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Re:Dear Software Makers on Thursday October 01, 2026 @09:56AM (#49921764)
Just because people do an action doesn't mean they wanted to do it.
Re:The small, real, original web on Saturday July 25, 2026 @02:40PM (#49050347)
Me and all the other poor Kmart shoppers in the 1990s got free Internet access from their "Bluelight" Internet access. Don't know if this was everywhere, but it was a think in the US.
Re:How We're Keeping Reddit Real and Safe in the AI Era on Monday July 06, 2026 @08:32AM (#48803708)
Reddit is full of Parasite SEO lately.
It's to be expected from a for-profit system.
Re:The Dead Economy Theory on Sunday May 31, 2026 @12:37AM (#48343054)
>"they legendarily drag out the cases they can, and there's near-monthly trials of cases of theft from trust accounts."

This goes on in the U.S. too, at least in my state.

The overly tribal, lack of nuance, is overwhelmingingly from the millennial generation. I don't see older people being like that.
Re:Using AI to write better code more slowly on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @11:05AM (#48280840)
Your comment begins like ai slop.
Re:Google Declaring War on the Web on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @11:03PM (#48217333)
This hurts:

>The next step will be Google or other companies in that space developing and deploying a new derogatory term for the web marking it as unclean, unruly, dangerous, bad (similar to “the Dark Web”) and making their abstraction the “safe” web.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it?
Regarding: "WordPress is managed by the WordPress Foundation"

The Foundation doesn't actually manage anything though, does it? WordPress.org is managed and owned by Mullenweg personally.

Re:Mullenweg threatens corporate takeover of WP Engine on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @09:47AM (#41720633)
Isn't it just that WP Engine made their own Stripe plugin for Woo? Why is this being called out as wrong?
Re:Solution for Plugins and Themes (WP Engine Status Page) on Monday September 30, 2024 @07:32PM (#41703217)
This says they've prepared a solution. Does anyone know what the solution is? Did WP Engine build a whole fork of the plugin and theme repositories?
Re:Is Ethical Advertising Possible? on Sunday November 26, 2023 @05:41PM (#38425807)
No.
No, it doesn't block those.
> "Stripe will no longer return the $15 dispute fee for successfully contested disputes."
Re:Lead and Cadmium Could Be in Your Dark Chocolate on Sunday December 18, 2022 @05:29PM (#34044463)
Cadbury is listed here by the organization that discovered the issue:

https://www.asyousow.org/environmental-health/toxic-enforcem...

And here is the Hacker News post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34033799

Equality will always be prevented as long as we're allowed to exercise free will. A wise man said, "Differences in habits and attitudes are differences in human capital, ...and such differences create differences in economic outcomes."

Besides, the 2nd sentence of the Abstract shows they begin by labelling the perceptions of others as inaccurate. This corrupts the rest for me:

>Only when equality is increased within their ingroup, instead of between groups, do advantaged group members accurately perceive it as unharmful.

I second this. Foods affect your depression levels. Foods high in Omega 3 fight depression. Eat those foods regularly, you should notice the change in your mood.
Re:Rocky Linux Project Shifts Focus to Rocky GNU/Hurd on Saturday April 02, 2022 @02:24AM (#30886236)
Same here. Half way through the "FAQ" video I realized this might be a joke.
Re:Delta does not appear to make children sicker on Saturday October 09, 2021 @10:20AM (#28810089)
No, according to Cleveland Clinic's study, vaccine adds no benefit to those with natural immunity.

https://www.news-medical.net/amp/news/20210608/No-point-vacc...

From HN guidelines:

>Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article?"

Just last month, a study finally began to investigate the effects of COVID vaccines on women's menstrual system [1]. Because women's official complaints had been ignored by the medical communities all year. Now they've been forced to finally examine it. To say that any vaccine side effects are "trivial" (as some have commented here) ignores women's concerns about the real possibility that something may be going wrong down there due to the vaccine. We'll know the results 1 year from now, when the study concludes. I wonder how many of the 1400 fired unvaccinated workers were women with good-faith concerns over their menstrual systems.

1. https://www.nichd.nih.gov/newsroom/news/083021-COVID-19-vacc...

Re:Creative but annoying PayPal dark pattern on Thursday September 16, 2021 @03:15PM (#28555984)
By "Hanlon's razor," he's implying the developers may just be stupid.
I think the rise of 24-hour news networks are partly to blame.
Fans of Charlotte Bronte may remember:

“No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.”

- said Lucy Snow in the novel, Villette, by Charlotte Bronte.

Re:Ask HN: How to learn how to sell? on Monday June 28, 2021 @12:47AM (#27658216)
If you have to try to convince people, you're doing sales wrong.

If your goal is to make money from sales, find out what people want and give it to them. They will be coming to you with money ready to pay, if you are offering what they already want. So to sell, find out what people want and then offer it up for a price.

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