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I really liked how this was written.
I kinda agree, but the prevalence of fake chatting soured me on the company as a bastion of sane sex work. Without it, it seems legit: fans pay for content, they get content. But add the layer of fans pay for chatting with the models, and get something else.
But what is the significance of the reordering being highly coupled?
And it only cost them their country. Not bad!
Because on top of doing terrible things, the non-terrible things he does, he does incredibly badly.
> There is no principle, just reactionary hatred.
No, we’re all good little Bayesians around here.
> If Biden had launched this war, none of these people would have had a problem with it.
You’re really missing what’s going on here. The reason that people liked Biden is that he would not have launched this war.
Well, the Spike line is being discontinued also: https://education.lego.com/en-us/spike-update-2026/
But you’re right in that they’ll have another new line—“Lego Education Computer Science & AI”, which is different in a way I don’t really understand and doesn’t fill me with a ton of confidence.
About as quickly as he forgot “comedy is legal again” when people started criticizing him.
Well you better get on that, then. It’s going to a lot worse in 5 years.
In my defense: my family loves watermelon, we eat a ton of it, and I'm happy to have a special "Watermelon Knife".
How about “socially progressive and fiscally effective”?
I'm guessing the opposite: that these firms wanted to push back-to-the-office policies, and so either invented, or publicized, engineers doing "over employment", and that it wasn't a real problem that any of them actually faced.
And if you want to go even more recently, check out what the IDF is doing in Gaza.
And when that happens then we can have a conversation. But as it is, you’re justifying slaughtering a family because of a story you invented.
Well, cat videos make people happy.
I mean, if you define a function calling Map.take! that returns one of two possible set of keys based on a random number, I’m not sure it’s actually possible to get a map where you’re certain what keys exist.
Here’s the thing: no, I don’t. I’d much rather walk away with the easy million instead of risking it all for an extra thousand.
No, it’s the same as saying “what my opponent thinks I will choose causally affects what my opponent chooses”, which is obviously true. Also, “what my opponent thinks I will choose is positively correlated with what I do choose”, unless my opponent isn’t very good.
As near as I can tell, it boils down to this: no matter what the predictor has chosen, one you walk into that room, there's more money in both boxes, then there is in one box.
But it feels like half an analysis—focusing solely on what you decide, while ignoring the fact that the other side is deciding based on what you think they'll decide.
Maybe that's me being unfair, because I'm a solid one boxer.
I also disagree with the linked article—I don't think it matters at all how the predictor makes their decision, because the outcome really doesn't matter if it's 100% accurate or 99% accurate. Or even like, 80% accurate. There's no magic required for the experiment to work.
It’s a newer brand—they changed their name to it some time last year. But they seemed to spend a lot on advertising last Christmas—at least on YouTube, it seemed like tons of reviewers were talking about their sets. That’s how I found out about them, at any rate. And I’ll say—the one I got came together nicely, and looks great. The tons of lights are just, really neat.
> when I hear "lego knockoff" I think of the shitty ones, because I've never seen a Lego knockoff that wasn't shitty.
The cheap-o ones you get like at the dollar store, absolutely. But Chinese manufacturers have been making good quality knockoffs for a while. A decade at least? I bought my first knock-off technic set around 10 years ago, and it was 90% the quality of Lego at 25% the price. But the quality has only gotten better since, and is now totally on par with Lego. Admittedly, the price has gone up, too.
It is, absolutely, but it’s a lot more shallow a moat than having a product quality moat.
> Lego prices will drop as soon as they are forced to by competition, and not before, and this is fine.
I agree, they’ll survive quite well. But the large profit margin they’ve grown accustomed to might disappear, and that probably doesn’t bode well for their management.
And heck, maybe they’ll stop shipping stickers on expensive sets, too. That would be nice.
The risk Lego faces is that they don't actually have a quality moat any longer. You can get non-lego sets with no stickers, plenty of prints, LED lighting, at a cheaper price, and with the exact same piece quality. I purchased this set: https://www.lumibricks.com/collections/steampunk-world/produ... over Christmas, and I paid $105 because it was on sale. The pieces were indistinguishable from Lego in quality, and the lights and lack of stickers was a quality increase from what Lego offers.
What moat Lego has is: brand recognition and licenses. Which aren't nothing, but don't offer much protection.