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- Comment on The boomer generation hit the economic jackpot. Young people will inherit their massive debts. 9 hours ago:
Older people tend to be richer because they’ve had more time to earn and save money. Compare a 20-year-old to a 40-year-old. Both spent about 20 years being a kid, growing up and going to school, but the 40-year-old had an extra 20 years after that to earn and save money. You can do the same comparison between a 40-year-old and a 60-year-old, but take all the money the 60-year-old earned in the first 20 years of working and invest it in the stock market for the next 20 years, while also continuing to work.
Wealth can build like crazy. If you invest at 7% average annual return, you’ll double your money in just over 10 years. At 10% the doubling period is just over 7 years. Now consider that the S&P 500 had an average annualized return over 10% between 1957 and 2023, and that 60-year-old’s 20 year investment would multiply by 6.7x.
- Comment on Dark Matter Black Holes Could Fly through the Solar System Once a Decade 2 days ago:
Weight in pounds isn’t the right unit here. Weight varies depending on the strength of the gravitational field you’re in, whereas mass does not. A kilogram here on earth weighs 2.2lbs but on the moon it only weighs 0.36lbs.
- Comment on Recommendations on casual GB/GBA games? 4 days ago:
Wow! I need to check that out myself!
- Comment on Recommendations on casual GB/GBA games? 5 days ago:
- Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
- Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance
- Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening
- Comment on Men: What sequence do you fellow to dry your body off after showering or bathing? 1 week ago:
Yes, I have a whole basket full of towels. I use them all once and hang them up. After the basket is empty I wash them all
- Comment on Men: What sequence do you fellow to dry your body off after showering or bathing? 1 week ago:
Doesn’t matter! Could get that thing NASA clean room levels of clean and I’m still not going to towel off my butt before my face. That’s just weird!
- Comment on Men: What sequence do you fellow to dry your body off after showering or bathing? 1 week ago:
I do, but I still wouldn’t do that!
- Comment on Men: What sequence do you fellow to dry your body off after showering or bathing? 1 week ago:
So you dry off your butt first and then your face with the same towel?
- Comment on Blast from attack on Russian arms depot picked up on earthquake monitors 1 week ago:
No, 1500 T = 1.5 kT.
- Comment on Blast from attack on Russian arms depot picked up on earthquake monitors 1 week ago:
240 tons of TNT is 0.24 kT, not 2.4 kT.
- Comment on YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads 1 week ago:
They don’t care. If the advertisers pay for that spot then they make money! This has been the story with TV ads for decades.
- Comment on Sad plant giving up on life - a call for help 2 weeks ago:
What the heck! That leaf is amazing! Doesn’t even look real! Wow!
- Comment on Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots 2 weeks ago:
The whole system seems like a sham to me. If one artist has fans that listen 24/7 and another artist has fans that only listen for one hour a day (but that artist is all they listen to), it should be the same. Each person’s account should have its own “pot” out of the subscription fee that only they can allocate to the artists they listen to. Duration of listening shouldn’t matter at all.
- Comment on Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots 2 weeks ago:
How does that work though? Presumably he’s not paying subscription fees on all of his bot accounts, so they must be free accounts. I don’t use Spotify, so I don’t even know why they would have free accounts.
Unless he’s hacked other people’s accounts, then that would make sense for the seriousness of these charges.
- Comment on brown recluse 2 weeks ago:
Travis has an excellent video about the brown recluse. It goes into rather excruciating detail! He even covers the story about all the false attributions, including a map which shows how it comports with the spider’s range. Interestingly enough, people who live inside its range are much better at correctly recognizing the spider!
- Comment on Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots 2 weeks ago:
Using AI to provide services or crawlers to scan the internet for pages to add to search evinces is different from what this guy did with bots. Those use cases are not pretending to be a legit user in order to collect money.
What this guy did — using bots to fake listen to music — is in the same category as using bots to click on ads that you put on your own web page: it’s serving no legitimate purpose and only exists to defraud businesses which paid for the ads (or Spotify which is paying the royalties)…
- Comment on Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills 2 weeks ago:
No it’s actually way faster. You can swipe whole words in less than a second. It’s like writing with pen and paper but each letter is actually a whole word.
- Comment on New York Times 1924, Hitler leaves prison 4 weeks ago:
Not sure whether you mean “mindless obliviousness” or “mindless rage” here, because I think reality was much closer to the latter. The Nazi party went from nothing to hundreds of thousands of members and 44% of the vote in parliamentary elections in less than a decade. They were extremely popular and their brand of ethno-nationalism resonated with a German public that was disillusioned by the humiliation they all felt (due to the treaty of Versailles) and the economic disaster of hyperinflation (deliberately created to pay down the old war debts as well as Versailles-imposed reparations).
Today most people think of Hitler as a devil single-handedly responsible for the Holocaust and all the invasions of neighbouring countries but that’s an oversimplification. There were tons of other nasty, ideological men in the Nazi party who would’ve done the same or worse had Hitler never existed. The conditions for a wildfire existed, Hitler just happened to be the spark which became ground zero of the blaze.
- Comment on It genuinely upsets me that Valve spent their time and resources on another Dota variation 4 weeks ago:
I think we can state as a truth that they have less potential profit.
That’s true but it’s not because people aren’t playing single player games. The reason single player games are less profitable is because the non-subscription, non-microtransaction single player market is extremely saturated with indie games. That makes it very hard to sell AAA single player games. The standards are extremely high and the opportunities for extra monetization are not there.
I have been a single player gamer for most of my life, yet I haven’t bought a AAA single player game in decades. I have more indie single player games to play than I know what to do with, and frankly they appeal to me more than AAA titles. Expensive graphics and voice acting don’t have much draw for me these days. I am much more interested in roguelikes and retro games now.
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 5 weeks ago:
The knives are out for Patreon. Apple is looking to carve a big chunk out of that revenue. Google and Amazon (owner of Twitch) will not be far behind. Believe me, Google and Twitch are very unhappy that creators skip the platform monetization methods and just tell viewers to go to Patreon to bypass the heavy commissions.
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 5 weeks ago:
I don’t follow those creators!
The best part of YouTube is the small creators who are just making videos as a hobby. Once they get so big they start shilling products they wouldn’t use themselves I drop them like a hot potato. For the most part that doesn’t happen though because I prefer niche topics and creators that don’t have “sellout” personalities.
- Comment on Ambulances called to Amazon’s UK warehouses 1,400 times in five years 5 weeks ago:
To put this into better perspective we need to look at this relative to the number of employees. From the article:
Tesco warehouse in Rugeley, near Birmingham, recorded only eight ambulance callouts in three years versus the 115 logged at a nearby Amazon site. Both warehouses employed large numbers of workers at the time – 1,300 at Tesco’s site and around 1,800 at Amazon’s.
So 6.15 calls / 1000 employees for Tesco vs 63 calls / 1000 employees for Amazon, or just over 10 times the rate.
I wonder what the differences are. Do Amazon force them to work a lot longer hours? Do they not provide air conditioning whereas Tesco do? Those two factors could make a huge difference.
- Comment on Corn 🌽 1 month ago:
Not sure what this is trying to say, but this seems to conflate genetic modification with selective breeding!
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 1 month ago:
I did a search for shoelaces and I got a bunch of stack overflow links as well as Wikipedia. I don’t consider WP to be commercial but SO definitely is. I did not get a result for Ian’s shoelace site, which is what I was hoping to find. Even searching for “Ian’s shoelace site” did not find it, whereas the same query on DDG brought it right up (top of the results).
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 1 month ago:
How do I find them though? I would love a search engine that only finds these sites and excludes all the commercial ones and all the ad spam.
- Comment on Microsoft Ruined Windows 1 month ago:
The last fond memories I have of using Windows were 3.11 and 95/98SE. XP was useable but ugly. 7 was nicer than XP but a lot slower. Everything else has been awful.
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 1 month ago:
I love Lemmy but I really, really miss the old web. Back when people would just create their own website and put it out there to share their niche interest with the world. People just organically linked their sites to each other to form web rings, an easy method of federation without any reliance on sophisticated server-side software.
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 1 month ago:
The enshittification must go on!
- Comment on Decentralised YouTube alternative Odysee no longer serving ads 1 month ago:
Yes, or if multiple people get into a megaphone arms race and are all noise blasting each other so hard that no one can hear anything anymore.
- Comment on Decentralised YouTube alternative Odysee no longer serving ads 1 month ago:
Yes, your megaphone example is a special case of the paradox of tolerance. In this instance, tolerance of loud voices means quiet voices are drowned out.