Khanzarate

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[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Companies collect a bunch of telemetry about everyone they can, that's the basis of their ad revenue. The data is used to identify you, your devices, and your preferences, and is called a digital fingerprint.

They also use this fingerprint to detect people doing things like making an account to avoid a ban.

Your fingerprint, when you made a reddit account at work, will have virtually identical devices attached as anyone else using reddit at work. Lots of people have alt accounts for normal reasons, so Reddit decided yours and someone else's belonged to the same fingerprint, probably since you made the account.

But now they got banned. Maybe even got caught actually using a second account to circumvent it, and reddit is cracking down on the whole digital fingerprint because that's "you".

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Countries willing to pass on a US patent to China stop getting the chips (or, in this case, chip-making jobs, realistically, but that still hurts)

Also Taiwan doesn't wanna help China and even if a US sanction was just an excuse to hurt China and get away with it they'd probably do it.

Edit: in this case, this chip is "foreign-produced items [...] that are the direct product of U.S. technology or software", according to the article. I feel it was implied but clarity is always good. US technology, used with permission in a Taiwanese good, and that permission could be retracted.

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

Most states have their own minimum wage laws at this point. Not all of them. So this will help a handful of mostly-red states.

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Most satellites are in low-earth orbit where drag is minimal, not nonexistent. Further out adds too much latency and weakens the signal too much for most commercial applications.

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They mean inbred, yeah. Percentage-wise, the southeastern States are more inbred (https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/most-inbred-states).

There's a general perception that the south is very inbred. These numbers back that up, but also suggest that that perception is overblown.

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

That is genuinely the argument insurance companies would use, and they're allowed to charge more for more risk, that's the basis of insurance.

No one's guilty, and insurance companies stent courts. If they had to do an innocent before guilty, everyone would get one free car wreck and you wouldn't pay monthly for insurance until you wrecked someone.

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago

The conspiracy part is that he's owned by Russia.

But while i believe in this specific conspiracy, if we put all speculation aside, trump has said repeatedly that he loves talking to Putin and Kim. We don't need a conspiracy to conclude hes on Russia's side, just to determine the power balance there.

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

It just needs to have the water and air removed, really, which is accomplished the same way as jerky, remove a bunch of it, then stick in a silicate packet, those ones that say not to eat them.

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

If they're still working, they don't need your support. Focus on staying in touch with them, and let them know that if they do need you, you're here.

Like someone else said, instead putting money into savings, so that a future need can come out of that instead of your current funds, that'll mitigate the future need.

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 68 points 1 month ago (4 children)

For mail-ins, yeah, you sign it to do the final "I authorize this document to be my vote".

If you don't authorize it, it's not legally your vote.

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Depending on the specific game itself, we can boil down the multiple-stat problem in a few ways. If the goal is to get all the stats as high as possible evenly, then we can assign each stat a multiplier based on how low it is. Fixing lower stats becomes worth more than buffing higher stats. That multiplier would depend on the game, on how much it punishes the low stat. The multiplier itself might end up being a whole new problem to solve, but for now I'll just say its not my problem and call it X.

Whatever X is though, every stat can then be reduced to a single value using it. Super-low fortitude should be buffed over already-high mana according to X, so all of the numerical values in the game become directly comparable at any stage in this problem. Then I expect it will be equivalent to the knapsack problem. Each item in the game will boost several stats in certain ways, and all of those boosts can be combined using X to become our item value in the knapsack problem.

So I consider it to be the knapsack problem + figuring out X (which might be NP-complete on its own, depending on the game).

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

That was Illinois but honestly it's just obvious in any state with a recreational/medicinal use law.

It's ridiculous they're allowed to keep using it as an excuse in general.

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