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If them having more capacity means they’ll have a better lifetime under constant writes (because the same sector gets overwritten less often), then they’ll be good for dashcams and local storage for security cameras.

Just wait a year or two and Google will kill Gemini on their own.

They’re going to frame it as “See? The most powerful navy in the world is struggling, imagine how worse a threat Iran world be if Trump hadn’t intervened! He’s a tactical jenius!”

why it matters

AI slop has its fingerprints all over this

The front fell off.

So now it’s a war after all?

The politicians debating online abuse claim to mean well.

That’s not killing half the voting system to solve half of the vote manipulation. Downvotes do not even get used at the same ratio as upvotes. I’m sure someone can pull numbers, but I’d roughly estimate that in most communities no more than 10% of votes are downvotes. And even if they were, I’m not sure you quite parsed my full comment.

• I stated very early that I don’t specifically like disabling downvotes.
• I stated why I think that post-hoc remediations will not work.
• I proposed a potential compromise which can be used to mitigate abuse without a blanket downvote ban.

Blocking voting on fresh accounts is not a novel idea. As another commenter said, it’s the system used on Stack Overflow. Blocking all downvotes is not even the goal. The goal is to make brigading not worth the effort. The worst case scenario is that all downvotes get disabled (which still works, despite its unpopularity - it’s been implemented by instances like beehaw). But in the end, that’s just a baseline. It can be improved, and I like to believe that I was quite clear on that in my first comment.

I know? I didn’t say it didn’t happen, I said that positive vote manipulation can more easily be addressed with spam prevention measures.

Your reply to the above comment is a bit caustic. Here’s my take on your argument that explains your position in a rational way:

The bomb-proof and repair free nature of the Rolex comes into play in situations where replacement parts are not readily available. Consider an astronaut on a trip to Mars: they are out in space for months, in a ship where both space and weight are at a premium. A disposable time piece may be cheap on Earth, but without the means to replace it, it becomes a liability.

Similarly, someone on an exploration to a remote region - let’s say a member of the yearly British Antarctic Survey expedition - will not be able to replace a broken timepiece until they return at the end of the season. Not everyone needs a reliable time piece, but those who do - such as medics measuring a patient’s heart rate with a stethoscope - might go for something that has a lower failure rate.

Sure, a $5 timepiece is probably enough for most people, and wearing a Rolex as a status symbol is dumb, but that’s not the only use case for them.

As much as it pains me, I think the only solution to vote manipulation is to disable downvotes. Mind you, I don’t like it - I think downvotes are useful in a healthy self-governing community - but here’s my rationale as to why it’s the only solution:

• The goal of negative vote manipulation is to remove visibility from content. For that, the first few hours of the post’s or comment’s lifetime are critical. Sure, a mod can remove the downvotes, but it would likely be done after the content’s attention window is over, so the damage would be done. [1]
• Positive brigading (artificial boosting of content) is another problem, but out of scope of this post. I consider it to be in the “dealing with spam” category.

1. As I’m writing this, it comes to mind that perhaps we can selectively disable downvotes? Just like some instances don’t allow fresh accounts to post, perhaps something similar can be done for downvoting. Maybe it can also be extended to accounts below a certain up- to downvote ratio, to avoid mass downvoters.

Shrimp platters.

I don’t believe that. On electric vehicles, 90% of the energy is used to move the thing. A charged EV battery can power a standard household worth of appliances for two days.

Furthermore, the energy expenditure to dehydrate the concentrate is a one-time b cost, whereas transportation cost increases with distance.

What I DO believe is that manufacturers see transportation as less of a cost, because they offload it to distribution networks.

So Roe v Wade gets reinstated, because the ruling that said older (and thus outdated) laws take precedence was incorrect, right? Right?

two thumbs up = 100

So how would you distinguish this from 55?

you can also count to 12 on one hand, by counting the segments on your index through pinky fingers with the thumb. Fingertips are 1-4, middle segments 5-8, lower segments 9-12.

Not disagreeing on that, my comment was more about configuration options. After 4.4 they started removing so much QoL stuff under the excuse of simplicity: the indicator LED, several volume controls, the headphone jack, made gesture controls default, etc.

Agreed. 4.4 was the pinnacle of user-configurable Android. after that they started removing features and locking things down.

They just switch the locale to Australia.

Simple: They’ll reclassify as to what counts as a single family home.