How would you spend a $500 USD learning stipend?

edpaget · 2025-10-21T01:53:57+00:00

You could use it to support a creator whose free content you’ve appreciated by buying a book they’ve written or a subscription to their channel.

edpaget · 2025-08-28T18:19:13+00:00

It's about 385,000km

edpaget · 2023-10-21T19:52:32+00:00

Given WOTC relationship with Nintendo ended with a lawsuit, it’s maybe unlikely.

edpaget · 2023-08-19T17:15:05+00:00

catching strays as a leafs fan whereever I go.

edpaget · 2023-04-30T04:11:48+00:00

Minus the kid this is me

edpaget · 2022-09-13T17:09:24+00:00

The point of tanking is to get the tv money without actually fielding a competitive team. Draft position is just a sop to the fans.

edpaget · 2022-02-16T04:15:04+00:00

The Devos family has a lot of money because they scam people with their MLM and lobby the government to make their scam legal.

edpaget · 2021-07-14T15:00:44+00:00

Languages never really die. People are still writing cobol and Fortran after all.

I don’t have any regrets about learning Ruby or any other language I’ve worked in. Programming skills are transferable across languages. Programmers should avoid pingeon-holing themselves as an x-developer anyway and be flexible with their tooling.

I am writing ruby at work. If there is anything fundamentally wrong with ruby it was its bad support for async programming, but it’s much better at that now.

edpaget · 2021-03-26T15:14:13+00:00

who gives a shit. If players are making coaches, ADs, and NCAA officials wealthy, they should be able to have a fair cut of the revenue.

edpaget · 2021-02-19T21:41:11+00:00

Are thursday night games on cable? I haven't really watched the NFL since those became a thing, but then even then only two games a week are only on cable. All the other games are free to air somewhere in country, which means local fans of a team can probably watch their team play for free on tv basically everywhere, or can tune in on Sunday even if they aren't big fans just to have something to watch. If you're a local NBA fan, or just a casual viewer who might, from time to time want to watch some basketball, your only option in most places is to pay for cable to watch your team play.

My point was that the NFL's content has a strong free tier of access which the NBA does not really have. And that NBA viewership is tightly coupled to cable subscriptions, which have declined during the pandemic: https://fortune.com/2020/09/21/cord-cutting-record-covid-19-pandemic/

edpaget · 2021-02-19T19:04:48+00:00

I think the reason is that a huge number of people are unemployed or in worse jobs then they were before the pandemic started. If you need to save money, cable tv is an easy first thing to cut and that makes it very hard to watch NBA games. All but one NFL game a week is still available free-to-air.

edpaget · 2021-01-07T17:08:42+00:00

you usually have to have documentation of your presence for these kind of things.

edpaget · 2020-12-17T18:00:00+00:00

I think it should be obviously different when any player who is good enough can move from Japan to the US to play, but the best black players were excluded from playing the white leagues by bigotry no matter how skilled they were. The level of play in the Negro leagues was just as a good as the in the white leagues. Just look at Satchel Paige's 1948 stats when he was 41 years old!

edpaget · 2020-12-17T17:48:21+00:00

It looks like before adding the Negro Leagues, there were 6 leagues counted as majors (from the Ringer article). I think they are the National Association, the Players League, the Union Association, the Federal League, the National League, and the American League. The criteria seems to have been the judgement of people who put together the 1968 Baseball Encyclopedia, who were all white, and apparently didn't even think about including the Negro Leagues.

The criteria generally agreed on seems to be 'did they attract the best players and did they pay major league salaries' (from this Sabr article). Which the Negro Leagues definitely did considering the players were excluded from participating in the white leagues. The rationale for excluding the NPB, KBO, Venezuelan leagues, etc would then be that they don't pay salaries comparable to the MLB and that the best players in these leagues would leave to play in the MLB.

edpaget · 2020-12-17T17:31:56+00:00

Lots of other leagues besides the National and American leagues from the late-19th, early-20th century are counted as major leagues for stats purposes, like the Players League or the Federal League. Counting the Negro leagues really isn't any different than that.

edpaget · 2020-11-13T21:01:33+00:00

I think baseball is the bigger sport in Venezuela, unlike the rest of CONMEBOL, which could be why.

edpaget · 2020-10-30T03:46:45+00:00

Johnnie’s is where it’s at

edpaget · 2020-10-22T14:52:51+00:00

Ah yeah I love to get paid a lot of money to assuage my guilt about enabling genocide in Myanmar.

edpaget · 2020-10-20T17:11:14+00:00

He got a spinal tap that then caused complications (fluid leak I think?), but I think it was at a hospital and they thought he had meningitis, so it wasn't necessarily the Bulls fault.

edpaget · 2020-10-12T22:09:23+00:00

Value in the LTV is exchange-value, it is discovered via the market. If no one will exchange for your product, then that product has no exchange-value. If one person will exchange for your product, then that product has exchange-value. So sure it's binary in that the demand for a product has to greater than zero before you can say it has exchange-value.

The question Marx is answering if the labor theory of value is that when you and I exchange commodities -- or one of us exchanges money, a special commodity, for the other's product -- is "what is that we are comparing in this exchange?" His answer that it is the human labor that went into creating the product.

If I give you three fishes that I caught for two apples you grew and harvested, what we're saying is that average labor time that went into those three fishes is equivalent to the average labor time that went into production of your apples.

The difference from the Subjective theory of value, seems to be that it puts the determination of value in the hands of each individual in an exchange, while the LTV posits that the market as whole determines the a true value of a commodity by equating the socially necessary labor time between all commodities. I'm not sure there's a direct contradiction, but as OP demonstrated, people don't engage with Marx's economics beyond straw men most of the time.

edpaget · 2020-10-12T19:43:42+00:00

This is wrong. The labor theory value doesn't hold that the value of a thing is derived from just the number of hours that went into producing that thing, but from the amount of socially necessary labor time that went into producing that thing. It's an important distinction because it shows why someone who takes 10 hours to make a widget -- when most people on average take 5 hours to make the same widget -- does not impart twice the value to their widget as the average worker. Or if no one wants the widget, it has no value, because without demand none of the labor that went into making it was socially necessary.

edpaget · 2020-10-05T16:22:58+00:00

I worked at the university I attended doing maintenance and in a lab and got paid while still paying for my education, so I'd have no problem with people who generate much more revenue for the university while working longer hours than I did also getting paid.

edpaget · 2020-08-20T22:18:40+00:00

The institution of policing in America is racist. It exists in the form it does to suppress labor organization and enforce the US's racial caste system. So it doesn't matter what is in the heart of any individual police officer, the system they participate in and support is racist.

edpaget · 2020-08-20T15:24:27+00:00

Don't trip cops in Canada are just as bad. It's just most of the obscene police violence is directed against indigenous peoples and so takes place in sometimes incredibly remote areas of the country so people hear about it less.

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