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mdoms··on Web3.0 Must Be Destroyed
Matt Damon famously shilled for crypto.com.
mdoms··on Web3.0 Must Be Destroyed
Stopped reading at "mansplaining".
mdoms··on UST Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg
If you're stupid enough to buy into crypto because of big fancy ads with dork ass actors then I simply do not care if you lose your shirt.
mdoms··on Day trader army loses all the money it made in meme-stock era
No one had said stimulus wasn't needed. It's perfectly valid to believe that PPP was bad policy and also that a targeted stimulus was necessary.
mdoms··on Match Group Files Lawsuit Against Google over Unlawful Billing Mandates
Here's a Bloomberg article on this issue

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-09/match-gro...

mdoms··on Knitters got knotted in a purity spiral (2020)
What? Did you read the article? He doesn't claim this is a new phenomenon. To the contrary he uses examples from Salem 1962, Robespierre in 1794 and Maoism in the 1960's. He then concludes this it's probably a hard-wired human instinct to behave this way.
mdoms··on Parsing / Recursive Descent Parser
Hmm this article really misses out on what makes the recursive decent parser special by not diving deep into the "recursive" part. An example grammar one level more complex would have been great.
mdoms··on Systematic review and metaanalysis of glyphosate exposure and risk of LH cancers
I'm a keen gardener and have spent a fair bit of time investigating this issue on an amateur basis and the conclusions here do ring true from what I've read. However do be cautious,

> Funding

> This work was supported by Monsanto Company, the original producer and marketer of glyphosate formulations.

mdoms··on Forget personalisation, it’s impossible and it doesn’t work
The article refers to Disney movies as "a creative".
mdoms··on Pixabay has royalty free music you can use for free
Ah so this is where all of that terrible Kickstarter pitch video music comes from.
mdoms··on Feeling uncomfortable when leaving phone at home shouldn't be normal
No one used pay phones for anything other than a public toilet for half a decade. Good riddance.
mdoms··on Tell HN: I was permanently banned from eBay in one hour
Coincidentally it's exact what it looks like when someone opens an account to sell non-stolen electronics.
mdoms··on Star Citizen is doing 'bedsheet deformation' physics now
Hey man I just want to let you know you come across as EXTREMELY unhinged.
mdoms··on Heroku: We’ve Heard Your Feedback
Just cut the fucking marketing corpospeak, please, we're begging you. This post is just saturated with it.
mdoms··on Why do you waste so much time on the internet?
I'm not the person you asked but I try to keep my gems in bookmarks, would love to share some. Obviously I don't know your interests so take it for what you will. I have many more than I'll post here if you want some.

Some of this came from HN, some from elsewhere.

This website lists the first references to some cultural icons on Usenet (for example the first time AIDS was ever discussed, first mention of a new TV cartoon "The Simpsons", etc.) http://www.eightyeightynine.com/culture/80susenet.html

The Public Domain Review, a collection and analysis of interesting stuff in the public domain https://publicdomainreview.org/

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. I have spent many hours browsing the incredible content here. https://www.davidrumsey.com/

Artvee. Free, high quality art. https://artvee.com/

Restoration Mustang. A high quality long term journal of the restoration of a classic Mustang. Think like an /r/diy project but with way more detail and over a longer time scale. https://restorationmustang.com/

The Renegade Gardener. Highly opinionated no-bullshit gardening advice. I especially love the "Don't Do That" section. https://renegadegardener.com/

Garden Myths. There's a lot of misinformation and old wives' tales in gardening, this website cuts the crap. https://www.gardenmyths.com/

Million Short is a search engine that lets you cut out the million (or 10,000 or 100,000) top results from a search, really good for finding gems. It also has an option for removing e-commerce websites from search which is a godsend. https://millionshort.com/

This one is relevant if you live in New Zealand and love the outdoors: Can I Light a Fire? https://www.checkitsalright.nz/can-i-light-a-fire

mdoms··on Pop culture has become an oligopoly
What nonsense. I'm 37 and my favourite song changes all the time.
mdoms··on Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows
This is truly one of the most bizarre comments I have ever read on this website.
mdoms··on Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make
He posted in response to a tweet saying that Russian conscripts are expected to train on the job. In that context he's calling for Russians to die on the job, not Ukranians.
mdoms··on Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make
I think it's far more likely that OP drunk-posted or simply forgot about making the tweet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31240589

mdoms··on Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make
So did you write the tweet or not? Your behaviour in this thread is really bizarre dude, can you just be up front with us?
mdoms··on Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make
Are you certain that the email from Twitter is even genuine? Your account looks completely normal to me. I don't know what a blocked account should look like but to me it doesn't look like your account is banned or anything. And the tweet in question (which your bafflingly refuse to delete) isn't present.
mdoms··on Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make
This is so confusing that at this point it feels like you're intentionally withholding information. Answer the simple question, has your password changed? Because if not then we can concretely rule out social engineering attacks - if they didn't know your password to begin with then they couldn't change it back, and if they did there would be no need for a social engineering attack.
mdoms··on 90% of software engineering done today is integrating poorly documented APIs
Spring is a simple MVC framework, it follows the same patterns as similar Ruby, Python, C#, PHP etc frameworks. React very much blazes its own complicated trail.
mdoms··on Post-incident review on the Atlassian April 2022 outage
Massive props to them for releasing this but dropping it on Saturday morning seems calculated and cynical.
mdoms··on Limb lengthening surgery is becoming more popular
This guy Scott was 5'7". His attitude about his height was a mental illness and shouldn't be validated, it should be treated.
mdoms··on Epic is asking a court to stop Google from yanking Bandcamp off the Play Store
As I said there are lots of free games on Epic which use their own store fronts for transactions.
mdoms··on Epic is asking a court to stop Google from yanking Bandcamp off the Play Store
Yes, the Epic store enables this exact scenario. Lots of free games on Epic make all of their month through micro transactions billed entirely through their own systems. See Rocket League for one example, but there are many.
mdoms··on Airbnb’s design to live and work anywhere
> It would be better if it wasn't literally gutting every city from Amsterdam to Bangkok in the process and turning them into hipster slums.

Do you not recognise that you were the exact kind of person ruining cities the world over?

mdoms··on Airbnb’s design to live and work anywhere
I definitely feel you on the Sun/Sat travel and I'd push back against that.
mdoms··on Airbnb’s design to live and work anywhere
> If its the latter then that seems like it might be a non-starter for people with families.

If you can't make the time to spend a few days a quarter with your workmates in exchange for the most generous and fair remote working package then perhaps you're not a good fit for Airbnb. Which is totally fair. But they're not exactly taking the piss here. For many (many) people a week long retreat is a perk not a burden.

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