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Yeah there is something suspicious about this site.

> I came away thinking if those were presented as affiliated links, that conversation could have been monetized in a mutually beneficial way.

Have you considered a world where the ideal outcome _doesn't_ involve making the most money?


It doesn't have to be the most really, but it's fair that they get some monetary returns commensurate with the value provided. All human society is based on an exchange of value, after all.

But realistically speaking, billions of investor money means that nothing short of the "most money" will be good enough.


There are far better examples they could use.

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I might have done - you claim questionable reasons for Thiel's actions without evidence. For one thing he didn't start it.

His ownership percentage is similar to Elon's stake in Tesla, you can quibble over details (Series B vs A). His associates are teaming over Polymarket and now Palantir is in charge of policing the market.. sort of a fox guarding the hen house situation?

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/why-trump-backi...


I'll downvote that WITH commenting, also HN rules encourage against ranting about downvotes, fyi.

I don't think there's any issue with asking when no explanation is provided and it's unclear to you. Whereas complaining about it is just tedious and doesn't add anything of value.

wonder no further!

You perfectly encapsulated how I felt as a kid pushing my computer to its limit just to learn and try new things. I didn't have a Mac, but the experience was identical.

What a ridiculous idea, I love it.


Well that's quite a leap to make. Plenty of room in between those options.


Editing what is billed as an archive defeats the purpose of an "archive".


> Editing what is billed as an archive defeats the purpose of an "archive".

No, certain edits are understandable and required. Even the archive.org edits its pages (e.g. sticks banners on them and does a bunch of stuff to make them work like you'd expect).

Even paper archives edit documents (e.g. writing sequence numbers on them, so the ordering doesn't get lost).

Disclosing exactly what account was used to download a particular page is arguably irrelevant information, and may even compromise the work of archiving pages (e.g. if it just opens the account to getting blocked).


The relevant part of the page to archive is the content of the page, not the user account that visited the page. Most sane people would consider two archives of the same page with different user accounts at the top, the same page.


Don't be surprised by this, there are a lot more edits than you think. For example, CSS is always inlined so that pages could render the same as it was archived.


CSS inlining happens during the process of archiving, no?

The issue here is to edit archived pages retrospectively.


A comment above yours clearly explains why:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47034480


I'm fairly certain the radio time signal has a mechanism to convey daylight savings, I've had alarm clocks that managed DST without any input.

> The DST status bits indicate United States daylight saving time rules.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWVB


You're right. I was wrong about that, mostly because I've never had a WWVB clock work for me at all.


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