Moved to mastodon.social! @TetraspaceGrouping@schelling.pt

an old tetratopian folk tale about a man who, in a heartbeat, pledged but five minutes a day to a demon for riches, because riches were so great and five minutes are so little. 288 heartbeats later, his soul was lost

i have no quarrel with hardware epub readers btw, they're just kinda like books and books are fine

ok the horrible design constraint seems to be that epubs are actually zipped folders containing html files, and those html files are displayed sequentially instead of stitched together into one long text. and i guess adding page-level continuous scrolling would make chapter-level continuous scrolling really janky? meh

on the plus side: epubs are zipped folders containing html files it turns out! i could literally just code up my own epub unsucker in python!

is there some kind of horrible design constraint that means they have to do this? like, its just text, cant they just show it in a way that makes it nice to read

it's a shame that literally every epub reader displays the whole page at once, and only lets me jump between pages instead of continuously scrolling, instead of e.g. having a usable interface like Archive of Our Own's

(replace "is worth" -> "gets you"; I didn't convert benefits that weren't average increase in income to $ amounts)

Unless they're patient, or value IQ points more, or there are other benefits to choosing sperm donor like attractiveness and athleticism and personality traits. Still, probably better to iodize the salt and remove the lead from paint first.

say someone wants to use IUI+sperm donor in order to buy IQ points (previously: https://schelling.pt/@TetraspaceGrouping/106863321864842499). Maybe they can reliably find a sperm donor with 130IQ, and they have 110IQ; that's +20 difference, half because one parent, half because not heritable, +5 points in child.

1 IQ point is worth $400/y in extra income, so this gives $2k/y total, so NPV at 4% discount is $20k, less than the $20k-40k of IUI, so actually it's not really worth it, and that's why no Repository for Germinal Choice.

maaan i have learnt very little maths these past 2 years

hm it seems like perhaps the stars is actually now coming out on October 19, 2021

moar time to speculate

my kingdom for a windows pdf reader that saves your page if you close it down and open it up again

opium is the opiate of the masses

wonder if there's still a valid "JEDD is a chuunibyou, Mycroft is lying" headcanon for Terra Ignota or if that ship's too far sailed and yeah Bridger is god