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by pushcx 7y ago
Huh? Lobsters doesn't replace HN. Not just in the obvious, practical sense that HN is 100x bigger on any metric than Lobsters, but also in a theoretical sense, because our definition of topicality is a strict subset of HN's. And w
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by pushcx 7y ago
Compare sources. First, there is no long-term trend: https://gssdataexplorer.norc.org/variables/5057/vshow Second, and more importantly: the GSS is an survey of 1,000 people. There were 396 people in this age rang
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by pushcx 7y ago
> a large percentage of men are totally removed from the dating market (not by choice) Please don't make up things like this. There's tons of well-researched data available from the CDC and NIH. None of it supports this misogyn
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by pushcx 7y ago
Yep. I've run Barnacles for a few years and became the Lobsters admin almost two years ago. They use the same codebase. https://github.com/pushcx/barnacl.es https://github.com/lobsters/lobster
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by pushcx 7y ago
Selfishly, I would appreciate it if HN would adopt downvote reasons because Lobsters has to acculturate people used to how HN does things. Occasionally they're outraged that we do not have downvote-to-disagree when a mod contacts them
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by pushcx 7y ago
I see why you read it that way, but I can't read it so charitably after they claimed payments were held in escrow when they weren't. I don't believe this program was live 90 days before the uproar, so I don't give much c
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by pushcx 7y ago
No, but they still haven't shown remorse for claiming those payments were held in escrow when in fact Brave held the payments, and planned to take them after 90 days. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736743
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by pushcx 7y ago
A figure in the "Opportunity" section has two large inverted cones showing total addressable market. The lie factor[0] of the "Peloton's Current Markets" chart is 4.2. The lie factor of the "U.S. Only" cha
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by pushcx 7y ago
Our readme explicitly says we don't support people setting up their own sites. You did it anyways, we told you we won't support you, and you did it again.
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by pushcx 7y ago
I didn't think I needed to be this specific, but: please finish the job and write an entire about page for your site. Yours still says "Lobsters" up and down it, and even if you search-and-replace the name there's a lot
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by pushcx 7y ago
Our codebase is available under 3-clause BSD and we're usually thrilled to see sister sites: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/wiki The administrator of this site submitted a Bitcoin affiliate spam site to
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by pushcx 7y ago
Please remove my name from your about page. I am not the administrator of this site and wouldn't spam like this.
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by pushcx 7y ago
On this side of the pond, the University of Washington has a large and growing ASL STEM dictionary: https://aslstem.cs.washington.edu/ I don't know how widely accepted these signs are and it has a serious problem with
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by pushcx 7y ago
I was quoting the version of the rulebook I've seen, bottom of page 3 in this PDF: https://www.wizards.com/avalonhill/rules/acquire.pdf
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by pushcx 7y ago
I've been using this for the last two months on my work machine and really like it. The first week I used this machine the touch bar was an irritating distraction; then I removed everything except esc, sleep, mute, and the brightness&#
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by pushcx 7y ago
And no access to that on mobile without security dialogs. Dude originally claimed it worked via CSS. I guess he doesn't have secret superpowers.
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by pushcx 7y ago
The old link you keep pasting does not support this or your other hyperbolic assertions. Stop dangling claims of secret superpowers or support them.
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by pushcx 7y ago
For anyone else immediately curious: the US's [ex post facto]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_post_facto_law#United_State... ) law applies to retroactively deeming acts to be criminal. Challenges to retroactive ta
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by pushcx 8y ago
> FitnessAI is so simple your grandma can use it. This is a terrible cliche. (More: https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/So_simple,_your_mother_c... ) How about something like: * Your lifts should be hard, your tracki
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by pushcx 8y ago
Yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19445855
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by pushcx 8y ago
Also: your responses here, and Brendan Eich's on Twitter, seem to assume you are somewhere in the general brand feel of the EFF or Firefox. That this is a big misunderstanding of a clearly well-intentioned feature from familiar volunte
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by pushcx 8y ago
https://twitter.com/ummjackson/status/1076221401353207808 Your UI really looks like Tom Scott has signed up to receive donations through you, not like you've scraped his photo and name off twitter and written
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by pushcx 8y ago
The poster's speculation was incorrect. We don't care about employer.
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by pushcx 8y ago
(context: I'm the admin of Lobsters) Not purposefully, and a link to code projects isn't needed; users are welcome to invite based on their own criteria. A lot of people have been invited from the chat room just for describing an
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by pushcx 8y ago
I'm not aware of one, but the Lobsters codebase with very similar functionality is available if you'd like to start one: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters You can get help in #lobsters on Freenode. If you
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by pushcx 8y ago
The library doesn't have a license on the site or in the tarball. From djb's previous writing and software, he probably intends it to be license-free software, which is an uncommon situation worth investigating before use: https:
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by pushcx 9y ago
This post would be improved by discussing that their [threat model]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threat_model ) is so different than Google's that it regards some of Google's business practices as threats. An
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by pushcx 9y ago
Yes, he gave you free stuff and then reduced how much free stuff he gave you. That must be very hard on you.
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by pushcx 9y ago
Look hard at the review sites like the Better Business Bureau before you buy a Lenovo: https://www.bbb.org/raleigh-durham/business-reviews/computer... I bought a 3rd gen X1 Carbon. Three weeks out of warranty, the
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by pushcx 10y ago
Yarvin's having a laugh at all of you. Early in the article: > What is an app, anyway? It's shared computing . Everyone's data is one data structure, in one program, on one server, owned by one corporation. This is a call

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