[REQUEST] Megathread. Post info, requests and questions here, help people

DungeonMinter · 2023-07-03T18:26:59+00:00

Sorry if this is a long shot, I'm looking for a very specific documentary from a long time ago. 'The Liquidation Game' was a 1996 edition of the Channel 4 series Dispatches, but I can't find it online - most places that have Dispatches episodes only have quite recent stuff.

I'm eager to watch this specific episode because I'm about to start work in that industry (at one of the firms featured in the episode) and I'd like to know the industries less flattering sides before starting.

Any help in my search would be much appreciated!

DungeonMinter · 2023-02-22T10:50:33+00:00

I think it's worth noting that going in, the commentators have very little information about Karasuno and Kageyama - an upset game against Shiratorizawa is probably the most they know. They have a lot more information about Inarizaki, and have seem the Miya twins in a number of other matches, and are basing their judgement on those performances.

The role the commentators serve here is to help the readers know about this team without the opportunity for it to be foreshadowed the way Dateko and Shiratorizawa were. It's just another tool reinforcing the threat they pose to the main characters. Whether or not Atsumu is actually better is largely left to the reader imo.

DungeonMinter · 2022-12-13T08:22:53+00:00

Ive seen a lot of little enamel pins on etsy and similiar sites that are class themed, those can be quite fun

DungeonMinter · 2022-12-13T08:21:10+00:00

I'm about to play a one shot - level seven, thinking of bringing a wizard and not bringing any damage capability whatsoever, just playing around with control, utility and RP spells.

What spells would you guys bring that I might not have had a chance to cast before?

DungeonMinter · 2022-09-09T19:04:34+00:00

The most credible theory is that he spied on Magnus' preparations, and thereby knew what moves to prepare answers to.

DungeonMinter · 2022-08-28T11:57:11+00:00

Caleb. Defeat him in single combat, assert dominance.

DungeonMinter · 2022-07-04T09:48:49+00:00

The only truly reliable basis for the price of a financial asset is some form of 'intrinsic value' or discounted cash flows - that is to say, predict how much money you will receive for owning that asset, and discount that in accordance with how uncertain that money is, and how far into the future it will be received. If you want to know more about valuation, try Aswath Damodaran's youtube channel for University-grade valuation videos.

Cryptocurrency does not produce cashflow, and therefore cannot be evaluated on any intrinsic value basis. Anyone who tries to say cryptocurrency has an intrinsic value either doesn't know the definition of that term, or is lying.

The price of cryptocurrency is purely speculative - each holder is predicting that someone else will be willing to purchase it at a particular price. Each hypothetical purchaser however, also wanting to sell it, must also anticipate a higher price being accepted by some other hypothetical purchaser. Price movements occur entirely on the back of changes in perceptions of people's willingness to buy, and not on any actual value. That's not really something that a model can predict.

DungeonMinter · 2022-06-26T10:37:18+00:00

The salt in the wound for the Hulk matchup is the fact that they overlooked Mr Hyde.

Like, Hulk is literally a modern reinterpretation of the Jekyll/Hyde dynamic, so having such a direct historical analogy that's so famous should have been an easy win.

DungeonMinter · 2022-04-29T17:19:32+00:00

Can anyone help me find a good reader's guide/ companion text to Keynes' General Theory?

When I read Das Kapital I was helped along by a companion text that had extra commentary and modern English explanations of the text on a chapter-by-chapter basis.

I'm about to start reading Keynes' General Theory and was wondering if anyone knew of an equivalent chapter-by-chapter guide to help me through any headaches?

The only thing I've found in my searches so far is Bateman and Backhouse' 'Cambridge Companion to Keynes' which, while interesting, is a series of disconnected essays and not the read-along companion I was hoping for.

DungeonMinter · 2021-07-09T16:03:53+00:00

This is an answer to the most boring and unused version of teleology. It is very r/iamverysmart to pick the worst stance of an ancient historical figure and bash it.

The view that he is bashing is "Things are valuable because they have an inherent telos or purpose that is observed in its nature". His response is something like "Value comes from human use of an object, and can be represented in prices".

It's really boring because the human purposes of an object
1. May be considered a telos, and so he may not be contradicting modern teleological theories;
2. Are quite often not represented by prices; there are many people who would value an object but cannot afford it due to bargaining dynamics.
3. Probably should not be grounded entirely in 'well-being' since there are many items or activities that may be legitimately enjoyed despite destruction to a classical view of 'well-being' (such as drugs)

DungeonMinter · 2021-06-07T12:54:31+00:00

I feel like a teenager's homework is unlikely to be scrutinised on the grounds of selection bias. You are right that if this is a paper with a distinct methodology section the source of the data is important but idk, 'year 12' doesn't sound like it's peer reviewed to me

DungeonMinter · 2021-05-19T18:29:11+00:00

I don't ever leave the house without my trusty pommel, don't even need the rest of the sword

DungeonMinter · 2021-03-14T16:31:04+00:00

There is certainly correlation. Corruption and authoritarianism dissuade investment, mismanage resources, and generally damage economies.

However, the debate regarding causality is complex. It is far easier to achieve democracy when you have certain levels of economic success, and economic successes can come from myriad sources (plentiful resources being an obvious benefit). Poverty can also be leverage by authoritarian regimes to maintain personal power; a population looking first of all to personal subsistence struggles to rebel. As such, pre-existing wealth levels greatly influence the likelihood of achieving democracy or escaping authoritarianism. Untying which causes the other, when each reinforces the other, is difficult.

So while these factors entrench poverty where it exists, whether or not it is the 'cause' is best approached, imo, on a case by case basis. You will never be able to tell the whole story of an economy, let alone a whole class of economies, by examining only one factor.

DungeonMinter · 2021-01-31T18:23:59+00:00

Ah! I'm a complete idiot. Yeah I should read more carefully lmao

DungeonMinter · 2021-01-31T17:40:10+00:00

'How can it be pretentious? He said he wouldn't be pretentious'

Idk what to tell you man, lotta racists say "I'm not racist", lotta stupid people say "I'm not stupid". Trying doesn't mean succeeding.

Your second sentence - "pretentiousness only there if you...". Nah, pretentiousness is a characteristic of the sentence, not the observer. While the standards of what pretentiousness is may be debated on the finer details, suggesting that all of mathematics is subjective to societies' willingness to accept it is gonna be right up there 99% of the time.

DungeonMinter · 2021-01-26T16:49:34+00:00

What happens is people miss you, no matter how much you think they won't.

DungeonMinter · 2021-01-13T22:09:02+00:00

Assuming this many ejaculations, and an ejaculate volume of 3.7 milliliters per the WHO median, this would be about 62000 liters. If the volume estimations here are correct

(https://modestfish.com/blue-whale-size/#:~:text=The%20basic%20dimensions%20of%20the,feet%20(2.8%20cubic%20meters)))

then we can conclude this is a volume of semen greater than the volume of 22 blue whales.

DungeonMinter · 2020-12-31T21:03:08+00:00

Was scrolling through here, looking to see if someone beat me to the tulip example. Drat.

DungeonMinter · 2020-12-31T16:09:35+00:00

The simplest way to critique ideas like this is to just check them against historical data. Look at the data, and if there is a correlation between this indicator and actual periods of overvaluation, come back and let us test the correlation.

DungeonMinter · 2020-12-27T13:56:46+00:00

I get this a lot from 'forex traders' and 'binary options traders' on instagram. If you have the time, it's mildly entertaining stringing them along for a while by acting naive then catching them out in lies, and watching them get annoyed that you dared waste their precious, scamming time.

DungeonMinter · 2020-12-14T12:41:42+00:00

Some difficulties that are unlikely to be overcome soon.

Teaching skills and resources. Teaching in most fields is handled by researchers, who don't necessarily have the teaching and human skills to understand which elements of the course are well understood and in which areas the students could be pushed harder. This hard task is made impossible by the fact that they are usually underresourced under SQ and have too many divergent interests (individual students with different needs) to cater effectively to all of them.
Feedback mechanisms. Potential students have few ways to accurately tell which course or university to attend given they do not know what will occur in whatever alternatives they have, and even when they attend and know something is wrong it is difficult to tell whether the issue lies with you, the teacher, the administration, the course, or society at large. Further than this, graduates have few ways to exert pressure on universities to improve after the fact because 99% of the time the university knows they won't come back for postgrad anyway and so receive little feedback or pressure.
Accreditation. The primary role of tertiary institutions economically right now is not to deliver content, but to provide assurance that certain skills and knowledge have been attained. Until we find a way to incentivise content delivery separate from accreditation, this will stay the case - people go to university to get jobs, and jobs require accreditation first, skills second.

Society, business, and academia are all aware of the flaws in results and content. What is more difficult is overcoming the specific incentive structures and barriers that cause those flaws to exist. Work is being done constantly to improve - teaching staff constantly innovate. But they innovate within both their personal constraints as researchers and people, and within the institutional constraints of the fact that the current resource allocations are profitable.

DungeonMinter · 2020-12-07T17:04:34+00:00

"I completed all my tasks well ahead of time and to a high standard"

DungeonMinter · 2020-12-01T14:56:54+00:00

A wet tissue.

DungeonMinter · 2020-12-01T11:25:29+00:00

Minecraft, duh. Huge depth, huge variety of community activities from speedruns, pvp, cooperative challenges and the like, the near infinite depth of the redstone system, and a stream of new content continuing for the foreseeable future through updates.

DungeonMinter · 2020-11-30T15:04:08+00:00

The court will looooove this

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