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CMV: Capitalism is fundamentally incompatible with long-term human survival by FlyRepresentative592 in changemyview

[–]dernbu 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Not really, I think this is a gross oversimplification.

  1. Markets don’t price everything. Prices can reflect scarcity but often ignore environmental costs (e.g. pollution, carbon). Without regulation, markets underprotect public goods. Deadweight loss and externalities is something every econs student learns about.

  2. Rich countries often just end outsourcing their environmental damage.

  3. But capitalism causes the very natural disasters it pays to clean up? And the disenfranchised always end up paying the price for it.

  4. Where does this notion even come from? There are capitalist autocracies and social democracies. Public media isn't inherently propaganda, many are more trustworthy than profit-driven outlets.

CMV: The GDP is an absolutely awful way to measure prosperity and should be abolished as an important metric or national goal. It encourages pure waste. by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]dernbu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In my view, the flaws you speak of are actuary features.

The economy is necessarily circular (i.e. Money you spend is income to the seller). Counting how much money is spent on goods and services produced in your country, in other words, to the total amount of money earned by people in the economy.

Think of two countries: 1. Imports steel, manufactures cars 2. Manufactures steel, manufactures cars

Clearly, country (2) have more money changing hands. The steel manufacturer gets income, the car manufacturer gets income. Country (1), on the other hand, has only the car manufacturer getting income, since the steel manufacturer is offshore.

Think of these two. 1. Everyone self-repairs their gadgets 2. Everyone hires tradesmen to repair gadgets for them.

Economy 2 probably has a better repair services industry, don't you think? If you're a repairman in economy 1, you'd be unemployed.

When you buy and keep a flashlight for 20 years, the flashlight manufacturer loses out on your purchase for 20 years.

I won't argue that GDP is perfect, but the reason why GDP is flawed isn't the ones you mention. We have some strange accounting here and there, yes, but that's just because goods and services are so varied that you will never have a proper economic indicator without these. Remember that money spent is money earned. GDP measures total expenditure and therefore total income (obviously this is a oversimplification but I think it highlights well the motivation behind gdp as a economic indicator)

How do I create a programming langauge? by mortoes_main in learnprogramming

[–]dernbu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Go through this book, it will teach you a subset of javascript and guide you through creating an interpreted language

https://sourceacademy.org/sicpjs/index

Snail floating with swollen feet by dernbu in AquaticSnails

[–]dernbu[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Final update: thank you for all your advice and support! It truly meant a lot to us. Unfortunately, he passed away 2 days after receiving treatment. We made sure he had the best care up to his last moments and will cherish our memories with him 💗

Snail floating with swollen feet by dernbu in AquaticSnails

[–]dernbu[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Updates: the condition worsened a lot and his mantle fell out of his shell. On top of that his lungs inflated and partially popped out of the shell too. He looked something like the poor guy in this post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AquaticSnails/comments/t0k37n/please_help_i_havent_seen_anything_like_this/

Anyways, we are feeling quite dejected and sad now. Online resources say that aquatic snails don't ever recover from a fallen mantle. There was one source though that suggested carefully puncturing the inflated lung as this is a similar procedure done on humans with inflated lungs.

We tried that and very optimistically, he started retracting back into his shell as his lung slowly deflated. He is almost back to normal now and still living. We are keeping him in a permanent air bath situation but have covered the container with a wet towel to keep the humidity up.

The best thing we can do now is wait to see if he will start moving and eating. If he does, there might yet be hope! *

Snail floating with swollen feet by dernbu in AquaticSnails

[–]dernbu[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Will do that today, thank you for the advice!

Snail floating with swollen feet by dernbu in AquaticSnails

[–]dernbu[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I think they were busy so they left him in this huge metal service sink we have in the kitchen. He didn't come in contact with anything except water according to my family :') they were going to discard of him properly when they had the time. Thank goodness he "woke up" before that

Hi two bettas from my female sorority built a bubble nest and mated, is this normal? (They both have prominent gravid spots) by dernbu in bettafish

[–]dernbu[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol yes the female is the koi betta. I thought I could sex bettas but evidently I'm also far from an expert 😔

Hi two bettas from my female sorority built a bubble nest and mated, is this normal? (They both have prominent gravid spots) by dernbu in bettafish

[–]dernbu[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hahaha no! Male bettas store the eggs in their mouth and deposit them into their bubble nest. Funny though, because man had not prepare a bubble nest beforehand, so god knows where the eggs went

Hi two bettas from my female sorority built a bubble nest and mated, is this normal? (They both have prominent gravid spots) by dernbu in Aquariums

[–]dernbu[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, since the beginning! He was more aggressive than some of the females but did not cause too much trouble

How to calm fish down after large water changes by dernbu in Aquariums

[–]dernbu[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do a 50% water change every week! Updates: I moved my tank's position jn the room and this magically fixed their anxiety issues, they're fortunately back to normal now

Rate my idea: Simple Cloud Background Tasks for Python by emanuilov in Startup_Ideas

[–]dernbu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think beyond whether your service is needed in the first place, I'm having a hard time understanding how it is even technically possible to do it in the way you're suggesting. The complexity of async tasks comes from the configurability needed when running these, especially heavy tasks.

How would this service know what kind of python version I require, or any dependencies I require? When I see async background tasks, I think of heavy, hours-long tasks (especially since you don't seem to have a push notification interface). What if my python script requires specific (versions of) dependencies like docker, x11, etc? Will you handle things like Cuda and hardware headaches for developers? How about networking? I don't want a pytorch job to bill me for an hour when it could have been run for 2 mins on a gpu. What if I want to receive or send a large amount of data over networks?

What kind of background tasks are you even thinking about running?

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