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I know. We live in a society where both the power grid and atmegas already exist, and our individual actions are marginal in impact.

balamatom 6mo ago
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- kube-system 6mo ago
  I’m just providing my perspective on an article written from a different perspective that I found interesting. I’m not looking for a fight.
  - balamatom 6mo ago
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    - dang 6mo ago
      Could you please stop breaking the site guidelines, such as by posting unsubstantive and/or flamewar comments and/or crossing (as here) into personal attack? Your account has unfortunately been doing these things repeatedly. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
      - balamatom 6mo ago
        There is no personal attack here; other than, perhaps, one conducted by whoever keeps flagging my perfectly substantial comments. But since you said "please", sure, I'll think about it.
        dang 6mo ago
        Obviously these terms are open to interpretation as well as cultural differences, but in terms of how we moderate HN, your GP comment certainly counts as a personal attack. You can't use phrases like "you're providing a bullshit", "someone calls out your bullshit", and so on, when addressing another person on HN. If you feel that someone's view is mistaken, you're welcome to respond to false information with true information, and bad arguments with better arguments. But please remain personally respectful while doing so.
        balamatom 6mo ago
        Obviously all terms are open to interpretation. Nevertheless, speech acts still have concrete intentions and meanings. Observe: - "Cultural differences" - Selective and intentionally ungrammatical quoting - "You can't" used in place of "we would like you not to" That sure don't look like the sort of honest misconception that can be resolved by good faith argument, pardner.

balamatom 6mo ago

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kube-system 6mo ago
I’m just providing my perspective on an article written from a different perspective that I found interesting. I’m not looking for a fight.
- balamatom 6mo ago
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  - dang 6mo ago
    Could you please stop breaking the site guidelines, such as by posting unsubstantive and/or flamewar comments and/or crossing (as here) into personal attack? Your account has unfortunately been doing these things repeatedly. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
    - balamatom 6mo ago
      There is no personal attack here; other than, perhaps, one conducted by whoever keeps flagging my perfectly substantial comments. But since you said "please", sure, I'll think about it.
      - dang 6mo ago
        Obviously these terms are open to interpretation as well as cultural differences, but in terms of how we moderate HN, your GP comment certainly counts as a personal attack. You can't use phrases like "you're providing a bullshit", "someone calls out your bullshit", and so on, when addressing another person on HN. If you feel that someone's view is mistaken, you're welcome to respond to false information with true information, and bad arguments with better arguments. But please remain personally respectful while doing so.
        balamatom 6mo ago
        Obviously all terms are open to interpretation. Nevertheless, speech acts still have concrete intentions and meanings. Observe: - "Cultural differences" - Selective and intentionally ungrammatical quoting - "You can't" used in place of "we would like you not to" That sure don't look like the sort of honest misconception that can be resolved by good faith argument, pardner.