Logically those who care enough about Reddit to sign the petition would tend to be frequent users of the site and content creators, not casual users who probably don’t care about Reddit’s development at all.
Thats exactly what I was thinking after reading this article. If you don't want to make it awkward to explain to your future wife who this girl that you married 10 years ago is, just marry a guy instead.
The Birthday Problem is only relevant to find collisions between any 2 strings, but in this case the developer is only concerned about the probability of his own string clashing with someone else’s, thus the probability of a collision is only Number of taken strings / Number of total strings.
Yes, it gives away free access of 38 sites. But by doing so, they also encourage more people to forgo purchasing complete internet plans and hence accessing all of the other millions of websites out there. This indirectly drives traffic to this 38 sites that they’ve picked through a very skewed and opaque process, and undermines the concept of net neutrality.
Well then by your definition, nobody can be ‘overcome by the little guy’, because by the time the little guy is considered to have overcame the big guy, he would not - by definition - be that small anymore.
There is indeed a problem with adblock on the site. It’s funny that I saw the email form for a split second before it was blocked, so I spent the past 10 minutes figuring out how to let it pop up.
That’s not the only thing that paying for content gives you, though. Paying for content gives you a right to the content, it gives you a power over the content, just like paying taxes gives you a vote and power over the country’s governance. If you don’t pay for it, then you can’t really expect the website to be working for you.