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I ingest, process, and archive the HN firehose. I know others do as well. Regardless of how one feels, once you put something on the Internet, any hope of contr
by toomuchtodo 8mo ago
I ingest, process, and archive the HN firehose. I know others do as well. Regardless of how one feels, once you put something on the Internet, any hope of control of that info is gone forever. Act accordingly. They are kind enough to make changes within some forum integrity tolerances, even though those changes are likely to help very little from an opsec perspective.
Edit: my use case is building a graph for archiving every link ever posted on HN (posts and comments), if that’s relevant. The contents of HN comments have little value to me for my workflow, nor do I profile users.
- lysace 8mo ago[flagged]
- toomuchtodo 8mo agoThat’s a shame, I don’t have any feelings about you and wish you well regardless.
- TimorousBestie 8mo ago[flagged]
- deleted 8mo ago[deleted]
- toomuchtodo 8mo agoYou mispronounced genuinely polite. It is free to be so. Is that not allowed here when someone doesn’t have strong feelings? If you care here about here, you care too much imho, find something that matters to care about.
- TimorousBestie 8mo agoIt's not polite to be condescending.
- toomuchtodo 8mo agoMy comment was genuine. It is a genuine shame someone states they despise me with little additional context, and as I said, it doesn’t bother me and I do wish them well. Where was the condescending? Am I supposed to have strong feelings? Am I supposed to lash out? No, all unnecessary. “Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others". They are simply at a different point in their journey than I am. How else would you politely respond to someone who comments only “I know. I despise you”?