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I thought the gentle scolding was appropriate to the scale of misinformation shared in this thread. It is a disservice to the community to downplay the relevan
by irthomasthomas 4y ago
I thought the gentle scolding was appropriate to the scale of misinformation shared in this thread.
It is a disservice to the community to downplay the relevance of graphene.
Modern building and urban infrastructure construction are among the largest consumers of raw materials globally, with cement and concrete manufacturing alone responsible for approximately 8% of the anthropogenic CO2 emissions globally. https://www.azonano.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6360
And yeah, you would have to have been living under a rock if you are a hacker and you haven't heard anything about any of this stuff. This is cutting edge and it's really cool.
- TaylorAlexander 4y agoWhether or not you think the tone is justified, that type of thing is just against the rules. User dang is the moderator of this site. He will rarely intervene and if he does please follow his requests.
- irthomasthomas 4y agoI know who dang is, I just don't see how the phrase living under a rock is offensive? It is a very trivial thing in my culture. Perhaps it is different in America, and I should be more sensitive, but the same goes both ways. To me, that phrase is only lightly ribbing someone who is out of touch with tech...on a tech forum. As I said, in my culture this is not meant as anything offensive and you could be more generous in your interpretation of my meaning. Particularly as I went out of my way to share so many useful links on the subject.
- dang 4y agoI think this is a case of the "objects in the mirror are closer than they appear" phenomenon (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20objects%20mirror%20closer&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). We all underestimate (by 10x or more) the impact that these swipes have when they're in our own comments. You know what your intent was and you know that it wasn't malicious; but the rest of us don't have access to that state (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=burden%20disambiguate%20by%3Adang&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). Also, there is one of you but thousands of rest-of-us (i.e. readers), so your comment will have a statistical distribution of responses. Most people won't have any problem but inevitably, some tail of the bell curve gets activated, and this segment is by far the most likely to reply. This is how we end up with seriously degraded threads under relatively mild provocation. It's true that HN's rules come (sadly) at the cost of making things more bland (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20bland%20cost&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). But it's a mistake to think there's a viable alternative to that cost, because you can't allow for the creative/interesting/lively kind of swipe without opening the gates of flamewar hell. If you have a small, cohesive group, that kind of thing can work*, but not on a large open internet forum. So we're all stuck with having to err on the neutral side. * I like the analogy of rugby: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20rugby%20-scrum&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...