Is this any different from similar data dumps Ukrainian intelligence has been sharing since the second invasion of Ukraine?

Possible confrontation with China which has been investing in the region in recent times.

The biggest lesson from The Big Short movie is that you can be right at predicting a bubble for years but politicians and financieers can stall until they exit the market and everyone else has to deal with the aftermath.

It can’t be stopped this way but this is just some friction or increasing barrier to entry to discourage it. Most people are lazy and will just drop it as not worth the effort, and the most persistent will be annoying no matter what you do.

What’s savings? /s

Trump knows, his buddies know. The amount of insider trading right now must be crazy.

Going by game theory the most successful tactic in general is responding to escalation but not matching or exceeding it. It signals will to deescalate. China has other tools to put pressure on the US too (selling US debt).

Ah, there’s even an option to turn off vote types selectively at the federation level, that’s pretty cool! This is kind of like my other pipe dream of vote weight being different based on whether it’s local or federated.

I was thinking of this too but then you need to keep track of who’s allowed to vote and that’s weird thing to federate even conceptually.

Something along similar lines is how they do it on Slashdot where users are randomly assigned limited number of points to be used for voting which makes them more precious in general. Tildes is also interesting in that regard because while there are no downvotes there, trusted users can apply labels that serve as something between a reason for downvote and a report. For example comment can be tagged as „noise” for not bringing anything to discussion which automatically ranks it below other comments but not removes it entirely. This prevents jokes being the top reply which is nice. Nothing against jokes but it depends on what kind of content you want others too see on your platform.

Hackintoshes will be over soon unfortunately. A pity since that’s how I originally entered Apple ecosystem. ThinkPads with MacOS are bees knees.

What’s important is that it’s possible if you don’t like any other instance. Maybe once Lemmy gets popular we’ll get commercial hosts offering to spin up a Lemmy instance the same way they offer WordPress.

To me the idea is more important than implementation details because those can be worked out in many different ways as you’ve noticed. If you know what is the goal then you can adjust if you see things not working out as intended.

The most basic approach would be to get positive/negative ratio and decide how much in the middle is still 0.

Does electoral college allow you to create a state and vote as an equal to any other state whenever you feel like?

Being aware of abuse means monitoring and maintenance - more work for admins. I prefer hands off / systemic way of fixing things and this is more like anarcho-syndicalism than an electoral college. Probably similar ideas at the root of things but very different execution.

We’re voting on posts and not heads of state here anyway. In this analogy USA would have to allow you to carve out a bit of land and present yourself as an equal to Florida. This is an intentional backdoor for people who hate this idea enough.

Correct :)

This and clickbait. Both were a race to the bottom for information and debate quality motivated solely by greed.

It could mean that effectively caricature artists become one of the first professions protected by law from AI slop, kind of accidentally, and I don’t have that much problem with that.

There are now, this one was the first.

It did not impact this thread at all before this comment which was my point exactly.

I think part of pleasantness is not bringing politics into things that weren’t intended to be about politics.