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New comment by thejynxed in "YouTube’s ‘dislike’ barely works according to new study on recommendations"

thejynxed — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 05:56:36 +0000

Vimeo will never be effective because they've already issued a statement that they neither want to be like YouTube or host the same variety/types of content.

New comment by thejynxed in "YouTube’s ‘dislike’ barely works according to new study on recommendations"

thejynxed — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 03:53:42 +0000

It started when a Joe Biden speech video got disliked into oblivion. We're talking 2 million+ dislikes.

New comment by thejynxed in "YouTube’s ‘dislike’ barely works according to new study on recommendations"

thejynxed — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 03:46:03 +0000

It's not unreasonable, and it's exactly how it used to work until Google started messing around with inserting ads into every aspect of the site (they very much want you to you click on the ad-laden videos you were NOT looking for). They changed the default and relegated it to be a search modifier.

New comment by thejynxed in "F-35 and F-117 Spotted Flying with Mysterious Mirror-Like Skin"

thejynxed — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 02:47:08 +0000

They've also been running this skin recently on Navy ships. There was a post or two about it on the specialaccess subreddit.

New comment by thejynxed in "Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge"

thejynxed — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 01:39:37 +0000

Probably, since just like back then with IE, Edge is now baked into the OS as well.

New comment by thejynxed in "Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge"

thejynxed — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 01:31:29 +0000

TPM 2 plus a BIOS update for any board made pre August of 2021, & 60GB or so of free space on their OS drive, which these days is also more of a rarity since the trend has been small OS SSD drive with large secondary & storage drives.

New comment by thejynxed in "Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge"

thejynxed — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 01:24:33 +0000

I'm one of those who use Solidworks and there are no Linux equivalents, let alone polished ones. So, as in everything, YMMV.

New comment by thejynxed in "Reddit Is Down"

thejynxed — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 00:38:09 +0000

Well, they certainly do seem to like throwing backend changes regarding new "features" straight onto production.

New comment by thejynxed in "Green hackers around the world, let’s destroy Bitcoin"

thejynxed — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 19:47:49 +0000

PoW is far from immune to it as the Chinese have proven, as they hold roughly 49% of all BTC and 65% of all mining capacity on the planet.

New comment by thejynxed in "Green hackers around the world, let’s destroy Bitcoin"

thejynxed — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 19:41:47 +0000

Except it hasn't been, instead places like China (the largest crypto mining market on the planet) has instead opted to open new coal plants to feed their state operated mining centers.

New comment by thejynxed in "Green hackers around the world, let’s destroy Bitcoin"

thejynxed — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 13:41:08 +0000

To a point, but that trust by the public can be easily swayed and destroyed - see Biden pick Janet Yellen and her recent comments about how BTC is used for and good for nothing but criminal activity including that by state sponsors of terrorism.

New comment by thejynxed in "How to lower the price of plant-based meat"

thejynxed — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 13:03:50 +0000

It shouldn't have been, because many plant-based dishes do not include the same amount of nutrients if they are cooked as opposed to consuming the raw vegetable ingredients, and people are either unaware of this entirely or completely neglect taking it into account in regards to actual nutritional value. That's before we even address nutrient bio-availability of ingredients pre-and-post preparation. You will always see tons of people crow about how many vitamins and other nutrients certain foods have, but they rarely if ever mention that with many of them you'd have to eat a dump truck full of it to even approach your daily recommended value because your body simply refuses to process much of it and passes it on as waste.

New comment by thejynxed in "How to lower the price of plant-based meat"

thejynxed — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 12:52:50 +0000

I can make a complete surf-n-turf meal for a shorter amount of time than that, on top of the fact many people hate things like lentils and cottage cheese. When discussing meat replacements, you have to not just look at cost, but what people are actually willing to eat and take time making when given any choice whatsoever (and most people will choose things that take less time and do not taste like lentils and cottage cheese).

New comment by thejynxed in "How to lower the price of plant-based meat"

thejynxed — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 12:46:45 +0000

Because of how much of it is added into every alternative meat replacement product, and it's a shockingly high amount if you read the labels on some "organic" and "plant-based" products.

New comment by thejynxed in "How to lower the price of plant-based meat"

thejynxed — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 12:41:28 +0000

To be fair, Germany provides some really high-quality pork products to the world market in exchange for those subsidies.

New comment by thejynxed in "How to lower the price of plant-based meat"

thejynxed — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 12:39:03 +0000

The farming industry in California would be non-existent without constant subsidizing both of the crops and the extraordinarily wasteful and expensive importing of water from numerous other states to prevent the farmland that was originally desert from reverting back to it's natural state.

New comment by thejynxed in "How to lower the price of plant-based meat"

thejynxed — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 12:30:39 +0000

You're missing the part where those government subsidies are being issued to growers who provide products certified for the SNAP and WIC programs. You remove the subsidies and mess with the tariffs too much and now you're into a whole other problem of growers now refusing to participate in either program.

New comment by thejynxed in "How to lower the price of plant-based meat"

thejynxed — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 12:27:54 +0000

We import those products like garlic and broccoli from China as part of a trade deal where they import corn and other grains even though they can and do produce their own. They have many more mouths to feed, so on their end, getting all of this extra grain in exchange for shipping over a select variety of vegetables and fish is a net plus to them, and to us, it provides an established return on government provided grain subsidies that allow them to issue more grain subsidies.

New comment by thejynxed in "Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0"

thejynxed — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 16:14:15 +0000

The prices will rise without fail, as seen in every real estate market from Shanghai and Toronto to London and the San Francisco Bay area.

New comment by thejynxed in "Autodesk criticised by architects"

thejynxed — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 16:05:01 +0000

Solidworks is what my university required students to use and it was the better choice then.