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MicropenisMike

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MicropenisMike··on Discord is not documentation
The alternative is being overrun by spam, which is already really bad on discord.

What's your solution?

MicropenisMike··on Binance lays off over 1k Employees
What about commodities then, like oil?

It was not too long ago that the price for a barrel of oil was negative $40.

MicropenisMike··on Meta is blocking EU-based users from accessing Threads via VPN
Because the alternative is Twitter.
MicropenisMike··on Bluesky now checks against this array of slurs when creating a username
My only surprise is that it took this long
MicropenisMike··on Nitter is working again
It's true for a lot of cases.

Adding almost any restriction only hurts casual users, and attackers are rarely casual users.

MicropenisMike··on Excellence is a habit, but so is failure
Unfortunately vulnerability is among the first things to be exploited, just take a look at any advertisement.
MicropenisMike··on Air France denied my delay compensation, so I challenged them and won
What's the solution though?
MicropenisMike··on Air France denied my delay compensation, so I challenged them and won
"if you are dissatisfied with the airline's reply, you may resort to judicial or extrajudicial means."

What exactly is "extrajudicial means"?

MicropenisMike··on Threads hits 5M signups in the first four hours
The Facebook app is fantastic in my opinion.
MicropenisMike··on AI and the Automation of Work
Even today, there's a handful of people who make a full living off chess. The owners of chess.com, a few streamers, a handful of super GMs, and chess teachers, and the latter will be automated away.

And prior to the explosion in popularity? Barely anyone.

MicropenisMike··on AI and the Automation of Work
Chess is a leisure activity, not work, you cannot compare the impact of automation of the two.

Also, chess engines did kill chess. Chess used to be a spectacle on the national stage, from 2000 up until Queen's Gambit and the following streamer boom, chess was largely dead.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Chess&hl...

MicropenisMike··on Illegal Life Pro Tip: Want to ruin your competitor's business?
This is a cool blog. Just super short ideas as a blog post that be read in under a minute. Thanks for sharing!
MicropenisMike··on Site claims to sell upvotes on Hacker News
Maybe this very thread is a SaaS ad with bought upvotes?
MicropenisMike··on Reddit is going to remove mods of private communities unless they reopen
Despite the fact that we were asked what our concerns were and shared them 12 days ago, we haven't received ANY response from them after that, complete silence for almost two weeks and counting. So it appears that the reddit admins are not acting in good faith and aren't discussing this with us. They are relying only on vaguely worded threats.

‘This is a courtesy notice to let you know that you will lose moderator status in the community by end of week.’

Wow.

MicropenisMike··on National Geographic lays off its last remaining staff writers
Similar but not exactly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Contributor

MicropenisMike··on Show HN: PFAS.report – Measure the forever chemicals in your blood via Quest
Is there a list of the tests worth taking to get as full a view as possible into my health?
MicropenisMike··on Eating microwave popcorn increases the level of PFAS in body (2022)
I was curious so I googled the text "hyprod-20"

It let to a forum from 5 years ago with someone accusing someone else of doing the same thing!

In the end, it seems like it's something google appends to their search

Fun little read for you:

https://www.forestriverforums.com/forums/f218/50a-trailer-30...

MicropenisMike··on Developer tools to create spatial experiences for Apple Vision Pro
In a world where headsets are as ubiquitous as smartphones, what happens to social media like Discord, or Reddit?
MicropenisMike··on Ask HN: Are posts about Reddit actively suppressed?
Yes, that was my assumption as well. I was frustrated to see it reach a high of rank 33 and not make the front page.

I later submitted a news article which got flagged despite having additional information. The same issue was met by the third link in this post .

MicropenisMike··on Facebook almost acquired Waze, but we ended up with Google
Link is broken?
MicropenisMike··on Addressing the community about changes to our API
They don't
MicropenisMike··on Archive your Reddit data before it's too late
Your reddit data is already available via torrent, along with everyone else's, but you'll have to dig for it

Reddit comments and submissions collected by Pushshift: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36038684