What's the point in hashing the IP + salt then, just let each client generate a random nonce and use that as the key

You thought perhaps they commented a list of random unrelated HN submissions?

The links are all just https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=########. It's obvious they refer to some content on HN, but it could be comments, replies to comments, etc.

By adding a small bit of human text, the human doesn't have to ponder the list and wonder what they will get if they click a link.

And if there were human text, someone arriving by way of the parent comment link would have an easy time understanding the context without having to scan a lot of characters and make assumptions.

The comment they replied to literally said "Let's take a second to remember that copyright is the reason ~every child doesn't have access to ~every book ever written."

"There really are, though"

- Me

What? No. An ad hominem is "I think your argument is wrong because your face is stupid". "This is bad software because it looks like it's made by amateurs" isn't attacking their character, it's attacking their ability to write good software, which is highly relevant.

"The code is bad because it was written by a novice dev" sounds like an ad hominem attack to me (as opposed to "the code is bad because of X attribute of the code itself").

A lot of people are getting really hung up on this. "Modern Rust" is just current Rust. Once Rust moves on, that will be modern Rust and what we once called modern will no longer be modern. Like all things. You might as well get upset that somebody said something will happen "tomorrow" because in 24 hours it won't be "tomorrow" anymore.

i didn’t mean rust. i meant any of these modern technology articles

You said you don't see anything wrong with that definition and then provided a completely unrelated definition

No? Most businesses sell products or services, their primary source of revenue isn't bribes from a single company. That's pretty rare actually.

You've been downvoted because simply selling a product to make money is considered absurd in this industry. What a horrible state of affairs.

The text shows up white for me.

> If she forgot the square root of -1 was undefined, she’d never write a test for it.

Uh...