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"in August 2021, Discord had reported $130 million in 2020 revenues, triple from the prior year, and had an estimated valuation of $15 billion" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discor…

> treaties [...] not based on trust How are these treaties enforced? All international treaties are ultimately based on trust. There is no higher authority, only elective councils …

A 2016 talk by Tribeflame CEO Torulf Jernström about the monetization of mobile games called "Let's Go Whaling!" also caused a bit of a ruffle a while ago. Ominously delivered with…

Written as though it's competing for the attention of fourteen-year-olds against meme scrolls, video games and online porn.

Unfortunately that is also the problem with rational arguments if they are deliberately or ignorantly reductive, i.e. without holistic perspective.

Web.de was founded in 1995 and GMX in '97. Both now belong to the gigantic German United Internet AG founded in '88 which currently has roughly 10,000 employees and EUR 5.5bn reven…

Or if homogeneous data is fine, just cat or dd from a source like /dev/zero.

> If every statement fit within the column limit of the page, yup. It’s a piece of cake. (I think that’s what gofmt does.) But our formatter also keeps your code within the line le…

I think you are correct and am confused why you're being voted down without explanation.

I did underappreciate this, thank you!

Maybe I misunderstand, but didn't JSLinux[1][2] do system emulation running a proper kernel basically since 2012? 1: http://jslinux.org/ 2: https://bellard.org/jslinux/tech.html

One Jesus of Nazareth is tolerable, a million people preaching their opinions everywhere would be truly awful. Therefore what Jesus was doing is immoral.

Sorry, but Wikipedia also doesn't get to decide what words mean, nor you or I, at least not authoritatively. Linguistically, tax evasion is: evasion of taxes. I can use the words t…

> a relief when i click on a link to any site, and the page loads, and there's no animated anything whatsoever I've recently disabled CSS animations globally in Firefox's userConte…

There is a not so subtle implication of your comments being voted down that those claiming HN is not an instance of social media would be well-advised to reflect on.

>> Maintain (a low waist circumference) and (muscle mass)

https://archive.is/aW95d https://web.archive.org/web/20210708074814/https://www.argus...

Yes, the stated original requirement to "find that one person who’s been suspended and is incredibly dangerous" does presuppose that the dangerous person is already in the system a…

I believe the questionable rationale there is that it helps to identify suspended students whose presence is assumed to be dangerous. “The mission creep issue is a real concern whe…

It's an ageist way of saying that this exploit is less critical for people who take proactive counter-measures, and more affects less technically inclined or security-minded people…