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From your linked source: > To me this is almost equally offensive as a swastika Sigh.

by Leace 7y ago

protomyth 7y ago
Can we just start ignoring people whose sense of reality is so out of touch? I'm offended they took someone seriously with this BS. Millions dead versus a myth of someone delivering gifts, wtf? I think some folks need to watch some Steve Hughes comedy on being offended.
- DonHopkins 7y ago
  I'm offended you took Trump's and Putin's "fake news" BS about the Washington Post so seriously that you parroted it without proof. Please answer my questions and provide proof of your accusations that the Washington Post's article about David Gelernter is inaccurate, specify exactly what those inaccuracies are, and provide proof that all the other facts and evidence that I posted are wrong, or else admit that you're wrong and spreading misinformation. Because based on what you posted, you're dead wrong, your sense of reality is totally out of touch, and you should be ignored if you can't prove what you said. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21846006 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21846006 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21849787 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21849787 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21850703 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21850703 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21851622 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21851622 Don't even bother answering if you don't have any proof.
  - protomyth 7y ago
    Oh goody, my very own personal stalker. You are pretty much acting like the example I dearly hope folks ignore. I'm not sure where you get your conspiracy theories or how people who don't like a certain newspaper are suddenly some grand part of said conspiracy. The proof is in the full video, and that article actually did damage because people in a minority community who made statements assuming the truth of the report, plus their misunderstanding of an individual's status was problematic. I don't like them because they caused damage, and that has nothing to do with some international conspiracy theory. Plus, more importantly, it had the potential to be such a nice technical discussion, but I guess some folks need to add scarlet letters to people. I do hope you know all the people that ever contributed to any idea or software that you use daily, they might be evil.
    - DonHopkins 7y ago
      So you have no proof that there was anything inaccurate in the Post article about David Gelernter, you can't even identify a single inaccuracy in it, and you have no proof or suggestion that any of the other evidence I posted about him, including quoting his own words, is inaccurate. So because you don't have a leg to stand on, you bring up some totally unrelated article that the Post has already long since corrected and apologized for. As for the nice technical discussion: You asked why nobody has gone down the path of Mirror Worlds, and I told you: Because David Gelernter is a patent troll sell-out, and you will be sued if you attempt to use any of the ideas he claims he originally invented, but are actually not remotely original or unique. He sued Apple and Microsoft and other companies for millions of dollars over his unoriginal idea of listing documents in chronological order. That's one good reason people don't use or respect his ideas. And another reason people don't take him seriously is that he is an anthropogenic climate change denier, he doesn't believe in Darwinian evolution, he promotes Intelligent Design, and he is fiercely anti-intellectual. All of that is true and well documented, I provided the evidence, and your non-sequitur story about the Covington kids has nothing to do with it and refutes none of what I said. You should be more like the Washington Post, and admit when you make a mistake.
      - dang 7y ago
        Please, Don. You know we love you but this is too much flamewar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21853745 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21853745 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21853716 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21853716 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21853606 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21853606 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21853538 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21853538 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21851622 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21851622 Flamewar Don is scary. The rest of your comments are fabulous.
        DonHopkins 7y ago
        Sorry, I must have had Christmas confused with Halloween, because DEC 25 = OCT 031. I only wish Gelernter was as afraid being known for patent trolling, denying global warming and evolution, and promoting intelligent design, as protomyth was afraid of being asked to justify his bizarre argument attempting to whitewash Gelertner's reputation by citing the Covington kids. ;)

From your linked source: > To me this is almost equally offensive as a swastika Sigh.

by Leace 7y ago

From your linked source: > To me this is almost equally offensive as a swastika Sigh.

Can we just start ignoring people whose sense of reality is so out of touch? I'm offended they took someone seriously with this BS. Millions dead versus a myth of someone delivering gifts, wtf? I think some folks need to watch some Steve Hughes comedy on being offended.

DonHopkins 7y ago
I'm offended you took Trump's and Putin's "fake news" BS about the Washington Post so seriously that you parroted it without proof. Please answer my questions and provide proof of your accusations that the Washington Post's article about David Gelernter is inaccurate, specify exactly what those inaccuracies are, and provide proof that all the other facts and evidence that I posted are wrong, or else admit that you're wrong and spreading misinformation. Because based on what you posted, you're dead wrong, your sense of reality is totally out of touch, and you should be ignored if you can't prove what you said. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21846006 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21846006 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21849787 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21849787 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21850703 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21850703 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21851622 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21851622 Don't even bother answering if you don't have any proof.
- protomyth 7y ago
  Oh goody, my very own personal stalker. You are pretty much acting like the example I dearly hope folks ignore. I'm not sure where you get your conspiracy theories or how people who don't like a certain newspaper are suddenly some grand part of said conspiracy. The proof is in the full video, and that article actually did damage because people in a minority community who made statements assuming the truth of the report, plus their misunderstanding of an individual's status was problematic. I don't like them because they caused damage, and that has nothing to do with some international conspiracy theory. Plus, more importantly, it had the potential to be such a nice technical discussion, but I guess some folks need to add scarlet letters to people. I do hope you know all the people that ever contributed to any idea or software that you use daily, they might be evil.
  - DonHopkins 7y ago
    So you have no proof that there was anything inaccurate in the Post article about David Gelernter, you can't even identify a single inaccuracy in it, and you have no proof or suggestion that any of the other evidence I posted about him, including quoting his own words, is inaccurate. So because you don't have a leg to stand on, you bring up some totally unrelated article that the Post has already long since corrected and apologized for. As for the nice technical discussion: You asked why nobody has gone down the path of Mirror Worlds, and I told you: Because David Gelernter is a patent troll sell-out, and you will be sued if you attempt to use any of the ideas he claims he originally invented, but are actually not remotely original or unique. He sued Apple and Microsoft and other companies for millions of dollars over his unoriginal idea of listing documents in chronological order. That's one good reason people don't use or respect his ideas. And another reason people don't take him seriously is that he is an anthropogenic climate change denier, he doesn't believe in Darwinian evolution, he promotes Intelligent Design, and he is fiercely anti-intellectual. All of that is true and well documented, I provided the evidence, and your non-sequitur story about the Covington kids has nothing to do with it and refutes none of what I said. You should be more like the Washington Post, and admit when you make a mistake.
    - dang 7y ago
      Please, Don. You know we love you but this is too much flamewar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21853745 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21853745 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21853716 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21853716 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21853606 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21853606 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21853538 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21853538 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21851622 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21851622 Flamewar Don is scary. The rest of your comments are fabulous.
      - DonHopkins 7y ago
        Sorry, I must have had Christmas confused with Halloween, because DEC 25 = OCT 031. I only wish Gelernter was as afraid being known for patent trolling, denying global warming and evolution, and promoting intelligent design, as protomyth was afraid of being asked to justify his bizarre argument attempting to whitewash Gelertner's reputation by citing the Covington kids. ;)