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sadeshmukh
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- sadeshmukh parentTo be clear, Polymarket has no fees on markets, only 15-minute crypto markets. That's probably temporary, but makes it a zero sum game at present.
- You could say the same by claiming something will happen every hour.
- They're not the only group that can afford it. They're just one that also happens to be much larger by multiple orders of magnitude than billionaires.
- They have a post describing themselves as not a programmer, and one as "as engineers". It's got all the hallmarks (lists, "not just but", bolding when you can't). But what really got me was this conversation literally about why they're not AI! It's insanity, and now I'm convinced it's at least a few accounts in tandem, if not more.
Someone else, please, scroll through the account, then read this thread and tell me I'm not crazy: https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=46439821
- No incompetent person could feasibly use a Raspberry Pi to do any harm, and I invite you to find any examples to the contrary. It is easier to abuse a phone.
- The mice, actually; the rats are never mentioned.
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- Transactions are public: https://hcb.hackclub.com/ghostty/transactions
HCB staff also do not take kindly to missing receipts or fraudulent behavior.
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- To the best of my knowledge it acts as an isolated profile entirely.
- That article has no relation to Hack Club whatsoever.
But that's beside the point - they provide rooms, plenty of food and snacks, workshops, and activities to do during breaks. Organizers are on-site at all times, and there is a live hotline for parents or kids to call at any time. "sit and code for 3 days straight" is a gross mischaracterization.
Here's an example of an event hosted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXWMr0gdLJA
- For all of you discussing the chatgpt, this was after borderline harassing an intern who quoted ChatGPT as a joke in her DMs. There was no legal advice. There used to be a previous version with receipts and screenshots if I remember correctly, with very, very extensive discussions within Hack Club (to the order of thousands of messages of critical discussion).
Please take what's said here with a grain of salt. This is the same person who attempted to extort Hack Club out of thousands by using an airtable token they previously had (all tokens have since been examined as to whether they are truly necessary).
> another asked: "if you found a security vulnerability within hackclub, severe or major, given how they have currently handled reports so far, would YOU report it and go through the same process and payouts that previous people have experienced?"
> the answer from most people was a resounding no.
Popular request is for the program to be expanded. I don't know about the "resounding no".
> teenagers are positioned as "independent contractors" to avoid employment protections, holiday pay, and wage floors. this isn't "scrappy nonprofit" energy - it's child exploitation dressed up as opportunity.
It isn't a full-time job.
> email compliance failures
Recently, email sending has been revamped, and there are tools to subscribe to individual mailing lists.
Criticism isn't ever censored - there's anonymous reporting, a public forum channel for feedback (which only has temporary threadlocks upon very inflammatory or irrelevant discussion), and you can discuss it anywhere else within the Slack.
I could keep going, but the raw truth is that this misses a lot of context for independent observers.
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- They mention it extensively in the article.
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- Informed by who?
- I'm guessing they meant each country similarly encounters their own issues, not that countries encounter similar issues.
- It's also not hindered. It works completely fine, but it doesn't have users (self hosted competitor).
- Pixels have it as well.
- I was referring to the little space and tiny storage. Pay isn't exactly great for the rent either.
- I wouldn't believe most in the US would live in Japanese style housing at all.
- Press and hold bottom line - I use it regularly
- We have 100,000 members, but only a fraction of that regularly active. As Hack is in our name, we have dozens of bots, workflows, and last I checked over 6000 channels administered by hundreds of users. Slack stats show almost 11 million messages in the past year.
- There are plans to fork the repo at some point, since we do depend on lots of custom features eventually regardless (and nearly everything at HC is open source).
- We extensively use Canvases, as well as pinned messages and message links to reference others. As in, I often need to look at older messages, very occasionally years old, but usually within the month.
- Rate limits are bad (2/min for channel history). We've explicitly been told not to scrape API, since admins are working on exporting the data into Mattermost.
- Discord has a terrible permissions model. In Slack, anybody can create bots and channels without Workspace Admin. Slack worked best for the usecase, by far.