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Post by practicemaths »

SpaceNugget wrote: post #215
practicemaths wrote: post #212

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"brake so i can merge behind them" This is how you're supposed to merge. When you get on the freeway you don't expect the current flow of traffic to accommodate for you, instead you accommodate for them. "it really feels to me like your comments are meant to needle my complaint re: folks not understanding the zipper merge, am i misreading you? do you think the zipper merge should not be used?" I am not sure you're un…

If someone speeds up when they see a car in another lane signalling that they are going to merge, in order to prevent that car from safely merging, when the merge would have been safe to perform had they not sped up to prevent it, they are definitely driving incorrectly.

If a car does that then it's not safe to merge until after they've gotten ahead of you.

Re: Donating forks to the dining hall

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Post by fsckboy »

baggy_trough wrote: post #54

A "flood the zone" strategy similar to this works well for cheap items that continually vanish, such as pens, socks, charging cables, etc.

I do that for myself because it drives me crazy when I get held up from what I'm doing by not having what I need, cables, adapters, etc.

I have also been quite generous with friends, trying to teach them the way. However, I've found that I'm just enabling bad habits in careless people, and before you know it I've run out of anything popular. So now, I still flood my zone, in secret, and let others fend for themselves.

Re: Donating forks to the dining hall

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Post by fsckboy »

roydivision wrote: post #98
teekert wrote: post #87

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It's tongue in cheek, it's fun, it's a nice experiment, everybody wins. I don't like it how people suggest altruism should always amount to zero (or even negative!) benefit to the person doing all the giving of value. It's not how altruism should work. Are you only a true altruist if you go to help some poor kids in some poor country and hate every second of it? If so, I'm against altruism, it's something for sociopa…

Definition of altruism - "Unselfish concern for the welfare of others; selflessness." To be clear - I'm not at all against doing good things for others and getting recognition for it, there's nothing wrong with that. But that's not altruism.

you're exaggerating the defintion of unselfish. It's unselfish of me to share my lunch with you when you've forgotten yours, even though I still eat my half of my whole for the selfish reason that I don't want to faint from hunger. A good reputation stands as encouragement to other to also be unselfish, so it's not selfish of me to wish to be recognized as recognition comes for free.

altruistic does not mean hair-shirted

Re: Donating forks to the dining hall

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Post by oe »

I did a similar thing at a startup where I was working as a consultant. We would constantly run out of coffee cups so I started smuggling in more cups each day, some 50 in total. Luckily they were using cheap IKEA mugs so the total cost was roughly 100 €.

The problem could have been solved in many ways but it was a nice hobby for me. I ended up switching to work there as an employee and have been for ten years. I still use the mugs so it worked out OK.

Re: Donating forks to the dining hall

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Post by myko »

practicemaths wrote: post #212
myko wrote: post #203

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it really depends on where they are in relation to me and if people are following them closely when they see my signal they are behind me so making it much more difficult to merge cleanly - i can either hop over as soon as i signal (not safe) or brake so i can merge behind them, where if they hadn't sped up i'd just move over naturally in the flow of traffic it really feels to me like your comments are meant to needl…

"brake so i can merge behind them" This is how you're supposed to merge. When you get on the freeway you don't expect the current flow of traffic to accommodate for you, instead you accommodate for them. "it really feels to me like your comments are meant to needle my complaint re: folks not understanding the zipper merge, am i misreading you? do you think the zipper merge should not be used?" I am not sure you're un…

You are misunderstanding. Please re-read what I've written so far. At no point did I suggest what you are saying.

> This is how you're supposed to merge. When you get on the freeway you don't expect the current flow of traffic to accommodate for you, instead you accommodate for them.

Specifically, you should read the rest of the line you are replying to here.

I mentioned people behind me speeding up to make it impossible for me to merge without braking, after I signal. At no point did I say they should "stop" or "slow down".

I was pointing out that people deliberately speeding up to make it harder to merge without braking are causing problems. It was a light-hearted comment about the failure of many drivers in my town to properly zipper merge.

Here is a video demonstration of zipper merge to help you better understand appropriate driving behavior: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX0I8OdK7Tk

Re: Donating forks to the dining hall

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Post by myko »

practicemaths wrote: post #221
SpaceNugget wrote: post #215

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If someone speeds up when they see a car in another lane signalling that they are going to merge, in order to prevent that car from safely merging, when the merge would have been safe to perform had they not sped up to prevent it, they are definitely driving incorrectly.

If a car does that then it's not safe to merge until after they've gotten ahead of you.

Exactly, which is what I said in my earlier comment that you seem to have misunderstood.

Re: Donating forks to the dining hall

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Post by olah_1 »

rachofsunshine wrote: post #205
olah_1 wrote: post #166

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> after which all participants switch to the bad behavior This is how it has become with job applications. So many people started lying on resumes that the job reqs starting raising the requirements for a position, which causes more people to need to lie. If you don't lie, you just don't get a job and starve/die.

The Jerk Threshold is particularly low in low-trust, low-verifiability, usually-not-iterated games, and there's almost no setting that fits those conditions more than a job search.

Good point. I think the difference is that the society as a whole was much higher-trust than it is today. America is back to being the Wild West, take what you can and don’t look back.

Re: Donating forks to the dining hall

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Post by EricE »

chiffre01 wrote: post #130
schiem wrote: post #122

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According to copper.orgs fact page, the "average" single family home (whatever that means) has 151 pounds of copper pipe. The current scrap price for #1 copper where I live is $2.88. That comes out to around $446. That would maybe cover the cost of the pex itself, OR the cost of fittings and tools, but probably not both.

I'd argue keep the copper in place as much as possible. PEX is plastic. I'm sure it contributes to all the microplastics/PFAS we see all over the place.

Copper has natural antibacterial properties. I'm loathe to look at the insides of plastic pipe after 30 years :p

Re: Donating forks to the dining hall

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Post by yareal »

seoulmetro wrote: post #228
yareal wrote: post #204

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You accused a story teller of only doing it for the clout.

Wrong. Try reading again?

"This reads like social media status seeking " is absolutely an accusation of doing it for clout, lol. My reading comprehension is just fine.
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