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This is like ranting at the Walmart cashier about chemtrails because your card got declined. I’m gonna guess you’re on a VPN and/or have content blockers runni

by dangus 1y ago

This is like ranting at the Walmart cashier about chemtrails because your card got declined. I’m gonna guess you’re on a VPN and/or have content blockers running. Like, for real, if my TV remote-challenged dad can figure out how to access WSJ every day I think a software engineer on this forum can.

kragen 1y ago
I'm not on a VPN, my only "content blocker" is uBlock Origin, and I'm guessing your TV-remote-challenged dad isn't in Argentina and doesn't use the browser inspector. Also, "my unintellectual friend doesn't have problems" is not a valid response to complaints about anti-intellectual discrimination. "Use of developer or inspection tools" is literally on the WSJ's error-message page; it isn't some kind of wacky idea I thought up. (Unlike your "content blocker" theory.) Also, you responded to my comment by insulting me. That's not cool. Possibly if you aren't willing to engage in higher-quality discussion you don't belong here. I see you seem to be coming to the same conclusion; in one of your recent frequent flames you described HN as a "trash website": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45401666 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45401666
- DaSHacka 1y ago
  Please look inward before levying criticism against others. From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: > In Comments > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. > When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." > Don't be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative. > Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. > Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes. > Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. And, for your first reply to this thread's OP: > Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.
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by dangus 1y ago

kragen 1y ago

I'm not on a VPN, my only "content blocker" is uBlock Origin, and I'm guessing your TV-remote-challenged dad isn't in Argentina and doesn't use the browser inspector. Also, "my unintellectual friend doesn't have problems" is not a valid response to complaints about anti-intellectual discrimination. "Use of developer or inspection tools" is literally on the WSJ's error-message page; it isn't some kind of wacky idea I thought up. (Unlike your "content blocker" theory.) Also, you responded to my comment by insulting me. That's not cool. Possibly if you aren't willing to engage in higher-quality discussion you don't belong here. I see you seem to be coming to the same conclusion; in one of your recent frequent flames you described HN as a "trash website": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45401666 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45401666

DaSHacka 1y ago
Please look inward before levying criticism against others. From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: > In Comments > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. > When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." > Don't be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative. > Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. > Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes. > Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. And, for your first reply to this thread's OP: > Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.
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