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  1. Comment on Anyone else enjoying OSRS leagues? in ~games

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    Is Bowfa the next step up from MSB? When I periodically fall back into OSRS I’m an F2P skiller because I refuse play differently than I did 24 years ago.

    Is Bowfa the next step up from MSB?

    When I periodically fall back into OSRS I’m an F2P skiller because I refuse play differently than I did 24 years ago.

  2. Comment on Anyone else enjoying OSRS leagues? in ~games

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    Once you start on 99 WC you can never go back. It’s a fun game if you like grindy, old school games.

    Once you start on 99 WC you can never go back. It’s a fun game if you like grindy, old school games.

  4. Comment on Which covers did it better than (or put a fresh twist on) the original? in ~music

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    Cake’s B-Sides and Rarities is full of great covers. I’m partial to War Pigs, Excuse Me, and Stangers in the Night.

    Cake’s B-Sides and Rarities is full of great covers. I’m partial to War Pigs, Excuse Me, and Stangers in the Night.

    2 votes

  5. Comment on Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? in ~society

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    There’s a lot of Public Choice that people hear about but don’t fully understand or engage with in a meaningful way. Then it’s sort of parroted and misstated and misused over and over again. The...

    So, there's always a contingent of folks who make fun of people for believing super hard in voting. And sometimes those people get kinda aggressive about it, to the point of believing that voting is useless, which is wrong.

    There’s a lot of Public Choice that people hear about but don’t fully understand or engage with in a meaningful way. Then it’s sort of parroted and misstated and misused over and over again.

    The Paradox of Voting is a classic example:

    In 1821, Hegel made a similar observation in his Elements of the Philosophy of Right: "As for popular suffrage, it may be further remarked that especially in large states it leads inevitably to electoral indifference, since the casting of a single vote is of no significance where there is a multitude of electors."

    Another is the Coase Theorem:

    In his later writings, Coase himself expressed frustration that his theorem was often misunderstood. Some mistakenly understood the theorem to mean that markets would always achieve efficient results when transaction costs were low, when in reality his point was almost the exact opposite: because transaction costs are never zero, it cannot be assumed that any institutional arrangement will necessarily be efficient.
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    What Coase actually argued is that it is important to always compare alternative institutional arrangements to see which would come closest to "the unattainable ideal of the world of zero transaction costs"

    2 votes

  6. Comment on Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? in ~society

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    Thanks for clarifying.

    Thanks for clarifying.

    2 votes

  7. Comment on Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? in ~society

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    What? Here’s the wiki for Outlier. Edit: What??? 68% percent of observations in a normal distribution are within 1 std dev. That’s why six sigma, etc, are things.

    In any normal distribution, exactly half of people will be lucky outliers

    What?

    Here’s the wiki for Outlier.

    Edit: What??? 68% percent of observations in a normal distribution are within 1 std dev. That’s why six sigma, etc, are things.

    6 votes

  8. Comment on Which covers did it better than (or put a fresh twist on) the original? in ~music

  9. Comment on Vibe coding is just the return of Excel/Access, with more danger in ~comp

  10. Comment on Vibe coding is just the return of Excel/Access, with more danger in ~comp

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    If Access is still a product I hope Google buys it, resurrects Wave, and buries Access.

    If Access is still a product I hope Google buys it, resurrects Wave, and buries Access.

    6 votes

  11. Comment on An insight into looksmaxxxing/blackpill "ideology" in ~life

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    I never had trouble as a not exceptionally unattractive or attractive short dude. Anywhere from 6in / 15cm taller than me or shorter than me wasn’t a problem. I always thought if someone cares...

    I never had trouble as a not exceptionally unattractive or attractive short dude. Anywhere from 6in / 15cm taller than me or shorter than me wasn’t a problem. I always thought if someone cares about height, then their values probably won’t align with mine. I’d rather know that up front and not waste my time.

    Thankfully I’m older than dating apps, they sound shitty.

    9 votes

  12. Comment on Lufthansa axes CityLine fleet early over strikes, fuel costs in ~transport

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    So just the Bombardier CRJ900s, basically?

    So just the Bombardier CRJ900s, basically?

    4 votes

  13. Comment on Allbirds announces pivot from running shoes to AI compute; stock surged over 700% in ~tech

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    I think it tends to be fairly “pro” for coding with more recent models and fairly “anti” for almost everything else. So it’s both and neither.

    I think it tends to be fairly “pro” for coding with more recent models and fairly “anti” for almost everything else.

    So it’s both and neither.

    16 votes

  14. Comment on I’m traveling internationally for the first time and could use tips! in ~travel

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    Vibes can be worth it. To help you plan, converting units and currency, gas is more than $9.00/gallon currently.

    Vibes can be worth it. To help you plan, converting units and currency, gas is more than $9.00/gallon currently.

    4 votes

  15. Comment on I’m traveling internationally for the first time and could use tips! in ~travel

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    Public transit varies across countries but once you get to Germany consider grabbing a Deutschlandticket so you can use all the local transit and regional trains (but not IC or ICE) for a flat fee...

    Public transit varies across countries but once you get to Germany consider grabbing a Deutschlandticket so you can use all the local transit and regional trains (but not IC or ICE) for a flat fee of 63€.

    “Mopla” is available in the US App Store for iOS (don’t know about android but should be) and accepts credit cards for payment.

    Driving gives you a more flexibility but parking and fuel can be super expensive and might not be any faster or convenient.

    4 votes

  16. Comment on Am I German or autistic? in ~health.mental

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    Agreed and I was “German” at 49%. Out of curiosity I poked around the rest of the quizzes; I got 10/10 on the Nietzsche one and 1/25 (Gelassenheit) on the Heidegger one. I’m a p hardcore...

    Agreed and I was “German” at 49%.

    Out of curiosity I poked around the rest of the quizzes; I got 10/10 on the Nietzsche one and 1/25 (Gelassenheit) on the Heidegger one. I’m a p hardcore existentialist so I guess it all tracks.

    1 vote

  17. Comment on Am I German or autistic? in ~health.mental

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    Relatedly, I appreciated this “quiz” specifically because it forced me to introspect and create a hierarchy of thoughts/values for a few things for which I hadn’t. Like punctuality is important to...

    Relatedly, I appreciated this “quiz” specifically because it forced me to introspect and create a hierarchy of thoughts/values for a few things for which I hadn’t.

    Like punctuality is important to me and I usually will have 2 or 3 alternatives for how to get somewhere on time depending on how things shake out. But even though punctuality is nonnegotiable it’s only so because it’s a moral obligation to me, or proximate to one.

    4 votes

  18. Comment on Colorado passes first law in the US to ban arrests based solely on colorimetric drug tests in ~society

  19. Comment on Boomer hate in ~society

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    And tough luck if you manage even to get on the path to wealthy, much less rich, and happen to be in a disabling car accident, be diagnosed with cancer, etc. It’s only the land of opportunity if...

    And tough luck if you manage even to get on the path to wealthy, much less rich, and happen to be in a disabling car accident, be diagnosed with cancer, etc.

    It’s only the land of opportunity if you’re lucky and stay healthy.

    8 votes

  20. Comment on Proton Meet isn't what they told you it was in ~tech

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    So you’re meeting at a loud, public coffee shop where anyone could know you met but not know what you talked about? If I’m reading this article too lazily please let me know, but all the “gotchas”...

    From what I found, Proton Meet's encryption is technically real. The MLS protocol is legitimate, the WASM core runs client-side, and the meeting password travels in the URL fragment, which the browser never sends to the server, so Proton's own servers never see it. Those design choices hold up.

    So you’re meeting at a loud, public coffee shop where anyone could know you met but not know what you talked about?

    If I’m reading this article too lazily please let me know, but all the “gotchas” seem to be related to IPs going “bad” places and ignoring that VPNs exist?

    5 votes