netstack
Texas is freedom land
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netstack
Texas is freedom land
5d ago
I don’t think this is true, but I suppose it’s rather hard to prove.
There’s no particular statement that crossed the line, but if I had to point to the biggest red flag, I’d blame the scare quotes.
Don't paraphrase unflatteringly. Don't imply that someone said something they did not say, even if you think it follows from what they said.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5d ago
Surely aborting fetuses for having a trait has a different moral calculus than removing that trait while leaving the person otherwise intact?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
7d ago
specific niche
This weekend, I stumbled into a crossover post 1) between my favorite world-war-punk logistics MMO and 2) Steel Panzer. That wasn’t the weird part. Apparently the mod author had commissioned unit art from a Twitter artist with the following bio:
I may be drawing furries, femboys, NSFW, and guns. I realize some of you may not be comfortable with one of these.
I suspect—but I can never be sure—that the guns are supposed to be the dealbreaker. Twitter is a foreign country.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
7d ago
Hmm. It might be possible to get trendlines for something like CS2. But then, I understand valve has a long history of detection vs ban waves. It’d be very hard to measure.
Perhaps survey companies that sell cheats to try and keep skin in the game? I seem to remember seeing a retrospective from, like WoW gold farmers or something. You might be able to measure revenue vs. player base for a common game.
Intuitively, I doubt that video game cheating is worse today than it was in the mid-2000s era of PC CoD hackers and the like. Or the golden age of Minecraft servers, maybe.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
15d ago
Seconding the others’ interest. I want to say I agree with you but I suspect we have pretty different ideas of which movements are the central examples.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
27d ago
Okay, I admit it would be funny to make our 500k-character submission box contingent on filling out a 1k-character abstract. Only the abstract would start out visible, and users would have to click to expand the wall of text, preventing it from taking up attention by default…
But I am not convinced that this would help with the failure mode of, say, 100k-character AI Gish gallops. They’re still going to be slower to check than to create.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
28d ago
In the OKC area, I recommend both the American Pigeon Museum and the Museum of Osteology.
I keep seeing the latter show up in Wikipedia photos.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5d ago
I think that level of imprecision is pretty darn normal when describing preferences. It’s not a technical term like “gluten-free” or “kosher.”
Hell, even the latter is subject to complex edge cases.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
7d ago
That sounds either kickass or pornographic. I could believe both.
netstack
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14d ago
Sorry, I meant that in the general case of media selection pressure, not for Ken in particular. It’s just another filter.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
15d ago
Some speculate all sorts of things. Please preemptively provide evidence, not speculation.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
15d ago
Please elaborate a bit when you’re questioning someone.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
21d ago
When you move a supply curve with demand held constant, you change price by changing quantity. Less labor for higher prices. This is appealing to the (remaining) workforce. It’s not so great to the customers.
Same as cartelization. Same as tariffs. Like every form of protectionism, it’s the customers who get the bill.
Given that I am a customer, rather than a competing worker, for jobs like construction, I don’t expect to see any benefit from slashing the construction labor supply.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
25d ago
I’m ready for the Pacifier sequel where Vin Diesel takes on his toughest parenting challenge yet: the opioid epidemic.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
29d ago
I would hesitate to use targeted advertising as evidence for any particular trend.
Does Mr. Boyle have some special insight into the art world?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
7d ago
If I were writing to a public forum, asking for advice about my lurid love affair, I’d take any opsec I could get.
I should probably do more here.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
8d ago
Quoth Betteridge…
I’d like to see real data rather than relying on (years-old) reports from a notoriously punishing game.
I can’t say I understand the conflation of academic and game cheating, either. The dynamic is—or should be?—completely different.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
12d ago
I don’t know who that is, I don’t recall modding him, and I can’t find your quote.
But that is beside the point. Whether or not a comment is inflammatory, when you reply, you have to follow the rules by explaining what you mean. A single word “what?” is insufficient. It strictly drags the conversation down further.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
14d ago
I mean, I could do both.
But I still can’t tell what part you find so inflammatory. Is it the assertion of higher Russian casualties? The specific ratios? Use of the word “favorite”?
That’s the kind of thing I’d have liked in your response. What specifically were you hoping to see? It’s very hard to respond to someone who’s just asking “what?”
netstack
Texas is freedom land
14d ago
True, but they don’t help beat the allegations.
It would be much harder to accuse Israel of genocide if they studiously avoided anything that hit the general populace. Water, power, etc.
But of course that would come at some cost in Israeli lives. Understandably not popular in Israel.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
21d ago
I can thank Neal for the blessing and the curse of knowing about Van Eck phreaking.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
21d ago
Does it encourage productivity? More than an existing background of competition, that is. I'm trying to think of toy scenarios.
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Case 1: You make widgets for $6 labor and $6 materials. You invest in a technology which doubles the productivity of that labor. Now you can make your widgets for $3 labor and $6 materials. Going from $12 to $9 is a 25% savings in your total costs.
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Case 2: You make widgets for $1 labor and $11 materials. You invest in the same technology. Going from $12 to $11.5 only improves your costs by like 4%, since labor costs were so small already.
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Case 3: You make widgets for $6 + $6 until the government comes in and forces you to spend $12 on labor. Now the same technology cuts your cost from $18 to $12, or 33%! Therefore, by making labor more expensive, the government has increased the benefit of investing.
Except...Your final cost with the technology is still $12. You've invested just to get back to where you would otherwise have been. Even if the government relaxes its edict, that just snaps you back to the first case. This is fine if the government has some strategic interest in adopting that technology--like with onshoring, or green new deal, or even corn subsidies--but I'm not convinced on the economic case.
if we (hypothetically) replaced all citizens with cheaper immigrants
Yes, if I was afraid of losing my job, getting the cheapest widgets would be a poor consolation prize. But that doesn't mean subsidizing me makes my labor more productive. It means that I'm asking to trade off some efficiency for other values, like security.
If they’re coming to opposite conclusions, then I don’t see what makes you say they’re using the same calculus.
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