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HN is currently anti Cloudflare. The only thing worse probably would’ve been to serve the static files on GitHub.io

"slippery slope" is an old phrase for a reason.

What about investing on margin? We should introduce margin calls for credit cards. Owe more on credit cards than you have in the bank and you have to pay it all back at once.

(not being serious)


What makes you think an "expert" was not consulted on this? Experts can be wrong too, regardless of credentials. That's why AI should be used to review and critique all new laws going forward, in order to prevent such mistakes from being made law. Hard /s, btw.

It peaked and went on a decline in the period before companies were snatching up sites just to merge their user bases.

Had newgrounds continued into the 2010's, it would've been bought by Google to boost Google Wave / Circles / Plus whatever, and then it would've been actually shutdown.

So its age is actually what helped it survive I suspect.



Business security through expertise obscurity?

I mean, that describes pretty much every trade. It's not difficult to turn a pipe wrench, but a plumber knows where and when to turn it.

When it comes to trades it's also a bit of "most people do not want to do this job because it's unglamorous"

Many people would choose not to be a plumber for various reasons. A shocking number of people seem to deem manual work as beneath them. Many others just prefer to do other work.

I have no problem doing plumbing or building. I've installed floors, ceiling fixtures, drywall, whatever. But I am best at software and would prefer to do that for my career.


Yer a cryptographer, Harry!

Especially when the equipment the shovel seller uses to produce shovels has been retooled to produce backhoes instead because of a digging bubble.

Shouldn't this be affected by the diggers from the Far Lands recently telling everyone how to angle the backhoe blade to dig 470x as much earth in one swing?

It would be severely affected if Jevon's paradox weren't terrorizing the globe right now.

I was unfamiliar with the short story “The feeling of power” but thought for sure that “graphitics” must’ve been an Asimovism

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