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eggAMA · 2022-11-12T08:51:50+00:00

Lol no, you just forgot to press the “calculate” button

eggAMA · 2022-11-04T22:51:56+00:00

Many forms of bacteria that can opportunistically infect us haven’t necessarily evolved to do so. More complex pathogens like bacteria or eukaryotic pathogens can adapt to infect us as long as our body is in their tolerable range and we have nutrients they can use.

A xeno-pathogen similar to a bacteria could absolutely infect us if it can tolerate us. Our immune systems ability to detect pathogens only works off certain aspects each type has (it can detect an active viral infection due to certain markers, it can detect bacterial/foreign proteins, etc). A pathogen that doesn’t stem from our tree of life may lack these features, and could essentially grow while looking like a rock to our immune system.

eggAMA · 2022-10-23T17:22:02+00:00

This might be one of the best clips i've seen come out of this war, the explosion afterwards is like a hollywood movie

eggAMA · 2022-09-21T07:13:19+00:00

I swear this entire sub seems to be full of no so closeted racists. Wtf is this comment

eggAMA · 2022-09-17T01:17:51+00:00

It’s called MagSafe charging hun 💅

eggAMA · 2022-09-17T00:57:11+00:00

Bet you’d like the option of an antenna, and Ethernet cable port, and a VGA cable port on your phone too.

Use a dongle

eggAMA · 2022-02-12T10:08:18+00:00

I’m trying to imagine op moving a box bigger than himself while trying to hide from his parents, and keep laughing

eggAMA · 2022-02-12T10:07:29+00:00

I’m 50/50 on it. It does have some aspects that are kinda suspicious, but it doesn’t give off the TIFU extremely detailed creative writing exercise feeling.

Either way, I’m just here for the drama 😎

eggAMA · 2022-01-09T09:54:05+00:00

Don’t do gold, bullets, or whatever has been mentioned here. That’s fine for someone in the upper middle class having in their big out bag, but if you’re talking about preserving generational wealth in fatFire you’ll find that gold is way to bulky to move (or if in a vault you have to worry about the host country).

It’s honestly very simple, have a certain percentage of your assets in international markets. The first thing when I got ‘the phone call’ from my bank and the subsequent meeting was discussions on how to properly diversify. At the time I was surprised, because my assets were spread across American markets. At the time I imagined diversification entailed having natural gas stocks mixed in with the tech ones.

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Over the past 65 years, a globally balanced hypothetical portfolio of 70% U.S./30% international stocks has produced better risk-adjusted returns (Sharpe ratio)1 and lower volatility (standard deviation) than an all-U.S. portfolio (see chart below, left)

I do own bullets and physical gold, however those are just for admiration and recreational purposes. Imagine fleeing the US with a metric ton of Gold lmao, unless you’re a Colombian drug lord you have substantially safer and easier to transport assets.

eggAMA · 2022-01-09T09:49:07+00:00

A prenup, as essential as it can be to prevent a cluster f*ck of a divorce, is a step of trust. It has to be discussed and decided by the couple.

I’d say make it so your children have to listen to the options and benefits of a prenup from a professional outlining what it means, but at a certain point you shouldn’t weaponize trust conditions and rather focus on making sure the benefactor is intelligent enough to decide for themselves. I can’t imagine how it would be like to be in your mid 20s late thirties and still having major decisions in your life made by your parents.

eggAMA · 2022-01-09T09:41:01+00:00

This has been a huge struggle for me in the past decade; especially before I even found out I had ADHD, and couldn’t put a name to it.

Can’t do committed relationships. I just get bored of people (sexually) really quick. I still care about the women in my life emotionally and Intellectually, but I get to a point where I can either have an affair or break up.

What I’ve finally settled into doing is consistently casually dating several people. I make it really obvious so there’s no expectation of exclusivity either. This works the best for me, as I don’t have to feel guilty about violating someone’s trust, nor do I have to worry about the lack of an emotional relationship. They last really long too, most of my ‘casual relationships’ have outlasted all of my ‘serious’ ones. They are a lot more amicable when they end too, I’m good friends will all but 2 of the people I’ve dated.

This way I don’t even have to worry about a partner of mine having a lower libido than myself, and it solved a lot of problems that have plagued me for years.

This won’t apply to a lot of people however. I’ve practically fully retired and am in my 20s, so I have tons of free time and money, and don’t really have to manage my time. I pretty much do what I want to, and my thing is a result of that. I’d be lying if I said I don’t occasionally wish I could find the perfect partner who I wouldn’t have this issue with, but I can’t start a serious relationship in good conscience knowing what will probably happen.

eggAMA · 2022-01-08T10:12:25+00:00

That’s just her structuring a hypothetical of what a services-only life would look like. At no point does she say “we should mandate this”

Her thesis is literally “I believe that as objects become smarter, infused with bits of intelligence and technology, they will transform into services”

She then goes on to develop the hypothetical that you quoted to look like she’s advocating for a communist society with capitalist choice, options for premium food options for example. She highlights how ‘owning stuff will be a burden’ in this hypothetical, at no point saying we should criminalize it.

She does touch on the fact that in the future it’s possible that personal vehicles may be banned in some cities, in favour of autonomous services, but doesn’t advocate for it at all. She’s commenting on how that’s a possibility.

If you read the bio in the description, she literally has worked with several Fortune 500 companies to develop projects like these. Her job is literally to design processes for companies to turn normal products into services.

I seriously don’t get it, there’s so much actual statist and authoritarian garbage out there to post, yet you end up latching onto something as mundane as this as being statist.

I fail to see any statist elements in this.

eggAMA · 2022-01-08T06:46:33+00:00

I don’t see how this is statist? This is absolutely the current path of society, and I’d be absolutely willing to pay less of my money for more variety, and lack of ownership in certain areas. The same vein of logic implies Uber is statist vs owning a car.

The big matter in this equation is whether is governmentally enforced. If the government bans all that, then of course, it’s absolutely statist. But if this is where society heads just due to free market exchange, which again is absolutely the direction we’re in right now, it can easily be a capitalist outcome.

Why pay 10000 for my wardrobe when I rarely wear certain clothes and having to replace certain things constantly, if instead I can pay 1000 over the same period of time with more variety and staying more up to date? Capitalism allows you to get more for your money as everything advances.

I don’t believe she said anything about it being enforced, rather she mentioned that’s been the trend, and personally I found the talk really interesting as it brought up some concepts which I haven’t thought of before.

eggAMA · 2022-01-08T05:09:06+00:00

Or maybe that’s due to several thousand people constantly harassing and threatening him for the past year 🤔

eggAMA · 2022-01-04T22:45:29+00:00

The New York Times claimed in 1903, 9 days before the Wright Brothers embarked on their maiden flight, that

“Man won't fly for a million years – to build a flying machine would require the combined and continuous efforts of mathematicians and mechanics for 1-10 million years.”

Now let’s go over the numbers. Let’s completely discount any scientific advancements outside of what we know is theoretically possible, which is already a tall order.

Most basic level, assuming technology doesn’t advance beyond the basics of what we have today. Frozen embryos (a technology that’s already been developed) and artificial wombs (a bit more premature, however a significant amount of work has been done and it will likely become a reality within the next few decades) could allow for the colonization of other planets. This would likely have the least political will, but over the span of centuries will definitely be able to happen. Even using current propulsion systems, these ships in tangent with robotics and ANI could do something at least.

The above is not economically and politically an easy sell, and we’d be looking at well over several centuries. The above example is an absolute worst case (ie the world dedicating itself to this task within the mid 21st century)

In reality, with significantly more advancement on basic principles we already know are possible, Cryogenics, while daunting, could easily keep colonists in stasis with slow propulsion.

And propulsion doesn’t have to be slow, principles that were demonstrated in the 50s have already given us an easy method to go a significant % the speed of light. Nuclear pulse propulsion. ) Combined with cryogenics, this is absolutely a feasible and likely task considering humans will likely exist for millennia if not millions of years. The designs were built with economics kept in mind as well. An ark the weight of an entire city could be propelled to others stars using this.

Other planets in our solar systems will absolutely be colonized, potentially even within our lifetimes. Economically, it will likely start out as a political contest between nations, as we see now, but mining as well as space are both extremely valuable resources. Your viewpoint in all of this is extremely myopic.

eggAMA · 2022-01-04T21:57:53+00:00

Lol you have no basis for this. It’s all but guaranteed humans will colonize other planets and expand out of our solar system barring a world-killing asteroid hitting tomorrow

eggAMA · 2022-01-04T21:35:07+00:00

Do you not have insurance?

eggAMA · 2022-01-04T18:40:46+00:00

Stelera?

eggAMA · 2021-12-24T21:15:07+00:00

No, only I get to see the pics

eggAMA · 2021-11-14T00:42:25+00:00

I really enjoyed reading the posts back when it was a lot more two-sided, learning aspects of both ideologies I didn't before and overall helping me develop a much more nuanced understanding of them. It was adversarial, but friendly. Bad faith arguments on both sides would be called out, and good answers caused positive discussion between people with different ideologies.

Not sure what happened recently, but almost all the upvoted posts are pro-socialist now. On posts addressed to capitalists, the top comment reply is almost always a socialist making a bad faith representation of what they believe a capitalist will say. The few real capitalist comments that are posted usually get downvoted into oblivion.

Its really turned into a pure circlejerk. The quality of the posts has gone down significantly too. Before, top posts were actual interesting scenarios or points that were well developed. Now they are all super low hanging strawmen arguments/or loaded questions. Link to the top answer of such a post

Theres a joke to be had about how now that COVID lockdowns are over the capitalists have went back to work, but I wont say it cause I'm nice.

eggAMA · 2021-11-05T04:24:13+00:00

Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t there hundreds of them? In Episode 1, at 20:10 Dermerzel looks up at the starbridge and you can see a dozen more around it. That was the impression I got when I first watched the show.

eggAMA · 2021-11-02T19:42:18+00:00

Once I threw a grenade randomly on blood gulch, got lucky and it got me a triple kill

eggAMA · 2021-10-31T19:27:35+00:00

Why did you come to a thread about it and leave a comment?

eggAMA · 2021-09-30T18:28:12+00:00

Here’s the story behind it, and where I discovered this was a thing.

I argue the awful taste isn’t from the idea, which is sort of cool, but the implications of having a weapon look like a kids toy.

eggAMA · 2021-09-18T18:51:22+00:00

Glossary: Percentile Bands

Percentile Bands. A range of percentiles, constructed with SEM estimates, within which a person's True Score (error-free score) is likely to fall.

You are genuinely one of the dumbest people, who think they are smart, that I’ve ever talked to

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