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by bnralt 3y ago
Yeah, the biggest issue for me as a Reddit user is despotic mods. And frankly, this shut down is another good example of how problematic they are. There was important information these past few days I couldn't get to because mods locke
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by bnralt 3y ago
Yeah, the SETI Institute's site says we wouldn't be able to pick up signals from an earth like civilization in the system closest to us[1]: > If an extraterrestrial civilization has a SETI project similar to our own, could they
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by bnralt 3y ago
It's also pretty clear that some mods have relationships with Reddit admins and use that to skirt the rules themselves while bringing the hammer down on subs they don't like. The funny part is occasionally I've come across su
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by bnralt 3y ago
That's an issue, but I don't think that's the main issue. There's plenty of ways around that if the will is there. Worst case scenario you could just create an old-school mailing list. Everyone has the infrastructure for
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by bnralt 3y ago
Saidit seems like a direct clone that has some (limited) traction. /r/drama's Reddit knockoff just for themselves (at least I think it's just for themselves) looks to be larger, though (rdrama.net). It seems even a sligh
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by bnralt 3y ago
> I can only imagine Eleizer Yudkowsky and Rob Miles looking on this conversation with a depressed scream and a facepalm respectively. Whenever Yudkowsky comes up on my Twitter feed I'm left with an impression that I'm not goi
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by bnralt 3y ago
> I mean a small group of malicious humans can already bioengineer a deadly virus with CRISPR and open source tech without AI. That's what interesting to me. People fearmongering about bioengineering and GMO's were generally d
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by bnralt 3y ago
People making doomsday predictions are always going to claim that _their_ prediction is the “real hazard” unlike all those other guys. Of course we should dismiss everyone else’s doomsday claims, those are just silly; but it would be a horr
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by bnralt 3y ago
No, according to the IAU Pluto and other dwarf planets are not a planet and there's only 8 planets in the solar system, and dwarf planets aren't considered planets. For example, from their site[1]: > The 2006 IAU Resolution mea
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by bnralt 3y ago
> You identify that Pluto hasn’t cleared its orbit of asteroids and so you demote it. That wasn't really why it was demoted. Eris was discovered, and it was more massive than Pluto, so a decision was to be made about whether we were
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by bnralt 3y ago
What’s funny is that a lot of people in that crowd lambastes the fear mongering of anti-GMO or anti-nuclear folk, but then they turn around and do the exact same thing for tech that their group likes to fear monger about.
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by bnralt 3y ago
The overuse of “like” is extremely common in younger (say, sub-50) Americans across geographic locations.
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One thing I noticed is that lax laws create more criminals. For instance, on the D.C. metro they used to take fare evasion very seriously, and you almost never would see people jumping the fare gate for the metro. Then a few years ago, the
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by bnralt 3y ago
> I never realized that just choosing not to show up was an option. At least around here, it seems to happen a lot to violent offenders who aren't rich. There was a guy a few months ago who committed an armed robbery. Reached a plea
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by bnralt 4y ago
It’s interesting. The initial post that mentioned that Rob Lee was murdered got mass flagged and stayed at the bottom of the page. There’s discussion about his murder and crime in general, but the top comment is asking people not to be poli
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by bnralt 4y ago
Fed policymakers had predicted there wouldn't be any rate hike before 2024, then they predicted there would be two by late 2023[1]. We've had nine rate hikes since then. I think the correct reading of the situation is that inflati
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by bnralt 4y ago
> In the interview you quoted, the word "dangerous" is used once: If you're familiar with the situation, you know that homeless frequently talk about the dangerous nature of shelters as a reason why they don't want to
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by bnralt 4y ago
> Homeless people turn down shelters because shelters aren't homes, and are often legitimately worse than being outside. I keep hearing that homeless avoid shelters because of how dangerous the people are there[1]. And that’s a legi
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by bnralt 4y ago
We definitely need protections for people who are institutionalized. But we also need protection from the members of society who are being victimized by mentally unstable individuals. Many large cities seem to have no interest at all in the
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by bnralt 4y ago
> that any post about Bob Lee’s death that somehow editorializes it or positions it in a way that is likely to lead to political debates is against the site guidelines and thus were removed appropriately. A lot of discussions on HN lead
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by bnralt 4y ago
Two big issues I've noticed with post ranking are: 1. There seems to be a group of people that abuse the flag button to get stories downvoted. You notice this when highly upvoted stories with a lot of points suddenly drop from the top
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by bnralt 4y ago
The guys hijacks a public frequency to put whatever he personally wants on, broadcasts Alex Jone's Infowars and Steve Bannon's War Room[1], and people are celebrating it as "the people" taking back the airwaves? [1] htt
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by bnralt 4y ago
The big difference is that a gun or nuclear weapon could actually kill someone right now. Imagine if people were calling for a pause to the internet in 1994 because they thought we might be on the verge of accidentally creating Lawnmower Ma
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by bnralt 4y ago
> I’m no philosopher, but if your argument hinges on moving goalposts until purity is reached, and your basic assumption is that the requirements for purity are infinite, then it’s not a very useful argument. I imagine many definitions a
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by bnralt 4y ago
One thing that gets neglected as well is that normalizing low level drinking encourages high level drinking, and that high level drinking not only has a negative impact on the individual but on society at large. It’s much easier for people
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by bnralt 4y ago
According to your article, the police department budget for 2019-20 was $692, and the proposal for 2021-22 was $661. Which would definitely be less. But even worse when you adjust for inflation - the 2019-20 budget would be $733 million in
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by bnralt 4y ago
According to the article, that's a 4.4% increase during a 3 year period with 14.5% cumulative inflation. Which would be a large cut in real dollar terms, no?
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by bnralt 4y ago
Eh. A lot of people are ignoring that most cities did move in the defund police direction in 2020 and 2021, and then tried to reverse course and pretend it didn’t happen. For instance, this is from 2021[1]: “San Francisco Mayor London Breed
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by bnralt 4y ago
Yep. It’s quite uncommon for a murderer here to be arrested without a history of multiple violent offenses. But they keep being released until they finally kill someone. Just a few days ago a young woman was randomly stabbed to death by a m
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by bnralt 4y ago
The first laws regulating nuclear energy were signed about a year after the atomic bombings, no? As far as I know, the first nuclear fission experiments were completely unregulated.

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