notMick

Why don't they reduce spending?

Surely there are expenditures deemed "being nice" which isn't a real neccessity for the local citizens?

There are a lot of people right now who want to stifle free speech. "Have a different opinion, that's abuse - or a beating". While not restricted to antifa, there seems lately a surge of "little Stalinists", who seem intent to crush or silence any dissenting opinion.

In short, history repeats itself, and "experience is recognising a mistake the second time you've made it."

I was in another country, and still seeing the political bias (CNN+) in the reporting. Call me old school, but 'news' and 'journalism' is meant to be impartial. It wasn't. Opinion piece after propaganda opinion piece.

I think maybe, we have just woken up to what is going on.

This seems another vague anticapitalism story portraying the VCS as bad, whereas they bought a stake in the company and tried to turn it around. They also lost.

90% of new businesses fail - most often from not finding or matching/addressing the market. The market also changes so anyone who doesn't adapt end on the Darwinian company list.

Toxic means, they don't agree with me?

Toxic and hate speech are recently invented terms to curtail free speech. If I said anyone who wanted communism were hateful (they hate capitalists) and supporting a historically violent ideology, I'd be as right/wrong as people on the left doing the same.

Anti free speech are a means to an end really, power.

There is nothing, except a large paid hoax propaganda campaign. With the same team we could make mother Teresa seem like an imperialist religious nut. But anyway, let's agree to disagree. Because the world is nicer that way.

What does that mean though? People who post in one sub aren't allowed to be in any other sub?

People in TD can write in others subs too, as can people from late stage capitalism. Wanting to forcibly segregate and silence people with different opinions is I think at the heart of the problem with silicon valley right now.

'remove those who disagree with me' has killed hundreds of millions over the years, and is a common and dangerous kind of groupthink.

Wrong. TD is made up from both genders and many races who are conservatives and support the president. Its style is glossy trolly. They are anti political correctness, against sjws and groups that oppose others free speech. Reddit has site wide rules against racism, and those subs that don't remove it are banned. TD mods remove anything racist quickly - almost exclusively posted by few day old accounts . Also, have a nice day.

Still a nothing burger, it's paid political propaganda on those default reddits, paid teams pushing bs and noise.

Share blue for example was given a budget of 40+ million a year to do just that. (Over 100k a day)

The other paid campaign is 'deplatforming' (their term). They do your best to silence opinions which don't match the paid script.

Politico? Oh come on, that is a garbage partisan left site for garbage people. This is hacker news, and one would hope still propaganda free.....

Can I set my watch by that?

Then why not remove r/politics for your same reason? Or r/latestagecapitalism. Crazies from that subteddit have the nerve to post in other parts of Reddit.

The biggest problem, imho is that there is an attempt to 'deplatform' dissenting views. (That term was coined by people on the left actually doing it)

Quite simply it boils down to vilifying your opponents, classifying dissenting views as 'toxic' or 'hatespeech', and screeching loudly and as often as you can to get the opposition removed. If they move, do the same to them on the next site.

This is big money apparently pushing for this as an 'online strategy' to remove opposition. Heck I can buy as many reddit accounts and votes as I like.

We need to push back and see it what it is - to try and remove any wrong think and get people thinking as a controllable single mass.

Is the main benefit of this sampling technique that it reduces the contribution from rare though large error variance outliers?

Nice, though, you could probably get better performance by using an analogue integrator and sigma Delta encoding. Probably even better if you down convert (multiply with expected frequency first) You can swap bandwidth for resolution.

About half the country has the opposite opinion to you.