Jeknilah
@Jeknilah@monero.town
- Comment on Schools in America apparently have their own army recruiter 10 months ago:
Lol. The recruiter targets the poor. They can pull all sorts of things including calling the parents to pressure high schoolers into joining. If you can’t stay at home past 18, you don’t have much of an option.
- Comment on For those thinking of going back to reddit. Gaze upon this comment section and reconsider. 10 months ago:
Sad!
- Comment on To be fair, his dead dad asked him to... 10 months ago:
Poor Yorick. Where be his jibes now?
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 10 months ago:
Not really. You still don’t know much.
Anyways, having the wrong opinion and looking stupid by “telling on myself” here barely affects me at all.
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 10 months ago:
You really only have to seriously worry if you’re a parent responsible for new people. Sound like you? It doesn’t sound like me.
Here’s something I saved from Reddit a while back; it’s a bit cynical, but worth keeping in mind nonetheless.
It’s been a strange realization to slowly understand that a lot of our parents and grandparents hate us.
They don’t hate us by name, mind you. The tell us they love us and they’re even empathetic to us to a degree.
But if you removed the familial relationship–if you told your parents or grandparents your exact life story but with a different name and from a different family, they’d hate that person before you got through the first sentence. They’d break out all the cliches–bootstraps, lazy millennial, entitled, all the classics. Their empathy and love is purely genealogical, an expectation placed upon them under threat of social stigmas against being a “bad parent,” which they may well abandon too if that particular tradition is broken by some political figure famous enough and depraved enough to normalize it.
Collectively, the young who will outlive you are but labor and taxpayers. Caring about anyone else’s lifetime past your death largely doesn’t exist past kin and close friends.
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 10 months ago:
No it’s not? The fact that the energy supply can adjust to demand is a good thing rather than a problem. At least in the US. Looked into it, and it seems that there’s an estimated to be over 300 billion barrels of recoverable oil that is mostly economically viable. Compare that to a current annual consumption of 7 billion barrels a year. There’s enough to maintain current consumption for another 40 years. That is most of my remaining lifetime from domestic production alone.
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 10 months ago:
Proof of stake is one of the reasons why bitcoin is so valuable in the first place. I’ve seen estimates that the electricity costs combined with the equipment cost makes each bitcoin approximately $20k to mine. Not a bad thing. Anyways, energy is somewhat artificially scarce- can always just pump up more oil out of the ground.
- Comment on PayPal to Cut Around2,500 Jobs as Rivals Snag MarketShare 11 months ago:
Venmo is owned by PayPal. Probably has the same terrible TOS.
- Comment on When people say the phrase "Don't hate the player, hate the game", it removes responsibility from the player 11 months ago:
I don’t know what to say. It’s taught in a typical American economics class nowadays. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkXI-zPcDIM
- Comment on When people say the phrase "Don't hate the player, hate the game", it removes responsibility from the player 11 months ago:
And what do you know about Nash Equilibriums?
- Comment on This is how Facebook knows where you’ve been and what you bought 11 months ago:
I saw a Youtube video a while ago on how supermarket chains create customer profiles for each credit card. That way, they can get a better understanding of purchasing habits and how consumers react to price changes. Makes finding the most profitable price easy, you see.
- Comment on Are comments on other instances working? 11 months ago:
I came across a post a day or so ago basically saying that the 19.1 version still has broken federation, and the another fix hasn’t come quickly since it’s still holiday season. @shortwavesurfer@monero.town @VolunTerry@monero.town @tusker@monero.town
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- Comment on Researchers warn that Windows 11 restrictions could send 240 million computers to landfills 1 year ago:
How dangerous can it be to run an old OS anyways? Been doing it for years. Might actually be a good thing now that the forced updates are gone.
- Comment on You're Supposed To Be Glad Your Tesla Is A Brittle Heap Of Junk 1 year ago:
It makes them too much money. When they’re charging tens of thousands for a battery replacement, and the only way to fix the car without getting banned from the charging network is to go to the dealership… this will never get fixed.
- Comment on Supercomputer that simulates entire human brain will switch on in 2024 1 year ago:
Skeptical. As of August 2023, there are scientists still struggling with simulating C. Elegans- a single celled organism.
- Comment on Firefox for Android now supports over 450 add-ons 1 year ago:
I heard violentmonkey was an opensource alternative to that
- Comment on Intel bets big against ChatGPT's OpenAI, invests heavily in Stability AI, makers of Stable Diffusion 1 year ago:
OpenAI is known for ChatGPT, which is a text generator that works for things like writing a haiku. Though OpenAI also has a image generating AI (DALLE), it doesn’t seem nearly as popular as its competitors Midjourney and SDXL. People just assume ChatGPT is OpenAI’s main product, but they are actually competing on everything.