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Okay, I'm trying to understand The Rules, rules of HN? (1) No jokes. Ever. (2) Global warming and climate change are real, no matter temperature measurements
by graycat 12y ago
Okay, I'm trying to understand The Rules, rules of HN?
(1) No jokes. Ever.
(2) Global warming and climate change are real, no matter temperature measurements there are, not just flim-flam, fraud scams, are severe dangers to all life on earth soon, and are caused by evil humans releasing CO2 and other greenhouse gasses. People who disagree are deniers and are ignorant, irresponsible, or paid, say, by Big Oil or other forces of evil. This point is a catechism and is not to be questioned.
(3) The ozone hole is also real, a severe danger to all life on earth, and caused by evil humans releasing CFC and maybe also NOx gasses. This point is a catechism and is not to be questioned.
(4) The current administration is great and not to be doubted or questioned. Freedom of speech does not apply to the current Administration. More of the catechism.
(5) Microsoft is evil. Windows is bad. Visual Basic .NET is silly and for wimps. Linux is good. All code should be open source. C is good. C++ is better; all real men love C++. Otherwise the best languages now are Ruby, Python, and Haskell. More catechism.
(6) Electric cars are good. Gasoline powered cars are bad. Just any day now, electric cars with their great advantages will drive gasoline powered cars off the road. Similarly for trucks and buses.
(7) For the electric grid, wind and solar are good. Fossil fuels and nukes are bad. Soon the world will have nearly all energy on the grid, for cars, home HVAC, etc. from just wind and solar.
(8) Private cars are bad. Trains are good. If the US had any sense at all, then it would have 300+ MPH trains connecting all medium to large cities with really good service and really cheap tickets. Otherwise we just need bicycles, and they are very, very good. There need be only a few years of meager government subsidies to permit such trains, and then the trains would be economically self supporting just from the cheap ticket sales.
(9) Gluten is bad. Sugar is much worse, is a poison and should be made illegal. People should drink only pure rain water and pure grain alcohol. Drinking anything else is giving in to a plot to pollute our precious bodily fluids. We should not eat red meat because it is poison, and the animals are ruining the pure, pristine, precious, delicate, 100% natural environment. We should not eat fish because fishing has nearly destroyed the oceans, and when the oceans have been destroyed humans will be destroyed. Instead we should eat only organic fruits and vegetables bought in farmers markets directly from the growers. There should be no brown paper bags; groceries should be carried in reusable sacks from renewable resources.
(10) The first rule of HN is never talk about The Rules of HN.
The HN audience is well informed, public spirited, fair, reasonable, tolerant, open minded, and objective, and all posts violating The Rules will be voted down to oblivion and not tolerated.
I'm trying to understand The Rules. Since I didn't see any such rules in anything written by PG, I am looking for more information. What rules have I omitted?