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Re:RIP Google Groups Dejanews.com Archive on Sunday November 12, 2023 @09:44AM (#38240469)
Fortunately, the person you were responding to wasn't making a bad faith argument, or even arguing at all, but was rather expressing a common opinion based on anticipating entirely predictable behavior.
Reddit has been gamed for years and I'm still using it.
I block ads, nuke cookies, and use old.reddit.com exclusively, but somehow I still manage to spend a lot of money on shit I don't need. Most of it was found on reddit. All of it got a google search that included "site:reddit.com" before buying. This anecdote is not unique. The fact that reddit gets $0 despite being part of my typical buyers journey is a failure of Steve Huffman, not the users.
The article mentions that, as well as points out that the material it is based on is not peer reviewed.
Risk of death due to covid is heavily weighted by age.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investi...

Re:Old C code – how to upgrade it? on Friday April 08, 2022 @07:09PM (#30963603)
Did the examples work for you? I got the threads example to run on an M1 building with clang, but the dir example fails.
Re:The Uselessness of Phenylephrine on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @02:27PM (#30858953)
True, but they have a significant rebound effect.