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[–] Alimentar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The problem with algocracy is someone has to define the laws in which the algorithm has to base it's decisions. And if someone is writing those laws, how can we know they're impervious to corruption.

[–] Alimentar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honest question here. Could it be possibly that as they improved their DRM with more triggers and methods that it has started to impact performance since 2016?

As Empress was cracking Denuvo, I wouldnt be surprised if they started to quickly add extra defencive measures compromising what could have been optimised in the past.

[–] Alimentar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah it happens to me on all the images I look at

[–] Alimentar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks man! Every post I see with a recommendation I see your comment "yeah I can do that". I love it! Keep up the good work. I too will be staying

[–] Alimentar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I guess it depends on how you define inflation. To me inflation is the ratio between goods and services and the money supply. Inflation isn't rising prices. Price rising is a symptom of inflation. I just don't think it's beneficial to use inflation interchangeably with supply and demand and price rises, it just creates confusion. I very much favor the macroeconomics view of inflation because through that lens a lot things start making sense.

Since this is your field, obviously you'd know that if you have more goods, you get deflation. And funnily enough when you look up the definition of deflation it's very strongly tied to that ratio between goods and services and the money supply.

I just feel that over time people have changed the definition of inflation. It's no surprise that the term Greedflation has popped up because the topic surrounding it has been convoluted, confusing a lot of people.

[–] Alimentar@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Inflation is the devaluation of the currency. The definition has been muddied for a time now but ultimately inflation refers to the expansion of the money supply.

As people/corporations borrow more and governments print more, prices increase. Not because those items have more value but because the money has lost its value needing more of it to pay for the same stuff.

If tomorrow everyone's wages would double. Prices would double as demand would increase and the market balances itself out.

Greedflation is a term that shifts that narrative. You could argue that yes there are bad actors for sure. But the term greedflation is redefining inflation, making you focus more on corporations raising prices instead of the main contributor, an expanding money supply.

[–] Alimentar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Yes it's bad. Competing for market share should be balanced and free of government intervention. How does a company (small or large) hope to compete against a company that is being subsidised.

Tesla can then undercut their competitors as they don't need to make a profit. They're subsidiesed.

Then the government has also imposed regulations for car manufacturers, that if they don't sell enough EVs in the year, they have to pay a penalty by buying carbon credits.

Well Tesla sells those carbon credits. So they can undercut their competition, entice consumers with lower prices and recoup the losses through subsidies and selling these credits. All thanks to government intervention.

Basically screwing competition and screwing you. As these have knock on effects.

[–] Alimentar@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

NFTs could have a useful case of keeping online records of ownership. Being cars, homes and even cattle. Which coulld also make it easier and cheaper to sell or buy these things.

Ignoring privacy concerns of course.

[–] Alimentar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Maybe, but come to think of it, it doesn't occur on all posts so if they're new comments then why don't they appear on every post

Edit: oh I'm dumb. It's on posts I've looked at. So they're new comments since I've seen the post (I think)

 

Next to the comment counter, I can't seem to figure out what the bracketed number indicates. For a second I thought it meant new comments, but I've seen some posts that have 2 (+2) and when I open it, it still only has 2 comments.

[–] Alimentar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So for secondary, when the OP replies to a comment, it will change their username colour to that.

[–] Alimentar@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Oh no! I had no idea. Man that really sucks. They were such a good service

[–] Alimentar@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

~~You can port forward with mullvad easily~~

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