ulyssessword
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ulyssessword
2mo ago
Not sure why it’s not working for me.
Try it while logged out (or in a private window). Reddit's blocking functionality is a bit strange.
ulyssessword
3mo ago
Maybe
##[href^="https://substack.com/profile"] > .profile-img-wrap
It also shifts the comments rightwards to use up that space
ulyssessword
4mo ago
I like that idea for luminous intensity. The other option would be a number of photons, but I'm not sure how well that would work out.
For temperature, absolute zero (-273.15 C) is 0, freezing (0 C) is 100, room temperature (20 C) is about 107, and boiling (100 C) is about 136 (depending on elevation).
ulyssessword
6mo ago
Okay? 62% Christian - 46% YEC = 16% Christian nonYEC (very very roughly).
I didn't expect that to be a smaller subset of Americans and I'm still not confident in the calculation, but filter bubbles are salient because they break your intuition.
ulyssessword
6mo ago
One of the internal websites at my company only supports Chrome. Not "Chromium-based browsers" like Edge, just Chrome. IIRC, it was an effort to reduce development challenges, and getting 100% of employees to install a program is easier than building something with compatibility in mind.
Given the fact that User Agent switcher addons exist, I suspect that that practice has been increasing and will continue to increase in the future. There's not much point in having multiple browser engines competing if only one is allowed to access the websites you want without (the mildest forms of) "hacking".
ulyssessword
7mo ago
I wonder if there are more ways I can take on "writing obligations."
There's an opportunity just a few threads down from here: https://www.themotte.org/post/659/the-motte-moddes-highspace-september-2023
ulyssessword
8mo ago
This might even be doable purely as a client-side bit of JS.
You can ctrl-F for "new
ulyssessword
8mo ago
Multiple spoilers on one line are broken.
If you have
ulyssessword
1yr ago
Monthly Motte Meta-post? Write up some site news and updates, pose a specific question or two, and have an opening for general comments?
Monthly may be too quick, but I'd hate to give up the alliteration.
ulyssessword
1yr ago
Yup, which is why I didn't oppose marijuana legalization back when it passed.
ulyssessword
1yr ago
Replace "years" with "decades" and everything else will be the same. The mechanism simply doesn't allow for concentrating allotment the way that we can currently concentrate wealth.
Ultimately you'd end up with a two class society, between the Methuselahs (those who received a significant initial resource allocation block and have grown by countless death dividends) and the Children (those who start out with a zero or minimal block and have received fewer death dividends than the Meths).
I'm not sure if the math works out that way. I'm envisioning it as follows:
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Every year, everyone gets +1 allocation point from other people dying
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Families split their allocation evenly at each birth.
Let's look at several family structures that are stable over generations.
Large young family:
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Inherit 16 points
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Marry someone identical, and have children at 20, 22, 24, 26 years old
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The family has 2 * 16 (inheritance) + 2 * 26 (parent's age) + 6 + 4 + 2 + 0 (children) = 96 points, split six ways = 16 points each
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Live another 80 years, dying at 96 points of allocation.
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Average approx 49.4 points during your life
Small young family:
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Inherit 40 points
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Marry someone identical, and have a child at 20 years old
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The family has 2 * 40 (inheritance) + 2 * 20 (parent's age) + 0 (child) = 120 points, split three ways = 40 points each
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Live another 80 years, dying at 120 points of allocation.
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Average approx 90 points during your life
Small old family:
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Inherit 80 points
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Marry someone identical, and have a child at 40 years old
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The family has 2 * 80 (inheritance) + 2 * 40 (parent's age) + 0 (child) = 240 points, split three ways = 80 points each
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Live another 60 years, dying at 140 points of allocation.
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Average approx 106 points during your life
I don't think that a mere doubling of resources is enough to entrench an aristocracy or cast someone into poverty. More permissive inheritance laws could make for stronger effects, but that isn't how I read the proposal.
ulyssessword
1yr ago
No worries. It took me years to learn that you can just look up public information when things are unclear.
(One of the more recent places where "just look it up" helped me was reading about Carolyn Strom: every news source printed an almost-identical, obviously incomplete story. Sometimes, they were actually identical because they were reposting from a wire service. Going to the court records was so much more informative.)
ulyssessword
1yr ago
Daily chart and Weekly chart are throwing 500 errors at me, but I hadn't seen the stats page yet. Thanks for linking it.
ulyssessword
1yr ago
It's been a while, but the last time I looked at the models, all of the worst-case predictions for the next hundred years were manageable with currently existing first-world technology. If you can't buy an air conditioner or hurricane-proof your buildings, then you're in trouble. Similarly, wildlife and ecosystems (but not agriculture) are also in trouble.
A lot of the apocalyptic predictions came from war sparked by the sudden changes in every country's fortunes.
ulyssessword
1yr ago
The rule I created (that seems to work, but I haven't thoroughly tested) is:
! 2022-09-19 https://www.themotte.org
www.themotte.org##bdi
and the reddit one I mentioned is:
! 2021-08-04 https://old.reddit.com
reddit.com##.awardings-bar
To create filtering rules like that, rightclick on the offending element, choose "Block Element" from the contextual menu, then play with the two sliders until you have a rule that looks general enough without removing parts that you want.
I've beaten PoE twice (with years in between), and never needed to look things up. If you're just getting to the level cap and the end of the story, then you don't need a hyperoptimized build.
ulyssessword
1yr ago
"Open External Links In New Tabs" is inconsistent. I disabled the setting, clicked on an external link (the Forbes link here, if it makes a difference), and it opened in a new tab.
I just tried clicking on http://example.com/ in this message preview, and it respected my settings. (EDIT: clicking it in the message, after posting, opened it in a new tab).
ulyssessword
1yr ago
second unhideable-in-bulk comment
ulyssessword
1yr ago
first unhideable-in-bulk comment
If a comment is deleted, it can't be collapsed. This would be useful if it had a bunch of replies that you'd like to hide simultaneously.
Example below:
EDIT: hmm, didn't work? Maybe it's only mod-removed ones, not user deleted.
ulyssessword
1yr ago
I'm not opposed to recreation, I'm opposed to face-eating, overdose deaths, addiction-derived desperation, and the other negative consequences of drug use. Calling the substances in question "recreational drugs" is assuming the conclusion.
Lockdowns were a larger imposition with more missteps and less justification IMO.
ulyssessword
1yr ago
Alternatively,
“Be it so. This statement of opinion is your choice; prepare the presses. But my company has also a choice. When you make statements like that we cancel our contracts and denigrate you. My lawyers shall therefore prepare the paperwork for when your statement is released. Let us all act according to our free choice."
They're respecting his "choice" about as much as the British respected the Indian "choice" to immolate widows.
ulyssessword
11mo ago
Presumably, the mods will make that point when he doesn't make an argument. Reading his comment, I see:
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A felony conviction is very bad,
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there were mitigating circumstances in this case, and
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the top level comment used a nonstandard definition of "bad".
You can believe whatever you want about the quality of the comment, but the arguments about the situation are there.
Or I could continue to tilt at windmills.
I just have an odd feeling that, when you're using a What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get style editor, when you see something you should also get it.
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