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  • I’m talking about comes pre-installed

    Apart from Steam not being a standard installed item, it is very feature full.
    For 32 bit you also need to enable multi-arch.

    But apart from gaming it is in no way bare and very very far from “super bare”. Ans Steam is pretty easy to install.

    I did not say it was not great or popular.

    You wrote it was mostly for servers. Which although it is an excellent server distro, it is most definitely developed at least as much for desktop use.

    This is not the dunk you think it is…

    I don’t think you really understand the implications.





  • To simulate a single base particle would require millions of atom equivalents.
    In our universe, to simulate 1 atom, requires millions of atoms.
    So to simulate our universe perfectly, would require a universe more than a million times more complex, and even then everything in that universe would be used only to simulate our universe.


  • we can’t possibly know what this external universe looks like.

    I 100% agree, except what we can know, is that it must be infinitely more complex then this. It’s a necessity of math and logic.
    But what it looks like or what the laws are, we cannot know. Only that it’s more complex.

    Apart from that, I agree that no matter if this is a simulation or not, it remains our reality that we continuously try to better understand.



  • If the universe we live in is a simulation, the universe that simulation exist in, must be infinitely millions of times more complex than the one we live in, to be able to have the necessary storage and computational power to simulate our universe.
    Is that really a likely scenario?

    Don’t answer that, because obviously the chances are fifty fifty, it either is or it isn’t. /s




  • Not an expert, but logically the shorter chain makes it easier to handle and relatively more precise.
    A longer chain however, allows for a greater swing, resulting in a much heavier impact.
    That however can also be achieved using a heavier ball on the flail. But that makes it heavier to lift and carry.
    Using multiple balls however seem counterproductive, as it will make the flail harder to use compared to the impact you can achieve.
    I suppose the idea is to make it harder to defend against, but if the defender has a shield, I think multiple balls are utterly inefficient.

    So as far as I can tell there is no single optimal balance. It depends on the persons strength and agility, and I suppose it also depends on what type of enemy it should be used against. For a heavily armored opponent, a longer chain will be better to smash hard against the heavy armor, and the armor will make the opponent relatively slower to avoid attacks.

    In short I think the bottom left or the one above seems best all round, if you want something more precise, other weapons will probably be preferable.
    The best would probably be the bottom right, but with one of the balls and chains from the top left.

    An advantage with the chain is to avoid a hard hit straining your hand and wrist. And that part can also be achieved with a short chain. But the chain also has the function that it can pass a defense that would block a cane. If you block the chain, the chain will bend and allow the ball to continue a short distance further. With a shorter chain the flail is easier to defend against.






  • a cap on wealth is necessary for social cohesion.

    Billionaires are undermining democracy, which already is a huge problem and against the values of a country that wants to be democratic.
    Yes most billionaires end up wackos, which makes it even worse that they have so much power.
    IMO you can add an extra zero to the decimal places to make it 300 million. 1 billion is IMO already to much.
    But I wouldn’t make it a hard limit, just incrementally bigger tax percentage the higher you get.



  • The only administration I have seen extorting empathy recently is the Trump administration that used it against the democrats by taking away food stamps and wages to force the democrats to yield so Republicans could take affordable healthcare away from Americans.

    And now we have idiots like the California governor protecting billionaires against being taxed. It’s an ever worse one way street that only benefit the rich.