Reddit looks overvalued, and I think investors should pass on this IPO.

i think we all know who the biggest dictator at reddit is

> most users should not notice the extra [CPU] cost, but people using older (5+ years) phones or microcontrollers might. For that reason, all new ML-based features are disabled by default in Opus 1.5.

- from the release notes, emphasis mine

"The Mandalorian & Grogu" is set to be .. the biggest blockbuster...

I'm glad to hear that this movie, which is about to start filming, has already been determined to be so popular with the public, that they will be lining up around the block to get into the theater.

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Rowling's been consistently harassed and attacked online with the intent to silence the author. Fans have coordinated to boycott her works. Bookstores have pulled her books over her views. Some folks have burned her books. Any mention of her has been removed from museum galleries dedicated to the Harry Potter series. There was a recent campaign to boycott the new Harry Potter game. Players of Quidditch changed it's name to to dissociate it away from her. In short, a whole group of people attempted to silence Rowling, erase her existence from society, and remove her written work. That's censorship.

Ok, now I know you're full of it. Both Dawkins and Maher are left-of center and always have been. Neither have moved from the positions they've defended for decades. Dawkins is promoting basic biology just like he has over his entire career. Males have a penis. Women have a vagina. Sex is immutable and can't change. No one can self-ID into the opposite sex. Cutting off a man's penis doesn't turn him into a woman. The only difference now is that today there's a significant amount of anti-science, anti-fact nonsense currently being promoted by gender ideologues and social justice warriors, who claim to be part of the left while promoting sexism, racism, and homophobia. (Wearing pink clothes or a dress doesn't turn a boy a girl. Likewise, girls who wear baseball hats and play sports doesn't make them boys. Those are sexist stereotypes. Blacks being bigoted against whites is called racism. Yes, it's possible for blacks to be racist against whites. Trans women who denigrate lesbians for not wanting to have sex with someone who has a penis are homophobic.)

As for content moderation, it's clear that departments are run by woke ideologues who equate any and all criticism of ideas as hate and violence. They take the authoritarian stance of silencing all opposition by banning critics. Many of the social media sites have become echo chambers in which only woke social justice opinions are deemed appropriate despite their promotion of racism, sexism, and homophobia.

Was in 2018. Netcraft confirms it.

Sorry, the folks getting censored are more than right-wingers. Liberal feminists such as JK Rowling are regularly getting censored for pointing out the fact that men have a penis, women have a vagina, and men should be kept separate from women in places like rape crisis centers, prisons, sports, toilets, changing rooms, etc. Other liberal-leaning folks who agree with her such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Ricky Gervais, Bill Maher, Dave Chappelle, Macy Gray, Bette Midler, and Alice Cooper have also faced cancellation attempts, including on big tech platforms. The authoritarian, regressive, woke, social justice warriors constantly attack the progressive left while also falsely claiming to represent the progressive left. This group controls the moderation departments of big tech companies and purposefully target anyone who questions their ideology, from both the right and the left.

Years ago, tech companies didn't want speech on their websites regulated because the text they display comes from users. Companies didn't want government intervention for speech they didn't create. In fact, the companies wanted laws passed to protect them from the consequences of user's free speech. Why blame the companies for what the users wrote?

Now, companies are claiming a first amendment right to show what they want on their own websites. They claim it'd be government infringement on their rights if we impose any requirements guaranteeing free speech for users. Companies now claim the right to display what they want on their own websites!

As usual, it looks like companies want it both ways, whichever benefits them the most.

(And, is it just me or is it weird as hell that it's the Republicans fighting for free speech today? Free speech used to be a progressive, liberal Democratic topic. It's certainly not just the Republicans that are getting silenced by the tech companies.)

Let's get turbo encabulated!

No idea on the men-vs-women thing.

But it seems absolutely crazy for the DRMed media sales industry to remind people that their media could Just Work and be normal, instead of requiring specific proprietary players (a different one for each media source). They shouldn't even mention piracy, because that just plants the seed that people could instead have standard format files, where things are much more convenient than the awkward situation with DRMed media.

If we want people to just accept that things are shitty and must always remain shitty, then it's probably best to not encourage people to think about the topic at all. Shhhh! Don't bring it up, and pretend that the idea of a convenient media library, where users have the choice to use whatever player software that they want on whatever device that they want, simply doesn't exist at all.

China's good at copying goods, processes, and technology that the US and the rest of the world originally invented. This has been true across multiple industries over the last 25 years as US and the rest of the world moved manufacturing to China. That move was only because China had lots and lots of cheap labor. It wasn't because China were smarter or somehow better at making things than anyone else.

my CapitalOne visa is my oldest cc, over 20 years. i've maxed it out and paid it off a few times in that stretch, and they diligently upped my limit into the tens of thousands, despite never making more than $40k a year in my entire stupid career. the last couple years i haven't carried a balance on that card, and just this week they sent me a notification that due to having a credit limit in vast excess of my balance, they are going to "review" my account in april and warn me that my limit will likely be lowered.

which isn't exactly thugs knocking at my door threatening me, but it is a bit distasteful. think i might buy $10k worth of ammo and yoda grease next month for the hell of it.

This reminds me of how in the 1980s, things like FPUs and MMUs were separate chips. Do you want an 80387 with your 80386? Do you want a 68851 with your 68020? But then the newer CPUs just came with that stuff.

Even if 90% of the machines sold over the next few years never use it (think of how many 80386 chips were running MS-DOS as a "fast 8086" and never went into protected mode), it's nice that on the software side you'll eventually be able to expect it. In 1988 you couldn't assume floating point was fast for everyone, but by 1998 you could.