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Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by worriedcyclist »

henriquemaia wrote: post #683
worriedcyclist wrote: post #662

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Getting off topic but I always ask folks what are some more examples of unexpected things to look out for? I’ve become a bit disillusioned with cycling after 2 fairly bad crashes in about 6 months. I didn’t have a fear of metal drawbridges, having gone over a variety of them numerous times. Then I hit one that was slick from rain earlier in the day. Tires swerved like I was on ice and I did not fall gracefully. Broke…

I could fill you a long list of dos and don'ts, what do look for and what to avoid, but cycling is inherently practical, and you have to learn it by doing it. As you are by now aware, we're pretty much exposed to all kinds of dangers, and sometimes bad things happen. But if you aren't discouraged, and you keep on practicing, eventually you'll learn how to avoid most of the worst case scenarios where you could find yo…

Thanks for the thought out response. "Glorified pedestrian" is a good way of thinking about it. Legal rights are not the same as perceived rights.

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by worriedcyclist »

gregimba wrote: post #692
worriedcyclist wrote: post #662

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Getting off topic but I always ask folks what are some more examples of unexpected things to look out for? I’ve become a bit disillusioned with cycling after 2 fairly bad crashes in about 6 months. I didn’t have a fear of metal drawbridges, having gone over a variety of them numerous times. Then I hit one that was slick from rain earlier in the day. Tires swerved like I was on ice and I did not fall gracefully. Broke…

Borrowing the phrase from motorcycling but it rings true with bicycling as well. Ride like you are invisible and every driver is drunk and out to kill you. Assuming the worst intentions from cars on the road teaches you to slow down and be prepared to stop or swerve to avoid a collision. Wet metal and bikes don't mix, motorcyclists are taught to pull in the clutch going over train tracks and man hole covers for this…

Thanks- I've always felt I rode this way, assuming the worst, but with each incident that assumption of worst intentions increases! Wt metal and bikes, such a no brainer in hindsight and wish I hadn't learned the hard way.

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by newen »

rconti wrote: post #144
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Seriously? I just assume most people on there are in high school, it seems like a place where the lowest common denominator ideas get upvoted and everything else gets nailed.

I've also yet to find a subreddit I like. I admit I haven't tried recently, but the "high school" vibe is very much the one I get. I don't even mean in a bad way, I just mean in a very naïve way. I came of age on the internet, as a teen in the mid-90s, and I just feel like, 20+ years later, I've moved beyond the "everything is new" phase, and reddit still feels like everyone discovering things for the first time. Whe…

Agreed. I've seen cases where you had niche subreddits containing people who are somewhat experts, but when the sub gets remotely popular, it gets bombarded by people who don't know anything but feel like they can post whatever useless crap they want that has been posted a million times before. Eventually the moderators give up trying to control quality due to posts and upvotes by beginners, the experts leave in disgust, and the sub devolves into dumb conversations about the topic because now it's just beginners talking to beginners.

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by newen »

collyw wrote: post #764
jhall1468 wrote: post #37

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/r/politics is fairly left-leaning by US standards, while The_Donald and /r/conservative are hardly about politics anymore. Furthermore, I'd say on a global scale /r/politics is pretty much dead middle, while subreddits like /r/latestagecapitalism represent the far left. Frankly, Democrats are being pulled to the left by the progressives and Republicans went hard right years ago with the tea party, so the reason ther…

r/politics is definitely in the "orange man bad" camp. There are a few objective posters on there but they are not the majority.

I'd say the vast majority of the global population is in the orange man bad category.

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by xiphias2 »

ric2b wrote: post #788
xiphias2 wrote: post #282

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The worst thing in promoting their app is that I would gladly use it if it was faster than a web site, but it loads so much slower that it's just a much worse experience. Google realized that load times are critical 20 years ago. Facebook realized it when Google was launching G+.

> Google realized that load times are critical 20 years ago. They seem to be forgetting it, lately.

Yes, Google transformed from an engineering driven organization to a tech driven one. Still, they want to make moneycin developing countries with crappy internet connections as well, so Google doesn't have any choice, it still has to look at latencies.

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by crowdpleaser »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #749
crowdpleaser wrote: post #558

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No. My humanity is more important to me than others. I have to take care of myself because I know others would resent me if they had to take care of me. I'm sure you wouldn't be thrilled to provide for me if I came to your house with my hat in hand. And you feel the same way - we're just arguing over where to draw the line. If you save any money that could be donated to those in need, you've also put money above huma…

If you come to my house I'll happily call an ambulance for you. We have enough collective resources to treat the life-threatening illness of everyone within our borders, legally or not. We can worry about fixing immigration separately. Even when someone isn't a citizen, you should do your best to help people in reach not be sick. And this doesn't mean you have to give them an income for free. And as a society-level t…

>If you come to my house I'll happily call an ambulance for you.

And I'd do the same. My objection is that my tax obligation is roughly the GDP per capita - that's well above and beyond calling an ambulance. What are the limits of what you'd do for me? Could I come into your kitchen and eat until I'm full? Could I play your video games if I were bored? Could I ask for a sexual favor?

>We have enough collective resources to treat the life-threatening illness of everyone within our borders

Why stop at the borders? Is the inside the border / outside the border distinction more ethical than the illegal vs non-illegal distinction?

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by notriddle »

nisuni wrote: post #193
ppod wrote: post #45

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I've always thought that the day they crossed the line was when they arbitrarily changed which subreddits were default, removing some (such as /r/atheism) with no real reason. At the very early days of reddit, discussing atheism positively was still kind of unusual in the news. Then, over time, it became a very popular position and advocacy case especially among developers, and new users found the stridency and repet…

/r/atheism was absolutely obnoxious, to the point that the obnoxiousness of some of the users is still a meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/in-this-moment-i-am-euphoric > a community that is still one of the most hated As far as I can see in the USA and in most of Europe it’s way more socially acceptable to declare to be atheists, rather than observing Christians.

> As far as I can see in the USA and in most of Europe it’s way more socially acceptable to declare to be atheists, rather than observing Christians.

I don't know what it's like in Europe, but in the US, it's a very divisive topic. Really divisive. Like brawls in the streets divisive. Like secede-from-the-Union divisive. There's cities that will shun you for being religious, and other cities that will shun you for not being religious, sometimes even in the same state.

That's why the government shut down happened, frankly. The religious and non-religious parts of the United States literally hate each other so much that they'll act against their own interests just to hurt the other side.

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by erikpukinskis »

rootusrootus wrote: post #603
TheRealDunkirk wrote: post #445

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It is also still a haven for the far-left. Does that leave a bad taste in your mouth too?

Does advocating for single-payer healthcare, free community college, marriage equality, pro-choice, and higher tax rates for wealthy individuals constitute 'far left'? Serious question. I have in mind what I would think of as far left, but I don't see those folks are particularly well represented in the United States.

Far left would be advocating murdering billionaires, punching gay people who don’t include trans people in their sexuality, etc.

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by Dylan16807 »

crowdpleaser wrote: post #836
Dylan16807 wrote: post #749

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If you come to my house I'll happily call an ambulance for you. We have enough collective resources to treat the life-threatening illness of everyone within our borders, legally or not. We can worry about fixing immigration separately. Even when someone isn't a citizen, you should do your best to help people in reach not be sick. And this doesn't mean you have to give them an income for free. And as a society-level t…

>If you come to my house I'll happily call an ambulance for you. And I'd do the same. My objection is that my tax obligation is roughly the GDP per capita - that's well above and beyond calling an ambulance. What are the limits of what you'd do for me? Could I come into your kitchen and eat until I'm full? Could I play your video games if I were bored? Could I ask for a sexual favor? >We have enough collective resour…

> What are the limits of what you'd do for me?

You don't get to come in my house unless it's an emergency. I'll help pay for things you need, but if you keep coming for food and shelter and you're not a citizen then we can get on deportation proceedings. (I don't want to tie deportation to medical attention because it can lead to people getting sicker, likely costing more, and definitely dying more. But for other things we can.) If you want niceties then here is the library and you can use the resources inside to search for a job.

Food for the starving would be a negligible part of taxes.

> Why stop at the borders? Is the inside the border / outside the border distinction more ethical than the illegal vs non-illegal distinction?

I think I addressed that fine in the last paragraph of my previous post.

But also this is what we have control of, and we should make the best of it!

If we could pay some single-digit percentage of GDP and provide basic health care to the entire world, I'd suggest that we have a pretty strong moral imperative to do so. But I don't believe that's the world we're in.

Re: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

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Post by user5994461 »

mschaef wrote: post #696
user5994461 wrote: post #673

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I was thinking 10 or 20 active servers, looks like they have a bit more than that now. You can see that most of the servers are deployed in pairs, the minimum to have any redundancy, so they are nowhere near capacity. Another blog post stated that the servers rarely go above a few percents of usage, they are very powerful, often close to the highest specs available. I will stand by my statement. It should be largely…

> I was thinking 10 or 20 active servers, You said a couple, which usually means 'two'. You offered StackOverflow as "another website with Reddit's daily active users and revenue profile, but significantly higher availability" and then said this: "I wouldn't be surprised as well if reddit was two orders of magnitude more than that" > I will stand by my statement I have no literally idea how to have a conversation wit…

I'm not revising the numbers. I'm saying that it's working out, with the worse case scenario being that it takes some more hardware.

Reddit raised hundreds of millions of dollars, whereas stack overflow didn't, they have the means to buy a rack more if that's what is missing. There is no excuse to be slow or broken all the time.

The amount of traffic is not significant. It's perfectly scalable and shardable, it's only text over HTTP and most of it is cachable by a CDN.

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