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Hacker News cognitive dissonance week: 1) Creating technical arguments against court-ordered search warrants: heroic civil disobedience. 2) Creating techni
by thrownaway2424 13y ago
Hacker News cognitive dissonance week:
1) Creating technical arguments against court-ordered search warrants: heroic civil disobedience.
2) Creating technical workarounds for mortgage debt paralysis: craven violation of sacred property rights.
- mmuuoi 13y agoNot really. Both 1 and 2 are reactions to government over reach.
- mikeash 13y agoCan you elaborate as to exactly why a person who does not have the same opinion on both 1 and 2 must be suffering from "cognitive dissonance"? I don't see much of a relation between them.
- asdfologist 13y agoBecause he's still offended by the massive downvotes on his illogical comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6485956 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6485956
- mikeash 13y agoOh no, my precious internet points!
- thrownaway2424 13y agoYes, because I personally give a shit about your stupid downvotes. I am devastated.