MrMonkey @ MrMonkey @lemm.ee

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Private more up-to-date sources aren't very expensive.

edit: An example

I think education would be better if politicians had nothing to do with it.

The easiest to explain is NFTs are worthless. They have no legal validity for ownership. The largest portion of the NFT market is buying pictures, pictures which are hosted externally and can be taken down without respect to the NFT contract.

Oh, so you don't know what an NFT is. An NFT is a non-fungable token. This is a token that is distinct from other tokens, Some tokens are legally valid, some aren't. You use NFTs every day.

This "NFT = Not legally binding JPEG" thing stuck in your head has got to go. It was just a simple PoC that people took nobody but gamblers care for.

Your credit card is an NFT. Your drivers licence is an NFT. Your car title is an NFT. The car in monopoly is an NFT.

But being able to transfer and store NFTs on a trustless network is an amazing feat, and testing it with silly stuff like jpegs is the way to go before using it for something important.

Now imagine your car title is a legally binding NFT. You can prove you own your car, transfer ownership to the new owner, no trip to the DMV needed.

The supply chain is already using NFTs to prevent forgeries; tokens are created by the manufacturer and sent to the retailers. Retailers verify the tokens and know the real ones didn't fall off a truck.

At some point you'll use an NFT to check if those Air Jordan's on Craigslist are the real thing (or stolen). But like every other NFT you use you probably won't even know it.

This is one reason why government run schools are a bad idea. There's an incentive for stupidity to be taught as fact for political gain.

The same reason flying airplanes isn't "criminal trespassing". Satellite and aerial photography happen really high up.

No insurance company used a small toy drone to fly 50' over his property for pictures.

Insurance companies use ariel and satellite photos. So do municipalities to check for unpermited work.

They're not going to drive out to each customer with a toy drone. They're essentially using google map satellite view.

Can we stop the hysteria and take a few minutes to think things through?

That's quite a generous reading.

I still see "if you don't agree with me 100% you're a racist".

I know what you are trying to say

What is he trying to say? Because what I hear is "Anyone who's opinion is not 100% in lockstep with mine is an evil fascist racist nazi transphobe".

Thanks for proving my point.

Now go back to reddit, the adults are having a conversation.

"Capitalism is good"

"Conservatives aren't completely selfish" (backed with links to leftist sources)

"NFTs aren't worthless"

"Making everyone people pay for rich people's college debt is wrong (and a net transfer of wealth upwards)"

"The central banks cause inflation on purpose"

Some are opinions, some are facts people don't like. All get down voted.

No, not really. Have a "wrong" opinion and see how it goes.

The TLDR:

They hate capitalism because they're losers and they think that under a different system they wouldn't be such a loser. But they would be.

"someone has a different opinion than me, they must be dumb"

Go back to reddit.

There's always pushups!

The first thing I do is try to stop and identify what I'm angry about or frustrated with.

Then I check to see if it's something I can control, and if it's not then I just accept it. I might not like it, but I accept that it's the way things are.

For example I (used to) get angry driving. What I was angry with were bad drivers.

Is it reasonable to expect to drive and not run into bad drivers? No, they're out there and there's nothing you can do a bout it.

What I can do about it is change my reaction. Instead of raging at bad drivers I simply shake my head and continue about my day.

Think of it like you're holding a hulu-hoop. Inside that hulu-hoop are things you can change. Outside the hula-hoop are things you can't change. Getting mad at things you can't change isn't helpful, so concentrate on the things you can control, including your reaction.

edit: You know down voting something doesn't make it untrue? This is true whether you like it or not.

Every time I ask for "capitalism" problems I get answers about what the government does.

"too big to fail"? Government bailouts.

"antitrust"? Government granted monopolies and making the laws so that barriers to entry are too big.

"police shootings" Government gang.

"inflation"? Government monetary policy.

"colonization"? Government expansion

"not enough social programs"? Government policy.

Then you've got the sub-70s who go on about "exploitation" which is rooted entirely in fiction.

Life requires work. All life everywhere. Humans aren't exempt from this; demanding that others do all your work and provide for you or free isn't going to work.

Some of these people would complain that they have to chew their own food.

People forget that capitalism has lifted literally billions of people out of poverty, it's advanced our technology to where it's basically magic. It increased the amount of food we can grow with fewer people allowing people to move past subsistence farming (which many socialist countries reverted to).

Capitalism uses people greed to provide better, cheaper, faster versions of things..

Then the government gets involved and instead of blaming the government they're told to blame capitalism, so they do.

lemmygrad.ml and lemmy.ml are gone? So sad.

Anyway.

Turns out lemmy users aren't representative of the greater public.

Of course the person using a shared password either left (saving Netflix money) or got their own subscription (giving Netflix money).

Netflix doesn't care that people who weren't paying stopped using their service.

The ones I voted for aren't in office.

If the AI doesn’t have good goals programmed in, we’re fucked

When they built a new building at my college they decided to to use "AI" (back when SunOS ruled the world) to determine the most efficient route for the elevator to take.

The parameter they gave it to measure was "how long does each wait to get to their floor". So it optimized for that and found it could get it down to 0 by never letting anyone get on, so they never got to their floor, so their wait time was unset (which = 0).

They tweaked the parameters to ensure everyone got to their floor and as far as I can tell it worked well. I never had to wait much for an elevator.