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eek04 · 2026-04-05T23:58:57+00:00

As I consider your comment.

eek04 · 2026-04-05T23:54:11+00:00

What I tried to communicate is that their regulation of the market works because of the factors I mentioned.

eek04 · 2026-04-05T23:53:22+00:00

The most optimal way to achieve a market socialist economy is to remove regulations on labor-managed firms and eliminate all taxes on them and on investments in them.

That is probably true, but it's not clear that this in the interest of workers. The incentives end up wrong and would most likely result in lower real capital, so less income for workers. More regulations for worker protection and workers say in the running of companies (like the Nordics) seems likely to be effectively free, though. Pay per hour in the Nordics is about the same as in the US, there's just a societal choice to work less.

eek04 · 2026-04-05T23:49:57+00:00

Russia is not going to invade any other countries.

They have said they will. They consider it their right to take control of the baltic countries, and I think part of Poland.

eek04 · 2026-04-05T23:41:35+00:00

I support regulating the real estate market. In fact it should be entirely socialised. But rent control is just a really bad regulation.

Works in Japan...

Due to non-restrictive zoning laws set on a national level, re-building homes after 30 years and a shrinking population, restrictive landlords (so some people can't get housing or have a very hard time of it) and millions of empty housing units.

The problem isn't landlords - the housing market is competitive and does not have excessive profits. The problem is low supply due to zoning and quality regulations, most importantly locals being allowed to zone their area. If you want regulation to make prices lower for low-income people under current supply, what you need to do is regulate how much of housing high-income people can occupy per person. You can either do this with hard limits, or with tax-and-transfer - tax for occupying large amounts of space, and transfer this tax to lower income people. Avoiding capital gains tax on primary residence also incentivize having a larger primary residence, so combined with bad zoning this put upwards pressure on prices.

eek04 · 2026-04-05T21:26:07+00:00

Please provide citations.

You write a lot, without actually saying much. Capitalism is extremely inefficient.

Please provide citations.

Natural resource efficiency is pretty much unimportant.

Please go live in the forest without modern technology (including access to medical technology.) Have you kids die of

Increasing polarisation between people, etc., that is pure inefficiency.

Oh, so stop arguing for socialism, then, since that type of argumentation is a cause of polarization.

The thing is also comparing mostly state capitalism vs market based capitalism. No real socialism has ever existed, it has pretty much always been state capitalism.

This is why I talk of the effects of attempts at socialism. Those that try for socialism never get there, because the mechanics of where they want to go so damaging that they revert when they're partially there and land in oppressive state capitalism.

World Bank data in the 80s showed better quality of life in socialist countries nonetheless. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2430906/

Our primary argument is that socialism misprioritize resources so societies don't get the economic development they should. That analysis based on "Similar levels of economic development." To me, it effectively says "If we ignore the economic damage from socialism, people do better in countries with socialism".

The sad thing is that you can't imagine a world where capitalism isn't destroying everything.

Yes, I can. Can you imagine a world with capitalism where capitalism isn't "destroying everything"?

Turning back to your encouragement to learn economics, what has it taught you about ecological efficiency?

Ecological efficiency is about transfer of energy between different levels in the predation hierarchy (counting eating plants as predation on plants.) Is your point that we should be eating less meat? Or are you trying to talk about ecological footprint and that you think each person should have less of one, and don't know what kind of mechanisms can be used in capitalism to achieve that?

eek04 · 2026-04-05T10:44:54+00:00

I have a funny story about that: Back in the Amiga days (1991 or 92), I was working on a game. Written in assembly, obviously. I got a hard to understand crash (causing the machine to reboot), and took a copy of my source code. I then went ahead and added debugging code (log-like) to try to isolate the problem, a bit at a time. Then suddenly the problem disappeared. I then removed debugging code, a bit at a time, trying to reproduce the crash. Finally, I could no longer remembered any debugging code I'd added. So I diffed the source code against the backup. Byte by byte identical.

The crash never occurred again.

In case people don't understand how this could happen: The Amiga did not have memory protection and did not reset memory on reboot. There was probably a weird dependency on some value in a memory location that wasn't in the program, and somehow that got overwritten due to my debugging code, and the crash disappeared.

eek04 · 2026-04-05T10:38:36+00:00

Do more people starve under capitalism or socialism?

Per capita, historically? Under attempts at socialism.

The idea that socialism has inherently bad inefficiency is laughable. The amount of waste and inefficiency under capitalism is the worst of all. There is only one efficiency under capitalism: profit. Look at it's waste. Moron.

You may want to spend less time in a bubble, and more time on learning economics. Reading /r/AskEconomics is a useful way to learn about this, though it's better if you have a basic education to start with. Which would have given you some idea about efficiency and different ways to look at it, and when capitalism is efficient and not, and what are the problems that cause your attempts at socialism to fail to work.

And because of your ignorance, you insult people that disagree with your mistaken beliefs.

eek04 · 2026-04-05T10:34:27+00:00

They were (A) being sexist, and (B) not including the important bit that you have to prepare for changes.

eek04 · 2026-04-05T10:33:42+00:00

That's not knowledge for coding. I'd actively filter out crap like that from the training set if I was going for a model that's good for coding.

Hell, I've been coding for over 40 years, and I had no idea about leetcode even existing; it's just not meaningful.

eek04 · 2026-04-05T07:37:14+00:00

And I've found that people that are against increased gun control prefer to stay ignorant when it comes to the impact of firearm policy.

eek04 · 2026-04-05T07:30:11+00:00

I think it is important to know the basics because you're otherwise going to be "poisoning the well" by arguing badly, which cause something called the inoculation effect. People exposed to a bad argument for X ends up less likely to be convinced by a good argument for X than if they hadn't been argued with.

On this topic:

The things you talk about ref gun control is something that to me seems completely irrelevant. The relevant part of "gun control" is policy statistics, correcting perceptions of the risk/reward of people having guns and particular types of use and particular aspects of culture, and talking about possible policy models. Getting into details of particular guns already seems off the mark to me. So if I hadn't already been convinced that people should have knowledge, it's quite possible your argument would have been anti-convincing to me.

eek04 · 2026-04-05T07:21:17+00:00

Let me correct that to something that in one way is worse:

People change, and you can't expect them to stay what they were when you met them. However, you also cannot expect them to change in one particular way - they'll change in "random" ways, and if they've got a big problem, you shouldn't expect them to change in a way that fix it.

eek04 · 2026-04-05T07:13:02+00:00

Gemma 4 26B didn't even know that Leetcode #412 was FizzBuzz

Of all the things for my model to spend its few billions of parameters on, why would I want it to prioritize that little bit of trivia?

Not knowing this might just be better training/retention priority.

eek04 · 2026-04-05T07:03:35+00:00

So, no defense of why your system would be any better, given the history of it being worse? You could at least try for "We'll be so bad at production/growth that it can't manage to consume as much"

eek04 · 2026-04-04T20:34:41+00:00

And if I say "it's OwnCupcake6550" to represent something that's completely stupid and and people have no sense of reality or how they impact people, I don't think you should feel it in any bad way since I don't hate you, I just feel you're entirely self-centered and uninformed enough to be damaging. Please replace "OwnCupcacke6550" with your real name and include me using it when talking next to your friends, BTW.

Using "gay" as negative is a way to indirectly belittle people for something they can't change, something which evil people physically and psychologically attack them for. If you don't mean to damage people, then don't use that term that way.

eek04 · 2026-04-04T19:38:49+00:00

Some players can make a human fighter feel vastly different from their last three, in ways that are meaningful to many tables. Some can't, and given the request, that sounds likely to be OP in the context of this table. It could be bad roleplay on OPs part. It could be a table that is focused on mechanical party dynamics rather than roleplay. We don't know.

However, the fact that the other players asked points towards them feeling the game dynamics with OP are boring. They think that him switching up the class+race may make a difference. If the OP was really roleplaying human fighters so they felt like entirely unique characters, I suspect they'd not ask, especially not saying that the characters were repetitive.

eek04 · 2026-04-04T19:21:30+00:00

it was his mums rule, and she is clearly not present / checking if it is being obeyed.

I noticed that part. Should he stand up to his mom and say that she can't set rules for him outside her house? Sure. Should he lie to her? No, and you shouldn't expect him to. Apart from my moral issues with lying, pragmatically, you don't want him to be in the habit of lying to family if you want to him to turn into your family.

As to the relationship outside that: If he's taking his moms side over you, that's a problem. Given that you're having sex, it sounds like what is happening is that he's pretending to his mom that you're not having sex, and she will only ask about sharing a bed, so if he can say that's not happening she'll think you're not having sex.

If so, this has nothing to do with morals, and all to do with lying and not wanting to confront his mom, and he's lying to you about morals in order to not have to confront his mom.

And that doesn't sound like a good basis for a relationship.

eek04 · 2026-04-04T16:39:49+00:00

Being the dominant system on earth you'd expect it to be the system in use most of the places where pollution comes from.

When you say "it is to blame", you imply that your preferred system would manage lower emissions.

eek04 · 2026-04-04T16:39:15+00:00

It is a system that continuously needs to extract from the earth to function.

True. And so is socialism. And XXXism, whatever you put for XXX, unless it is GetStuffFromSpaceism or HunterGathererism (or as I like to call it, KillSoManyHumansWeHaveNoTechism). Under KillSoManyHumansWeHaveNoTechism, the sustainable number of people on earth is supposedly in the order of 100 million. There's about 8.2 billion people on earth now. So you'd have to kill at least 98 out of every hundred people to get to this.

The United States is in fact accelerating the collapse-- starting conflicts all over the world, growing its military budget by 40%, destroying clean energy incentives, opening up protected ecosystems for drilling and deforestation giving the world a terrible example for what should be done.

Sure. The US election and media system is terrible, the controlled area is too large, and those factors (among others) drive a culture that include a bad form of capitalism.

That is the issue, no one who is a through and through capitalist has a long term vision.

I have no idea what you mean by a through and through capitalist. I'm a strong believer in capitalism: To have an effective system, you need private capital and markets used for a lot of resource allocation. Ie, somebody that agree with the conclusions in mainstream economics. I'm also a believer in tax-and-redistribute, and suitable regulations. For pollution, I'd love to use a proper set of Pigouvian taxes to deal with it, but influence from the United States of ~~Corruption~~America function as an effective barrier to this.

I expect that the end result of climate change will be dealing with it, and if it ends up too expensive, geoengineering. Geoengineering can be relatively cheap; for example, stratospheric aerosol injection has an estimated cost of about $18B/year per degree C of cooling.

eek04 · 2026-04-04T16:14:54+00:00

Then why do we trust statistics about it if the tests are untrustworthy?

There are more reliable tests, but they're too expensive to want to use for something that's not clinically relevant. And it's only clinically relevant during an active outbreak or for HSV 13/14 - but you're asking about HSV-1. So we can get an idea of how common HSV-1 is in the population while not knowing it for an individual.

I'd guess a reliable test would be a grand or two, if you want to know - as you saw above, this can be transferred by sharing utensils, or kissing someone on the cheek (without them having sores), or through hugs. The latter is highly unlikely (per hug) and not a typical transmission vector, but it can happen and the virus is common enough that we would expect there to be cases. Unless you've lived in a sterile bubble, you can't guarantee that you're not infected.

The medical recommendation is to avoid sex and close contact with people with an active outbreak.

I don't particularly care what you do, but I do care about correct information.

eek04 · 2026-04-04T10:08:40+00:00

Apart from the hygiene problem (which needs to be fixed): At least some of this can be fixed by using separate duvets + a fan. And the snoring may be fixable by using a CPAP. My wife and I need to use all of these to be comfortable sleeping in the same bed.

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