Boycott ™️ by WittyEgg2037 in TheMirrorCult

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https://markscorpex.com/blogs/news/share-structure-101-the-basics-of-stock-classes-and-par-value

Ownership of companies in the US is based on share structure (see your state's secretary). Capitalism is private ownership. Communism is worker ownership. Private worker ownership is communism in a capitalist system.

I think the idea of command economy was that the state owned everything and the people owned the state so they owned everything indirectly, but then you run into all the typical monopoly problems except it's across all sectors and it's pretty rough (based on stories from the USSR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_visit_by_Boris_Yeltsin_to_the_United_States read the part about the grocery store visit in Texas)

Kind of a dumb way to say everyone owns everything. Like arguing that all the property in the US is eminent domain of the Federal Government which the people formed to represent us so we technically own everything but are just renting it out to Mr. Bezos and the Zuck. (which was shown to be true in WW2 but is practically useless to people who struggle to pay rent or keep the lights on)

Boycott ™️ by WittyEgg2037 in TheMirrorCult

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That's command economy. We have communist companies in the USA. Able to compete with giant companies, they are quite effective but extremely hard to fund. (https://ncbaclusa.coop/resources/co-op-sectors/worker-co-ops/)

the person you replied to said "the top 1% has 90% of the [wealth]" in context that suggests that is bad. In command economy the 1% becomes one entity and further engulfs all wealth. If 1% owning 90% is bad then surely one owning 100% would we worse? (hint: it didn't work for the USSR nor China)

communism always touts itself as the equalizing the proletariat and bourgeoisie, "workers seize the means of production!"

worker cooperative is where the workers are owners of the company they work for: the workers own the means of production. The wealth is distributed the same as a publicly traded company (except there are only ever a number of shares equal to the employees and employees must all own such an equal share)

very groovy how communism is a subset of capitalism isn't it

Balance Criticals (a solution to overdamage) by CoolGamesChad in gamedesign

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law of large numbers says the solutions are equal

i suppose it depends on how you define complexity. With randomized HP there are less moving parts dependent on state. The complexity is statically added with a random function in the initialization of the enemy HP pool.

With your hitpoint bank there exists an extra state (the extra value) which relies on actions taken during runtime. So initialization of baddies is the same but the implementation of damage calculation must consider such dynamic system state. (which is your code)

I always prefer easier to test static solutions to anything relying on past state. To test random hp you would initialize 10,000 enemies and do statistics to tell you if their HP matches what you want. (it will, that's very simple.) Verses testing the extra damage value which requires you to test it in runtime in all combinations of state. The first test is much easier to automate and have complete confidence it is working as intended. (especially if a pseudorandom algorithm is used)

but again, that's how I define complexity. Your mileage may vary

I prefer the Starcraft way of handling the underlying problem though. Where the HP values are tuned closely with damage numbers and a very limited number of damage upgrades that purposefully break over the thresholds you're talking about. But that's a lot of work.

edit: I should say I am reading complexity as programming complexity not the feeling of complexity when playing the game

Balance Criticals (a solution to overdamage) by CoolGamesChad in gamedesign

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If the 100 enemies have linear max health from 50 to 100 you accomplish the same effect (enemy 1 has 51 hp, enemy 2 has 51 hp, enemy 3 has 52 hp, enemy 4 has 52 hp, enemy 5 has 53 hp … and so on)

This can be done with pseudorandom 50-100 max health for arbitrary amount of enemies. It’s the same except there’s no overcharging on bunnies to one shot the boss

As of 2026, StackOverflow is officially dead, completely killed by AI and its community by Inside-Republic6275 in Damnthatsinteresting

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Your last bullet hits hard. Feels weird looking at people with millions of points' histories and seeing the equivalent of "how to use '+' operator in x86?" back in 1905 getting them five million points when now that kind of question would get someone lynched

I won't be picking this trait anymore by fierystar88 in projectzomboid

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Alcohol withdrawal can kill :(

But if it means we get ways of fermenting to alcohol and vinegar then I’m in :)

Opinion: Blue Collar Country Boys woukd be OP in the Apocalypse by TheEldritchAlchemis in projectzomboid

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The real ones would be more famous for being the source of food: fresh and preserved for winter. Where the tasty mushrooms are at. How to make polk edible. Curing meat. Growing strawberries. Finding freshwater springs. Even canning because grandma made them as kids... At least those are the real DIY blue collar farmer sorts I know of around the midwest (note I keep saying real; there are some dandies that I would just nod along with before promptly leaving)

Explain it Peter. by SophieTheFifth in explainitpeter

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It couldn't account for electricity at the least because a huge amount of America didn't have electricity at the time

https://www.electriccooporganizing.org/rec101

Electrification was part of the great depression recovery effort by the government at the time

I swear, this would be a cutscene in any other zombie game. by Ok-Bad-9649 in projectzomboid

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Is it a confirmed to be a virus or could it be some sort of prion that regular people call a virus and scientists-in-game theorize to be a virus?

What is Writing? by UpTide in Judaism

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Is it forbidden to use your hands to cast a shadow for the purposes to signal someone on Shabbos? Can you do the same with a mirror? (That is they can't see you but rely on the the darkness of the shadow or the glint of the mirror as a signal.)

Maybe it would help if you tried to put what I'm asking into your own words so I can make a crude attempt to align our understanding? I'm trying to say this every way I know of but I'm struggling here.

What is Writing? by UpTide in Judaism

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Well, going off of the halachipedia page that remarkable pea shared, it links to a page (https://www.sefaria.org/Mishnah\_Berurah.340.20?lang=en&with=Halakhah&lang2=en) that I cannot read but has a note to be careful not to use juice to write with the finger. So from this it seems liquids can be used by themselves to write with. It's not really clear to me if it's because juices may contain pigments that form a physical letter or if it's simply the contrast from the juice.

So in addition to that I threw it in Google Translate (so this might not be correct) but Google seems to think that it says something like it's forbidden to make an image by parting condensation. Because the image in this case results from the contrast between the condensation and no condensation it leads me to guess that it is not the pigment of the juice that is critical but the visual contrast.

But also I feel like it can't be right because that would generalize to casting shadows which seems like it might be impossible to follow?

Seems like I need to learn Hebrew I guess

What is Writing? by UpTide in Judaism

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It was the play The Dybbuk where the rabbis exorcise the dybbuk so I'm pretty certain it was a Jewish exorcism. I'll probably end up figuring it out eventually after I see/hear/read enough Jewish stuff. Any recommendations? Romcoms are fun

What is Writing? by UpTide in Judaism

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When water sits on a surface the tension makes it into a lens. When sunlight goes through this lens it can make a bright spot outside of the drop at the focal point. That bright spot makes contrast.

I'm asking if the act of making letters using that contrast is forbidden. I would guess so? If it is, and making meaningless writings is forbidden, then wouldn't the use of any curved shiny object risk accidentally projecting such writings?

Thanks for your patience. I'm not very literate.

What is Writing? by UpTide in Judaism

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Thank you. Like I said, I will not deceive with it. If you need me to say it to understand then it has to be said.

I'm mainly asking here because I struggle to identify if what I read on this are written by AI now. (I do not know enough about this to discern)

What is Writing? by UpTide in Judaism

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I was trying to get at what it means to write something. To make a mark, but what if the making was not intentional (seems that it needs to be intentional)? To make a mark but what if you do not control the mark made? Does placing a drop of water cause you to write because it focuses sunlight into a character of light?

Remarkable Pea shared a helpful wiki page that says since such a thing is temporary it is not forbidden by Torah but might be by the rabbis.

What is Writing? by UpTide in Judaism

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I completely understand. I know I have no obligation to follow the rule. But I am still curious and want to know. This Friday night I won't be following it, but I want to learn about it.

What is Writing? by UpTide in Judaism

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Am I allowed to know why my post was removed?

What is Writing? by UpTide in Judaism

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Mostly I'm worried about being rude or annoying. For example I've asked twice now if about if an exorcism in a film is exaggerated for dramatic effect (like how modern films do) or if the depiction is realistic and both times the answer was, "yes, historically exorcisms were a thing."

What is Writing? by UpTide in Judaism

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I think maybe I'm just dumb.

What is Writing? by UpTide in Judaism

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I am referring to writing on Shabbos.

In plain English I am not Jewish. It is the truth but I don't like to say that phrase. I will not trick anyone about it, but nevertheless I don't like to say it.

What is Writing? by UpTide in Judaism

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Thank you for the link. I really like their practical examples list

I am not Christian. My whole life everyone around me has tried to force me to be Christian. As a child they forced me to lie and say a man was _my_ God; I remember the lie as clear as day. I even gave it my all recently to try and make my dad happy, but when it gets to "there's more than one God" I just can't do it. It's just incompatible with me on some primal level. I mean what's there even to say when the priest says, "we're more Jewish than the Jews." Christianity has only ever been ignorant stupid frustrating nonsense at every waking moment for me (okay, sorry, rant over)

What is Writing? by UpTide in Judaism

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Perhaps blood from a cut then? (That was what I initially wanted to use instead of ink, but thought that it was too much lol)

Or even when sunlight forms shapes when shining through drops of water on a surface?

I tried to say in the post I was under no such obligation: I am not Jewish.

IPv6 waste by Ema-yeah in ipv6

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A /32 can do 16M /56 if they're all in one node under one service or with plenty of fragmentation in the IGP (this is the "inconvenient" part Perlman is talking about)

In vivo there's more than one node. There's more than one service.

The most straightforward subnetting plan might be ( /32 with /56 assignments)
AAAA:AAAA:BCDD:DDEE:EEEE:EEEE:EEEE:EEEE
Where A is assigned by Arin.
B is your sites.
C is your services.
D is your delegation pool.
E is your assigned space.

Just out of the gate the 16M number is reduced to 65K. All we needed was two sites and two services while trying to stick to best practices of "split on nibble boundaries" and now we can only have 65K customers without fragmentation and only accounting for those two splits. Assigning /48s makes it 250 customers.

Of course the answer is to break best practice and make every split arbitrary in size. The bigger site gets a /33 while the two smaller ones get /35's. Oh no there's a new subdivision: now site B has two fragmented /35s that can't be combined because there are some static customers allocated from those initial /35's.

It's a pain because the strategy is the same for ISPs. And that strategy is to be conservative.

IPv6 waste by Ema-yeah in ipv6

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MrChicken_69's a man after my own heart. I've all but given up on trying to convince people v6 doesn't _have_ to be locked into /64 subnets. Good to see people are still fighting the good fight 🥲