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Cake day: August 19th, 2023

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  • I know my case is specific but having a Jellyfin running on a Steam computer looks to me as good case for having a computer in the living room. Adding a TV applications to Steam such as Netflix is also a case. Then there are people who have their workstation close to the TV so they can use it instead of their laptop and just switch displays with one of these HDMI branching dongles.







  • I live in Iceland and we try to predict volcanic activity all the time and it’s off by weeks or months. To be fair, that’s a blink of an eye on a geological scale so it’s pretty accurate but the nature of the problem is that you have so many forces that all interact with each other.

    It’s pretty similar to “how far can you tip the chair back before it falls” but we don’t know the size, weight and shape of the chair really well. You just need one fracture in the rock from previous earthquake to throw all the calculations off.

    I don’t know the context of the post but I imagine it’s media related, like a seismologist saying “could be as soon as tomorrow” and the journalist just saying “earthquake tomorrow”. Also seismologist don’t shut up is true.










  • That’s calculated value, it’s not taxed until sold so the book value of the shareholder will be the purchase price. It’s hard to tax stocks owned especially if they’re private and the price per share is not known until sold. In theory if you base it on the last sale price you could sell one share at 1 cent and then the whole business will be worth very little.

    If you tax revenue it breaks business models that are mostly distribution. If you tax profit they do some accounting magic to have zero profit like Amazon which leaves very little. Capital gains tax means money will be less efficiently allocated and dividend tax makes businesses just do share buybacks.

    I think land value tax is a great start and taxing the businesses net assets would also help in this case. Of course billionaires shouldn’t exist but it’s hard to wipe them out with taxes.