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sincerely··on Bob Iger back as Disney CEO
Why would you expect a character in a comedy show to be a good role model? All of the characters have pretty obvious flaws and the show is better for it.
sincerely··on ACT Test Scores Drop to Lowest Levels in More Than 30 Years
You know, the same guidelines you point to also say " Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. "
sincerely··on The collapse of cryptokitties, the first big blockchain game
The Melty Blood fighting game series is a spinoff of an adult visual novel as well
sincerely··on Miniclip to Discontinue Desktop Site and Transition Exclusively to Mobile Games
It's a banner on the desktop website. They link a FAQ that goes into more detail: https://support.miniclip.com/hc/en-us/articles/5091169897617
sincerely··on Unbundling Airbnb
Why does a browser extension need a business model?
sincerely··on $625M worth of ETH drained on Axie Infinity's Ronin Network
Mt Gox was a place to buy MTGO cards, but had been closed for years before the owner reused the domain name to host the bitcoin exchange.
sincerely··on Blockfi agrees to pay $100M in penalties and pursue registration
Ok, you didn't call it fraudulent, you called it fraud - is that not a distinction without a difference?
sincerely··on Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds
> What makes hacking illegal?

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030

sincerely··on The Rise and Fall of 'Social Bot' Research (2021)
Chud came from the movie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.H.U.D. ), it entered the political "discourse" through the Chapo Trap House and became a generic word liberals use for conservatives/trump supporters
sincerely··on Tell HN: Salary data is for sale
"It's 100% correct, except for the errors"
sincerely··on Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the years ahead?
Ever since the pandemic I found the hours listed on Google maps for restaurants/business to be often (understandably) incorrect or out of date, and now I usually double check on Instagram or Facebook if there's a page run by the restaurant.
sincerely··on Scientists have created the darkness measure, D score, for how dark you are
Yes :)
sincerely··on Some Apple engineers rewarded up to $180k in stock bonuses as incentive to stay
So you've never worked for Apple but think people should know what you imagine people at Apple think?
sincerely··on Exa - A Modern Replacement for ls
The fair test is the hardware you’re going to be running it on
sincerely··on RadioShack – Bringing Cryptocurrency to the Mainstream
Kind of baffled that nobody has mentioned this yet, but:

Buying illegal drugs online

sincerely··on Incorrectly deleted from Facebook? Getting back on might take connections
I mean, yeah, for some people Facebook is addicting, drives them to depression and compulsive scrolling, etc etc. These people quit facebook and go around telling everyone how much better their life is now

but for a lot of people facebook is just a part of the computer where your friends are and it's where they talk and it sucks to not be able to use it

sincerely··on U.S. State Department phones hacked with Israeli company spyware
Isn't it pretty common to sit on the boards of multiple companeis?
sincerely··on Google Summer of Code in 2022 – No longer limited to students
Just for context, the US adult literacy rate is 80%
sincerely··on Ask HN: Anyone want to buy me a TRS-80 so I can make a sculpture of it?
Maybe offer to give the TRS-80 back to whoever bought it once you finish the sculpture?
sincerely··on Why are our brains shrinking?
The HN rule about not being able to ask if someone read the article or imply/suggest that they did not is the worst rule on the site, because it encourages this behaviour :(
sincerely··on Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
I've been using iphones for a decade and had no idea I could do this...not sure if it's a me problem or an apple problem but discoverability of gesture based shortcuts seems like a difficult challenge
sincerely··on 1k Netflix employees threaten work stoppage over Dave Chappelle
> What would you say if Netflix called their bluff and just fired all the people that walked out?

Isn’t that explicitly illegal in the Us? Lol

sincerely··on I nearly lost the Lightroom catalog with of all my photos
This is like a story where someone says they strap a blindfold on before driving and then the moral is "it's so easy to drive on the wrong side of the road and cause accidents"
sincerely··on Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust
>I'm convinced Metallica would have faded to irrelevance far earlier if people hadn't downloaded their music.

No offense but this is wishful thinking, they're one of the best selling bands of all time.

sincerely··on Show HN: Reddit clone built in no-code in two weeks
Have you tried the /.compact mode? It's not the same as the redesign, it's essentially old.reddit.com resized for a mobile interfact
sincerely··on Law school applicants surge 13%, biggest increase since dot-com bubble
Tech is automating away a lot of the work being done by people currently called lawyers. Whether you think that work is "secretarial" or "actual legal work" is a matter of opinion.
sincerely··on Is This Prime?
5+7=12 thus divisible by 3 and not prime
sincerely··on Valve Steam Deck
So Debian is fine if you want to use your desktop computer like an iPhone?
sincerely··on Audacity fork dev quits due physical abuse by 4Chan
- Dev holds contest to name new fork

- 4chan meme reference wins contest (Sneedacity)

- Dev declares results invalid

sincerely··on Austin cyclists split on sharing bike lanes with pizza delivery robots
Good one
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