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New comment by droptablemain in "Got kicked out of uni and had the cops called for a social media website I made"

droptablemain — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:39:15 +0000

I guess I'm too old for this sh*t, the whole thing just sounds terribly juvenile.

New comment by droptablemain in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

droptablemain — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:13:12 +0000

Not even a little bit.

New comment by droptablemain in "Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued"

droptablemain — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:26:58 +0000

No, not millions. Billions. Like $70+ billion.

New comment by droptablemain in "The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video]"

droptablemain — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:51:54 +0000

Interesting. Assuming it did not use DirectDraw -- that's often a major pain point.

New comment by droptablemain in "The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video]"

droptablemain — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 23:09:24 +0000

This is pretty much the experience of trying to play any game from the '90s on modern hardware. It always requires a bit of tinkering and usually a patch from the modding community. Funniest one I've found is Fallout Tactics. The random encounter frequency is somehow tied to clock speed so you'll basically get hit with random encounters during map travel about once every half second.

New comment by droptablemain in "Los Angeles ends strange rite of passage with new fridge law"

droptablemain — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:07:29 +0000

I've lived in LA ~12 years in a couple of different apartments. In all my apartment hunting I've never encountered a unit that doesn't come with a refrigerator.

New comment by droptablemain in "Why I'm Leaving Harvard"

droptablemain — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 18:46:13 +0000

-> or take horse medicines

Guessing you're referring to the long-debunked notion that Ivermectin is purely "horse medicine." A cursory search (which you apparently have never bothered to do in 5 years) reveals it's been approved by the FDA for human use since 1987 and is on the WHO's list of essential medicines.

New comment by droptablemain in "Instacart reaches into your pocket and lops a third off your dollars"

droptablemain — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:43:43 +0000

I don't need to use him. I know plenty of poors who routinely shoot themselves in the foot IRL.

Cognitive ability/IQ is actually a better metric for predicting poverty than socioeconomic background BTW.

New comment by droptablemain in "Instacart reaches into your pocket and lops a third off your dollars"

droptablemain — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 22:31:50 +0000

You make dangerous assumptions about me in order to justify your preexisting view of poverty and socioeconomic mobility.

My background is very poor. Food stamps, raised by single mom, whole nine yards. For most of my 20s I existed in the very same cycle of bad financial decisions that many other poor people engage in.

My situation had approximately a 0% chance of changing until the behavior changed. That doesn't mean behavioral changes are always enough, but they are the absolute bare minimum and an excellent starting point.

People I still know in bad situations refuse to acknowledge this and refuse to critically examine their decisions. They do nothing but avoid, avoid, avoid and hope for a miraculous windfall.

New comment by droptablemain in "Instacart reaches into your pocket and lops a third off your dollars"

droptablemain — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:38:27 +0000

Have you ever watched Caleb Hammer's "Financial Audit?"

People in dire financial situations very often have a history of making bad decisions with money.

Personally I do not struggle with money/budgeting but the only time I will ever use something like InstaCart is if I am sick and can't leave the house.

New comment by droptablemain in "Man Asks $75M for 'Lambo.com,' Court Gives It to Lamborghini for Free"

droptablemain — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 06:54:34 +0000

It's state-facilitated theft from an individual to a $20 billion multinational corporation.

Sure he tried to do something bad but he should've been compensated a fair market value for the domain.

New comment by droptablemain in "Django 6"

droptablemain — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 04:50:57 +0000

Hah, I used this a few years back on a project. Great work!

New comment by droptablemain in "The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia"

droptablemain — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 18:55:29 +0000

The famous little jingle "shave and a haircut, two bits"

Most people today have no clue what a "bit" is.

I imagine the future will hold something similar for the penny in all the idioms and cultural phrases we have. What the hell is a penny?

New comment by droptablemain in "James Watson has died"

droptablemain — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 22:31:05 +0000

And why wouldn't that be plausible given effectively all available cognitive data support this conclusion?

Of course I'm being facetious. I know why. No one wants to ponder that because of the stigma, so everyone puts their head in the sand and avoids the uncomfortable.

New comment by droptablemain in "How do we stop AI-generated 'poverty porn' fake images?"

droptablemain — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 18:10:23 +0000

I would much rather live in a society that tolerates and shakes off a bit of racism than one that jails people for offensive memes.

New comment by droptablemain in "How do we stop AI-generated 'poverty porn' fake images?"

droptablemain — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 17:16:02 +0000

You can't police people into not being racist. People have always been racist/xenophobic to some extent and always will be. It's cultural conflict and tribal in nature.

New comment by droptablemain in "Is Sora the beginning of the end for OpenAI?"

droptablemain — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 16:34:16 +0000

New comment by droptablemain in "Autism should not be seen as single condition with one cause, say scientists"

droptablemain — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 17:10:16 +0000

No one proclaimed that.

They announced that Tylenol could be linked to neurological development issues, including autism.

New comment by droptablemain in "Bluesky Issues Warning to Any Users Celebrating Charlie Kirk Assassination"

droptablemain — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 23:40:39 +0000

Right now seemingly all of Bluesky is in a frenzy trying to insinuate that this killer is somehow a Republican or "MAGA." Or a Groyper.

The level of cognitive dissonance when people lock themselves in echo chambers is truly astonishing.

You can literally scroll for hours, thousands of posts of people making the same sorts of outrageous and deflective claims.

https://bsky.app/profile/trending.bsky.app/feed/412019139

New comment by droptablemain in "Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)"

droptablemain — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 21:35:49 +0000

My understanding is that the current "Big Beautiful Bill" reverses this