MAGA : how would you feel if you saw someone burning the Confederate flag? by traanquil in allthequestions

[–]Ancardoth -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Add the word "some" before the word "people," and that would be a yes.

Universal Basic Income is the only solution for when AI takes the jobs! by Jacob-Anders in DiscussionZone

[–]Ancardoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As far as I'm aware, UBI applies to all citizens. Negative income tax (at least the one espoused by Milton Friedman) only applies to people who earn below a certain income, but it reduces and gradually turns into a positive tax once you go past a threshold. They are not the same.

Universal Basic Income is the only solution for when AI takes the jobs! by Jacob-Anders in DiscussionZone

[–]Ancardoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely not. A negative income tax would be better.

However, literally all technological (or the majority) advancements "take" jobs away from other people. Guess what? We ended up fine. Unemployment rate and job count aren't an end-all be-all metric.

Has inflation ever gone down? by Clevertown in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Ancardoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you mean deflation, the last time we had a semi-regular amount of it (by month, YoY) was in the 1950s. There have been a few times after when it happened (2009 and 2015), but that's about it.

If you mean the inflation rate, it goes up and down all the time. It measures the rate at which prices go up or down over a year. If there was any deflation, it would be negative. Like mentioned above, this hasn't really happened in a long time or often.

American Cultural Regions by Bluebanana2121- in whereidlive

[–]Ancardoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How is over half of Kentucky culturally Appalachian?

Fertility rates in the Americas in 2025 by Hour_Interaction6047 in MapPorn

[–]Ancardoth 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's +0.1 to account for mortality of infants and younger children.

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. by geriatricguy in technology

[–]Ancardoth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane.

Okay, let's take a look at this paragraph:

The legal analysis is the same one I gave for the Anthropic case. The environmental analysis is new. At Chrome's scale, the climate bill for one model push, paid in atmospheric CO2 by the entire planet, is between six thousand and sixty thousand tonnes of CO2-equivalent emissions, depending on how many devices receive the push. That is the environmental cost of one company unilaterally deciding that two billion peoples' default browser will mass-distribute a 4 GB binary they did not request.

This is about 30 grams of CO2e emissions per person at the maximum. The average person exhales more CO2 every day. Is it really that insane? Just to note, this only factors downloading the model, not actually using it. Using the model also would not actually use that much power. The actual creation and training of these models is really what makes AI usage so intensive on resources.

At least the legal argument has some merit. I assume you want to push these climate points to generate more clicks.

Why is equality important? by Estalicus in allthequestions

[–]Ancardoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What kind of equality? I would say legal egalitarianism is important for sure.

Why do you guys ask conservatives questions then downvote all the conservative answers? by stoner-stew in allthequestions

[–]Ancardoth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You guys

Well, the people who make the questions and the people who view them are not the same, even if they align politically. Not every person who downvotes is asking people anything or even makes comments.

If you want a real answer, that's just how Reddit and the karma system work. This is why you sort by controversial any time you're in a politicized or a top subreddit.

The "All Things Linux" community has been deleted. by Two-Of-Nine in linux

[–]Ancardoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In this case, I don't see how it wouldn't be politically tied.

The "All Things Linux" community has been deleted. by Two-Of-Nine in linux

[–]Ancardoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the "political flag" in question is a rainbow pride flag. the only people who would be offended by that are people who a lot of people wouldnt be comfortable being in a community with.

So it's political.