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mycentstoo··on Ask HN: What percentage of your users are using social login?
Your app is awesome!
mycentstoo··on Stack Overflow Culture
One thing I've learned to do is pre-empt typical moderator responses and answers. For example, I will find things that they might consider to be duplicates and then I will differentiate my post from each. I also outline every solution I've tried. I've had that hit 17 or so and the post was almost comically large.

Moderators are great but when they're bad, they're predictably bad. Use that against them and pre-empt the normal responses they might have. Since I've done this, I've never had a post closed or otherwise reprimanded.

mycentstoo··on Ask HN: We aren't getting users to create stories on our content platform – why?
First, fix the landing page - you need to present value before you can expect a conversion. This means making something that is interesting and aesthetically pleasing.

Second, if this is a business idea, I'm not sure how you monetize this. Is it ads from user visits? If so, you are going to need a ton of user visits.

Third, up the social media game. If you want visitors you need to make these articles/timelines sharable and unique.

Fourth, I'm in agreement with others here when they say this is not a timeline. Medium/Wordpress provide the same functionality. This can be replicated in Wordpress/Medium just be including subtitles with dates in between paragraphs.

mycentstoo··on Show HN: A New, Clean Geolocation API
Design looks great!
mycentstoo··on Front-End Checklist
What would be a great idea is an app that scans for the presence of these conditions.
mycentstoo··on The Corrosion of High School Debate
Brings back memories. I debated for 9 years. 4 in high school in LD winning league a couple of times and qualifying for nationals and state. I also competed on the national circuit for college policy debate. And I finished by doing a year of debate in British Parliamentary. I was usually a "traditional" debater, ie. one who spreads. I think the problem with debate is that there are actually no rules beyond speaker order and speaker time. There's been a devolution of debate to "performance", ie, the speech itself and its medium is a form of argument. RAP, music, dancing, etc. During my last tournament, I actually counted the times I debated the topic versus the rules of debate and found that it was about equal. If anything, debate doesn't have enough rules that govern it.
mycentstoo··on Buffett wins $1M decade-old bet that the S&P500 would outperform hedgefunds
So, for the non financially savy, how can I set up my portfolio to bet on index funds?
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