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  • Yeah, a table-top turn-based battle simulator. The units have ranges of movement and of fire and line of sight matters. People build interesting terrains and then pit armies of similar strength (I think by using a point buy system) against each other.

    I played a round using a friend’s sister’s army against him and his once. I think his sister’s army was from the Imperial Army. I’m sure he had T’au, because I remember his Kroot fucked me up with their movement speed, or maybe a wood bonus, something like that. The game was not bad, but didn’t capture me either.



  • The math is a bit counter intuitive, but increasing by 5% then decreasing by 5% of the new value does not get you back to the start exactly.

    You take a value v, increase it by 5% to 105% of the previous you now have 105% * v. Now you take that new values as the basis for the next calculation, and decrease by 5% to 95% of the previous, you now have 95% * 105% * v which is actually 99.75% * v.

    You need to find the day from which their wealth increased by 5.263% so that a 5% tax would bring them back.

    But yeah, whatever it doesn’t make a material difference to the argument. A one time tax sounds a bit weird to me, but I don’t live there, Californians should do whatever they can. Maybe a one time tax is a good first domino stone.










  • I don’t think this is comparable to descriptivism and prescriptivism in linguistics.

    The predictive power of a classification doesn’t have anything to do chronological order of what you are now and how you will develop, but about if knowing one thing (the MBTI) allows to deduce another (age, socioeconomic status, interests, vocational suitability, whatever). In other words predictive power is about correlations and testable outcomes.

    If a psychological test leads to a result that does not predict other statistical values about a person, it does not actually capture anything that person is, at least nothing that’s verifiable or falsifiable.

    And if it’s not verifiable or falsifiable we might as well use zodiac signs.