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by scarab92 2y ago
In 2010 Reddit was center-left, with a high degree of variance between subreddits. Today it is a far-left echo chamber in most large subreddits. The process of change was gradual. Like all echo chambers it is a result of distillation, with
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by scarab92 2y ago
Widespread defamatory allegations and calls for violence aren’t common everyday life but they are routine on reddit. Banning users with moderate opinions is not normal in everyday life, but is routine in many subreddits. Including users sha
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There was zero real prospect of that occurring, especially with broad agreement across the aisle that Trump lost. It was a protest that got out of hand. Those who committed violence deserved custodial sentences, but the rest who were mere t
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> I've not seen any swing in political views That’s like a frog saying the water isn’t getting warmer.
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Agree with this. Not to condone Jan 6, but the prosecution of those protestors was punitively harsh. People who should have been given simple fines for trespassing were instead given custodial sentences.
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Musk usually elevates technical and capable people, and gives them more power, not less. I suspect 18F would have been adopted by USDS, if it had been less overtly partisan in its hiring practices.
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Agree, but when you staff an entire agency with his supporters, the echo chamber effect can result in it becoming a hive of far-left types. The same would apply to the right too, except that the right tends to shut down agencies, not create
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The Pixel branding is 12 years old, and IIRC this feature also existed in Nexus before that.
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> fascists I'm sure calling them such names makes sense in your echo chambers, but to the overwhelming majority of people this is an inaccurate and inappropriate label. Calling people things which they are not, does not hurt their r
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> fascism, white supremacists I'm sure calling them these names makes sense in your echo chambers, but to the overwhelming majority of people these are inaccurate and inappropriate labels. Calling people things which they are not, d
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Why doesn't the iPhone screen spammers yet? Pixel has had this feature for a decade.
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Think of it like a vaccine. The majority of human written consultant reports are already complete rubbish. Low accuracy, low signal-to-noise, generic platitudes in a quantity-over-quality format. LLMs are innoculating people to this kind of
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I doubt those crawler rules will be honoured for long. I wouldn’t even be surprised if a law is passed requiring sites to provide equal access to humans whether accessed directly or via these models. It’s too important an innovation to stal
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Are you exploiting open knowledge creators, using their work without compensation?
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It’s not fascism to hold the belief that the size of the federal government should be reduced. The left love name calling and I don’t think they realise how immature it makes them look to other voters.
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Trump won the election. The left need to accept that. He has a mandate to significantly reduce the size of the federal government, and he has the authority to appoint Musk to act in this way. You can complain about it violating norms all yo
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They aren't random goons. They are official government employees / advisors, peforming a task within their remit. Clearly your framing is driven by ideological hatred, but there's nothing about this that isn't above boar
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The actions that are being taken by Trump, Musk and co is normal in both governmental and corporate organisations when a change of control occurs. Oversight in these systems tends to be illusory, because for the executive branch to function
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When looking for fraud and abuse you want access to the single source of truth, not secondary derived sources. People need to accept that Trump won and is now directly in charge of the executive branch. Imagine holding the belief that a com
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It would help if people could outline exactly what they are concerned about. As far as I can tell, nothing that that Musk et al is doing is unusual when an organisation changes hands. This is normal for a change of government or a corporate
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You’re being sensationalist to try to make a point that doesn’t stand on its own. Most studies show that productivity per hour doesn’t go down until about 60 hours, or higher for low skilled work.
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Because demand and prices went up. Honestly, you’re approaching on conspiracy theory territory with some of your beliefs about how the world works.
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Companies don’t like RTO because most employees are less productive at home and will pretend to work rather than actually work. It has nothing to do with middle managers.
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You’re living in the past. That model worked when people were much more equal in output, before the ambitious could leverage skills and tools to become an order of magnitude more productive than average. It’ll never work today, because ther
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There’s no quality evidence that reducing hours worked below 40 hours increases productivity per hour. All research done to date shows that productivity per hour is flat until about 60 hours or even higher for low skill work. What you’re do
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Professional salaries in NZ are less than half of those in the US. I can see how this makes sense, if this perk is enough to stop your low cost labor from chasing greenbacks instead.
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Diminishing returns doesn’t invalidate their point. Working more hours will always produce more output, even if the marginal increase in output decreases.
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Knowledge work does require time where you are mulling over the problem, rather than executing, but that isn’t downtime. Reducing working hours, in most cases, will reduce time spent doing both those tasks. If Tolkien took an additional day
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Proponents pretend like 4 day work weeks don’t reduce output with all sorts of dubious motivated reasoning. A lot of it is “we can be more efficient” and therefore we don’t need to work as many hours, overlooking the obvious fact that if ev
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The “studies” surrounding this topic are laughably bad. The authors almost always have conflicts of interest. The studies are often funded and/or staffed by proponents of the 4 day work week. The outcomes are mostly subjective and self

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