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gruez wrote: post #288
corbulo wrote: post #253

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Above 0 is too much. Could 10% buy you mod spot over a large major subreddit? Maybe get reddit to look the other way for your astroturf campaigns? Reddit is just as shady with its Overton Window manipulation tactics & strategies as Twitter has been exposed to be. Remember when Ghislaine Maxwell was revealed as a mod of r/Worldnews? I'm convinced any relevant PR company worth its salt has infiltrated moderator teams o…

> Above 0 is too much. Could 10% buy you mod spot over a large major subreddit? Maybe get reddit to look the other way for your astroturf campaigns? That's... not how fundraising rounds usually work.

Thats how ownership and influence works. You think China is buying 10% because of how profitable reddit is?

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Post by gruez »

corbulo wrote: post #291
gruez wrote: post #288

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> Above 0 is too much. Could 10% buy you mod spot over a large major subreddit? Maybe get reddit to look the other way for your astroturf campaigns? That's... not how fundraising rounds usually work.

Thats how ownership and influence works. You think China is buying 10% because of how profitable reddit is?

I can ask the same for the other investors.

>in 2005. Condé Nast Publications acquired the site in October 2006. In 2011, Reddit became an independent subsidiary of Condé Nast's parent company, Advance Publications.[11] In October 2014, Reddit raised $50 million in a funding round led by Sam Altman and including investors Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Ron Conway, Snoop Dogg, and Jared Leto.[12] Their investment valued the company at $500 million then.[13][14] In July 2017, Reddit raised $200 million for a $1.8 billion valuation, with Advance Publications remaining the majority stakeholder.[15] In February 2019, a $300 million funding round led by Tencent brought the company's valuation to $3 billion.[16] In August 2021, a $700 million funding round led by Fidelity Investments raised that valuation to over $10 billion.[4]

What type of shadowy agenda are entities like Jared Leto or Fidelity Investments trying to advance? Or should we assume that they're acting altruistically because they're not Chinese?

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Post by corbulo »

gruez wrote: post #293
corbulo wrote: post #291

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Thats how ownership and influence works. You think China is buying 10% because of how profitable reddit is?

I can ask the same for the other investors. >in 2005. Condé Nast Publications acquired the site in October 2006. In 2011, Reddit became an independent subsidiary of Condé Nast's parent company, Advance Publications.[11] In October 2014, Reddit raised $50 million in a funding round led by Sam Altman and including investors Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Ron Conway, Snoop Dogg, and Jared Leto.[12] Their investment value…

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Post by pwython »

wing-_-nuts wrote: post #94
pwython wrote: post #63

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A similar argument I have with my wife: She insists on only living in gated communities. I'm like, "it's just a PVC pipe that goes up and down, it's not fort knox." But for some reason that gives her peace of mind, and worth the HOA fee of $350/mo.

My God. My condo complex is responsible for all external maintenance. It has steel gates that would stop an f150. They handle water, gas and trash pickup and it only costs $230/mo. It's in a fairly pricey area. I feel like you're getting robbed.

To be fair, there are also metal gates, probably aluminum... but they only close after 8pm. I think it's more for aesthetics really. The communities in Palm Beach County miss the mark on being bad & boujee.

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Post by dobbysfirstsock »

sleepybrett wrote: post #246
dobbysfirstsock wrote: post #207

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I've actually noticed how _bad_ the writing of some articles can be. I'm not a good writer by any means... but the best I can say is it sounds like an essay cranked out by someone in high school. Just reminded me of my first "wtf." A journalist for our local university wrote a review for the movie "Hustlers" where they justified sexually assaulting and robbing men in New York because "men in New York were responsible…

When you find out how little these writers are paid you can understand the amount of effort they can put into these articles and still make enough money to eat.

Well, seems there's more people wanting to write than demand.

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Post by piva00 »

gruez wrote: post #293
corbulo wrote: post #291

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Thats how ownership and influence works. You think China is buying 10% because of how profitable reddit is?

I can ask the same for the other investors. >in 2005. Condé Nast Publications acquired the site in October 2006. In 2011, Reddit became an independent subsidiary of Condé Nast's parent company, Advance Publications.[11] In October 2014, Reddit raised $50 million in a funding round led by Sam Altman and including investors Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Ron Conway, Snoop Dogg, and Jared Leto.[12] Their investment value…

> What type of shadowy agenda are entities like Jared Leto or Fidelity Investments trying to advance? Or should we assume that they're acting altruistically because they're not Chinese?

None, they might just really believe that Reddit might be profitable one day and they want a share of the pie. Snoop Dogg also invested in Klarna, for example.

On the other hand I have lots of reservations about the motivation of the likes of Sam Altman and Peter Thiel in this, Marc Andreesen is not such a wildcard, might be just stupid with money as the latest plays of a16z seems to making them be.

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Post by philjohn »

Maxburn wrote: post #158
philjohn wrote: post #154

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You don't. Have a look at Yubikey's - there, the seed is stored on the key itself, the calculation done on the key itself, and all the app does is read it all via NFC.

I just spent a minute and I'm having trouble wrapping my head around TOTP challenges with yubikey. Like scanning the QR to get the key in it, how do you query it to answer the challenge etc. Must be an app involved?

Sorry, didn't see this until now.

Yes, you use the Yubico Authenticator app, but it's entirely local only (runs fine with all networking switched off).

It's available for Mac, Linux and Windows, as well as Android and iOS. On computers your key needs to be inserted into a USB port. For Android and iOS I use the NFC key and I just scan it against the phone after launching the app.

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