According the the mod's Reddit comments, he netted a profit of 15k off the 5k spent. Imagine being one of the dupes who bought NFTs on the downswing, or using nu.reddit and being plastered with this dogshit.
In response to ableistsl's removed comment:
Even though it's not its specific intent, my hypothetical web-of-trust (meaningful reputation scoring with simple, sound checks and balances) would downrank uncreative, non self-aware trolls along with those that take them at face value from the default viewing preference. In line with political-realism and lib-right conservatism, any new user would have to go through the automatic gatekeeping process of one the few groups. As for server policy, the main federated instance (presuming the admin shares my goals) would only be concerned with removing CP-level content and coordinated malicious disruption.
Netflix is pretty open that their user-rating system being a placebo, as some viewers love to hate-watch. I'm sure Youtube pulls similar shit, but garbage-metrics specifically refers to ambitious middle-management types manipulating numbers to pull Gervais Principle shenanigans, to the neglect of intrinsic product quality or user preferences.
Once Google established a user-base off their first product, the path towards steady revenue and growth is of a war-like territorial nature. Two of their three or four widely used offerings post-2006, Youtube and Android, were acquisitions. They still had an engineering culture, but the well-connected professional (lawyers, etc) and investor class were now the profit-centers. Early on, they had no lower/middle-management in their org hierarchy, which benefits creative work if done correctly, but becomes a pain in the ass when the corporation is expanding rapidly. Their business needs changed by 2005, and so Goog decided commodified, component labor , treating the software engineers like the socially inept nerds they are, was more appropriate anyways.
By 2010 Google was in bed with government agencies and dominant political parties across the world. That's key to keeping the advertising department profitable, securing market access across the globe which is a pseudo zero-sum game. Probably black-budget sources too.
Like Microsoft and many others, Google's corporate culture suffers from garbage metrics and other corporate careerist dysfunctions. It's amazing how much their product quality has suffered since they discarded open-allocation, a.k.a flat hierarchy, to ingratiate with the post-feudalist side of our economy.
Definitely a better solution for websites that are trying to stick close to Reddit. Combined with admin/mod tools to prevent brigading, another alternative would have a leg-up over the trending alternatives.
Hacker News only gives you the downvote after a reaching a karma threshold, with somewhat enforced netiquette guidelines, and there's more disagreement within a comment section than 95% of subreddits. HN still often suffers from Silicon Valley monoculture. That specific solution would be pointless somewhere else with less focus. Better than no-downvote hugboxes like saidit(least-bad example) where feelings>quality.
My ideal solution is a radical departure from popular offerings, centered around something similar to Freenet-Locutus' web-of-trust.
ESR[1] made the point that lower-IQ societies can function so long as technological progression is slow and steady. Since NPCs imitate instead of thinking critically, they can't adapt quickly enough in the ever-changing environment of advanced civilization. Part of the reason positive rights are evil since they drag down ethical, intelligent individuals (of any skin color) to the superstitions of mode-averaged/lowest-common-denominator (not even the mean/median honest folk) of an extended population, and the ritualism of self-centered douchebags (much of the managerial class found in most HR, Finance, Sales&Marketing departments).
- I think he made this point in an earlier blogpost, but I'm not spending 10 hours wrestling with search engines.
The former is what I've used to broach the subject, which works with casual conservatives, but not confused leftists. It puts anyone that slants left on guard, which is okay if I want to piss off a coworker or bar addict. The key here is the concept that applies both to public office and private
Republican might work in Europe where at worst it means anti-monarchy, but here in America, low on the list of things I talk to a strangers about is the drama/theater surrounding the GOP and DNC.
I would have not even made this post if parasites didn't co-opt the word 'stake' for the incoherent "stakeholder capitalism", which is almost the reverse of the important concept I'm trying to condense to one or two words. I'm just falling back on meritocracy and social darwinism, even if those fail at subtlety changing a person's train-of-thought that majority-rule is good and natural. Democracy is a synthetic radioisotope.
Exactly what I'm ultimately after. I just think it would be easier if I and others had an efficient way to frame democracy without putting people on guard, or wasting less time finding if an acquaintance is a socialist pop-tart.
I subscribe to the Heritage Foundation's conclusion that this stopped being true some time in the 20th century. The faltering of our republic would be much easier for me to explain to normies, or debate shitlibs, if I had better vocabulary for the various methods of bottom-up participation. Same with economics; any discussion with IRL randoms involving minimum wage, unemployment, protectionism (tariffs, grocery store alcohol restrictions, occupational licensing) devolves into cliches and low-grade gametalk. Good populism (i.e. not trend chasing) stands a better chance if we can coax more regular Americans into thinking about substance instead of getting pawned/manipulated by low propensity baizuo issues (not to suggest that the culture-war shouldn't be fought).
R/drama has never been my cup of tea, only being more tolerable than r/subredditdrama. Still this is some classic trolling.
I didn't settle on the term "effective democracy" since 'effective', like 'holistic', has a leftist and pretentious connotation in common vernacular. It most certainly isn't representative democracy, which is even worse than direct democracy. An extreme example of what I mean is Senator Armstrong's ideal of action determining policy.
This is consistent with their plan to change mouse default from single-click to double-click in Plasma 6 DE; this default means the rest of UI is better tested and designed. Just like it's feminine to orient towards the subjective over the objective (lifestyle activism as seen in the photo), it's also not masculine to compromise product/service to appease the lowest common denominator or the loudest complainers. Individual Yelp reviews are not inherently valid, and a business can tank of they chickenshit instead of prioritizing regular customers. Depending on circumstance (unmeritocratic org. cultures, nature v. nurture), typical women are very prone to taking criticism personally and/or at face-value.
The above is separate from removing artificial barriers and improving ease of active use.
That kids are even subject to mandatory pride events proves that the Prussian model of compulsory education is utter dogshit, but I'll take the silver lining once in awhile.
Layers 8 and above are always the worst.
Bunch of fence-sitters and confused leftists.
It's pure controlled/performative oppoosition if ½kia doesn't go read-only after tomorrow. If the website has been declining since Aaron's departure in 2007 (Facebook tier content you find on r/all), it's taken a nosedive since the ban of FatPeopleHate.
The real dumb thing about ’07-'18 NN advocacy fad was the ignorance of regulatory capture, the last mile, technical matters like buffer bloat, and more generally the merits of federalism/10th amendment or Bastiat's 'that which is not seen'. While antitrust is usually fake and gay, it is absolutely justified against telecoms who lobby for state legislation against municipal competition.
Thanks. That's more inconvenient than a pushshift front-end, but that's a minor nitpick to having valuable data feasibly salvaged. I'll just have to accept that more comments I've saved are gonna be lost sooner than I would have liked.
Part of me is sad that quality documentation is going to be memory holed by enough subreddits staying dark after the 14th instead of restricting submissions, and bandwagoning dolts erasing their accounts so they can feel like they're hurting Reddit's profits. The other part thinks this is a karmic lesson in tolerating a centralized platform with knowledge, along with technical and business design decisions that encourage L.C.D behavior (a.k.a another Eternal September). Plus, whats with the lack of permanent archiving from when pushshift.io was functioning?
I use Linux and CalyxOS to resist brazen abuse by Amzn/Goog/MSFT, but indeed it's only some degree of user control. In practice, computers aren't as hackable[1] as they used to be. Any dork who hasn't gone through LFS start-to-finish shouldn't even entertain the thought of computing superiority. Back to my main point, Linux/Unix has a lot of cruft and corporate dependence, the www and mainstream culture have been turned inside-out, and so on.
If it wasn't for the Herculean task of hardware a, maybe a worthy competitor to current desktop triumvirate would have a better shot combating social inertia. Aside from monetary barriers, it's gonna take more than technological ingenuity to overcome our collective spiritual shortcoming.
- The essay focuses on a very niche subsection of our population, but the point holds when it comes to making good things (I'm in partial agreement with these guys) others want to use.
Don't forget his father being an establishment-left EU politician.
In old, related news, git (the original command line tool) following in github's footsteps in depreciating "master" in favor of "main".; this change wasn't even popular amongst the HN crowd (except for that self-aggrandizing first comment branch). If this was 1990-2007, Linus and co. would have loudly protested this as corporate and political interference.
Stallman, the autist he is, opposes "they" as an epicene, but endorses "per" and "pers" as gender-neutral pronouns. He's also got proto-woke ideas on branding, in the sense that artificial or pointless divisions must be presented and accommodated. His argumentation is indeed very robust and honest, but often with a few very flawed premises.
I've got nothing personal against him, but instead cliquish SV grifters who upheld him as principled, but turned on him or went silent when he wound up in the Feminazis' cross-hairs.
Of the top of my head, Greenspun, Palmer Luckey, Brendan Eich, and Carmack are examples of successful conservative/right-libertarian engineer-entrepreneurs.
Even before the cancel-cult broke him, he was infatuated with Barrack because of his emphatic rhetoric. Never trust a European who isn't explicitly anti-left.
The art direction for Lawbreakers seemed uninspired, derived from other post-2009 MOBAs, royales, and avatar shooters instead of '90-'06 Id/Epic/similar. I didn't know CliffyB was intentionally embracing woke weirdness.
Arena shooters have a problem with the core-gamer market of demanding constant alertness and more veterancy than other multiplayers to enjoy. Presumably[1] UT03/04 were able to live past the late 90's by having casual servers and mods to satisfy PC gamers who want to chill after school or work. Starcraft 2 had a similar fun vs. competitive issue where the 1st had player-driven variety. Even if Lawbreakers had better art direction, it would have failed since it didn't find a way to vary its gameplay loop. I'm undecided on whether a multiplayer needs to be freemium (which Lawbreakers wasn't) these days to sell.
Edit: I'm getting deja vu of making this comment before. Lawbreakers is shockingly unremarkable.