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redkinght99··on What's the case for naturally mined diamonds anymore?
No doubt, and to tech folk like you and me, it's a tiny amount of money but in the nightmare situation of trying to rebuild after an abusive marriage, the price of natural vs. lab grown makes a difference.
redkinght99··on What's the case for naturally mined diamonds anymore?
If you marry the wrong husband, it's helpful to have a items you can sell in order to rebuild. The costs of lab grown diamond vs. natural is like a 60% difference. I understand wanting a real diamond for such an odd contract as marriage.
redkinght99··on Meta forced to reveal anonymous Facebook user's identity
I think the current CEO is very relevant to a company. Leadership comes from the top.

"Ideally they should just eat the 100K fine." , I don't see that happening with their current leadership; a half-fought court battle for PR sake seems on brand though.

redkinght99··on Half of England is owned by less than 1% of the population (2019)
Good HN discussion about an NY Times article covering the same research https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19708742
redkinght99··on Aspartame sweetener to be declared possible cancer risk by WHO, say reports
Oh man, this report about Gen Z taking "Diet Coke" breaks to 'escape work' came to mind: https://fortune.com/2023/04/25/gen-z-diet-coke-break-trend-t...
redkinght99··on “Elemental” Is a Tearful Metaphor for Pixar’s Decline
I brought up seeing it with family and the general sentiment I got was: Why go out when it will be on Disney+ in a few months?
redkinght99··on Underage Enlistment in the United States and the Confederacy
I'm mentally trying to wrap my head around someone having a great grandfather that served in the Civil War. That's incredible! Thank you.
redkinght99··on Twilio Demo at the New York Tech Meetup
Reader, this demo is from, 3 Aug 2010 .
redkinght99··on Examples of Post-Growth Practices
We're going to Mars, we're going to conquer the solar system and beyond. We're going to have human populations at record levels.

It might be hip / cool to degrowth but as others have pointed it's unnecessary and after reading the link, seems more marketing than substance.

redkinght99··on Reddit App – Suspicious high number of recent 5 star, one word reviews
Why is Aaron Swartz not given co-founder status in this article? I'm not saying he was part of this review faking allegedly going on, just odd he's memory holed.
redkinght99··on Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit – and why users revolted
Redditors I've seen: 1. They don't know what's going on with their favorite subreddit being taken offline. 2. They agree with the protest but couldn't care less if some person doesn't get free / cheap API. 3. They are actively angry that a Reddit neckbeard took their business, show, hobby page offline, unilaterally.

I could see this backfiring and spez preventing subreddits with a certain following from going private in the future.

redkinght99··on Taurine deficiency as a driver of aging
Taurine? I've been jacking myself full of that since Middle School! Thanks RedBull!

Jokes aside, This feels like one of "Wine is Good for you" In moderation and other fine point details. Not buying it.

redkinght99··on Ask HN: Any good GitHub Copilot alternatives?
Replit's Ghostwriter
redkinght99··on Woman says she can’t quit job unless she pays employer $47,000
I'm wondering if this is even real. The Daily Dot link seemed to have no fact checking and the original source, an unsubstantiated TikTok video was already taken down.
redkinght99··on What “work” looks like
"TPS TPS TPS REPORTS AAAUUUGGHHHHHH!"

Regarding your point though, my spellchecking sense is telling me the author probably meant to type: "...that’s too often our mental image of “working” " .

redkinght99··on Charles Mitchell and the 1929 stock crash
Charles Mitchell, saved you a click. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E._Mitchell
redkinght99··on The Mysterious Case of Mr. X
I'm confused as to how this made the front page. It's your standard John Doe / Jane Doe mystery story and It's not even a link to the full story, just an excerpt that links you to the full story here: https://magazine.atavist.com/searching-for-mr-x-amnesia-miss... . It makes me wonder how easy it is game HN rankings.
redkinght99··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021)
https://www.notion.so/Hiring-4af205e971fe42b6bbe988698a51b19... looks like the last character in their URL got cut off.
redkinght99··on The startup that made air conditioning units look cool
This feels like one of those Ads disguised as a news article. It's claiming an air conditioning startup founded in 2020 (windmillair.com) is bigger / "cooler" than Dyson (dyson.com).
redkinght99··on Men Becoming Wolves
Shit Post: I read "Men Becoming Wolves" and immediately thought of that 30 Rock bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25EYLtqiyTo

```Werewolf Bar Mitzvah, Spooky scary, Boys becoming men, Men becoming wolves```

redkinght99··on GitHub, fuck your name change
I just wanted to comment how great it was to "Something for ya ears while you read." music on this post. I wish every Hacker News tech link had a music link to accompany the information being shared.
redkinght99··on Deciphering Single-Byte XOR Ciphertexts
You wouldn't happen to have any of examples of this "cheesey matching" would you? :D
redkinght99··on I think my BBQ just offered to be my default browser?
https://www.darkpatterns.org/types-of-dark-pattern Maybe one of these?
redkinght99··on A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
I lol'd. Thank you for sharing.
redkinght99··on Why Google Did Android
Smells like a Peter Thiel quote to me.