The name apparently is a rotational ambigram. I would have sworn it was a transdimensional mammogram
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I tend to consider first attempts/versions as Betas. Sometimes I will do the full alpha, beta, RC cycle
Freedman has a pretty good video relating to this
Yeah, they can shoot themselves in the foot, and alternatives exist/will appear, but if you have whatever millions of users, and you lose 25%, Reddit will still be a 500 lb gorilla.
Also, we have to remember that the vast majority of users are like your typical FB users; mindless and couldn't care less about these changes.
Airtel did that to me when I got the first Smartphone. They argued that the forever was for 3G, not 4G, although there was no mention of such a thing in the contract. They lost 4 mobile lines, a landline, and ADSL forever.
However, they are also specialized machines that are often only bought by institutions and large companies, so thieves would likely have a hard time selling them on the black market.
I'm sure Russian, North Korean and buyers from some other countries would care about that.
Really? Where could I find information about that? If the rockets (first stage) weren't reused, there is no way that SpaceX could charge the Kg to orbit prices they charge.
Several accounts of how he originally defined his scale exist, but the original paper suggests the lower defining point, 0 °F, was established as the freezing temperature of a solution of brine made from a mixture of water, ice, and ammonium chloride (a salt).[2][3] The other limit established was his best estimate of the average human body temperature, originally set at 90 °F, then 96 °F (about 2.6 °F less than the modern value due to a later redefinition of the scale).[2]
Yeah, the freezing point of a random solution, and the perceived temperature of the human body makes as much sense as the freezing and boiling point of water for reference. Kelvin is objectively better, but centigrade is immediately understandable as it uses easily understandable reference points.
Here is the thing, I don't think they are driving towards a cliff. In olden times, reddit was one of several options for doomscrolling, with Slashdot, Digg, et Al. When Digg shot themselves in the foot, Reddit was ready to take up the slack, so eternal September happened, and Digg essentially withered away.
At that time the combined user base of these sites was probably an order of magnitude less of present day reddit.
I believe that reddit has achieved critical mass, and they can pretty much do any shit they want. They may lose users, but they'll be a drop in the bucket.
The inertia is too large.
Fake degrees are imaginary numbers.
Not having A/C, mainly.
Sort of a low intensity megosniac, but nothing like it.
Digg, reddit, Slashdot and others were and are doomscrolling in nature.
Also, while the main input was upvotes, your home was a combination of weights between front page and your subscriptions. Maybe crude by today's standards, but algorithms.