vmladenov (u/vmladenov)

vmladenov commented on Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/geox

Braxton1980 · 10 days ago

You want to connect to a grid then you need to pay a certain percentage for upkeep regardless of the amount of electricity you use.

"The entire system is a scam, and every politician involved is a corrupt."

What an immature over simplification that means nothing. none of the examples you provided are an example of corruption

vmladenov · 10 days ago

So separate the interconnect fee from the energy unit price.

vmladenov commented on Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update 0x44.xyz/blog/web-request... · Posted by u/deryilz

agile-gift0262 · a month ago

I switched to Firefox and it's been wonderful. I wonder why I didn't switch earlier. It's only been a couple of months, but I can't imagine going back to a browser without multi-account containers.

vmladenov · a month ago

How do multi-account containers differ from Chrome profiles? I hadn't paid much attention to Firefox outside of Linux installs as I mainly use Safari with Chrome as a backup, but I'm interested to try again.

vmladenov commented on Marble Blast marbleblast.vaniverse.io/... · Posted by u/sunday_serif

bengarney · 2 months ago

I was a developer on that version!

We got the team back together and did a spiritual successor, Marble It Up!. If you are still enjoying the original I’d recommend checking it out (on consoles and Steam).

vmladenov · 2 months ago

My friend had Ultra on his Xbox 360 some 15 years ago and I instantly fell in love. Thank you for making another entry

vmladenov commented on Demolishing the Fry's Electronics in Burbank latimes.com/00000196-230a... · Posted by u/walterbell

LeoPanthera · 4 months ago

For those in the bay area, Micro Center is opening a branch in Santa Clara.

https://www.microcenter.com/site/stores/santa-clara.aspx

Well, maybe. It's delayed months at this point.

vmladenov · 4 months ago

I read a rumor that they’re aiming for May now

vmladenov commented on The Llama 4 herd ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4-... · Posted by u/georgehill

Jensson · 5 months ago

> It is not and has never been half. 2024 voter turnout was 64%

He said half of voters, those who didn't vote aren't voters.

vmladenov · 5 months ago

When I replied, the comment said "Americans", per the edit

vmladenov commented on The Llama 4 herd ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4-... · Posted by u/georgehill

darksaints · 5 months ago

We have an electoral college that essentially disenfranchises any voter that is not voting with the majority unless your state is so close that it could be called a swing state. This affects red state democratic leaning voters just as much as blue state republican leaning voters…their votes are all worthless. For example, the state with the largest number of Trump voters is California, but none of their votes helped decide the election because California as a whole chose Kamala. And let’s not forget that we have one of the largest metropolitan areas and several territories that legally can’t vote for the president or have representation of any kind in the federal government.

A lot of people try to claim the popular vote as a measure of who won over the country’s opinion, but that’s simply not possible because the incentives and structure of the electoral college make it impossible to use as a measure of that.

The best we have for measuring who won over the hearts and minds of the country are polls. Polls are full of faults, but if executed correctly, they don’t disenfranchise by structurally underrepresenting entire classes of people. And the results of polling over the last hundred years suggest that Americans generally lean to the left of how our votes play out. You can call bullshit all you want on that, and there are very fair criticisms of polling as a measure of who would vote for what, but the fact of the matter is that the Republican Party knows this. That is why they oppose any attempt to get rid of the electoral college and also why they refuse to entertain enfranchisement of DC and US Territories. They know they’ll lose.

vmladenov · 5 months ago

My favorite stat about this is that more people voted for Trump in California than either of Texas or Florida

vmladenov commented on The Llama 4 herd ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4-... · Posted by u/georgehill

huijzer · 5 months ago

Sure and the voters who did not participate in the election would all have voted the democratic party. I think the election showed that there are real people who apparently don't agree with the democratic party and it would probably be good to listen to these people instead of telling them what to do. (I see the same phenomenon in the Netherlands by the way. The government seems to have decided that they know better than the general public because voters who disagree are "uninformed" or "uneducated". This is absolutely the opposite of democracy. You do not just brush whole swats of the population to the side when they don't agree. It breaks the feedback loop that democracies should have.)

vmladenov · 5 months ago

No, they just don't care / too lazy / whatever. We get one minority's preferences over a slightly smaller minority.

vmladenov commented on The Llama 4 herd ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4-... · Posted by u/georgehill

huijzer · 5 months ago

> Perhaps. Or, maybe, "leaning left" by the standards of Zuck et al. is more in alignment with the global population. It's a simpler explanation.

Doesn’t explain why roughly half of American voters were not “leaning left” during the election.

EDIT: 07:29 UTC changed "Americans" to "American voters".

vmladenov · 5 months ago

It is not and has never been half. 2024 voter turnout was 64%

vmladenov commented on How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack krebsonsecurity.com/2025/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

aprilthird2021 · 5 months ago

They started this tactic of "They're bad dudes trust us don't need a trial" during the Bush administration and many many people pointed out this would come to our shores soon, and it did and it's here again.

vmladenov · 5 months ago

In the end it all comes back to the PATRIOT Act and GWOT