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“Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.” ― Mark Twain

• kragen 5y ago
  Well, the fool might be the guy who's been posting articles claiming covid is a hoax, hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin cure covid, China secretly has an out-of-control covid epidemic, and wearing face masks is deadly: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=giardini https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=giardini Or it might be the guy who wrote http://canonical.org/%7Ekragen/sw/dev3/paperalgo http://canonical.org/%7Ekragen/sw/dev3/paperalgo, http://canonical.org/%7Ekragen/sw/urscheme/ http://canonical.org/%7Ekragen/sw/urscheme/, http://canonical.org/~kragen/bytebeat/ http://canonical.org/~kragen/bytebeat/, https://github.com/kragen/dumpulse https://github.com/kragen/dumpulse, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2933619 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2933619, https://gitlab.com/kragen/bubbleos/blob/master/yeso https://gitlab.com/kragen/bubbleos/blob/master/yeso, https://github.com/kragen/stoneknifeforth https://github.com/kragen/stoneknifeforth, and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=695981 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=695981 in the past, and within the last three months wrote https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27171597 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27171597, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26930408 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26930408, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26884231 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26884231, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26674832 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26674832, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26672806 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26672806, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26671656 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26671656, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26654767 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26654767, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26596892 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26596892, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26587768 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26587768, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26581742 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26581742, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26561319 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26561319, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26547871 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26547871, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26543937 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26543937, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26580684 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26580684, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26528534 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26528534, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26525837 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26525837, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26525109 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26525109, http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/qvaders http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/qvaders, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26452393 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26452393, http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/skitch http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/skitch, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26449902 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26449902, http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/meta5ixrun.py http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/meta5ixrun.py, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26438596 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26438596, http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/mukanren.ml http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/mukanren.ml, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26418271 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26418271, http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/kmregion.h http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/kmregion.h, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26299172 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26299172, http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/readprint.fs http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/readprint.fs, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26289195 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26289195, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26219950 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26219950, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26219000 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26219000, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26198567 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26198567, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26231940 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26231940, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26189525 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26189525, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26195060 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26195060. I'm not going to link to particular comments in https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=giardini https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=giardini (it would be too easy to think I was cherry-picking the worst ones) but you can read through it yourself and see that the guy has a long history of almost nothing but incessant worthless trolling. If you can't tell the difference...
  • musingsole 5y ago
    Hahahahaha you're a gem