Grumpy

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[–] Grumpy 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't know if steam does this since I have no experience selling on steam, but generally when you sell anything anywhere the sales channels will often demand that you give them the lowest retail price. Most commonly done by ones that give the most exposure since they have that much more power. Failure to do so will result in some penalty (Amazon prevents your offer from being in buy box) or just outright refusal to take your product (such as Walmart).

Additionally, customers complain too when you sell at two different pricing elsewhere. If you're a company that gives virtually no support (like you sell pickles or whatever), you prob don't care. But for things like games, you'll get bombarded with demands that they got ripped off by buying from one place and ask for difference in pricing or submit a refund request. Refunds are more expensive to sellers than not selling at all since you still have to pay transaction/refund fees by payment processors. Or if physical product, cost of shipping as well.

Different sales channels having different pricing isn't really an option. It's not really worth it. You'll get problems left and right.

[–] Grumpy 2 points 1 month ago

If you get a fancy expensive knife with super pointy tip, this temptation only increases.

[–] Grumpy 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I currently have a setup where both AMD and Nvidia simultaneously run on a single computer with Linux. It wasn't too complicated, only took like 10hrs of troubleshooting to run.

[–] Grumpy 1 points 1 month ago

I think feelings and personal beliefs should stay as far as possible from philosophy. Philosophy should never evolve around subjectivity such as feelings; philosophy is an attempt to be as rational and logical as possible in albeit a very subjective world. Much of philosophical arguments are made in same manner as discrete mathematics because of this but with words rather than formulas and rules. Even religious medieval philosophers attempted to be as logical as possible in their approach to explaining religion rather than relying on belief (though often fail despite their best attempts). So the "feeling of unsafe environment" isn't something I see as compatible with any philosophical discussion as a basis of reason. There needs to be an objective as possible pivot.

We see plenty of vastly different feeling of unsafe in social media. Some of which even do so with the intent of not actually feeling unsafe but to garner views and likes. If someone is scared by everything, can we start intolerating everyone else? We don't know where the line can be drawn between being a just society that tolerates freedoms and the one where tolerable can no longer exist.

This is why Popper proposed the entire dilemma. The violence being the pivot of intolerable intolerance isn't his opinion. It is that with violence, tolerable objectively (as much as we can be objective) cannot exist.

Even in your example, you attempt to separate objectivity vs subjectivity in are/is versus believe respectively for the sole correctness of the former. (Even though in my view, proof of what is is going to end up as sum of your beliefs or a cyclic viewpoint.) And then the argument goes back to pivoting in the subjectivity of feelings.

If you rely on subjectivity to draw the line of what's intolerable intolerance, then you will be intolerant of people who you subjectively view as intolerable.

[–] Grumpy 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Actually, you are misunderstanding the paradox of tolerance. And I would say it is one of the most frequently misquoted philosophy on discussion forums such as lemmy or reddit.

Popper asserted many times that the intolerable intolerance is violence. "Fists and pistols" as he calls it.

By intolerating at a stage by calling the other as intolerable when we're still quite far from violence such as this case of HR management, you are proposing for an unjust society--is what Popper would say.

[–] Grumpy 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don't really care for size. What's cheap and fast?

[–] Grumpy 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You should also tell your past self on when to sell. Not just buy.

[–] Grumpy 12 points 2 months ago

Need to buy from dictators?

I didn't realize Australia and Canada who has highest uranium reserves are dictators. Canada also used to be highest uranium producer until relatively recently.

There is no need. Though Kazakhstan and Russia may be cheapest if you're near there.

[–] Grumpy 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I watched Monty Python holy grail after hearing about it so much on the internet. After finally watching it, my opinion was basically that I already watched all the funny parts through random clips and references made in Reddit multiple times. The rest of it was pretty dull and my entire experience as a result was meh. So you might not enjoy watching it either.

[–] Grumpy 2 points 3 months ago

12v boat motors are for only trolling. So technically it powers a boat, but not really... They're typically only 1hp. You could get a 1hp AC, but they're not designed to run on 12v. You'd need to change DC to AC and then step up to 120v at least.

You'd run out of power pretty fast either way if you're planning to use the AC for extended period of time, just like trolling motors. And no quick way to recharge. Alternator suggested above is somewhat realistic as some cars actually do come with a 120V outlet (albeit at limited wattage not enough to power a full sized window AC). Though, all of this is rather inefficient setup and burning more gas.

[–] Grumpy 2 points 3 months ago

This type of mandate exists in specific industries. I'm really not sure why it doesn't exist in other.

[–] Grumpy 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

A large charged lemonade has 4 times the caffeine content than a cup of coffee according to wapo which I won't bother linking because it's paywalled. It's about twice the size of coffee and twice the concentration of caffeine.

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