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Only until you've figured it out, at which point you're god. You could make it non-repeatable somehow to avoid that, but magic is depicted as being mainly old, repeated spells most of the time, like in the comic. You could also move to something like Brainfuck or even Malbolge where coding a single new program is hard. As I learned the hard way, though, you're still going to have no control over what ends up being easy and what's not.

Actually, it's more like homeomorphic encryption since you have a system of some bounded complexity instead of a single fixed piece of information. That's usually harder, but then again you actually want the scheme to be "insecure" in this case.

10,000 * 56,583 ~= 566 million < 600 million.

Bruh, he doesn't even want to pay out the annual subsidy once.

Interesting. Does this provide any game balance whatsoever?

I spent an embarrassing amount of time trying to design magic systems when I was a teenager, but they always ended up being either way too powerful or not "rich" enough to be interesting. It's just really hard to design a simple mechanical system that stays within arbitrary human boundaries.

Hmm, I feel myself getting drawn back in. That's almost like a zero-knowledge proof, and there's lots of weird ways to implement cryptographic primitives.

!polandball@lemmy.world

I miss my irreverent bantery geopolitical satire, and there's 0 chance of the Reddit mods helping the transition in any way

Hmm. Reductionist design probably has gone too far if you start to require radial symmetry.

Yeah, that's the basic attitude I'm thinking of. Normalcy bias feed into it as well as what I mentioned about meritocracy.

I suspect it's less common in the lower classes because if you're poor, stability has never been guaranteed, or for that matter even reasonability. There's no expectation that's been set. Depending on a person's roots there might also be cultural memory in there of previous times things went crazy.

WTF, that's not the area I'd expect to "clutch pearls" over wine. (It's labeled in Russian, or another language with the same word for milk)

Nobody likes being called an elite, don't worry.

If only you could do reverse psychology with them. Historically they've said whatever's convenient for if it is true just as much as if it's not.

Yes, I was adding on. Those are other modern miracles we take for granted.

Wealth is a continuum; there's no actual dividing line, like is commonly thought. But just personally, the posher people I know are less bearish, and it looks like the trend continues once you get even higher. Big fund managers tend to be in the picture. I don't know off the top of my head how much movement is professionals and how much is retail investors.

I feel the need to disclose that I'm personally short on the US, relative to other markets.

Edit: And I should also mention the myth of meritocracy has a wide following, it's just extra favoured by the people who would be implied to have merit by it. And there's the fact that most people came up in a time where this sort of thing never happened, so there's normalcy bias on top of it all.

The vibe I get is that most elites really don't want to believe the president could be dumb, because that means they could be too. Elites own and/or work with a lot of stocks, and that extends to their investing decisions.

So they figure, sure, it must just be a 4D chess bluff.