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Not a hugely important website to lose even if you have videogaming as a hobby but this is another instance of a terrible trend of moving a public-facing knowledge base to Discord.
Re:Monkeypox goes global: why scientists are on alert on Friday May 20, 2022 @11:11PM (#31454948)
I've got an older account if you still want to establish my sincerity although I lost the password and never was able to recover it. That doesn't count for much but if you chuck the corpus of it and /adotsapiens in an authorship verification program it'll spit out a match.

https://reddit.com/user/malariadandelion

You'll find it's all consistent with a white British politically opinionated nerd between the ages of 20 and 25, employed in a succession of blue-collar jobs, because that's the real deal.

Re:Monkeypox goes global: why scientists are on alert on Friday May 20, 2022 @11:02PM (#31454911)
Thank you for pointing that out, as a guy who excelled at physics and failed biology I just assumed it had an enhanced spread. I'll edit the post to reflect that.
Re:Monkeypox goes global: why scientists are on alert on Friday May 20, 2022 @10:54PM (#31454878)
Some people are genuinely fairly new to HN. I only became aware of this place a few months ago in following the ACOUP blog.

But that's indistinguishable from astroturf accounts to an outsider so tell you what, I have a reddit account I've used for over a year and post regularly on. I've posted a link to your comment as a self-post on that account:

https://www.reddit.com/user/ADotSapiens/comments/uue2sb/yo_v...

Feel free to let that additional internet footprint act as some kind of bona fides.

Reddit shut down ?depth=n sorting for threads between 6 and 12 months ago and ?context=n in the last three months but posting and commenting still works for me on the latest releases of Chrome, Safari, the android Samsung browser and an old release of android Chrome, across 5 different reddit logins. Post it, with screenshots, to /r/bugs and you'll probably get an answer sometime soon. If not, maybe they are A/B testing a decline in product quality?
While it was more of a tech retailer than a tech company, Blockbuster qualifies.
Re:Electricity shortage warnings grow across U.S. on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @07:04AM (#31325638)
Paywall bypass: https://archive.ph/9RxWJ

Does anybody here know if there some sort of publically-available tracker for utility spare parts volumes in the US? It's probably the kind of data you need to pay to get but it would be nice if there's something for free.

If there is anybody who sees Indian domestic news and/or articles, could you tell us whether there is any political impetus there to start spraying climate-modifying aerosols at high altitudes regardless of effectiveness and/or international opinion, or if it's completely outside of the Indian overton window?