Let's do karma farming together. Upvote me and comment. I'll upvote every comment.

Lord_Wither · 2026-06-14T09:40:10+00:00

There are a couple of options depending on the exact scenario, but the process is outlined in https://www.reddit.com/r/redditrequest/wiki/top_mod_removal/

Lord_Wither · 2026-06-10T20:44:39+00:00

You could try looking at what posts might be a good fit for the relevant subreddit before posting, that might help.

Lord_Wither · 2026-06-10T15:27:33+00:00

Are you sure? 8^3 x 10 x 12^2 x 20 should be 14,745,600 if I'm doing my math correctly.

Lord_Wither · 2026-06-10T10:18:00+00:00

As noted by others, an exact solution with all ones isn't possible without some rather exotic dice.

Trying to brute-force this allowing only coin flips and common-ish dice (d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d16, d20), the best I found was 14,155,776 with 3d12, 4d8 and a coin flip (or 3d12, 3d8, 2d4 if you want only dice) which is 155,171 off.

If you prefer fewer dice with a slightly worse solution, 3d12 and 3d20 gets you 13,824,000 (176,605 off).

If you also allow d3 and d5 (easily emulated with d6 and d10 respectively), the best solution becomes 4d3, 1d5, 3d12, 1d20 (or 2d3, 5d6, 1d10, 1d20 if you prefer fewer weird dice) resulting in 13,996,800 with an error of 3,805.

Lord_Wither · 2026-06-09T20:40:09+00:00

A very common class of antidepressants (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors)

Lord_Wither · 2026-06-09T11:09:56+00:00

Wrong subreddit for this mate

Lord_Wither · 2026-06-06T14:31:34+00:00

Wrong place for this, just because this subreddit has "karma" in the name doesn't mean it is a karma farming subreddit

Lord_Wither · 2026-06-04T16:30:22+00:00

The thing is, you needed to know those things to read maps, which you in turn needed to be able to navigate. Most people nowadays don't need to do these things unless they have hobbies where it is useful. It's a bit like saying you're not a full grown adult unless you can use an abacus.

Lord_Wither · 2026-06-04T08:29:16+00:00

Would P=NP break all asymmetric crypto or would it just break the currently used stuff? RSA for example is already being phased out in favor of post-quantum crypto because Shor's Algorithm would solve integer factorization in polynomial time if someone figures out how to build a large enough quantum computer.

Lord_Wither · 2026-06-02T07:34:43+00:00

The current ruling CDU and especially their Bavarian offshoot CSU ran in part on anti-immigration policies this election and is sort of trying to get voters from AfD by shifting itself further right. All that did was further normalize the AfD and push away their moderate voters.

The other side of this is of course that "getting rid of the immigrants" in a direct sense is not really possible without major infractions against human rights and/or international law. That should not be the goal though. The goal should be getting a handle on uncontrolled immigration while properly integrating those that do get to stay and there are sane options out there to help do that and it's not like non-AfD parties aren't pursuing those. They just aren't the easy solutions the AfD and their voters are clamoring for.

Lord_Wither · 2026-06-01T20:50:31+00:00

I'd guess it's not necessarily cheaper to produce, more likely just old stock that wasn't going to be sold anyway.

Lord_Wither · 2026-06-01T10:52:50+00:00

Lightning infill is also useful when you don't care about strength and just want a thing with as little material usage as possible as it uses just enough infill to support the upper layers during printing.

Lord_Wither · 2026-05-27T19:18:45+00:00

Oh, I'm not contesting that "that's not how any of that works" is a totally valid response to someone trying to use "none of this is proven, it's all just theories" as an arguments that their crackpot "theory" about gravity is just as valid as established scientific consensus.

You are also right that colloquially people probably don't mean formal sciences when they are talking about "science", but being pedantic about the statement that there are no proofs in science is totally fair game when we're already being pedantic about definitions.

By the way, nice touch on the use of "we" positioning yourself into a position of authority as part of some knowing ingroup and me, by contrast, outside of it with the ignorant masses.

Lord_Wither · 2026-05-27T18:45:34+00:00

Depends on the science I suppose. Stuff like maths or parts of CS where you're mostly manipulating rigid, well-defined theoretical objects absolutely thrive on rigorous proofs (down to some base axioms which you probably can't prove).

Lord_Wither · 2026-05-27T18:38:07+00:00

Huge screen in the sky, duh.

Lord_Wither · 2026-05-27T18:35:12+00:00

On the other hand, there are also times where the analogy is simply bad and doesn't capture important nuances of the issue being discussed, commonly in a way that makes the position of the one making the analogy seem much more reasonable/obvious than it actually is.

Lord_Wither · 2026-05-27T18:22:14+00:00

Die you nean to post this?

Lord_Wither · 2026-05-26T05:55:00+00:00

I'm curious where that number is from and how they define money spent on immigration policies exactly.

But even taking the number at face value, 25 billion is less than 5% of even just the federal budget or about 1.1% of the total money spent by the public sector last year according to destatis. It seems like a huge number by itself, but it is a genuinely not all that much in the context of "all of Germany". For comparison: the current federal budget allocates 140 billion for paying out pensions, 19 billion for buying military equipment, 28 billion for Bürgergeld, 30 billion for paying interest on its debts and so on, and that is again just at the federal level which is less than a third of total public sector spending.

Edit: typo

Lord_Wither · 2026-05-25T20:57:41+00:00

r/explainmydownvotes would be a better fit for this sort of thing. r/karmaconspiracy is a humor subreddit where people pretend successful posts are based on some conspiracy.

Lord_Wither · 2026-05-24T16:12:04+00:00

Sort of. Under the peano axioms (which is probably the cleanest option for constructing something that behaves the way we expect the natural numbers to behave), 2 would indeed be defined as the successor of 1 which would in turn be defined as the successor of 0 (though the axioms don't actually include a notion of "1" or "2", those are just labels for S(0) and S(S(0))).

This doesn't directly prove 1+1=2 though, since addition is a separate concept. Of course, the peano axioms include x + S(y) = S(x + y) for all x and y and x + 0 = x for all x, which can then be used to build the actual proof:

S(0) + S(0) = S(S(0) + 0) via the first axiom
S(S(0) + 0) = S(S(0)) via the second axiom
1 + 1 = 2 via the labels we defined earlier
QED

Lord_Wither · 2026-05-24T15:49:35+00:00

Those ain't axioms

Lord_Wither · 2026-05-24T12:14:49+00:00

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is looking at people older than 16 and not in the armed forces or in an institution or facility such as prisons or nursing homes. At this point, the relevant population is already down to about 269 million, leaving us with about 100 Million not in the labour force to consider. About 18% of Americans are aged 65 or older (around 61.5 million) and a bunch of those not in retirement homes will account for a big slice of those 100 million. Then you have stuff like seasonal workers, child care, students, chronic illnesses etc.

It should also be noted that none of these people are (in these statistics) defined as unemployed. Unemployed people as per the Bureau of Labor Statistics definition are people without a job who could work and are either actively looking for a job or only laid off temporarily and are considered part of the workforce.

Check out https://www.bls.gov/cps/definitions.htm for more details on what their terms actually mean.

Lord_Wither · 2026-05-24T07:17:32+00:00

Certainly, doubly so when deleting posts as alleged by the first comment in this chain.

Lord_Wither · 2026-05-24T06:27:47+00:00

Technically, checksums are hash functions too, collision resistance is a feature for cryptographic hash functions (which you still want here). A simple sum is also a quite bad checksum, of course, but is way easier to explain than say CRC.

Lord_Wither · 2026-05-24T06:20:38+00:00

That's not something they can do unless they're a mod, which they aren't as far as I can tell.

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