14th_cylon
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- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 3 weeks ago:
and how many ads do you think all these now gone power users were displaying and consuming? 😂
- Comment on US education 3 weeks ago:
The requirements for home schooling in the US vary wildly from one state to the other and can be almost devoid of any practical oversight in some circumstances. In most cases, parents have autonomy to choose their curriculum
yeah, this is the surprising part for me, but i guess in the land of individualism it makes sense. thank you for the answer
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 3 weeks ago:
you are forgetting that reddit is not just coders and sysadmins.
people writing comments about - i don’t know - sneakers, might not care about the reddit drama at all. and all comments are helpful as AI training material - don’t succumb to the biased idea that only what interests you is important or “helpful”
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 3 weeks ago:
There is not a company in the world that is happy to ignore 1/100th of their revenue disappearing
except we are talking about USERS disappearing, not revenue. it is likely that revenue actually increased, because x+n (where n > 0) people paying more than zero generating more than zero is bigger number than x generating zero.
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 4 weeks ago:
they will appear as deleted, but they are not really deleted, they still have them in the database and still make money selling them 🤷♂️
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 4 weeks ago:
That’s less traffic, which is less ad money, which comprises the vast majority of their revenue.
and how many people do the same thing you do? they don’t really care about 1% of dedicated users…
- Comment on US education 5 weeks ago:
as a person from across the ocean, i don’t get this. why would there be need for some different curriculum for homeschooling, and why would the choice depend on the parent? how is it possible you just get to chose? don’t you have to comply with some general standard? here, home-schooling is extremely rare, but if someone undergoes it, they have to use the same textbooks as everyone else and from time to time pass some exams in school to be sure the kid is not behind its peers.
- Comment on If you had 1 dollar and 24 hours what would you do? 5 weeks ago:
we did the same, but that was 30 years ago, i wonder how that game translates to today’s world. probably not very well.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if the police seized your electronics (for an unrelated investigation) and found out you have a lot of pirated content, what would happen? 5 weeks ago:
Not limited to any specific jurisdiction, just want to know what happens in general.
this is all about the jurisdiction. in my country, downloading anything is not illegal, what can be illegal is sharing stuff you don’t own.
so in your case, nothing would happen, not because of the pirated content. (i mean if they really wanted to get you and all they had to work with would be your disney collection, they would probably try to prove you shared/sold it).
- Comment on How would you take 'stfu' from a stranger online, provided what you said wasn't meant to be funny? 1 month ago:
i am not native speaker as well, so it is sometimes hard to judge the nuances. in the old days of the internet there was a saying “be conservative in what you say and liberal in what you hear”. so maybe do that. or don’t care at all and just move on 🤷♂️ sorry i don’t have anything better.
- Comment on How would you take 'stfu' from a stranger online, provided what you said wasn't meant to be funny? 1 month ago:
To me it still literally means Shut The Fuck Up, and whenever I see it, my immediate reaction is that the person on the other end actually meant it exactly as rude as I have always perceived it all my life.
even if they does it mean exactly as rude as you perceive it, does it really matter? you will never be liked by everyone. so if it is situation where you can just shrug your shoulders and leave, it may be time to do it and don’t take it too personally. the person on the other side can be 7 years old. if it happened in real life, would you spend time discussing with him?
if you see a person with a sign about the end of the world coming tomorrow looking moderately insane on the street, in real life - do you go to them and try to convince them they are not right, or do you just shrug your shoulders and move on with your life? and why do we often act differently online?
to be clear i am not trying to be holier-than-thou here, i’ve been guilty of exactly this many times myself, but it is at least useful to be aware of this in retrospect.
- Comment on Travel reporter accuses Hyatt of $500 smoking fee scam 1 month ago:
Why did he pay? Or does the hotel have access to his card and can charge whatever they wish at will?
- Comment on Are display sizes always measured in inches? 2 months ago:
meters for horizontal distances, such as
not really. distance is measured in (nautical) miles, speed in knots (1 knot is 1 nautical mile per hour)