Pick up x and do y - and nothing happens except to you.
There's more of you than there are of them ("Strength in numbers", remember?). But evidently you're too chickenshit to do anything about it.
So much for "resetting the global trade economy.
BeauHD, the Slashdot "editor" responsible for this, didn't have time to properly vet the submission. They got an urgent call to their primary job as a Walmart greeter.
Also, it wasn't a crypto story, so they didn't give a shit.
Kevin Rose has been big on the whole "Defi" thing - I'm sure this'll turn out to be just another crypto-bro forum disguised as some sort of AI-innovative thing wrapped about some "blockchain" and "Web 3.0" crap.
Whoever did this knew what was coming.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2FBitcoinNewsCom%2Fs...
I find it hilarious how it's put as a surprise/question whether it happened:
INSIDER TRADING ON TRUMP'S CRYPTO RESERVE ANNOUNCEMENT?!
As if it was some sort of mystery instead of a knowable fact.
Bitcoin rose 10% to $94,425.29
LOL! Hadn't looked in a while, but burst out laughing when I read that! The fact it rose 10% to $94K, well below that magical $100K+ it used to be!
This whole thing wreaks of manipulation.
... another cryptcon story on Slashdot.
We have better evidence that 20m votes were manufactured in 2020.
Riiiiight... All that 'evidence' provided in Trump's 60+ election lawsuits... which all failed... (so much winning!)
Slowest of slow news days, guys?
No, it's simply what you're expected to do when owned by a crypto platform.
How exactly is this press release about a felon committing more crimes "news for nerds"??
Oh right, I forgot - this "news" site is owned by a crypto platform.
Forgot to add the reason for going to niche-specific sites vs. somewhere that gathers all news: I've found that "jack of all trades" sites tend to die off eventually (Anandtech comes to mind), though it's also going to be true of any niche sites, I tend to find their discussions are more focused, and generally remain more active. As long as they don't start focusing only on the latest buzzwords.
I'd say go to the nich-specific sites - for example for Mac news, 9to5MAC; for Linux stuff LWN or LinuxJournal; etc.
I'd agree that while HN good for finding some things occasionally, it's far too startup-focused, not to mention its overabundance of tech bros with overinflated egos about their 'opinions', including that of the site maintainers. Also HN is one of those sites that is 'too light' - there's simply not enough info on many of the 'stories' on the front pages (some are useless single-word titles).
If they wanted to comply in good faith, they could either reduce their fees across the board, unbundle them, or change a flat *reasonable* fee to all developers (whether their app is free or not).
But then they wouldn't look like the greedy bastard that they are, which would gravely upset their shareholders.
Slashdot has basically become a crypto pushing outlet disguising itself as a 'news site'.
Not surprising given they're owned by a crypto platform.
If/when the site becomes unreadable, I'll bail completely, sadly, after many many years here. Shame. I imagine I'll somehow manage to go on living though...
Same here. But fear not! I'm sure Slashdot's tens of daily users will dearly miss us.
How long does it take a DEC field service engineer to change a lightbulb? It depends on how many bad ones he brought with him.
