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skeezyboy··on Doorbell prankster that tormented residents of apartments turns out to be a slug
> I hope you'd agree with the principle through this analogy: an adult who looks at pornography would not want to show their child pornography.

but its nothing like pornography. were talking about "screen time" which is a vague generic idea, just the same as "social media" encompasses pretty much any major tech companies website/app instead of actual mediums for socializing like IRC, forums etc that were around for decades prior just never called that

skeezyboy··on Doorbell prankster that tormented residents of apartments turns out to be a slug
it was ringing the bell somehow, what else could it have been? even a particularly fat slug would have trouble pressing the bell as its vertically aligned.
skeezyboy··on CPI for all items rises 0.4% in August, 2.9% YoY; shelter and food up
again, the US cpi concept of price is the same as the UK one. They look at price, not transaction value you absolute numbnuts. what was all this crap about price in respect to CPI again? or were you thinking something different to what you said again?

Quote from https://www.bls.gov/cpi/questions-and-answers.htm BLS data collectors visit (in person, on the web, or using apps) or call thousands of retail stores, service establishments, rental units, and doctors' offices, all over the United States to obtain information on the prices of the thousands of items used to track and measure price changes in the CPI. We record the prices of about 80,000 items each month, representing a scientifically selected sample of the prices paid by consumers for goods and services purchased. During each call or visit, the data collector collects price data on a specific good or service that was precisely defined during an earlier visit. If the selected item is no longer available, or if there have been changes in the quality or quantity (for example, a 64-ounce container has been replaced by a 59-ounce container) of the good or service since the last time prices were collected, a new item is selected or the quality change in the current item is recorded.

skeezyboy··on CPI for all items rises 0.4% in August, 2.9% YoY; shelter and food up
>but intent supersedes interpretation

so dont worry about what i wrote, whats important was what i was thinking? fair enough

If market value is the instrinsic value, how could two separate markets get different prices for the same asset?

edit: https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/meth...

methodology states it is based on prices quoted

skeezyboy··on CPI for all items rises 0.4% in August, 2.9% YoY; shelter and food up
>As the quote you offered says, it is measured after.

i was quoting you... but you have tried to have it both ways. you said....

> Price measures what you are giving up to receive value.

notice you didnt say gave, you said giving. There is a price before the "transaction"

> Price is not determined until a voluntary transition takes place

But we had a price before we made the purchase??? If you swap price with market value in the second quote youre completely right.

Market Value is determined in this offer/sell kind of fashion precisely because it ISNT intrinsic.

skeezyboy··on Doorbell prankster that tormented residents of apartments turns out to be a slug
because it it were so toxic to health the parents themselves would stop using them
skeezyboy··on Doorbell prankster that tormented residents of apartments turns out to be a slug
if you look on the top of its head its got two arm like appendages that it can touch things with, probably did it with those
skeezyboy··on Doorbell prankster that tormented residents of apartments turns out to be a slug
you think nobody runs out of money, or finds themselves up shit creek? what about inherited properties that you dont have the money, time or ability to renovate and youre waiting for someone else to buy it from you?
skeezyboy··on Doorbell prankster that tormented residents of apartments turns out to be a slug
no go and play with your friends... oh yeah thats right they live miles away and the only way to get hold of them is via a screen but because of hysterical adults (who decry the ills of social media from social media) theyve banned me from using it because it will do general detriment to me much like TV was feared to cause, much like books were feared to cause. This time is no different, hysterical parents
skeezyboy··on Top model scores may be skewed by Git history leaks in SWE-bench
{ "decoded_prefix": "nxcznchvhvvrddqinqtrrqdboctzzimxmhlyflcjfjapponydzwkxdtdehldmodizslzl", "last_10": "sxmb", "vowel_counts": { "a": 10, "e": 6, "i": 13, "o": 13, "u": 6 } }

took about 2 seconds, must have had it cached

skeezyboy··on Top model scores may be skewed by Git history leaks in SWE-bench
> hah the model should get extra credit for discovering this!

you whoever included it in the training data should get the credit

skeezyboy··on Samsung taking market share from Apple in U.S. as foldable phones gain momentum
? I use it a lot to read PDFs and watch videos...

only if I cannot reasonably access a computer will i use a thumb-typing touchscreen device to do serious work. as computing devices, they are sub-par when compared to desktops. as telephones, they are subpar compared to dumbphones

skeezyboy··on XFN – XHTML Friends Network (2003)
> what social networks were already offering, e.g. your feed, or direct messaging

by social networks i assume you mean specifically facebook, twitter etc and not IRC or any of the other pre-existing social networks that simply didnt have profile pages or comments sections

skeezyboy··on XFN – XHTML Friends Network (2003)
> It was a major clash between the idealistic vision of building global interconnected communities and the financial reality of companies wanting to optimize everything for their own profits.

I think its even simpler than that. HTML et al was a nice idea but its largely ignored in the pursuit of making web pages seem like apps.

Berners Lee had this idea of documents like pages in a book, nothing like the full-fledged applications in the browser we get today, yet that legacy Berners Lee cruft still remains whilst people find ever more inventive ways to overcome it

skeezyboy··on Float Exposed
> Define boundary conditions -- how much precision do you need?

imagine if integer arithmetic gave wrong answers in certain conditions lol why did we choose the current compromise?

skeezyboy··on Brussels faces privacy crossroads over encryption backdoors
> The only acceptable scanning process here is the one that produces only true positives, no collateral damage. This is what I call reliable.

well then reliability is impossible, you must accept errors

skeezyboy··on CPI for all items rises 0.4% in August, 2.9% YoY; shelter and food up
> No. I am talking about price. Price measures what you are giving up to receive value.

but you said "Price is not determined until a voluntary transition takes place"

so does it happen before or after the "transition" takes place? id say price is set before, market value is what actually someone paid for it and comes after

skeezyboy··on C++20 Modules: Practical Insights, Status and TODOs
Hes not nitpicking at all. Every workload is different. How do you even know the compiler is memory bound like you say it is? Youre espousing general wisdom that doesnt apply in specific cases
skeezyboy··on Brussels faces privacy crossroads over encryption backdoors
1. Of course its possible, youd just get back encrypted data. This doesnt make it impossible

2. You mean "Reliable classification of client-side scanned images is impossible", although you dont actually define reliable. This is besides the point, Im not talking about the actually feasibility of this on a political level, Im asserting a specific technical point that client-side scanning is 100% possible for e2e apps

skeezyboy··on CPI for all items rises 0.4% in August, 2.9% YoY; shelter and food up
> Price is not determined until a voluntary transition takes place

youre talking about market value. price is definitely set before the transaction takes place. you can set the price at whatever you like.

skeezyboy··on Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference
> If you take an LLM that makes 10 tool calls in a row for an evaluation, any reduction in unpredictable drift is welcome

why use an ambiguous natural language for a specific technical task? i get that its a cool trick but surely they can come up with another input method by now?

skeezyboy··on NearToilets – Airbnb of toilets, earn from toilets for rent
maybe one of those unpaying customers shat up the walls. you think im being facetious but its surprisingly common in the first world
skeezyboy··on NearToilets – Airbnb of toilets, earn from toilets for rent
either way, the data is crap
skeezyboy··on C++20 Modules: Practical Insights, Status and TODOs
have you heard of linux?
skeezyboy··on The Rise and Demise of RSS (2018)
> I do my best to achieve this with social media

which one? there are a bunch. you could either be talking about whatsapp or youtube

skeezyboy··on The Rise and Demise of RSS (2018)
never understood this idea. whats the difference between this and bookmarking the actual site and just manually checking? if people had been using HTML as originally envisioned, this kind of thing would be parsable by a browser and a new protocol need not be introduced
skeezyboy··on The rise of async AI programming
He says define the problem like its the easy part. If we had full specs, life would be a lot easier.
skeezyboy··on CPI for all items rises 0.4% in August, 2.9% YoY; shelter and food up
> expensive construction material (a lot of it is imported, like Canadian wood)

Im sorry but the single justification for the richest country on the planet still building houses out of wood was that it was cheap and abundant. Now I find theyre importing at increased cost.... so tell me again why you all live in wooden sheds?

skeezyboy··on CPI for all items rises 0.4% in August, 2.9% YoY; shelter and food up
> At the same time, though, prices can never rise higher than the consumer is willing to pay.

ahhh, the naivety of youth. not only can they, they have.

skeezyboy··on CPI for all items rises 0.4% in August, 2.9% YoY; shelter and food up
>Housing requires construction materials

ie wood

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