Hehe thats why I think the original question of Box A being $1000 and Box B being a million was kinda boring, since $1000 is barely anything in today's world. 3 more zeroes does making things more interesting
It depends. If you mean flip a coin, then you should know that no coin flip or dice roll is truely random, it is random to us only because we couldn't predict it with our current technology. This scenario assumes that there are machines in the world that can predict the future, we just don't know whether this particular machine is accurate or not.
Now if you are talking about quantum-based randomness, I mean... I think the machine could just put $0 in Box B just to fuck with you.
Well what you choose may not direct affect what is inside Box B, but there is still a huge difference between the two choices.
Imagine the way that the machine did it's prediction was copying your brain and making this copied brain choose in a simulation. Assuming the copied brain is completely identical to your brain, the machine could predict with 100% accuracy what the real you would choose. In this sense, what you choose can affect what's inside Box B (or rather, what your copied brain chooses can affect whats inside Box B).
One more thing to think about: How do you know that you aren't the simulated brain that's been copied?
Well I mean the coverage on the submarines isn't really because of their net worth (not denying that it isn't a contributing factor), but submarines sinking isn't really that common, as another user have said in their comment. Remember MH370? A majority of the passengers weren't wealthy, but it still got a lot of media coverage.
Society is so complex today that anything you do can inadvertently be supporting evil. Most of the electronics devices we use are made in China, so if you are using one to access the internet, you've spent money "supporting" China and by extension, its authoritarian government. Buying food from the grocery store, well most likely you were buying from a large corporation that may have unethical practices. Just wanting to travel without walking? Well now you are polluting the planet. Pay taxes? Well you could be supporting a government that have human rights violations.
Just use an adblocker if you have to use reddit, its not a war crime, but just try to avoid it as much as you can if you want to support the protests.
It doesn't make money. It's funded either by donations, or out of the pockets of the instance owner(s). It doesn't mean that in the future, an instance owner wouldn't just decide to start serving ads, I don't think theres anything stopping them from doing that other than the threat of being defederated by other instances.
"So the billionaires’ families are gonna get billed for all of this like the time my family got billed for my ambulance ride, right? Right?" (cutie.city)
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Upgrade today! (lemmy.world)
Reddit Goes Nuclear, Removes Moderators of Subreddits That Continue to Protest (www.pcmag.com)
I really want to cut ties with Reddit. I keep reading this stuff to keep me motivated to cut those ties.
~~Almost~~ OVER 90% of the accounts on lemmy are now bot accounts!!
Here you can see 2 day old post warning about the danger of not using email/captcha verification: https://lemmy.ml/post/1345031...
Sunken boat killing hundreds overshadowed by Titan submersible coverage (www.nbcnews.com)
Lemmy's total users continues to surge to over 1.1 million, up from 740k yesterday! (lemmy.world)
Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=7
Does anybody else feel dirty when they visit reddit?
I don't know man, but I feel like I'm supporting a maniac CEO with every second I spend on reddit.
So how does lemmy make money?
I'm not seeing any ads, and these servers certainly have a cost.... So is this place entirely donation based, or what?
jfc
Hacking group BlackCat claims responsibility for Reddit hack (www.youtube.com)
kbin is growing on me. you guys are great! I'm staying here. never going back
Reddit activated a word filter that whenever you say "fuck spez", your comment won't show up for anyone else. I just tested it on ModCoord. they're also deleting spez memes from the subs they nuked lol
r/ModCoord: The admins in charge of demodded subreddits are mass-removing images of Huffman previously shared on them...
what about 9:30? (lemmy.world)
Streaming was supposed to stop piracy. Now it is easier than ever (www.theguardian.com)
Slightly older (2021) article I found while searching for this place. It pretty much says what we’ve all been saying.
Much preferable tbh (lemmy.ml)
New User's guide (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Quick post to answer some basic usage questions that can throw off new users....