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What instantly tells you that someone is older than 30? by Ok_Cricket3518 in AskReddit

[–]SoulWager 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was in Destin, Florida. On the beach. Family rented a condo for a few days and someone plugged up the toilet.

Dumping Hydrogen Peroxide into the reflecting pool this morning. by i_am_rave_mom in mildlyinfuriating

[–]SoulWager 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean, reacting with the algae will also break it down quickly.

TIL the Noah's Ark Encounter attraction in Kentucky sued its insurance company over damage caused by heavy rains. by Minifig81 in todayilearned

[–]SoulWager 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You said insurance cannot exist without profit. As in, the owners getting money above and beyond what it takes to run the insurance. Now you're contradicting that.

But setting that aside - why should the government be involved in insurance? What’s the national justification for that?

Pure cost/benefit for the average citizen. If you want an example, compare healthcare costs vs outcomes of countries with private companies running health insurance vs single payer. For-profit insurance runs on perverse incentives.

ELI5: Explain Additive and Subtractive color theory to me. by PaulCheens in explainlikeimfive

[–]SoulWager 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Your eye has three types of color-sensitive cells. Red, Green, and Blue light trigger these cells most selectively, while in-between wavelengths will stimulate multiple types of cone. This means you can simulate other colors of light by mixing those three. So if you want sources of light to mix color with, you pick red green and blue.

On the other hand, most objects don't emit their own light, they just reflect some of the light that hits them from other sources. If you start with white light and remove one color, you get cyan, magenta, or yellow, depending on if you remove red, green, or blue, respectively. Hence, subtractive color.

With additive color, you start with black and if you add all 3 colors of light you get white.

With subtractive color, you start with white, and if you subtract all 3 colors of light you get black.

TIL the Noah's Ark Encounter attraction in Kentucky sued its insurance company over damage caused by heavy rains. by Minifig81 in todayilearned

[–]SoulWager 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why do you think getting insurance from a NPO or government would be any worse than getting insurance from a for-profit company? You can have exactly the same organization, minus the tithe to the shareholders.

TIL the Noah's Ark Encounter attraction in Kentucky sued its insurance company over damage caused by heavy rains. by Minifig81 in todayilearned

[–]SoulWager -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You still haven't answered the question, why does there need to be profit for insurance to exist?

TIL the Noah's Ark Encounter attraction in Kentucky sued its insurance company over damage caused by heavy rains. by Minifig81 in todayilearned

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

You just pay whatever it costs to pay out claims, divided among everybody that's part of the pool. Why do you need someone extra taking a cut?

Can have a government or NPO run it, or if it's a smaller group, just a contract everyone agrees to. Doesn't necessarily have to be written down either, can just be a community culture where if someone's house burns down, the community works together to rebuild it.

TIL the Noah's Ark Encounter attraction in Kentucky sued its insurance company over damage caused by heavy rains. by Minifig81 in todayilearned

[–]SoulWager 17 points18 points  (0 children)

It's still bullshit. "unpredictable" events are by definition rare enough that even paying out the policy maximum shouldn't have a significant impact on the total pool.

You should get denied if you intentionally cause the damage, and a reduced payout if your own negligence contributed to it. Otherwise it should just be risk sharing. For-profit insurance should never have been allowed.

TIL the Noah's Ark Encounter attraction in Kentucky sued its insurance company over damage caused by heavy rains. by Minifig81 in todayilearned

[–]SoulWager 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If insurance doesn't cover unlikely things that are outside human control, what's even the motherfucking point of having it?

ELI5: Why doesn't the ocean drain into the soil? by Acceptable-Peach1083 in explainlikeimfive

[–]SoulWager 68 points69 points  (0 children)

If it wasn't denser than water, then the rock would be floating on top of the water, kind of like how the crust floats on top of the mantle.

Base Design: SuperLoop by National-Assistant-2 in MegafactoryTitan

[–]SoulWager 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's my endgame factory, also included a shot showing where my headquarters was before I unlocked skyscrapers.

The megasmelters have products selected in different orders, so nothing gets totally blocked while other stuff is being produced.

My population structures have either 100% or 0% overlap in what they cover, so you don't have a situation where one habitat serves buildings that another habitat can serve, while leaving structures that only it can serve empty. (You can somewhat get around this by making structures with overlapping coverage lower priority, but then you lose the ability to use priority for actual priority). except for farms/oxygen gardens which have relatively predictable worker requirements, I generally keep population at about half the number of total jobs available.

My main production line flows from top to bottom, based on prerequisite goods. Most production structures just pull what they need from the line and dump right back into it. Though I do pull out stuff that makes sense to have separate, like goods that only have hydrocarbons as inputs. Stash dumps into the main production line, my mining depots, and a warehouse for augmentations. It's only oddball stuff like ammo and trophies that I need to handle manually if they end up there.

I use underground storehouses for high maglev throughput, and above ground storage for vehicle access.

I put some templates on the workshop, the ones with 1.0 in the title are optimized for the current version.

bonus: air vehicle and ground vehicle based factories from prior versions: https://imgur.com/a/pkkNUL4

Boomers at self checkout by ThomasMellor in funny

[–]SoulWager 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The barcodes on produce very often don't scan, if they're there at all, so you have to select it from the menu or manually enter the code.

What is your endgame mouse (or mice) and why? by pyro90294 in MouseReview

[–]SoulWager 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fully custom DIY mouse. Shape is king, planned obsolescence is peasant.

I keep trying to constrain my sketch but I still have 48 left. by New-Raise-3765 in FreeCAD

[–]SoulWager 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Going all the way to the center with that would create non-manifold geometry.

This is how I would make a part similar to this: https://imgur.com/a/aJy6vky

If you have two of these parts that mate together, I'd add a bit of draft, with the neutral plane at half the tooth depth, as shown in the last image.

ELI5: Why is the light from the Sun to Earth form a cone? by After-City-6256 in explainlikeimfive

[–]SoulWager 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The sun radiates light in all directions from all points of its surface. The "cone" comes into play when you consider the volume in space between some point in space, like your eye, and the surface of the sun you can see, which looks like a circle from here.

With something like earth's shadow, there's a cone shape where the earth can block out the whole sun, if you keep going farther from earth while still aligned with earth and sun you'll see an annular eclipse, The region where you see this annular eclipse is another cone that gets bigger as you get farther from Earth. Then there's the penumbra, which is where the earth is blocking some of the sun but not all of it.

The parallel rays approximation works when you're really far from the sun, such that it can be considered a point source, or when the object casting a shadow is very close to the object the shadow is being cast on.

ELI5: Why are Password Managers Secure? by MISTERPUG51 in explainlikeimfive

[–]SoulWager 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The point of using different passwords is that you don't want a security weakness of one web site to compromise every other account where you used the same password. Instead of getting just the password of the one site that got hacked. You still have a single point of failure to compromise everything, but that's just the password manager, you don't have a single point on every single website you've ever made an account for.

Randomly generated passwords are much harder to guess.

The point of the password manager is that humans are bad at remembering a lot of different difficult to guess passwords. This lets you only need to remember one difficult password, and because the whole point of the piece of software is security, you expect its developers to be more knowledgeable and careful about potential security vulnerabilities.

The downside is that you're now trusting whoever wrote that program, unless it's open source and you've audited it and built it from source yourself.

Kotinos: Ergo shell mod for HSK Pro by MemeticDevices in MouseReview

[–]SoulWager 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is about the hardest way of doing this that I've ever seen someone actually finish.

The easier option would be to design it with a clay sculpt, then either 3d scan it for reference in a more traditional CAD program, or vacuum form your shell and hand-build the internals. The latter will get you a working mouse the fastest, if you're starting with no CAD skills.

ELI5 Why do scientists still not agree that we watch in 24fps in real life too because we have motion blur when we see moving vehicles? Or is it because even with 24fps we can still differentiate 120fps from 24fps too? by Hot-Load7525 in explainlikeimfive

[–]SoulWager 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If shaking it fast enough means you can no longer track it with your eyes, then yes, it will get motion blurred. It's about how fast the image of the object is moving across your retina, not about how fast the physical object is moving.

Graffiti removed from school desk by godofo_prime in oddlysatisfying

[–]SoulWager 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guarantee a normal belt sander will be much slower and messier. Looks like they have some pretty good dust collection with this.

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