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HN is the only internet community I’ve found to be largely good. Thank you to everyone for all your kind posts and comments, and intellectual discussion. Love t
by callc 2y ago
HN is the only internet community I’ve found to be largely good. Thank you to everyone for all your kind posts and comments, and intellectual discussion. Love to you all.
- Freedom2 2y agoAgreed. Thank you to all for the endless curious discussion.
- mempko 2y agoIt's a good community. The part I struggle with is the anti-science trend I've seen here over the last 10 years.
- tempaccount420 2y agoFor me, it's the politics. There's a certain kind of user that keeps pushing them here, to people who don't care about them, and which are barely related to technology if even. If you point it out, they will say "everything is political"...
- genewitch 2y agoSpace isn't political! https://youtu.be/g1Sq1Nr58hM?si=ZyRYleQAfTe3PJMX https://youtu.be/g1Sq1Nr58hM?si=ZyRYleQAfTe3PJMX
- closewith 2y ago[flagged]
- 998244353 2y agoI feel like this is kind of pedantic - if your definition of the word "political" renders their point moot, then clearly they must be using a different definition. But I understand what you mean. The problem is that 99% of online discussions about politics are not about how it relates to anything else. They are usually the same 5 conversations rehashed over and over again. And for some reason, they are aggressively derailed in that direction.
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- 999900000999 2y agoIt’s the only place where you can causally talk to multi millionaire startup founders and CS legends. It’s also amazingly inclusive. There was a poster here who complained that they were effectively homeless and upset their Pixel phone would no longer hold a charge. Someone offered to send them a used laptop. I think we thoughtfully discuss issues related to tech, even though we don’t always agree.
- scubbo 2y agoI like it enough to keep coming back, but lobste.rs is slightly preferable in my experience; more goodwill/less pedantry, and less Trumpelon apologism. (If you are gearing up to reply to the last three words of the previous paragraph, I can promise you I'm not interested in hearing it. You have your preferences and priorities, and I have mine)
- lisper 2y agoThanks for the lobsters link. May I request an invite?
- scubbo 2y agoBy all means! Email's in my bio.
- milesrout 2y agoI found that lobste.rs had a much narrower range of views on every topic. And the intolerance of other views is presented far less eloquently than here. People just get hard downvoted or banned. Not just the obvious political ones but technical views too: dynamic typing is rubbish, cryptocurrency is rubbish, etc
- nullstyle 2y agoOr perhaps the community has less tolerance for someone who trolls and runs from challenges before providing any support for their opinions, and your broken behavior has led to a unrepresentative perspective. Thats what i’m betting. Still want to try claiming mallen baker is only providing rage bait? Perhaps with some evidence that doesnt involve your poor analysis.
- milesrout 2y agoKinda weird to follow me around and argue with me because I didn't respond to your comment in another thread. Nice to know you think disagreeing with you is "trolling". What a stupid thought-terminating cliche. My analysis was excellent, thank you very much. I don't run from challenges, I just don't want to derail threads with endless back-and-forth arguments too much. I think generally once two people have said their bit, back-and-forth discussion tends to focus on minor rabbit-hole manner-and-form disagreements rather than anything substantive. And yes for the record, I stand by the comment I made with the provisos that (1) anything I say is based on what information I have at the time, which might change, (2) opinions and philosophies change over time as well, and (3) nothing I have seen so far has changed my mind on that point.
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