Manuel_D

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by Manuel_D 2y ago
Correct, and what's to keep users of the subreddit from tagging posters who've posted in the Israel subreddit and down voting them until they're hidden? There's no effective way to force users to interact with other user
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Reddit bans subreddits whose moderators do not remove content that breaks the ToS. They do not require that communities refrain from banning certain people or content. Basically, you can only get sanctioned by reddit as a moderator for not
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> Here's another question. Let's say a mall is composed entirely of pop up stores that close at the end of every month. These stores invariably ban visible minorities from using their service Again, this is already illegal beca
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> They say they want the city to cough up more cash to help meet the repeatedly blown 50%-of-the-fleet mandate from a decade-old lawsuit settlement. What was the court's rationale for this 50% figure? Surely 50% of ridership is not
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
My understanding is that businesses cannot deny service based on protected class. E.g. Reddit couldn't put "Catholics are barred from using Reddit" in their TOS. But subreddit bans are done by users of Reddit, not by Reddit i
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
If you're talking about what your opinion of is morally right, or a healthy social media ecosystem I'm not really disagreeing with you - I don't think it's good for the subreddit mods to do this. But as per your comments
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
Sure, but I find that few people are able to articulate in any detail what those requirements are and explain how it will lead to a better ecosystem. A lot of people talk about a requirement to explain why someone was given a particular rec
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> If you have a new forum and you remove misinformation, does that removal constitute an actionable defamation against the poster? Twitter was sued for this, because they attached a note to a user's post. But note that this was not
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> The general point is that Section 230 gives companies a shield from liability for manual curation, automated curation, and algorithmic recommendations alike, and that removing 230 would result in a wild west of we're-afraid-to-mod
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Reddit is not a place of public accommodation. It's a private web company. And furthermore, Reddit isn't the one doing the banning. It's Reddit users that are blocking members from their subreddit. The rest of Reddit is free
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
But Reddit isn't discriminating against certain races, ethnicities, or religions. Individual subreddit admins are discriminating on the basis of identity. This no different than creating a Discord server or IRC chat channel where you o
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
I wanted to dig into the claim that 3 out of 4 dating app users had been victims of sexual violence. The actual study comes from this report: https://www.aic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2022-10/rr25_sexu.
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
Has it? My understanding is that altering game executables, even during runtime after it's been loaded in RAM, can fall afoul of the DMCA. Heck, even emulator developer have been successfully sued as per Yuzu.
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
Nuclear power is less "dirty" than most forms of renewables: https://world-nuclear.org/images/articles/0a2091ce-35b3-4ada... Again, Germany emits 6 times as much C02 for every MWh of electricity generate
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
This can be addressed by expanding heat exchangers. Unlike the river water cooling which is constrained by how much the plants are allowed to heat the river.
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Air doesn't have much thermal mass, so you'd have to move a lot of air through the heat exchangers to make it work. It's probably possible, but there's much more viable alternatives. In particular, you can use wastewater
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
Correct, but most generation is still produced close to demand. If you look at a map of where power plants are located ( https://synapse.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/201fc98c0d74... ) you'll see they're
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A geographically large grid will require extensive transmission network upgrades. That has to be factored into the cost competitiveness of these sources. Renewable generation itself is cheap. But what's expensive (or straight up unfeas
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
The comment about nuclear waste could not be further from the truth. All of the radioactive waste from nuclear electricity generation in the US fits in a volume equivalent to a football field stacked 10 meters high: https://www.e
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Germany's energy industry emits 6 times as much greenhouse gases per MWh of electricity generated than France: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2024/09/08/france-... . https:&#x2F
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The issue outlined above is a problem for all thermal plants. Coal and gas plants would suffer from the same issue. Furthermore, nuclear plants don't need to be cooled with potable water. They can be cooled with ocean water, or with wa
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Israel%E2%80... This graph clearly shows a decelerating rate of death. This is exactly proving my point: most Gazans died in the conflict by the end of 2023, and the viol
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
If someone kidnaps people and holds them hostage in a building, it's totally within the realm of reasonable response for the police to surround and isolate the building. If one of the kidnappers does of dehydration during the standoff,
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
Sort of. Headsets have limited FOV per eye. You can blow up the screen to be huge, but you'd only be able to see part of it at a time. But yeah, 110 degrees FOV can accommodate a very big screen.
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
The field of view is deceptive in 2d photos. With the VR headset your focal point is at infinity, and in practice it feels more like sitting in front of a big 60" TV on your couch.
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The figure comes from the Palestinian Health Ministry: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-death-toll-ho... What incentive would the Palestinian government have to deceive people into thinking there&#x2
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
You do remember what event kicked off this military campaign just over a year ago, right? The blockade is part of the effort to press Hamas into releasing the remaining hostages. If the bulk of the deaths are due to starvation and disease s
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> The deliberate killing or displacement of a significant part of a population, typically on ethnic or religious grounds. As some examples, Nazi Germany's slaughter of Jewish, Romani, Armenian, gay and other minority people. Serbian
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Even the Palstinian Health Ministry's own count is 45,000: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-death-toll-ho...
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
Even the most pessimistic estimates of casualties in Gaza are on the order of tens of thousands. That is not going to appreciably change the population.

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