ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
10hr ago
I'm not saying China isn't a manufacturing powerhouse. I'm saying PPP doesn't give me any useful information about how much China manufactures. Nominal dollar value isn't perfect either, but it's a hell of a lot more useful than PPP adjusted nonsense. Actual number of widgets produced (or artillery shells, etc. in the case of Russia) would probably be the most useful.
ChickenOverlord
11hr ago
Because when I'm buying a transmission from China I'm not paying the PPP-adjusted price for it, I'm paying in nominal dollars (or RMB or whatever).
ChickenOverlord
13hr ago
Yes, and if you wanted to compare total manufacturing output of two countries you would do it without adjusting for PPP
ChickenOverlord
1d ago
Not at all? We each had our own beds, and we each had our own "half" of the room that we wouldn't go into (other than passing through on our way in/out of the room). Really nothing awkward at all. The brother I shared a room with was 5 years older than me so I had my own room from age 13 onward.
ChickenOverlord
1d ago
According to the original post, making $100,000 in 1959 would be the equivalent of making $800,000/year today
https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
$1.12 million in today's money
ChickenOverlord
1d ago
My brothers and I shared rooms (2 per room) until they were 18 and went off to college. Only my sister had her own room until then.
ChickenOverlord
1d ago
What does that have to do with, well, anything? This thread is about cost of living/quality of life in 1959 vs. now, not who manuactures the most. I omly brought up GDP at all because Tretiak was trying to make a point about cost of living in China vs. the US using GDP adjusted for PPP.
ChickenOverlord
1d ago
China for instance is the leading national economy in the world in terms of PPP.
PPP is absolutely, utterly useless when applied to total GDP (as opposed to per capita GDP). In fact I'm convinced the only reason to use it for total GDP is to be able to make misleading claims like this. There is zero useful information derived from the number because GDP is a measure of the total economic output of a country, while PPP adjusts things for cost of living in a country (which means the amount per capita is essential to getting any useful information from it). In fact, on /pol/ they're regularly called "Poor People Points" because they make shithole countries that have large populations look a bit less shitty. If we look at GDP per capita adjusted by PPP it's a completely different story:
China: $27k
India: $11k
US: $85k
Japan: $51k
South Korea: $52k
Singapore: $150k
Taiwan: $84k
ChickenOverlord
2d ago
You can turn a text generation chatbot into a do-things AI by just asking it what should be done next and then following its advice… in theory. In practice that seems not to work well, and it’s not clear why.
Because it's just picking statistically likely responses based on its training data, so it can't really suggest anything radically different (or more insightful or creative) than the human-generated information it was trained on.
ChickenOverlord
2d ago
Rational or not, companies are radically reducing full time employees (FTEs) in their long term plans (LTPs).
Got any specific examples? Would this be something they announce in their annual earnings reports or something else?
20 years later, that wasn't really true. People seem to buy into the BS, or at least keep plausible deniability about it, such that you never really know. You can't openly call this out to your acquaintances, because you need rely on them for job referrals.
Maybe it's because I'm an autist working in tech with fellow autists, but we absolutely complain about this crap to each other all the time (just not to the bosses directly). In fact one of my work buddies specifically makes TPS report jokes every time management gets after us about not tracking enough information in our ticketing system. The only thing we don't openly say (but all of us obviously imply/hint about) is the incompetence of our Indian coworkers.
ChickenOverlord
6d ago
or were shot by a random shooter who was in a quarrel with a completely different person
I mean that's been the modus operandi for these sorts of things since at least as far back as Harvey Milk (killed over what was essentially an employment dispute).
Moses Maimonides says the only punishment the rapist should face is lashings for homosexuality. And perhaps more importantly, on the previous paragraphs hes lists no punishment for women that rape 8 year old boys except thet they have lost any eligibility to marry a member of the priesthood. It seems pretty clear that Maimonides interpreted that section the same way modern normies reading it do.
Out of context.
Nope, that's a different section of the Talmud. Sanhedrin 54b is what you want:
במאי קמיפלגי רב סבר כל דאיתיה בשוכב איתיה" בנשכב וכל דליתיה בשוכב ליתיה בנשכב The Gemara asks: With regard to what principle do Rav and Shmuel disagree? The Gemara answers: Rav holds that any halakha that applies to one who engages in intercourse actively applies to one who engages in intercourse passively, and any halakha that does not apply to one who engages in intercourse actively does not apply to one who engages in intercourse passively. Therefore, just as one who engages in intercourse actively is not liable if he is less than nine years old, as the intercourse of such a child does not have the halakhic status of intercourse, so too, if a child who is less than nine years old engages in homosexual intercourse passively, the one who engages in intercourse with him is not liable."
And Maimonides, applying this part of the Torah many centuries later:
"Once a male has penetrated another male, if both are adults, they are stoned…
If one was a minor but at least nine years and a day old, the active or passive adult is stoned while the minor is exempt.
If the minor was exactly nine years old or less, they are both exempt. Still, it is fitting for the court to give lashes of insubordination to the adult for sleeping with a male, even though that male was less than nine." - Laws of Forbidden Relations 1:14
This is what I'm talking about, there are plenty of things in the Talmud that sound awful out of context but are unobjectionable in context (or the person referencing it is incorrectly summarizing what it actually says). But there are also several that are absolutely horrendous regardless of context.
ChickenOverlord
8d ago
Another example I've seen is the Talmud saying it's ok to rape boys under the age of 9, apologists for the Talmud claiming it was just one rabbi's opinion and not actual Jewish law, but then you look up what Maimonides had to say about it and he agrees it is actual Jewish law
ChickenOverlord
10d ago
Saying, “I think what these government agents are doing is bad and illegal,” is quite squarely within the core area of first-amendment protections for speech on matters of public concern.
I agree, but saying that plus "and I urge members of the military and federal agencies to disobey these orders" would likely fall under incitement.
ChickenOverlord
10d ago
The person you're replying to seems to be constitutionally incapable of engaging in actual argument or debate, at least when the topic is related to feminism or gender roles and similar. Not worth wasting your time with them.
Technically the Democrats in that video are right that soldiers do not have to obey unlawful orders. But in practice, orders are presumed lawful unless a military judge rules otherwise. From the Uniform Code of Military Justice: "Inference of lawfulness. An order requiring the performance of a military duty or act may be inferred to be lawful, and it is disobeyed at the peril of the subordinate. This inference does not apply to a patently illegal order, such as one that directs the commission of a crime. The lawfulness of an order is a question of law to be determined by the military judge."
It seems obvious to me that the implication of what these Democrat legislators are saying is "The stuff Trump is having you do in Portland, D.C., and Chicago is illegal and you should disobey those orders." If that's what they had actually said I think there would be a strong case against them, but with the mere "implied" meaning I think there's enough plausible deniability to avoid any actual consequences.
ChickenOverlord
10d ago
We've all seen a convenience store video or two (or a hundred) of a young black male shooting another young black for the grave sin of bumping into him without apologizing, or something similar.
Immortalized by The Boondocks:
ChickenOverlord
13d ago
https://github.com/themotte/rDrama
It's a fork of the rDrama codebase, there have been a moderate amount of changes done to it
ChickenOverlord
16d ago
Along those lines, I tried an allergy nasal spray for the first time yesterday and it's the single most effective thing I've ever had at relieving sinus pressure (and being able to breathe through my nose). The problem is I read the side effects list after trying it once and apparently cataracts and glaucoma are side effects of regular use, and apparently this applies to pretty much all other allergy nasal sprays as well.
Definitely not worth going blind to get some sinus relief.
ChickenOverlord
16d ago
Hadn't heard of that one, but looking into it at least one member of congress served actual prison time over it, so that sounds like a big deal to me.
A lot of people haven't heard about the government (together with Quaker Oats) feeding radioactive oatmeal to retarded kids without their (nor their parents') knowledge for a science experiment but that doesn't make it any less bad.
ChickenOverlord
17d ago
Sisyphus is rolling a boulder towards the Grand Hilbert Hotel. The hotel has an infinite number of rooms, but they are all full, so they may not be able to accommodate him or his boulder.
If you choose to divert him, his boulder will destroy the Ship of Theseus. But the ship has had all of its constituent parts replaced, so it may not actually be the same ship.
Is Sisyphus happy?
ChickenOverlord
17d ago
Or take the unit about other bases than 10. There are only two cases here with any practical relevance -- base 2 to understand how computers work and base 16 which is commonly used to represent binary numbers.
This is octal erasure
Given that microstates like Monaco and Liechtenstein have similarly high PPP adjusted GDPs per capita, the rural-urban divide is likely the cause.
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