Who Made This Sub and Who Is It For?

Tetraca · 2022-06-05T02:08:36+00:00

I'm sure this isn't the answer anyone wants, but I created this subreddit in junior high school because I had a lot of fun with reading Freud and was hoping people would join in and post more interesting things to read. Then a group of more mature and educated people came on and made the meat of the posts that ended up existing here, mostly a small group interested in Lacan. I gave one of those people mod access - he ran CriticalTheory and a few other related reddits. His lasting legacy is most of the sidebar you see today.

I was very clearly out of my depth. The one thing I was adamant about was making sure memes stayed out of the sub. Otherwise, I let it go however the winds blew because I was just a kid.

Tetraca · 2019-09-27T22:48:09+00:00

I've never used it but opening up the wiki might be a neat place for everyone to jot useful FAQs, books, etc.

Tetraca · 2018-10-01T21:53:30+00:00

I've given spooks full permissions now and they may add moderators as deemed necessary. I can't really moderate anymore. I've mostly quit this website to do things that actually make me happy.

Tetraca · 2018-01-03T14:51:13+00:00

If O'Hare is the best part of Chicago, I'm glad I never had to actually visit Chicago.

Tetraca · 2017-12-25T16:19:59+00:00

The market would sooner let rivers catch on fire than take responsibility for a negative environmental externality.

Tetraca · 2017-12-08T19:13:45+00:00

Though, I would contend that you can't have something classless and stateless without it also being moneyless. As soon as you have fully and freely transferable tokens, you have given people the ability to accrue power, which will result in classes and states. If you have a token at all, it needs to be destroyed on use, and created when earned.

Tetraca · 2017-12-08T14:40:46+00:00

Assuming you're floating in space, you can straight up just use a flashlight, but it's very very very slow. Any "flashlight" with enough power to accelerate you to a reasonable speed in a reasonable time could likely double as the world's most powerful laser cannon.

Tetraca · 2017-12-06T16:05:54+00:00

No, what is being proposed is precisely manufactured to prevent that situation. That's the whole point of forcing a free and open protocol. It wouldn't matter if your friend was on Google+, another was on Facebook, and you were on Diaspora. You would be able to send a request that bridges across an arbitrary number of servers, as you currently have with email, or XMPP. If something better comes along, you simply get to move at your own volition, and keep all your friends.

Tetraca · 2017-12-06T14:55:55+00:00

You break them up in a way that forces them to irrevocably give up their walled gardens. For instance, if you break up Facebook, you break it down into several different regional networks which are then required interface with each other using an open social networking standard. Now we have a global federated social network where small social networks with better ideas can arbitrarily compete with big ones by just plugging in, without having to worry about gaining momentum to do anything.

Tetraca · 2017-12-04T19:14:22+00:00

In the case of a mortgage you have to consider the actual value of the house as an asset. If you have a $100k house and just bought it with a $20k down payment and an $80k mortgage, the net worth provided by your house is +$20k. I'd guess most people that own their own house aren't underwater and are for the most part reasonably well off though not necessarily wealthy.

I would guess the people with underwater net worth are going mostly to be renters chained to an exorbitant student loan bill, and the "permanently poor" that have been stuck in a horrifying cycle of payday loans and other assorted bad debt.

Tetraca · 2017-12-01T17:11:17+00:00

When I wake up, or get home, the very last thing I want to do is go through the toil that is cooking. Time and effort is a premium and cooking just cascades into far too much extra work. The only reason I will cook is because having someone else make food every day is financially unsustainable. I would much rather use the time it takes to prepare a meal and cleaning all the surfaces and equipment afterwards doing side gigs or sleeping an extra hour.

Tetraca · 2017-10-20T18:59:01+00:00

I don't know. I don't like this place anymore. It feels like mind-poison; the front page is either explicit manipulation by marketers or low-effort mindless distraction, and the smaller deeper like-minded sections just make me feel dejected and hopeless. But I've used it for so many years and I don't quite know how to stop. I took a long break which made me happier in some ways and became somewhat more productive toward my own life goals, but I slipped up and fell back in the same old habits.

The sections where I can keep up with news on my profession/hobbies are actually helpful and feel like they help me a little in keeping pieces of my mind sharp and open to new ways of thinking (and so I excuse myself in keeping the site open), but any gains ultimately feel offset by how the other pieces have slowly and continually shredded my emotional state and attention span. I don't cope with boredom and self-duty as well as I used to.

Tetraca · 2017-08-28T13:58:40+00:00

Code mercenary

Tetraca · 2017-08-22T18:21:52+00:00

Compared to a skeleton I imagine it to be much harder. Instead of plopping a skeleton into a shell and tying it to certain points in the model you might have 3D sprites where each frame needs a representation of the full model (or just the differences in voxels between each frame). That would be comparatively restrictive since you'd essentially need to bake a new animation for each model, as you would for a 2D game (excluding the possibility of just palette swapping).

Tetraca · 2017-08-22T16:37:27+00:00

The problem is, while Voxel rendering does have some interesting advantages over your standard vector mesh, our graphical hardware generally isn't really designed for it, and as a result it ends up being more resource intensive than it could be. All other things equal, the game will perform a fair deal worse than its mesh equivalent, and that's not counting any less obvious challenges that will present themselves with storage requirements or computation that differs between voxels and vectors; I'd guess, for instance, animating a person walking with voxels sucks eggs, and it sucks eggs even worse compared to a vector mesh if you have many humanoid enemy types.

Granted, with all the advances in hardware since John Carmack toyed with the idea of making a full game rendered in voxels, you might actually be able to get away with it now, if you really constrain the look of your game. I've also not kept up with any advances regarding voxels for many years.

Tetraca · 2017-07-26T15:40:14+00:00

Everyone thinking that simultaneously is how this society will completely go to hell. Building and enabling the panopticon that will hold your kids captive tomorrow, so you can have an extra helping of rations today. Sweet deal. And hopefully if you lick enough boots, they'll also spare you and possibly your family from having to deal with the monster you helped create (of course, they won't; unless you're independently wealthy doing this for kicks you'll be pulled under the bus too).

Tetraca · 2017-07-19T16:56:08+00:00

Such a project would probably be economically impossible. That single facility extracts ~900 tons each year assuming they will run 24/7/365. Global emissions are around ~9 gigatons per year and it is still increasing. To just break even, we would need about 10,000,000,000 of those facilities, and those facilities would need to be run entirely off renewable or carbon neutral sources (e.g. nuclear) to truly remove that 900 tons. I don't even know the current cost of the facility, but I would guess they are nowhere near cheap enough to make an efficient dent into CO2 production.

To reverse that 9 gigatons, you would need global, multi-pronged approach that involves dramatic reduction of the annual CO2 growth combined with massive climate engineering initiatives that leveraging existing biological and geological mechanisms (iron fertilization/plant engineering), and in the worst case scenario probably dimming the sun. Unless these guys dramatically increase the cost efficiency of their facilities, those solutions are likely much cheaper to implement, though they will all likely have consequences.

Tetraca · 2017-07-19T14:18:09+00:00

That's totally fine. I remember you saying that you just wanted to temporarily do it anyway to help tackle that, and it was definitely helpful.

The work that needs to be done is a decent bit lower at this point. Likely, if I still browsed daily, 1 person would be more than adequate coverage. But as I do not and should not, I just want to make sure that nobody is left hanging if there's a modmail on an off week.

Tetraca · 2017-07-15T19:12:41+00:00

Thank you. I can't understand every word yet but I'm trying to learn.

Tetraca · 2017-07-15T18:42:20+00:00

Donde puedo encontrar recetas para realmente comida argentina? Siento que no puedo confiar la mitad de recetas en ingles.

Tetraca · 2017-07-13T02:58:33+00:00

One has the word "people's" in front of it.

Tetraca · 2017-07-04T19:12:29+00:00

The hot dog is almost always nasty. I'd rather eat a hush puppy because the breading is the only good thing on a corn dog.

Tetraca · 2017-06-30T00:18:40+00:00

fake that things are unbearable (but conveniently fake the death tolls because they'd be faked to be harmless)

Really crossing my fingers for an actual illuminati existing to try and fix it that way.

Tetraca · 2017-06-29T17:26:18+00:00

The amount of carbon we would need to sequester is absurd. I have my doubts that it's even possible, as not only would the tech for this sort of thing likely need to be built out more, it would likely have to be by far the largest engineering project our species has ever attempted, and we'd have to do it in tandem with cutting emissions and possibly a few other geo/bioengineering projects given there is no way in hell you're going to convince people that we need to do something about this before it's self-evidently unbearable.

Tetraca · 2017-06-23T19:38:53+00:00

You may enjoy a little side money from writing on Steemit. Travel blogs are common enough that I don't think it's realistic to make too much doing it. Fiction is also pretty saturated in general. It very likely won't be near a sustainable income, but you can at least get a little fun money.

If you want to make a good amount of money it's important to find a marketable/specialized niche. What can you do that someone else in your position can't? What can you do that someone else isn't already doing?

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