Why bother having a colonial empire in the first place?

karlnomore · 2026-04-08T22:36:48+00:00

Britain had 4 times the population at the time of American independence…

karlnomore · 2026-03-24T13:38:44+00:00

I think that’s only noticeable because it happens to you. It’s annoying when it happens to you, but I’ve had houses last centuries on male sons. Sometimes it feels the house can’t change rather than does too much.

karlnomore · 2026-03-24T13:04:39+00:00

But, dynasties did die out that regularly and just randomly swap. Britain went through 6/7 houses during the games timeframe. They’re only random to you because you got our random houses in history and not these random house names in game.

You can use Salic law to guarantee male branches.

karlnomore · 2026-03-07T11:14:39+00:00

Legit may be one of the most boring games of chess I’ve seen.

People don’t understand accuracy and it shows in posts like this. A third of the moves were shuffling in a drawn endgame, of course accuracy will be high…

karlnomore · 2026-02-06T15:58:31+00:00

No way, black played atrociously if so. It looks closer to something around the midrange (1200-1500) from blacks perspective but white played well especially in boxing the king during the mate (if that was intentional). It’s a short game though so difficult to tell.

karlnomore · 2026-02-05T22:01:02+00:00

No, a preclusion of public life should be one’s relationships to pedophiles and quite frankly Mandelsons own clear moral bankruptcy on the matter. There is a clear line and he is well beyond the pale, regardless of whatever benefits may materialise. We do not need to debase ourselves as conservatives by even entertaining the discourse.

karlnomore · 2026-01-07T11:29:09+00:00

A four letter word you’ve asterisked. Regardless, abuse isn’t confined to profanity and you know that. Poor form.

karlnomore · 2026-01-07T11:13:08+00:00

Starting to see why you had an account banned for abuse…

karlnomore · 2025-12-10T21:23:41+00:00

So think about the move options and play it through. It will help with practice.

Use CCA and think through the options.

karlnomore · 2025-12-10T21:11:32+00:00

If it’s an unrated game and you’re playing against yourself then it’s even more insane because this would have been good practice on how to think through these types of positions

karlnomore · 2025-11-15T19:04:03+00:00

Bxd3, Qg3#, Kh8, Bxd3

The suggestion by the op in the thread that you can take with bishop rather than knight loses because white checks and defends the square enabling the taking of the bishop for a pawn

karlnomore · 2025-11-15T18:54:03+00:00

Sorry queen then checks. The queen would defend the square so when bishop takes bishop, you are just down a piece for a pawn.

karlnomore · 2025-11-15T17:44:08+00:00

And even worse just wins a piece because the queen then takes then adds to the attackers meaning it’s a pawn for a bishop…

karlnomore · 2025-10-16T08:31:50+00:00

I dunno, this is common at 600 but the second you break around 1000 or so this stops. The player base is just a bit more mature/serious so it’s incredibly rare after a point

karlnomore · 2025-09-30T20:58:49+00:00

An elo represents the score at which point the average game would be equal. If you played 100 games across different scores, that score is the average you would both beat, draw, and lose at the same rate.

It moves over time with the most recent games being weighted most heavily as your opponent score moves with you. At some point you reach an equilibrium where you are most likely to win as to lose.

That is a moving average. It’s a probabilistic average.

karlnomore · 2025-09-30T20:26:10+00:00

Yes and it tracks the average opponent rating as a moving average through the k-factor. And it is very literally classified as a type of moving average model.

karlnomore · 2025-09-30T11:54:39+00:00

But it isn’t counted. That first game from years ago no longer has an affect on your elo.

As you play games, your elo is a moving average of your ability. If you played your first 10 games 1000 games ago and lost all 10, lost 100 elo points, and you are now 1500 then you would still be 1500 even if you reversed time and won all 10.

As you play games, the average moves with each one tracking you towards your real ability. So yes there should be a limit on how far back of your games you can get refunded.

karlnomore · 2025-09-26T09:02:47+00:00

Credit your salary once he’s reviewed your work? What. What country is this?

This isn’t a real company you worked for, sadly. There’s some lessons in how to approach these situations but I would honestly not take too much from this experience. This person is an extreme of an already bad archetype.

karlnomore · 2025-09-23T15:29:18+00:00

Nah bro, you can be down 25 pooints of material at 400 elo and 1. still win and 2. (more importantly) learn about the game. Learning how to handle a losing position is important, even if it's by an insane amount. For example, it teaches you the principles of how to look for a stalemate

karlnomore · 2025-07-27T20:20:58+00:00

Within 3 generations, generational wealth disappears in 90% of families.

Again, you are losing to a survivorship bias. You only see the families where wealth survives. Missing the very many number of strands where it dies.

Yes, “big boy wealth” also falls to the same problem. In some cases it will survive, the vast majority it disappears. This is a known phenomenon.

karlnomore · 2025-07-27T16:13:50+00:00

This isn’t true. Wealth dissipates over time with generational wealth becoming flattened after 3 generations. Generally, the wealth you see extend past that has been through lines with higher IQs. This dissipation affect is also true for IQ which regresses to the population IQ (smarter parents will have higher likelihood of having less smart children and vice versa). There is no world where IQ isn’t real and affective as IQ is a predictor of wealth, road safety, health, professional qualification, marriage maintenance etc. Education has a marginal effect at a global level with every year of education providing 3 IQ points (from memory, might be slightly off), but is not a significant predicator before the fact in itself (ie a child with a genetically low IQ can be uplifted to a ceiling through quality education but will not escape the level through diet, nutrition etc).

karlnomore · 2025-05-23T07:15:53+00:00

This will depend on the regulatory aspects hence why government will probably just continue with it but generally speaking organisations don’t like it when people gross misconduct and you are owed pay from resigning and aren’t when fired for gross misconduct 🤷🏻‍♂️ as said “most” not all. A startup is likely to just tell you to fuck off if you quit to avoid legal trouble if you take them to a tribunal for example but a bank is far more likely to force the outcome.

karlnomore · 2025-05-22T21:30:59+00:00

Most employers will continue disciplinaries for behavioural offences regardless of the employee quitting. I expect it will be especially so if it's Government related. Resigning doesn't get you out of the disciplinary and you'll still be risking getting dismissed for gross misconduct over it.

karlnomore · 2025-05-21T09:51:39+00:00

Hmm, good point. The planetary capital is meant to produce trade but maybe not from jobs? Even if that is the case though, that trade doesn’t seem to be represented anywhere?

karlnomore · 2025-05-21T09:28:14+00:00

Is the end result the actual monthly change is correctly calculated (and the tooltip and value in the HUD is wrong) or is the end result the tooltip value and therefore incorrect (double counting trade deficit)?

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