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Isn't this basically how Reddit got popular, when everyone was mad about Digg's UI update so they wanted an alternative?

After /r/TheDonald was banned, a bunch of right wingers did exactly this by creating TheDonald.win and other sites (including one for /r/TheRedPill), forming the win network. Hones…

Coincidentally, I just became Top Rated Plus (as opposed to normal Top Rated) on Upwork thanks to finishing my first large contract! I'm going to have a mini-party with my wife to …

Your population size is not growing anywhere near exponentially: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=us+popula...

A good friend of mine is hiring engineers who want to transition to providing therapy for digital nomads, remote techies, and such. His practice actually specializes in therapy and…

I didn't even know David Hasselhoff made music and this song is amazing, thanks a lot for sharing!

>Funnily enough, the old.reddit.com view does have a to the RSS feed. Maybe that's not a coincidence! Aaron Swartz, one of the co-founders of Reddit, was also one of the developers…

Who says the two parties aren't on the same team? Maybe the winning team is corrupt politicians and the facade of ideology is a marketing gimmick that sells tickets but at the end …

You are completely correct, I didn't mean to argue against the Dems, just noting that I hear this critique raised against them a lot. >Arguably by the same reasoning, republicans b…

TIL about the contenteditable attribute, which it turns out can be used on arbitrary elements to make them editable! https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_att...…

He probably didn't have the stat off the top of his head, so it was exaggerated based on assumptions. But the underlying intuition had a kernel of truth and applies to any politica…

> GNU Taler is developed as part of the GNU project for the GNU operating system. Ha, yes, the GNU operating system. I appreciate GNU's commitment to this idea notion that they are…

A time of my life that I deeply regret and learned a lot from, full of brutality and fear, but also moments of beauty and wonder. I wonder if any other excons are here on HN.

As a Judoka, I wish this was about normal Judo. You know what, I'm going to blog about Judo and submit it here when I'm done. See you in a few days!

Migrant caravans are definitely real: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_American_migrant_carav... I've been to Tapachula, Chiapas and it's wild. If you ever go, ask the mototax…

And only 40 minutes for this thread to become about Hitler.

That is the lowest possible bar for free speech, which as a philosophical principle goes way further. Here's a good talk from Hitchens on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v…

I learned about Chez when Racket started their rewrite from C to Chez. Made me think why they don't just build Racket entirely in its self!

To be fair, Goodreads also doesn't let you read the book right there on the site. And while I agree it would be convenient for music, I'm so desperate for a good discovery mechanis…

It seems so. According to https://worldhistorycommons.org/sumerian-school-days : >This tablet, from ancient Sumeria (as early as 2000 B.C.E.), details a day in the life of a school…

Any specific texts you can recommend?? Thanks!

Which famously resulted in the Reign of Terror ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror ) before collapsing into Napoleon's imperial dictatorship.

You mean "frisco" :D