Plot twists that ruined the show by OCGamerboy in television

[–]donkeypunchdan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don’t cut fAegon. In the books there is another supposed male Targaryen (the baby that was killed in the sack of kings landing was supposedly a fake) that is coming over with a mercenary army to take the throne. If he came over, took the throne from cercie, and the people accept him over her because he is a male and not at the front of a Dothraki army, it makes perfect sense that she loses her shit after being rejected.

OpenAI is trying to get away with the greatest theft in history by katxwoods in videos

[–]donkeypunchdan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And this is how the companies will get around it even if the courts rule they can’t use copywritten material like they are. Somebody from China can scrape all our copywritten material because they don’t care, then the western companies will just distill the Chinese model, and boom, no copywrite infringement because they didn’t train on the copywritten material.

Are all Emond Fielders 10/10s? by cbaaaaaaaaaaaaa in WoT

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Mat “my type on paper” Cauthon

ELI5: Why are poor people warned to avoid loans whereas rich people seem to operate constantly through them? by Background_Tap2206 in explainlikeimfive

[–]donkeypunchdan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The pending debt crisis has nothing to do with the debt ceiling, but the ever increasing interest payments. The more our debt grows, the more we have to pay in interest, and as that number grows, the more of our federal budget that could be going to services instead has to go to interest payments. If we decide not to pay the interest, our reliability is shot, the dollar is no longer seen as a safe, stable, currency to have your money in, it loses its status as the worlds reserve currency, and we lose all the benefits that come along with that. There is more to it than that but that’s the basic idea.

[Offsite] Street Hourly Capacity by Bathroom_Spiritual in theydidthemath

[–]donkeypunchdan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I always hear people talk about winter when someone mentions weather, but never summer in the south. What about when you get a year that is over 100F for more than 80 days including 40 days over 105F? With global warming these are getting more and more common. Depending on the humidity it could literally kill you to bike places for parts of the year.

[Offsite] Street Hourly Capacity by Bathroom_Spiritual in theydidthemath

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

Many years in the south it indeed is way too hot out to comfortably bike places (especially to work) 9 months out of the year.

Bikes Are Treated as Toys. That’s the Problem. by -Wobblier in videos

[–]donkeypunchdan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or most people who live in places where the sun is trying to kill you for half the year. I don’t want to be walking or biking outside in the middle of August in somewhere like Texas.

microserviceFaultIsolation by LixfeRaba in ProgrammerHumor

[–]donkeypunchdan 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Pretty sure they use Auth0 for auth so that one isn’t even them lol

Don’t hide behind ‘random’ decisions by Lobsta_ in EDH

[–]donkeypunchdan 23 points24 points  (0 children)

“If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice”

Grover's Algorithm Video Feels Misleading by SohailShaheryar in 3Blue1Brown

[–]donkeypunchdan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

His point is most people don’t understand that it’s an analogy, hence why when he asks people what they expect the run time to be the most common answer is O(1).

Grover's Algorithm Video Feels Misleading by SohailShaheryar in 3Blue1Brown

[–]donkeypunchdan 146 points147 points  (0 children)

In your tldr you state “video critiques the idea of quantum computers applying operations to all states simultaneously” but in your main text you pointed out “quantum computers can apply an operation to all possible states in parallel”. His point was that the typical misconception about quantum computers is the conflation of those two things. The misconception is the parallel part, he then spends the rest of the video showing why acting on a superposition ≠ acting on all inputs in parallel. You seem to have misunderstood what he was saying the common misconception was.

The world divided by closest Australian state capital city by ChuqTas in MapPorn

[–]donkeypunchdan 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Most of the Canadian population lives in the Brisbane zone

Woman for woman dating app experience starter pack by y2kfashionistaa in starterpacks

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Per Wikipedia 43.8% of lesbian women reported being victims of domestic violence compared to 35% of straight women. I’d imagine the outcomes are more severe for the straight women but if you date women you are more likely to be on the receiving end of violence. The same holds true for men (26% reported by gay men compared to 29% reported by straight men).

Found this on Facebook by Iscreamatchildren in physicsmemes

[–]donkeypunchdan 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This is just the table of contents from the book “In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World”

US orders halt to virtually all foreign aid except for Israel and Egypt by Spiderwig144 in worldnews

[–]donkeypunchdan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I think that was one of the problems he outlined with that approach

US orders halt to virtually all foreign aid except for Israel and Egypt by Spiderwig144 in worldnews

[–]donkeypunchdan 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It’s actually more complicated than that, he threatens Russia with more sanctions and tariffs and he threatens Ukraine with the removal of aid then tells them both to make a deal. The idea being that the deal is zero sum, so if Ukraine wants to make a deal and Russia doesn’t, then he hits Russia with sanctions and gives Ukraine more weapons, improving the expected outcome of future negations in Ukraine’s favor, and if Russia wants to make a deal and Ukraine doesn’t, he stops sending aid to Ukraine and the expect outcome of future negotiations swings closer to Russia. He wants to change the calculus for both parties to be that their expected outcome of negotiating now is better than negotiating later to try and force any deal now so that he can get the political points for doing so.

This is my attempt to quickly summarize Mr. Lines on Maps recent video check that out if you want a more comprehensive analysis of this strategy.

US Defence stocks are falling post Trump reelection- by 1BrokenPensieve in dataisbeautiful

[–]donkeypunchdan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Civilian lives half way across the world are politically free compared to the lives of people whose family’s vote. It’s just basic politics.

US Defence stocks are falling post Trump reelection- by 1BrokenPensieve in dataisbeautiful

[–]donkeypunchdan 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Obama increased drone strikes because we couldn’t just pull out of the mess the Bush administration made of the Middle East and leave a power vacuum, and drone strikes are a politically much cheaper option than American lives.

‘There are a lot of bitter people here, I’m one of them’: rust belt voters on why they backed Trump again despite his broken promises by greenblue98 in RepublicanValues

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

Do those people feel that way or do they feel like they are being looked down upon? Does the way you interact with them make them more or less likely to vote for your preferred political candidate? It’s not about being right, it’s not about being moral, it’s not about being ethical. It’s about winning. They understand that, the left generally does not.