“Play-to-Earn” and Bullshit Jobs — and Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content

Issue #632 — December 30, 2021

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“Play-to-Earn” and Bullshit Jobs paulbutler.org \| points: 1113 \| comments: 635

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Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content github.com \| points: 534 \| comments: 225

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Facebook said my article was false – now the fact-checkers admit they were wrong reason.com \| points: 372 \| comments: 540

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Ask HN: Why doesn’t YC list compensation for their own open positions? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 312 \| comments: 320

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Glibc is still not Y2038 compliant by default ariadne.space \| points: 308 \| comments: 208

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Emfy: Emacs for You – Quickly set up vanilla Emacs for editing github.com \| points: 305 \| comments: 116

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A realization of why email is critical infrastructure for the Internet utcc.utoronto.ca \| points: 281 \| comments: 218

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Engineers should invest in decision-making skills early reforge.com \| points: 280 \| comments: 119

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Down the Rabbit Hole: The world of estranged parents’ forums (2015) issendai.com \| points: 240 \| comments: 186

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Consider SQLite blog.wesleyac.com \| points: 239 \| comments: 185

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Swedes were fooled by one of the biggest scientific bluffs of our time (2020) soccermatics.medium.com \| points: 231 \| comments: 257

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John Madden has died profootballtalk.nbcsports.com \| points: 219 \| comments: 80

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No one is certain what Roman bronze dodecahedrons were used for (2018) mentalfloss.com \| points: 213 \| comments: 200

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Grok {Shan, Shui}*: Advent of understanding the generative art zverok.github.io \| points: 206 \| comments: 20

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GCC: The customer has nuclear weapons. They do not do “bounty” gcc.gnu.org \| points: 203 \| comments: 97

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Exploring the software that flies SpaceX rockets and Starships stackoverflow.blog \| points: 197 \| comments: 89

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The world’s biggest offshore wind farm, Hornsea 2, generates first power orsted.com \| points: 187 \| comments: 143

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Tech Won’t Save Us. Shrinking Consumption Will thetyee.ca \| points: 170 \| comments: 207

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DuckDuckGo’s daily search queries surpassed 100M, a 47% increase en.brinkwire.com \| points: 168 \| comments: 97

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Wargames can help you to learn and practice security concepts through games overthewire.org \| points: 159 \| comments: 23

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