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vba616 commented on     · Posted by u/willmadden
vba616 · 2 years ago
Is the size of the effect in any of these studies stated in your comments? I skimmed them but didn't see what I was looking for.

Or via non-paywalled links?

Thanks.

vba616 commented on Meta says you can't turn off its new AI tool on Facebook, Instagram   globalnews.ca/news/104358... · Posted by u/cannibalXxx
vba616 · 2 years ago
"Sledge designed the humanoids to help humanity and be invulnerable to human exploitation. However, he eventually realized that they had instead taken control of humanity, in the name of their Prime Directive, to make humans happy

...

No humans may engage in any behavior that might endanger them, and every human action is carefully scrutinized. Suicide is prohibited. Humans who resist the Prime Directive are taken away and lobotomized, so that they may live happily under the direction of the humanoids."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_Folded_Hands

vba616 commented on Would you trust a donation collector with card on phone as much as with cash?    · Posted by u/chrisjj
chrisjj · 2 years ago
PS Come to think of it, I have never seen a charity shop in any of the many countries I have visited outside UK. All the more remarkable given in the UK they are so frequent and often large.
vba616 · 2 years ago
I assumed it's more or less what they call a "thrift store" in the US.
vba616 commented on Would you trust a donation collector with card on phone as much as with cash?    · Posted by u/chrisjj
vba616 · 2 years ago
Presumably it was meant literally, but the term "charity shop collector" seems to have some other meanings as well which are interesting to me as a non-UKian speaker:

   - A provider of "a charity shop back-end as a service", which disposes of donations 
     received by charity shops.

     e.g. https://live.ctrgroup.co.uk/third-sector/textiles-collection/ 

   - A person who collects things purchased from charity shops.
     
     e.g. "Harding is an avid charity shop collector, especially of sad and neglected 
     ceramic animals".

vba616 commented on 92 out of the top 500 Reddit subs are controlled by just 4 people   twitter.com/reddit_lies/s... · Posted by u/bitcharmer
karmakaze · 2 years ago
I was thinking that Reddit would be much more fiscally responsible/efficient than WikiMedia, but of course I have no real data. In truth they are probably much more similar than they are different.
vba616 · 2 years ago
They seem to be losing money.

On the one hand, if they are incinerating millions of dollars every month, that's an argument that they could easily afford a few more - after all, they are getting cash from somewhere.

On the other hand, if they are losing money, in a certain sense they have not got even $1 to spare.

vba616 commented on 92 out of the top 500 Reddit subs are controlled by just 4 people   twitter.com/reddit_lies/s... · Posted by u/bitcharmer
karmakaze · 2 years ago
Revenue is usually before expenses. But it's Reddit not Wikimedia--I imagine they're efficient enough to have the $3.4M without having to put up donation pleas.
vba616 · 2 years ago
I don't understand what you mean, or why you wrote it.

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vba616 commented on 92 out of the top 500 Reddit subs are controlled by just 4 people   twitter.com/reddit_lies/s... · Posted by u/bitcharmer
nitwit005 · 2 years ago
> Reddit mods do an estimated $3.4 Million in labor all for free each year. Reddit likely can't afford such a bill

In their filing to go public, reddit disclosed their CEO's compensation was $193 million last year.

Their revenue was $804 million. It's not a huge amount for them. They'd just rather not pay it.

vba616 · 2 years ago
>Their revenue was $804 million. It's not a huge amount for them.

They made $804M after all expenses? Or before?

vba616 commented on Cow Magnets   stanfordmagnets.com/cow-m... · Posted by u/Tomte
sojournerc · 2 years ago
My mom (and my brothers and I) chose hospice (cancer) during COVID so she could be with her friends and family in her dying days.

She stopped eating and drinking because she knew it was time. That was a sort of last gift, not having to see her languish for weeks.(although I will never stop being bitter about being unable to have a proper funeral and memorial service).

vba616 · 2 years ago
Decades before I had to deal with my mom dying, I read "Grave Angels" by Richard Kearns, and I don't know what more you can say on the topic of accepting death.

u/vba616

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