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Cake day: October 20th, 2023

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  • It entirely depends on how you want your homelab to work. I use a reverse proxy to set up subdomains for my publicly facing services because I find it easier and cleaner to assign a subdomain to each service, and I also like having HTTPS managed by a single point — a sort of single point of entry to the rest of the services. You’d have to decide what you want out of your homelab, and find and set up the services that yield the outcome that you want.



  • Instead of feeling the lumps on the skull for ADHD this quack use suspect brain scans.

    Imo, it’s nearly equally as suspect to claim that there is no correlation between SPECT brain scans and ADHD as saying that there is a correlation between SPECT brain scans and ADHD. The point that I was trying to convey in the post is that he is harnessing extremely sparse, and far from established, research to try and sell things to people. That isn’t to say that there is established evidence to say that what he’s doing is indeed bogus, there’s simply little research to show that it actually works.



  • I don’t understand the downvotes that this post has received (Currently 8 upvotes and 27 downvotes). The post is just reporting on a finding. It’s not stating an opinion. Are people just unhappy that Trump’s polls have increased so they’re taking it out on this post? Is there something wrong with the article link? Is there some inaccuracy in the reporting? This feels like an example of shooting the messenger. Am I missing something?

    I suppose there is the fundamental issue of people not collectively agreeing on what upvotes and downvotes should be used for.


  • Measured voltage is completely dependent on what is used as a reference. If you were to measure the voltage of a power supply set to +30V with a voltmeter whose leads were backwards (ie positive on the voltmeter connected to negative on the power supply, and negative connected to positive), then you would measure -30V. All this is to say that if you connect your 30V supply “backwards”, you will have -30V. Now, there may be some circuitry in the power supply that only allows current in one direction, and it could be that it’s able to source a different amount of current than it’s able to sink, so be sure to check its manual.

    I’ve tried -12V from psu i’ve got lying around but it didn’t work.

    I’d advise caution against arbitrary decisions with electronics — both for your own safety and the safety of the equipment.













  • So your suggestion is that in order to keep the business afloat, Uber should be allowed to pay their workers less than minimum wage?

    Ideally, imo, I would advocate for the abolishment of minimum wage in its entirety (this is, in practice, of course, heavily dependent on many other conflicting factors). I believe that the damages caused by a minimum wage outweigh its benefits.


    other places have done this with no increase in cost

    Do you have any sources for this? It is, of course, important to note that minimum wage increases don’t necessitate that businesses raise their prices, but it puts an upward pressure on them, as, if they don’t, their profits will decrease, and, generally, a business seeks to increase their profits, and they will do so so long as people are willing to pay. Increasing the supply of money available in the market through a minimum wage will induce demand-pull inflation — people have more money so they are more able to buy things, which puts an upward pressure on prices. In addition to that, the increased overhead for employers would induce cost-push inflation.

    EDIT (2024-06-23T06:20Z): I was reading this Investopedia page, and the interaction between raising the minimum wage and inflation is more complex than I was initially aware. A specific quote of interest is the following:

    in 2016, researchers from the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research examined the effect of prices on minimum wage increases in various states in the U.S. from 1978 through 2015. They found that “wage-price elasticities are notably lower than reported in previous work: we find prices grow by 0.36 percent for every 10 percent increase in the minimum wage.”

    These empirical results are quite interesting. I will have to look into this much more. Thank you for bringing it to my attention!

    I do wonder, though, if the interactions that the article cites are dependent on the minimum wage already being present — I’d be curious to know what the outcome would be if one started without a minimum wage and implemented one.


    Allowing Uber to underpay their workers

    Hm, I take issue with this specific language. It’s not necessarily underpayment — it’s payment that the market has deemed appropriate for the employment given the current supply of it and demand for it. Underpaying implies an official baseline which would only apply in a market with a minimum wage.


    Allowing Uber to underpay their workers means we have to subsidize the company by providing welfare for workers who don’t earn enough.

    Things start to get complicated when one starts introducing other factors like welfare (ie social security income). If there is welfare, depending on how its structured exactly, a minimum wage typically must accompany it, as far as I currently understand things. There are indeed scenarios where welfare could end up subsidizing a company, eg if there is welfare imposed to meet a living wage, but I’m not confident in my knowledge of the specifics.



  • it is apparent that you trust the rich too much

    Why?


    they want to keep you down to add millions more in their pockets and then they move to take away more human rights.

    I do believe that it should be assumed that a business only seeks to increase profit, but I have no issue with a business making profit given a fair and competitive market, as a fair and competitive market (ie capitalist) is not zero sum. As for regulating businesses to prevent them from exploiting things to the detriment of society, I would advocate for a Georgist approach.