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  • The first couple of weeks on a private tracker are always pretty rough, until you can build up your ul/dl ratio high enough to get some breathing room.

    Some sites make things easier on newbs than others.

    If possible, look for recent freeleech torrents, especially popular ones, download them even if you aren't really interested in the content, and seed them 24/7 to build your ul stats..

  • This was by design to kickstart the private industry for space development.

    NASA could have just kept building and flying space shuttles, but since the retirement of the space shuttle program in 2011, they were renting payload space on Russian rockets to get stuff into orbit.

    Getting off of dependence on Russian rockets turned out to be tremendous foresight.

  • Light and medium roasts are finicky and vary by the bag.

    The lighter the roast, the easier it is to brew too long, resulting in astringency.

    If a brew is astringent, keep reducing brew time until the astringency goes away.

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  • Yes, that's pretty much it.

    Sparsely populated states like the Dakotas have more votes than their population proportionally should have.

    Take North Dakota vs California, for example:

    North Dakota has 3 electoral votes, California has 54

    North Dakota's population is about 784K, and California 39 million, or about 50 times North Dakota's population

    If California had proportional electoral representation to ND's based on their population, it would have 150 electoral votes to ND's 3.

    Also Southern/conservative states mostly take away the right to vote from felons for life, and therefore a large chunk of the African American vote is ineligible because of disproportionate policing of those communities. Among other problems with AAs' access to their voting rights, like gerrymandering, fewer polling stations, etc.

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  • WTF is newsfromthestates.com?

    The site itself seems pretty neutral, or "left leaning" as some news bias bot would put it.

    Oddly, the site takes pains to hide who is writing it.

    Indirectly, it says that it's written by "statesnewsroom.com" which actually does say that it's published and written by these people Chris Fitzsimon and Andrea Verykoukis whose google searches appear to have bona fide histories as progressive journalists.

    At first glance, I kind of like it, actually.

    There is a deficit in state-level local news, but I'm not sure how many people would actually take the time to read all of it.

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  • I just signed up for Matrix because you mentioned it.

    I installed the Element front end, because that seems to be the most popular.

    It looks like IRC, which is fine if that’s all you need.

    It also appears that anything beyond text has to be hotlinked, which is understandable, given that the amount of data transmitted for redundancy between home servers is exponential with the number of home servers.

    Really very similar to Lemmy, where the identity of each group is tied to a particular server, e.g. lemmy has !anime@ani.social but Matrix has #anime:matrix.org

    So what happens if matrix.org goes away or decides the server admin wants to be hostile to #anime?

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  • What kind of system that depends on centralized servers can ever be secure from government snooping?

    That kind of architecture is completely hopeless in that regard.

    Is a encrypted, distributed, P2P architecture realistic though?