Fun fact, the actual roulette wheel in casino has green zero. When betting on any color, you will always have less than 50/50 odds.
Funner fact, many even have a green double zero as well to tip it even further.
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lloydgrossman commented on Ask HN: How to continue to be gracious about the good fortune of rich friends? · Posted by u/gfykvfyxgc
> taxes are seen as robbery
Taxes are robbery. If you did the same to your neighbor under threat, you would end up in jail. If a mafia does that, they go to jail.
If the government does it, they do not. And they did not ask you to adhere to a contract. It works with reversed logic from what we do in real life with others.
There is no single logical justification to say it is not robbery. That is independent of whether what they do with that money is good or bad. A different discussion.
> And likewise, many people believe so strongly in their ownership of money.
Which represents just that you offered something worth that money to others, in the absense of threat or violence. So yes, now it belongs to them because of an exchange.
> that they don’t mind if others suffer.
Or even worse, some people subtract that money from us by providing no value, unlike the average of humans who at least sells something or provides a service and pretends that the people providing services or products are worse than the person subtracting in exchange of nothing under the threat of prison.
Also, it seems that to you the person being subtracted the money they earned and spent time to get it(could be money or anything else, I am talking about effort) do not suffer. I guess they do not have a soul or feelings or do not deserve the same respect as the others.
>Taxes are robbery.
You're anti fire department?
lloydgrossman commented on A record 4.5M workers quit their jobs in November axios.com/workers-quit-jo... · Posted by u/doppp
> The fact remains that the bargain has changed over the last 40 years, with the bulk of the benefits of technological change not reaching workers. Now it is becoming common for even well-paid jobs to move to an assumption of no annual raise.
Tell me why should technological change benefit workers?
> Fact remains, here we are. Employers do not hesitate to take ground when they have the advantage, which is usually. Use yours while you have it.
Sure. I run my own business and I am a consultant \ freelancer. I am my own employer.
>Tell me why should technological change benefit workers?
Technological benefits make individual workers more productive, allowing them to be exploited for more profit. If you don't understand the economics or incentive of the situation, there's no reasoning you out of a box you didn't reason yourself into.
lloydgrossman commented on Why Linux is now my primary OS going into 2022 windowscentral.com/tired-... · Posted by u/axiomdata316
>> Gaming is no longer one of those reasons to choose Windows over Linux unless it's a specific game that simply isn't native or supported by tools like Proton.
Uh...yeah it is. Even if I didn't have a specific game in mind currently, every PC game targets Windows. Not every game works on Linux. Why would I artificially limit myself, both for existing and future releases?
In fact, just looking at ProtonDB...6 out of the top 10 games are 'borked' on Linux. The top 100 looks better, but the majority still aren't "native".
That's not a sleight on Linux; there are plenty of things it is better at. But unless you are willing to be limited in what you can play, a PC gamer will continue to pick Windows.
> Why would I artificially limit myself, both for existing and future releases?
> But unless you are willing to be limited in what you can play, a PC gamer will continue to pick Windows.
A lot more people are willing to be limited in what they can play. 10 years ago, it wasn't anywhere near 6/10 -- and in my case, all of the major titles I play (20k~ steam hours) except for one have worked perfectly fine on Arch; no longer a Windows user after 20+ years.
im going to walk 365 pullups in 30 days
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lloydgrossman commented on Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n... · Posted by u/DrHilarius
I don’t know exactly what you mean, but from a legal perspective, Facebook most certainly does not “own” anyone’s content by virtue merely of putting it in someone’s News Feed.
You didn't really give any legal perspective. Either Facebook owns the content and the liability as a publisher, or it's a platform and shouldn't fixing content towards what they want to show.
Exactly, a public company that skirts KYC/AML laws and securities laws.
I'm not saying I necessarily agree with those laws, I just see much of the "DAO revolution" as designed to "free the people" into investing anonymously and without accredited investor requirements, without directly trying to change the laws.
One thing I think it does that most don't talk about: allows people to register a global company/org. Right now, I think the highest level to register an org is the nation-state level, not much, if anything, exists at a global level.
those bits on the net will sure come in handy when it goes to trial in "global court".
lloydgrossman commented on Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years? · Posted by u/adamkochanowicz
I wrote my name in the Bitcoin blockchain 6 years ago, I barely knew Javascript.
For a blockchain like Bitcoin to fit all of its transactions in only 420GB is an engineering feat that should be admired
The blockchain data will never be "optimized" or "disappear"
Please take the time to learn how Bitcoin works before pontificating
>The blockchain data will never be "optimized" or "disappear"
This is a really bold assumption - you do understand that core dev is still ongoing, yes?
You do understand that "infinite data on a disk" doesn't exist, yes? And as the chain goes on longer, more space is going to be needed, and centralization of the miners will continue to increase, yes?
Please take the time to learn how Bitcoin works before pontificating
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