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your comment would have a lot more weight if the grandparent hadn't been flagged and removed by people who don't like to read things they disagree with! How am

your comment would have a lot more weight if the grandparent hadn't been flagged and removed by people who don't like to read things they disagree with! How am I supposed to know what arguments to expect from MAGA if you people censor what they have to say? Censorship isn't helping your cause! It just makes your side look weak and scared.

gherkinnn 1y ago
You can adjust the HN settings to show flagged and dead comments. It was a rubbish comment.
- codybontecou 1y ago
  TIL. Thanks for this.
- lurk2 1y ago
  Flagging isn’t a super downvote for bad comments, it’s for posts that break the site guidelines, which the grandparent comment did not.
biophysboy 1y ago
I agree HN hides comments/posts too quickly, but the main issue here is that you can easily google federal outlays by month. This is an extremely easy thing to do. Unless you don't believe the data collected, there's nothing to debate. Why don't we have a debate about what color the sky is, or what 1+1 is?
Rzor 1y ago
Go to your profile settings and change showdead from "no" to "yes".
munchler 1y ago
FWIW, I agree with you. It was an absurd comment, but it shouldn't have been flagged (and I wasn't the one who flagged it).
blargey 1y ago
What are people supposed to argue with the sort of person that claims destroying 2B of federal science funding is justified solely by alleviating 0.001% of the 1.83T deficit - aka accomplishing nothing? There's nothing to be aware of, nothing to prepare for, it's an "argument" that destroys itself with simple division. (Taking their grossly exaggerated "3T per semester" deficit number - combining the 2020 peak in annual deficit and casually doubling it - at face value only makes the 2B from the NSF an even more insignificant 0.00033%) I find nothing revelatory about it. Just another person that wants to vandalize anything associated with their vague meme-complex of woke-lib-fed-science-international stuff.

gherkinnn 1y ago

You can adjust the HN settings to show flagged and dead comments. It was a rubbish comment.

codybontecou 1y ago
TIL. Thanks for this.
lurk2 1y ago
Flagging isn’t a super downvote for bad comments, it’s for posts that break the site guidelines, which the grandparent comment did not.

biophysboy 1y ago

I agree HN hides comments/posts too quickly, but the main issue here is that you can easily google federal outlays by month. This is an extremely easy thing to do. Unless you don't believe the data collected, there's nothing to debate. Why don't we have a debate about what color the sky is, or what 1+1 is?

Rzor 1y ago

Go to your profile settings and change showdead from "no" to "yes".

munchler 1y ago

FWIW, I agree with you. It was an absurd comment, but it shouldn't have been flagged (and I wasn't the one who flagged it).

blargey 1y ago

What are people supposed to argue with the sort of person that claims destroying 2B of federal science funding is justified solely by alleviating 0.001% of the 1.83T deficit - aka accomplishing nothing? There's nothing to be aware of, nothing to prepare for, it's an "argument" that destroys itself with simple division. (Taking their grossly exaggerated "3T per semester" deficit number - combining the 2020 peak in annual deficit and casually doubling it - at face value only makes the 2B from the NSF an even more insignificant 0.00033%) I find nothing revelatory about it. Just another person that wants to vandalize anything associated with their vague meme-complex of woke-lib-fed-science-international stuff.