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This is the stupidest thing I’ve read today.

Any third party that a left leaning person might vote for will only help Republicans to win elections by siphoning votes away from Democrats.

In fact, that’s exactly why they exist.

So yeah, they get hate, because they’re actively trying to sabotage progressive causes and usher in fascism.

Google is buying your data, not selling it. They use it to make their ad platform more effective, and selling the data would just help their competitors.

The NSA does collect data from third parties like Google, but not just anyone can buy it from them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/us/donald-trump-tape-transcript.html

I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.

Or for another example, see Andrew Tate and all the idiots who follow him.

unless a progressive third party emerges the system will keep getting worse

If a progressive third party emerges, they’ll split the vote with Democrats, making both of them weaker. That’ll just give every election to Republicans and make the country get worse even faster.

The only way to get progressive candidates is by moving the Overton window to the left, and the only way to do that is by voting for Democrats.

Statistically no, it’s not very dangerous as far as big cities go. Its homicide rate is ranked 30-something in the USA. Pretty much every city has “bad areas”, though.

You think in Reddit’s 20 year history no one has thought of indexing comments for data science workloads?

I’m sure they have, but an index doesn’t have anything to do with the python library you mentioned.

Analytics workflows are never run on the production database, always on read replicas

Sure, either that or aggregating live streams of data, but either way it doesn’t have anything to do with ElasticSearch.

It’s still totally possible to sync things to ElasticSearch in a way that won’t affect performance on the production servers, but I’m just saying it’s not entirely trivial, especially at the scale reddit operates at, and there’s a cost for those extra servers and storage to consider as well.

It’s hard for us to say if that math works out.

It’s incredibly naive to think that they don’t have a vested interest in identifying organic engagement

You would think, but you could say the same about Facebook and I know from experience that they don’t give a fuck about bots. If anything they actually like the bots because it looks like they have more users.

MAP (minimum advertised price) is often different from MSRP, but otherwise this comment is correct.

In some industries, like RVs or auto parts, the vast majority of products have a MAP. The manufacturers also have bots that scan the internet for MAP violations, and they’ll blacklist a vendor if they don’t fix the price within a day or two. (Which is really annoying when there’s a false positive and I get blamed for it.)

I think it’s partly so high volume vendors can’t put smaller vendors out of business by just reducing their margins as much as possible, and it’s partly because the manufacturer doesn’t want their products to look like they’re really cheap. Customers feel better about finding a “great deal” on an “expensive” product.

1. To compare every comment on reddit to every other comment in reddit’s entire history would require an index, and if you want to find similar comments instead of exact matches, it becomes a lot harder to do that efficiently. ElasticSearch might be able to do it, but then you need to duplicate all of that data in a separate database and keep it in sync with your main database without affecting performance too much when people are leaving new comments, and that would probably be expensive.
2. Comparing combinations of comments is probably impossible. Reddit has a massive number of comments to begin with, and the number of possible subtrees of those comments would just be absurd. If you only care about comparing entire threads and not subtrees, then this doesn’t apply, but I don’t know how useful that will be.
3. Programmers just do what they’re told. If the managers don’t care about something, the programmers won’t work on it.

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Our findings suggest that free-ranging cats cause substantially greater wildlife mortality than previously thought and are likely the single greatest source of anthropogenic mortality for US birds and mammals.

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380

I don’t hate Republicans because they’re on the other side of the fence.

I hate them because they’re trying to kill some of my friends and family.

If Republicans gain control of the federal government again, people I know will die.

It almost did. There was a mob of people just a couple doors away from murdering most of congress and making Trump a dictator.

The only reason Trump failed to end democracy is because he and the rest of the Republican party were just trying things without a real plan.

They have a plan now. If they get a chance to use it, they will be successful.

Pressuring Israel for a ceasefire, starting on new policies for sanctions, airdropping aid into Gaza, meeting with Netanyahu’s political rival Benny Gantz, and the few critical statements the white house has made about Israel are all things that the US would not have done in the past, and absolutely would not be doing now if we had a Republican president.

And there’s more coming. No way it ends here.

The goal is to change Israel, not to destroy our relationship with them, and there’s a myriad of reasons for that.

That doesn’t mean that nothing is changing.

Back that up.

I just did.

Palestinian women and girls have been subjected to sexual assaults

I haven’t said a single word to defend Israel’s actions, and I’m not going to. That’s also fucked up.

That’s why it’s a good thing that Biden has started to change US policy toward Israel.

The 23-page report said the team also found “clear and convincing information” that some of the women and children taken back to Gaza that day by Hamas as hostages were subjected to “rape and sexualized torture and sexualized cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.” There were “reasonable grounds to believe,” it said, “that this violence may be ongoing.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/04/hamas-rape-un-report-hostages/

It’s the single most important thing for Hamas to know. When they say they don’t know, it just means they tortured, raped and killed all of the hostages, but they don’t want to admit to it.

Hamas doesn’t get to say “we don’t know where any of the hostages are” and then follow that by saying “the ball is in Israel’s court”. That’s fucked.

Turns out my source was also counting other countries, so fair enough.

This month, the US, British and French governments placed sanctions on more than 30 Israeli settlers for acts of violence and incitement against Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/04/israel-settler-violence-sanctions

Still, a ceasefire agreement has been proposed, and Hamas is the reason it hasn’t happened yet.

Also keep in mind that sanctions need to be ramped up gradually. That gives people time to change their behavior instead of immediately being punished by brand new policies, and it makes the sanctions relevant for a much longer period of time. If you go straight to 100% and your targets just get used to it, then you can’t use that card anymore.