t know much about those kinds of games though, so I can’t really say much about it.
My partner bought Skyrim twice (Steam and Switch) and 100%'d both, and now is going through the same process with BG3. I’m just thinking about how the achievement system is acting like a multiplier to the game’s value in this instance.
- Comment on Dyslexia 2 weeks ago:
Interesting how everyone misread it the same way.
Meanwhile, me: “Cloth only grown? Huh?”
- Comment on When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No? 2 weeks ago:
In a system where you pay once for the game, isn’t that a good thing? It lets you enjoy the game for longer instead of making you constantly buy new games, thus spending less money for the same amount of enjoyment.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 2 weeks ago:
Plot twist: he was actually the serial killer hiding in plain sight
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t place my bets on any individual stock/asset. You need to do a lot of research and have a lot of money to invest before that can be a safe decision. Instead, put your money in broad market ETFs, which is effectively just a bet on capitalism. Then either capitalism wins and you also win, or capitalism loses and you still win. But make sure you have an emergency fund first because not having that is one of the few ways that you can lose while capitalism wins.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 2 weeks ago:
I have a lot of stuff going on in my head that needs my full attention. Dinner planning, a work problem that I’ve been slowly chipping away at, toying with some random ideas, etc.
I understand that for some people, especially if you have ADHD, it can be easier to attend to those thoughts with music and other stimuli present. That is not the case for me.
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 2 weeks ago:
No need to trust infinite people. You just need to get past 33 forks before you run out of people to operate the switch or to be tied to the tracks.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
For me, it’s a matter of restoring the convenience and UX that you’ve given up by leaving the big providers.
- Comment on An Idea That I Could Get Behind 2 weeks ago:
I think this is that the unmodified version looked like
- Comment on Chaotic Evil 3 weeks ago:
If the port was easily accessible, I would. This problem only comes up when it isn’t.
- Comment on The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You 3 weeks ago:
The rice and bean barons will be competing for your attention.
- Comment on We always hear/read about Goverments cencoring the internet. What is something that the US is not knowing is being censored? 3 weeks ago:
If it hasn’t already, that post and its links need to be archived.
- Comment on Always question those who are the "teachers" 3 weeks ago:
You can only use it in a self-deprecating manner if you are yourself an educator, in which case, you’re still minimizing educators.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 3 weeks ago:
I needed to know if there was any validity to the claim. And if I’m doing the work anyway, I might as well share it.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 3 weeks ago:
Let’s say you save exactly one pill and it works on anyone. Also assume 100% pregnancy rate, so if you are paired with someone and neither have the pill, then it’s an automatic pregnancy. Our goal is to minimize number of pregnancies.
- “Max promiscuity”: Say we have a complete bipartite matching. if it’s given to a male, then no pregnancies have been prevented since every other male can impregnate every female. If it’s given to a female, then it reduces the number of pregnancies by 1 since none of the males can impregnate her.
- “Traditional”: Say we have a bijective matching (i.e. each male is paired with exactly one female, and vice versa). Then the pill can be given to anyone and it will always reduce the number of pregnancies by 1.
- “The Harem”: Say we have a matching where males have more than one pairing but females have at most one pairing each. In this case, giving the pill to the male with the largest number of pairings will reduce pregnancies by however many pairings they have.
- “Reverse Harem”: Same scenario as above but flip male and female. Giving the pill to any female will have the same effect of reducing pregnancies by 1. Giving it to a male will have no effect.
- “The Cliques”: The population is split into disjoint graphs, but each of these disjoint graphs are complete (bijective) bipartite graphs. In this case, if the pill is given to a male, then it will only have an effect if that male only has a single pairing, thereby reducing pregnancies by exactly 1. Otherwise, there will be no reduction in pregnancies. If given to a female, then it will always reduce pregnancies by exactly 1.
As far as I’m aware, the real world operates most like a mixture of “Traditional” and “Cliques”. At least, in places where birth control is an option. But in the real world, we have more than one pill.
If we have enough for either all males or all females, then the effect is the same regardless of who gets the pill. It will always lead to 100% pregnancy reduction.
Let’s say we have enough pills for all but one male, or all but one female.
- “Max promiscuity”: If the pill is given to the males, then we still have one male that can impregnate everyone, so there will be no reduction in pregnancies. If given to females, then you will end up with exactly one pregnancy.
- “Traditional”: As before, there’s no difference. Any decision will lead to reducing pregnancies to exactly 1.
- “The Harem”: giving to all the males except the one with the smallest number of pairings will reduce pregnancies to however many pairings that one male has (more than 1). If given to females, then it will reduce it to exactly 1.
- “Reverse Harem”: Giving it to the males will reduce pregnancies to exactly 1 since they’re only in 1 pairing. Giving it to females will also reduce it to exactly 1.
- “The Cliques”: if given to the males, then it will only make a difference if there exists a clique with exactly one male. It will reduce pregnancies by the largest number of females in a clique with a single male. If given to females, then it always reduces pregnancies to exactly 1.
So with the goal of minimizing pregnancies, it either makes no difference or is optimal to have the pill on women (unless you’re in a harem). This is highly reductive though. We have many other considerations when deciding who should get access to birth control.
- Comment on When washing, should I turn garments inside out? 3 weeks ago:
Fahrenheit makes sense. The Tide website recommends washing at 16C minimum for regular detergent and 4C minimum for cold water detergent.
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 4 weeks ago:
It’s not a criticism of people participating in a shitty system and have little say in the matter. It’s a criticism of a system that forces people to make shitty decisions.
- Comment on How can I learn to estimate the likelihood of real-world events? 4 weeks ago:
For one off events like 9/11, you can’t. There isn’t an accepted definition of “probability” for things like that. Either The question is completely nonsensical (Frequentist view) or the numbers are more or less all arbitrary (Bayesian view).
- Comment on Ok, boomer 4 weeks ago:
People will always need a place to live, yes. We also always need food, and general safety from harm. A home is no good if you lose any of the other two while living there. That can happen if, for example, the government or your neighbours decide that your kind is undesirable, or an arbitrary trade war forces businesses in your area into downsizing/bankruptcy and losing you the jobs that paid for your food, or the same happening to farms in the area. How big these risks are will depend a lot on where you are and who you are.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 4 weeks ago:
Rent often isn’t too far off from the cost of buying. The main financial advantage of buying comes from appreciation, which I would say is a pretty big gamble.
- Comment on You're so predictable 4 weeks ago:
Jokes on you, my toddler makes me count the steps each time we go up and down.
- Comment on We gotta be more encouraging 4 weeks ago:
Depends if you count undergrad. One that comes to mind is the RWKV paper.
- Comment on mercy merci 4 weeks ago:
Starlight tour, but for spiders.
