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by memefrog 3y ago
His viewers largely do not give him money. They give him attention, and in doing so give attention to the ads on his videos. Advertisers are the ones giving him money. It is a very far cry to suggest that people watching his videos are &q
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He's certainly not using anyone else's money. It is money that he's received from making videos. The difference, I think, is the same difference that there is between donating money anonymously and donating money under the c
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Your children aren't going to resent you because they can't watch a YouTube channel. Nobody has ever resented their parents as an adult because of something like that. My parents didn't let me watch adult-rated movies or pl
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by memefrog 3y ago
You've imbibed a very strange, almost slanderous story and now you're repeating it as fact. But perhaps old-style classes were awful. I don't really remember. I haven't used them for a very long time, because new-style c
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by memefrog 3y ago
Ideas that could work: 1. You could have some kind of community influence over moderator selection for subreddits over a certain size. StackExchange has (had?) elections for moderators. 2. You could have rules preventing anyone from having
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by memefrog 3y ago
The "new" object system in Python ("new" 23 years ago in Python 2.2 and the only system in Python 3 (2008 = 16 years ago)) was strongly and widely debated and refined over time. Maybe the old object system, which hasn&#x
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by memefrog 3y ago
There's no 'as' in Python if or while statements, only with. >>> if True as a: File "<stdin>", line 1 if True as a: ^^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax
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>That's again a decision made by Python. Some other languages behave as if each iteration had declared a different variable. Here's Javascript again, you can even use `const` for the iterating variable: But then can you use i a
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That's not true. Reddit "censorship" that is the problem isn't things like banning questionable subreddits. Some of them were stupid. For example they claimed many were banned for "harassment" when there was no
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Reddit before about 2018?
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So there are now three ways of contacting someone? Private messages (have been around forever), legacy chat and chat?
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Can reddit sustain a conversation over days? Except on the most inactive subreddits, nothing stays on the front page for more than about a day. The result is that the only people continuing the conversation are people responding from their
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The people that engage with polls on a subreddit are the power users of that subreddit and are probably not representative of the broader group. Remember: most people lurk.
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I compare /r/gaming and /r/AskHistorians. The latter is overmoderated and exhibits what I call the "Reddit effect": people will take to be true and accurate anything that is said in a clear and authoritative to
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by memefrog 3y ago
It's the other way round from a cause & effect perspective: the worse the user interface, the more off-putting it is to the casual users that create and promote low-quality content.
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Arch elitism doesn't really exist and never really has. People confuse "we aren't going to handhold you through the installation process if you can't be bothered reading the documentation" with elitism.
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by memefrog 3y ago
Establishing a full DE on Arch is as simple as 'pacman -S plasma kde-applications sddm' followed by 'systemctl enable sddm.service'. Compiling everything manually would take a long time. You would need to work out all th
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by memefrog 3y ago
I don't see any evidence that people "expect them not to make money". Has anyone actually said that? I think the confusion is between the positive and negative meanings of "right". Neither party has the "right
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Reddit used to constantly break under load. It would throw up 503s at busy times every single day. The user interface was much better but the underlying technology was awful.
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>But that question never gets asked about the fan/volunteer work. It's interesting to look at what ventures we as a society think have an almost moral right to make money, and which ventures we almost think of as being morally
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by memefrog 3y ago
Nobody is forcing you to form a company. You can operate a business under your own name. Here in NZ it is called a 'sole proprietorship'. I'm sure it has its own name in the United States, but the fact remains. You can form a
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by memefrog 3y ago
Is it something that needs to be fixed? I surmise that Nature Brief Communication, by its name and the guidelines you gave, is about briefly communicating new results. People read it so that they can get brief summaries of new results in th
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by memefrog 3y ago
In my opinion, science is an exercise in creative thinking, and thinking is an exercise in creative writing. Apply the >>= operator of the creative monad. QED. In all seriousness, I think that writing ideas down, condensing them, read
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For what it's worth, as a curious computer science university student in 2013 I sent Linus Torvalds an email from my personal GMail account. He answered both my original question and a supplementary question, even though they were (in
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I've seen hundreds of comments over the years making the same claim as you. I've never seen an instance of this alleged toxicity. The attitude people display is not "Arch should be hard" but that Arch provides excellent
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An issue is that the definition of 'social media' seems to be 'websites where people are toxic'. What I mean is that websites that share a lot of similarities with 'social media' don't count as social medi