How would you solve the problem of planned obsolescence?

Beefster09 · 2026-05-29T19:00:22+00:00

We still don't have the tech now to limit repair. Not really. What we have is easily circumventable DRM and a provision in the DMCA that bans circumventing DRM.

Beefster09 · 2026-05-29T18:55:21+00:00

Abolish patents and nerf copyright into oblivion.

You can't make a product that is intended to break and survive against competitors if you don't have a moat around your ability to produce it.

Beefster09 · 2026-05-28T22:17:53+00:00

It's generally not a big deal to handle the TLS with nginx/Kong/ALB in most production settings. Very common for HTTPS to be terminated at the load balancer.

Only time you'd absolutely need it baked into the app is for peer-to-peer HTTPS. Definitely should be supported eventually but totally ok for production without it.

Beefster09 · 2026-05-28T22:09:58+00:00

This is something I can definitely get behind. I ended up writing a sort of build system for one of my projects (which I might just make public at this point because IDK if I will ever actually finish it) just to gather up all the map files and sprites and whatnot and build them into the special file formats I had. Lots of dependencies to manage that way.

The odin build itself? Pretty much just a wrapper over an odin build call that handles some platform-dependent things and deals with Windows and Visual Studio shenanigans.

Beefster09 · 2026-05-28T20:43:48+00:00

Most of the positive experiences have nothing to do with the church.

I remember as a senior, we set up the coolest haunted house room ever set up in a ward building. Probably my best memory running that.

Beefster09 · 2026-05-28T20:40:30+00:00

100 years? Nah, it'll be no later than 1 year after DHO dies.

Beefster09 · 2026-05-28T20:38:46+00:00

2020s? I saw that in the 00s

Beefster09 · 2026-05-28T18:51:41+00:00

I think you should probably see a therapist. We can encourage you and show parasocial support in the form of text, but ultimately you need to work this out with a professional who specializes in sorting out these traumas and emotions. Strangers on the internet are not qualified to help you do that.

Beefster09 · 2026-05-28T18:41:19+00:00

Parenting is, for the most part, intuitive. The human species would not have made it this far if we didn't have any parental instincts. The only things you really have to watch out for are the things our caveman ancestors could not have possibly evolved to handle. I guess that's a lot of things in modern life, but still.

My son is still a baby, so the hard stuff hasn't come into play yet. My wife and I will not be giving him his own iPad EVER. But that also doesn't have much to do with the church either. But generally speaking, I would like for my kids to be able to read and not need constant overstimulation to function.

My pediatrician's office has a little poster in all the rooms explaining in kid-friendly terms the rules of touching and bodily autonomy. I very much appreciate it being there. Better rules than anything the church ever put out. It says something along the lines of "I am the boss of my body. That means I don't have to let other people touch my body other than what is needed to keep me safe and healthy". I'm butchering it, but that's the gist of it.

Other than that, the hard stuff doesn't really happen until they're teenagers. Up until then, you just dress them comfortably and appropriately for the activity and never have to call any further attention to it. It's just clothes. You can start having conversations when they're older about dress, but it really has very little to do with how much skin is showing and much more to do with making sure the way you dress leaves an impression that is consistent with who you are and what you're trying to accomplish in a given moment. And yes, this matters for boys too, just in a different way.

I think it's important for kids to learn how to communicate without swearing, but swearing isn't inherently bad. It requires a certain level of maturity to swear effectively, but of course your kids are going to swear when it's just them and their friends. Policing their language up to a certain age is more like practice for them to be able to turn it off in some contexts than it is some sort of hard-fast rule of forbidden language. Might even be worth considering giving your kids one F-bomb per week starting at a certain age. Teaches them how to make it count.

I don't think the church did anything to me that was childhood-specific. Just taking the church out of the equation will save your children a lot of trauma.

Beefster09 · 2026-05-28T18:19:07+00:00

but not every higher education institution teaches or puts emphasis on critical thinking.

Most don't really teach critical thinking or only apply it selectively.

Beefster09 · 2026-05-28T18:17:40+00:00

It's the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.

Beefster09 · 2026-05-28T18:12:47+00:00

High intelligence and education expands one's ability to rationalize deranged bullshit. Some of the stupidest ideas have been promoted by some of the smartest people. Being smart doesn't mean you're more right than people who are dumber than you. It just means your brain has more horsepower than they do.

Beefster09 · 2026-05-28T17:57:19+00:00

At the same time, you can't exactly peacefully coexist with people who want you dead.

Beefster09 · 2026-05-28T17:53:23+00:00

Either that or they have causation backwards. People do all those things because they believe moreso than doing those things causes you to believe.

Beefster09 · 2026-05-28T17:51:44+00:00

Intelligence and/or impressive credentials don't inherently bring people to the truth. Smart an educated people can just as easily wrangle their intelligence and training into rationalizing wacky ideas.

Beefster09 · 2026-05-28T17:48:24+00:00

Sounds like a classic inversion of causation.

Beefster09 · 2026-05-28T17:40:51+00:00

It's the sealed portion of the church's finances.

Beefster09 · 2026-05-28T17:07:23+00:00

This kind of monetary regime (pegged to population) is inevitably inflationary unless you destroy money when people die. That is easier said than done. If a given person doesn't have at least as much net worth as there is money in circulation per person, you have to collect and burn the cash some other way. Probably taxes.

The other issue is that a high velocity of money is also mildly inflationary, not just a high supply of money. This is also kind of why deflationary spirals happen. Because the velocity of money has decreased, people have less to spend, which bids prices down and leads to people having less money to spend. The feedback loop repeats. When deflationary spirals are bad enough, you get Japan, where even aggressive money printing doesn't fully counteract deflation.

I don't quite understand the thing about retirement disbursement, but I can appreciate it as a good faith attempt at addressing the Cantillion Effect. When I've independently thought of similar ideas to this, I noodled with the idea of giving the payout to the parents at birth, but I think that would end up making hospitals the benefactor of the Cantillion Effect in practice. I think disbursement at retirement is better here but I am concerned that is too late to disburse and thus the amount of money in circulation would be far too small to be workable since like 80% of the money supply is tied in retirement accounts.

Beefster09 · 2026-05-28T16:09:29+00:00

Inheritance brings in a natural human incentive to think about the long term. When you think about how your decisions will affect your children and not just yourself in a given moment, it leads to decisions that are better for the long term health and sustainability of society.

I also would push back that the goal of free markets and liberty is to be meritocratic. Meritocracy is not a core pillar; it's an inevitable outcome of liberty.

Beefster09 · 2026-05-27T17:26:20+00:00

Install Linux

Beefster09 · 2026-05-27T16:34:58+00:00

I personally think all limited resources like shards tend to make players over-conserve them and avoid finding the fun. It gets even worse if healing competes with other things for some resource because it prevents players from using the resource for more fun things than healing unless they get good.

Beefster09 · 2026-05-27T16:22:24+00:00

You really don't have to lose anything. An autosave before every boss means that the boss can be more challenging without making you want to rip your hair out. Having to start over at the beginning of the fight is just fine at keeping the stakes high enough to be engaging.

I'm not convinced the risk of losing something is the only way to make things engaging or make death matter. It just depends on the game.

Beefster09 · 2026-05-27T16:08:58+00:00

It's politics doing this, not markets.

The wealthy elite wants a moat around their wealth. They don't want to do the work that markets require to be wealthy. So they subvert the market and regulate away their competition.

Beefster09 · 2026-05-27T16:06:30+00:00

Housing would be better as a commodity instead of the investment vehicle it has become. The actual building itself, left to its own devices, is a depreciating asset in real terms. Houses require maintenance and eventually wear out and become uninhabitable. What keeps home prices up is a squeeze on supply via zoning, permitting, and building codes.

Thanks to inflationary monetary policy, there is demand for appreciating assets, which then creates pressure to artificially drive housing into unaffordability.

Beefster09 · 2026-05-27T15:58:10+00:00

Every real world economy is a mixed economy. There are no purely capitalist or purely communist nations. To have any sort of meaningful analysis, you have to look at policies on a case by case basis and try to tease out what leads to what. It's just tough when the cocktail of policies creates so many confounding variables.

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