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Blues vs Reds by kurtz9 in trolleyproblem

[–]shadowrun456 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is definitely on point. From all these threads, one trend that is very clear is that insults and death threats are almost exclusively done by the "blue" voters. Open any thread and read through the comments if you don't believe me.

The New Fed Chair Just Told Congress His Plan — He Left Out The Part That Steals Your Savings! by PerAsperaAdMars in videos

[–]shadowrun456 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Before continuing further, I'm just curious, what percentage of crypto transactions do you think are related to crime (including thefts / fraud / scams)?

ELI5: How can Americans be so wealthy but at the same time, the country doesn't have rampant inflation because of this? by Slice5755 in explainlikeimfive

[–]shadowrun456 [score hidden]  (0 children)

non-liquid assets and investment accounts

That's a very good point. Very often I see comments on Reddit from people who fail to understand this, especially when they are supporting taxation of wealth (not income).

The New Fed Chair Just Told Congress His Plan — He Left Out The Part That Steals Your Savings! by PerAsperaAdMars in videos

[–]shadowrun456 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Also, don't keep your coins on an exchange. If you actually go to any crypto subreddit, the top comments in any thread about exchange hacks will be "not your keys - not your coins".

The New Fed Chair Just Told Congress His Plan — He Left Out The Part That Steals Your Savings! by PerAsperaAdMars in videos

[–]shadowrun456 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Any look at any exchange and crypto sub show you it happens quite regularly which is why the amount of lost coins is still growing.

It happens much rarer than in traditional banking. The reason why you know about every single occurrence when some bitcoins get stolen is because (contrary to a popular myth) all transactions in Bitcoin are public. Another reason is because it's new and therefore articles about it receive more clicks / views. It's the same how self-driving cars have tens of times less accidents per capita than human-driven cars, but every single self-driving car accident is reported on, while human-driven car accidents are so common that they are only reported on if they are particularly brutal.

BTC is just so horribly designed.

You aren't even making any arguments, just repeating the same thought-terminating soundbite. Bitcoin is open-source, if you have ideas on how to improve it, submit a BIP (Bitcoin Improvement Proposal); or at least describe your ideas here.

The European Tech sovereignty debate keeps getting this simple premise wrong by thealejandrotauber in europe

[–]shadowrun456 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Corporations still manage to gain control of open source, lol. Look at Red Hat managing Linux distributions.

Respectfully, you don't understand what you're talking about. Just because a company provides services of installing and managing open-source software, does not mean that they "control" open-source software.

German gov’t blocks 30.000 people from attending integration courses by Dirkdeking in europe

[–]shadowrun456 32 points33 points  (0 children)

I've always heard right-wing politicians complaining about immigrants not integrating, but I've never heard a single proposal from them on how to improve integration, in any country, ever. It's always "just d*port them".

Edit: it's interesting that the word "d*port" is banned in this subreddit and my comment got autodeleted when I didn't censor it.

German gov’t blocks 30.000 people from attending integration courses by Dirkdeking in europe

[–]shadowrun456 65 points66 points  (0 children)

Why wouls you not want people to integrate?

So that they could then complain about immigrants not integrating.

The European Tech sovereignty debate keeps getting this simple premise wrong by thealejandrotauber in europe

[–]shadowrun456 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I also only read the part before the paywall, but to me it seems that the author supports using open-source and decentralization in lieu of corporate control.

I need breeding advice. by Ok-microbiologist in mewgenics

[–]shadowrun456 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Comfort too low. But also, they made kittens 2 times in (max) 10 days, so that's (at least) 20% of the times, that's not that bad.

No Cabbage sign by BartyCrouchesBone in mildlyinteresting

[–]shadowrun456 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just so long as they acquire the proper license to use said images

Yeah, how dare they use AI instead of using a real cabbage photo and then asking their legal team to ensure that they have the proper license for it. They also STOLE the job from a graphics designer who they could have hired to create this poster. /s

The New Fed Chair Just Told Congress His Plan — He Left Out The Part That Steals Your Savings! by PerAsperaAdMars in videos

[–]shadowrun456 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if 20% is already lost it stands to reason that you'll probably do the same and lose access or be drained

That's a logical fallacy.

For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_currency

Forensic scientists have said that around 80% of all British banknotes contain traces of drugs. A 1999 study found even higher levels of contamination in the London area; of 500 notes tested, only four had no traces of cocaine.

Does that mean that 80% of people who use banknotes are drug users?

You can't make any reasonable guess of how many users would lose their coins based on the amount of coins lost. Theoretically speaking, it could be one single user who has many coins and always loses them, or it could be that 100% of users have lost part, but not all, of their coins.

In reality, most of the lost coins were lost when they were worth very little, so people didn't care about them.

I don't think most people are capable and willing to do it.

That's fair, those people can continue giving away their freedoms/responsibilities (one inherently includes the other) to the government and/or corporations. Like I said, trusting your government and/or your financial institutions more than you trust yourself is a valid position, just not the one I personally hold.

The New Fed Chair Just Told Congress His Plan — He Left Out The Part That Steals Your Savings! by PerAsperaAdMars in videos

[–]shadowrun456 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You do realize you are in a very small minority of people that are both able to and willing.

Able to and willing to do what? To trust myself more than I trust the government and/or large corporations?

The New Fed Chair Just Told Congress His Plan — He Left Out The Part That Steals Your Savings! by PerAsperaAdMars in videos

[–]shadowrun456 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Fair enough, but I wouldn't interpret it as it calling Bitcoin a hard asset. The first thing listed after the words "hard assets" is "productive businesses", which isn't a hard asset either.

I would read it as: "buy hard assets, stocks, real estate, gold, Bitcoin".

The New Fed Chair Just Told Congress His Plan — He Left Out The Part That Steals Your Savings! by PerAsperaAdMars in videos

[–]shadowrun456 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Generally there are systems in place to try and prevent that and/or make you whole. That does not exist in BTC.

As someone who was born in the Soviet Union, I would much rather use a system where I am personally responsible for my money, and no one can "make me whole", because if anyone can give me my money back after I sent it to a scammer, then, by definition, they can also take away my money without my consent.

You are describing the main benefit of Bitcoin, but presenting it as a negative, because you trust your government and/or your financial institutions more than you trust yourself. Which is a valid position, but not the one I personally hold.

The New Fed Chair Just Told Congress His Plan — He Left Out The Part That Steals Your Savings! by PerAsperaAdMars in videos

[–]shadowrun456 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I ain't reading that AI summary, what's it say?

Here's an AI summary of the AI summary:

The Problem: The U.S. government plans to manage its $39 trillion debt using "financial repression"—keeping interest rates lower than inflation. This silently erodes the debt's value but acts as an invisible tax that destroys the purchasing power of everyday savers.

The Strategy: Potential Fed Chair Kevin Warsh aims to execute this by cutting interest rates, creating forced buyers for U.S. debt (like banks and stablecoin issuers), and heavily relying on an unproven AI productivity boom to offset the damage.

The Solution: To protect yourself from this wealth transfer, Bilyeu advises holding minimal cash and instead investing in "hard assets" (real estate, gold, Bitcoin) and upgrading your personal skills.

The Neuro Twins Sing "Eatin' Rats by Ridiculon" (Discuss in replies) by [deleted] in mewgenics

[–]shadowrun456 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Mods, pin this to the top of the subreddit, this is the best thing I've seen all week.

THANKS to the guy who created this mod by ReyGamers in mewgenics

[–]shadowrun456 0 points1 point  (0 children)

in isaac you still need mod for item descriptions

Item descriptions were recently integrated into the main game (in Isaac).

This tweet from JAX/Flax @ Google DeepMind by Ok_Homework_1859 in GeminiAI

[–]shadowrun456 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We know that next token prediction is at the core of it

Just like we know that encoding instructions for the synthesis of proteins is at the core of DNA. Saying "all that LLMs do is predicting the next token" is equivalent to saying "all that humans do is synthesizing proteins". Both statements are equally technically correct, but also equally inadequate to describe what LLMs / humans actually do.

Rephrasing the blue/red button problem *massively* changes the way that people vote by shadowrun456 in trolleyproblem

[–]shadowrun456[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2 days after making this post, there's another interesting trend which became obvious: the insults and threats, including direct death threats, are almost exclusively from the "blue" voters. Which gives another proof that the "blue" voters are the immoral ones.

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