LordKeren

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by LordKeren 3y ago
I'm a lead mod of a 1.5M+ sub and we maybe remove 1-2 bits of spam per week. Usually the very few that do get through our filters are quickly reported by the users and are removed long before it gains traction I realize giving reddit m
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by LordKeren 3y ago
> we're migrating away from pip as a distribution mechanism for this reason Could you elaborate on what you’re using as a replacement?
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by LordKeren 3y ago
I’ll add my personal experience as a long-term lead mod of a subreddit for a specific video game. Broadly, I view subreddits are two camps: 1. Popcorn subreddits — r/pics, r/funny , r/twitterScreenshots 2. hobby & employm
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by LordKeren 4y ago
Easy way to kick start the Dead Sea effect and significantly reduce the amount of applicants to backfill https://medium.com/geekculture/the-dead-sea-effect-d71df1372...
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by LordKeren 4y ago
Nothing short of sweeping legislation will matter here. And given the US’s recent track record for legislating technology, AI is going to be the Wild West for the foreseeable future. Guess we’ll just see what the EU decided
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by LordKeren 4y ago
No, it is not possible. Reddit moderators don't even have access to the users that are subscribed to their subreddits. You cannot do anything meaningful on the platform to contact users to let them know you've moved
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by LordKeren 4y ago
A solid book for crystallizing a lot of key ideas. But yeah, they need to make a new edition and cut out a lot of the “scientific” bits the crumbled after the replication crisis gained purchase It’s a hard book to suggest when topics about
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by LordKeren 4y ago
It’s not partisan analysis to take issue with the statement “The person who wins the presidential election is not the person that most people voted for” I can objectively say that I have an issue with that statement regardless of the party
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by LordKeren 4y ago
I can objectively say that I take issue with the statement “The winner of the presidential election is not the person who received the most votes from citizens” Regardless of the party of the winner. > It's like when people complain
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by LordKeren 4y ago
… you don’t talk about Nebraska voters. Nebraska is not a swing state— there was an almost 20 point difference in 2020. All that the electoral college does is make it so the only states that matter are swing states. We talk about Pennsylvan
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by LordKeren 4y ago
It does not benefit rural voters. It only benefits swing states. You don’t see many candidates campaigning in Nebraska instead of Florida
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by LordKeren 4y ago
Yes, this is the most fair solution if you’re looking to have a presidential election outcome more likely to represent how people actually voted. But 5000 is arbitrary— and the more you add, the closer the number is to how people actually v
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by LordKeren 4y ago
You should also be opposed to the electoral college then. The electoral college vote count is still based on population counts. The electoral college accomplishes none of the goals of republic style voting you’d like, nor the direct popular
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by LordKeren 4y ago
In the US election system for most of the states right now, there is only 2 logical scenarios Direct voting (popular votes) State based (like the senate) The current electoral college is an arbitrary blend of the two where it’s somewhat pro
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by LordKeren 4y ago
This is fundamentally wrong because states don’t break votes into urban, suburban, and country voters. It’s winner takes all for the state. There are a huge amount of people who’s vote for president does not matter at all due to the voting
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by LordKeren 4y ago
It doesn’t really do that though. All the electoral college does is make presidential campaigns hyper focus on swing states. You don’t see many presidential candidates stopping over in Vermont.
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by LordKeren 4y ago
I view the electoral college system as the canary in the coal mine for voting changes in America. No honest person who is informed about how the electoral college works thinks it’s fair. There are so many possible bad outcomes of it and the
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by LordKeren 4y ago
I would be interested to see if these taxes have any meaningful effect on consumer behavior The core issue is that any tax on bags like this is a regressive tax. A tax that is big enough to make changes in how upper middle class households
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by LordKeren 4y ago
yeah, if you cut out and overlook all the key defining aspects of a Ponzi scheme like the fraud, sure. Once the government privatizes social security (and similar mandatory retirement programs in other countries), converts it to a for-profi
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by LordKeren 5y ago
Your assumption lines up with the general PC gaming advice. There are a few games that do strongly benefit from a better CPU, but those are the exception, and they still have significant dismissing returns
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by LordKeren 5y ago
“Woke” has entered a subcategory of the lexicon where it is so transparently used to rile straw man debates that any time its used anymore, I instantly become disinterested in the topic. Similar words include “snowflake” and “safe zone” I’d
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by LordKeren 5y ago
I’m glad they added the counter measures, but I largely think the concerns around AirTags are ignoring that hiding a tracker on a vehicle is not in any way a new novel concept. It’s trivial to buy a device to do this and hide it on a car,