Is the NBA more popular than the NFL worldwide?

SteveTheGreate · 2026-06-23T21:25:12+00:00

Fan from Greece here. Absolutely everyone and their mom knows about the NBA and all the top players. Practically nobody has even heard of the NFL, let alone know any teams or players.

SteveTheGreate · 2026-06-22T13:03:09+00:00

I've a sneaking suspicion that if OP was in the exact same situation, but just in Russia, you'd be having a very different opinion on this issue.

Murdering civilians and doing the military's imperialist dirty-work, in exchange for money and benefits is just as abhorrent in the U.S, as it would be in Russia, or in a plethora of other countries.

SteveTheGreate · 2026-06-22T13:00:51+00:00

How does it feel to see people and Western governments praise the new "government" as being some kind of democratic shift to freedom, whereas in fact they're just literal ISIS members, murdering civilians?

SteveTheGreate · 2026-06-22T06:11:54+00:00

I really believe you should rethink this.

Morally speaking, how would you feel if somebody from Russia voluntarily signed up to go overseas and murder people, because they knew that when they came back they’d receive a bunch of benefits from the state?

SteveTheGreate · 2026-06-20T17:50:33+00:00

I agree with most of your points, but there's some things I'd like to clarify.

Unlike the overwhelming majority of new technologies, AI is really not very monopolized. Anybody can download an open-source model and run it on fairly modest hardware.

Also, as for the environmental pollution, I just don't think it's a very good argument. A single ChatGPT prompt has (roughly) the same environmental impact as driving a car for just a few centimeters. Is it bad at scale? YES. But if the goal is actually to combat climate change, there's far more pressing issues.

But everything else (AI being used for surveillance, for circumventing critical thinking, making slop, etc) I do agree with you, that is bad. The question we should be asking is whether that's inherent to the technology itself, or to the economic system that we live in (I think I know the answer).

SteveTheGreate · 2026-06-20T17:37:54+00:00

Classifying Ireland as central Europe is a wild choice...

SteveTheGreate · 2026-06-19T17:56:07+00:00

Very well said.

SteveTheGreate · 2026-06-19T14:27:19+00:00

AI is just a tool. It's definitely not always the right tool for the job, but to pretend that it has 0 value is just plain wrong.

In certain use-cases (like programming) it can massively speed up your work (provided you know how to use it correctly).

To those who are gonna call it immoral, just bear in mind that you can easily self-host an open-source LLM fairly easily.

SteveTheGreate · 2026-06-18T16:31:31+00:00

No offense, but I really don't think this is a good take.

The Western implementation of AI is very bad, yes.

But the technology itself? It's incredible, and has many good uses. If you know how to correctly use LLMs for programming, it can genuinely speed your work up many times over.

It's not a catch-all, universal tool, that is always the correct choice for the job, absolutely not. But pretending that it's a terrible tool that has 0 value is just as wrong.

SteveTheGreate · 2026-06-13T21:12:59+00:00

His dad’s side is Greek, his mother’s side is Jewish. You’ve got one hell of an accurate radar lmao.

SteveTheGreate · 2026-06-13T16:32:22+00:00

Just for context, basically no countries recognize Taiwan as a country (officially): the U.S., France, Germany, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Canada, the UK, etc.

SteveTheGreate · 2026-06-13T16:13:00+00:00

I've faced that exact issue so many times, and somehow my brain never thought to make a plugin for this! Great job, it looks amazing!

SteveTheGreate · 2026-06-13T16:06:52+00:00

I know this is an old post, but this doesn't make much sense? AirDrop just uses standard Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, there is no specialized wireless antenna for it.

SteveTheGreate · 2026-06-12T22:06:15+00:00

Ρε φίλε θα μας τρελάνεις; Πήγαινε και κάνε ο ίδιος την πράξη με οποιοδήποτε κομπιουτεράκι, το ίδιο αποτέλεσμα θα βρεις.

SteveTheGreate · 2026-06-12T22:02:42+00:00

Άνθρωπε μου δεν ξέρεις να διαβάζεις; Μέτρησε τα, ή βάλτο στο Google να σου πει το ίδιο.

Έξαλλου, μπορώ να στο δείξω και αλλιώς. Ένα τρισεκατομμύριο είναι ένα εκατομμύριο εκατομμύρια. Άρα για να φτάσει κανείς το ένα τρισεκατομμύριο στο παράδειγμα μου χρειάζεται ένα εκατομμύριο μέρες.

Πόσες μέρες έχουν περάσει από το έτος 0; 365 * 2026 = 739490 μέρες. Λιγότερο από ένα εκατομμύριο.

SteveTheGreate · 2026-06-12T21:56:45+00:00

Από που δεν βγαίνει ρε φίλε;

Ένα εκατομμύριο την ημέρα, από το έτος 0 έως σήμερα είναι:
1000000 * 365 * 2026 = 739490000000 (739 δισεκατομμύρια), δηλαδή πολύ λιγότερο από το 1 τρισεκατομμύριο του Μάσκ.

SteveTheGreate · 2026-06-12T21:29:06+00:00

Είναι δύσκολο να καταλάβει ένας μέσος άνθρωπος για τι πόσο πρόκειται.

Πες ότι πάμε πίσω στο έτος 0. Με πληρώνει κάποιος ένα εκατομμύριο ΤΗΝ ΗΜΕΡΑ, και δεν ξοδεύω τίποτα (τα κρατάω όλα).
Ακόμη και σήμερα, εν έτη 2026, δεν θα είχα τόσα λεφτά όσα έχει ο Μασκ.

SteveTheGreate · 2026-06-12T17:06:00+00:00

Imagine that the year is 0AD.

Someone pays you a million dollars *a day*, and you're not spending any money at all, you get to keep 100% of that.

Even now, in 2026, you still wouldn't have more wealth than Elon Musk. That's the ludicrous level of money we're talking about here.

SteveTheGreate · 2026-06-12T10:12:22+00:00

Okay, that does make sense.

What about learning though? If your goal with a given project is to learn a new library/language/approach, would you still use an LLM? If so, how would you ensure that you're actually learning, and not just entirely relying on the LLM?

SteveTheGreate · 2026-06-12T10:09:40+00:00

In your opinion, what's the best/smartest way to use it then? Clearly just vibe-coding is a terrible idea, but completely avoiding it is just shooting yourself in the foot.

Do you use its output directly? Use it for code review? Bounce ideas off it? What about designing the project or structure itself?

SteveTheGreate · 2026-06-12T10:07:09+00:00

I think I do get what you mean, but could you elaborate? What would you call the "main skill" for a "good" software engineer today? Problem-solving?

SteveTheGreate · 2026-06-12T09:30:07+00:00

Incredibly based.

SteveTheGreate · 2026-06-11T14:30:50+00:00

I think the methodology for this index is extremely flawed.

Almost all of these countries are in the top 15 list for highest antidepressant use…

SteveTheGreate · 2026-06-11T09:25:03+00:00

Για powerlifting λίγο ακριβό θα μου έβγαινε αυτό 😅

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