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Is there a way I'm missing to save comments on HN besides also commenting on them so they can be revisited later? I'd like to save this. This is one of the best

by qchris 5y ago

Is there a way I'm missing to save comments on HN besides also commenting on them so they can be revisited later? I'd like to save this. This is one of the best meta-summaries I've ever seen, on any topic.

Thorrez 5y ago
There are 3 ways to save a comment within HN: comment, upvote (your list of upvoted comments is visible to you only), favorite (your list of favorited comments is publicly visible). To favorite a comment you have to visit that comment specifically (click on its timestamp). There are of course other ways to save comments, such as bookmarking with your browser or other bookmark applications.
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redis_mlc 5y ago
> This is one of the best meta-summaries I've ever seen, on any topic. Gee, thanks for the virtue signalling - like HN needs more of that. It's not a good summary since it doesn't mention what underlies most of those links: - the destruction of the nuclear family - the effects on school children from the above - companies can't hire people who don't graduate from even high school. Detroit has had a black city council for decades, and those links equally apply there. Same with many other US cities. Any black leader will tell you the real problems start with families, and no amount of PC talk will solve that. In fact, they've warned other communities that statistics about single-parent households show the same problems headed their way. Rewriting history with the 1619 project is a stark example of evading solving actual problems. Source: I'm from the Detroit area, which is a vivid example of what burning downtowns 50 years ago and underfunding the police result in.
michaelmrose 5y ago
You can get a link to a particular comment by clicking on the timestamp next to the posters name. May I recommend an organized note taking system copying the literal text and link for reference. I like org-roam with a hotkey to capture title and if existent any highlighted text. https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam There are of course about a million ways to skin this particular cat and plenty of them are good. The benefit of using your own system is that you can trivially reference information from many websites via one method instead of relying on the many and varied features of many sites. The benefit of copying the full relevant text is both that you can search that text and if a site or a comment goes missing tomorrow or 5 years from now you aren't out the information.
- qchris 5y ago
  Thanks for the information, and for the recommendation--I'll take a look!

by qchris 5y ago

Thorrez 5y ago

There are 3 ways to save a comment within HN: comment, upvote (your list of upvoted comments is visible to you only), favorite (your list of favorited comments is publicly visible). To favorite a comment you have to visit that comment specifically (click on its timestamp). There are of course other ways to save comments, such as bookmarking with your browser or other bookmark applications.

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redis_mlc 5y ago

> This is one of the best meta-summaries I've ever seen, on any topic. Gee, thanks for the virtue signalling - like HN needs more of that. It's not a good summary since it doesn't mention what underlies most of those links: - the destruction of the nuclear family - the effects on school children from the above - companies can't hire people who don't graduate from even high school. Detroit has had a black city council for decades, and those links equally apply there. Same with many other US cities. Any black leader will tell you the real problems start with families, and no amount of PC talk will solve that. In fact, they've warned other communities that statistics about single-parent households show the same problems headed their way. Rewriting history with the 1619 project is a stark example of evading solving actual problems. Source: I'm from the Detroit area, which is a vivid example of what burning downtowns 50 years ago and underfunding the police result in.

michaelmrose 5y ago

You can get a link to a particular comment by clicking on the timestamp next to the posters name. May I recommend an organized note taking system copying the literal text and link for reference. I like org-roam with a hotkey to capture title and if existent any highlighted text. https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam There are of course about a million ways to skin this particular cat and plenty of them are good. The benefit of using your own system is that you can trivially reference information from many websites via one method instead of relying on the many and varied features of many sites. The benefit of copying the full relevant text is both that you can search that text and if a site or a comment goes missing tomorrow or 5 years from now you aren't out the information.

qchris 5y ago
Thanks for the information, and for the recommendation--I'll take a look!