LexiMax

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by LexiMax 11mo ago
Every human being indeed does, but knowing this site someone would invariably "well akshully" this point. Says a lot about the audience of this site, I suppose.
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> So your position is that opinions (from all parts of the political spectrum, depending on topic) get routinely supressed via the flagging system, making HN a "non-functional social space"? Pretty much. Hacker News is half so
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by LexiMax 11mo ago
It's so interesting that you automatically became defensive about left vs right wing bias of this site. The fact of the matter is that depending on the thread, it can swing in either direction. And that's the problem - you end up
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by LexiMax 11mo ago
HN merely tries to keep up the appearance of being a place of civil debate and discussion. The bias comes out when the subject matter becomes in any way controversial. You can say some pretty horrendous things on here as long as you couch
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> It’s sad that this has become a political discussion instead of an effort to fix all the horrible problems in the city. Every American citizen deserves due process and a fair punishment. This is outlined in the constitution and its am
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by LexiMax 11mo ago
The police have bosses, and the bosses want to have careers. From The Wire: S04E09. Pryzbylewski: I don't get it. All this so we score higher on the state tests? If we're teaching the kids the test questions, what is it ass
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by LexiMax 11mo ago
> What is their ideology? Being political activists? How? In today's post-truth landscape, words no longer mean their literal meaning, but are used as weapons. The person you were replying to is very much aware that they are not lit
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by LexiMax 11mo ago
And the voters go along with it not because they are dim, but because they understand that these things would not only benefit them, but benefit other groups of Americans that they despise.
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> What's amazing is that these folks can straight-up publish what they plan to do, and then people still act surprised when they do it. It's so weird. It makes a little more sense if you figure that there's a sizable conti
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by LexiMax 11mo ago
How do you think that C got specified? Do you think that it was made up from whole cloth in the abstract machine and implemented later? No, it was based on the available implementations of its time. On top of that, languages like Python do
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by LexiMax 11mo ago
Indeed, I did not itemize out every possible rationalization I have seen. The exact shape of the rationalization isn't terribly interesting or germane. It's the underlying insecurities that those forms of motivated reasoning are
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> I have no idea why you believe this. Because I have thought about why people choose to hyper-focus on trans-folk, and it's one of the few explanations that makes sense, at least for men. Why would someone say that they're &qu
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by LexiMax 11mo ago
That's not why you are obsessed with trans people. You are terrified that the next woman you ogle covetously or catcall won't have the parts you expect. You don't care about protecting women. The only thing you care about is
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by LexiMax 11mo ago
It is quite common to freeze sperm before starting HRT or surgeries.
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> Isn’t summarization precisely one of the biggest values people are getting from AI models? If I want an AI summary of a Wikipedia article, I can just ask an AI and cut out the middle-man. Not only that, once I've asked the AI to d
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by LexiMax 11mo ago
Wikipedia early on wasn't competing against Wikipedia, it was competing against hardcover encyclopedias. There was clear value-add from being able to draw from a wider range of human expertise and update on a quicker cadence. In a wor
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by LexiMax 11mo ago
> The last line of defense is that military leadership actually do have a pretty solid loyalty to the constitution and soldiers are pretty well trained to follow the chain of command. Trump has done a number of monumentally stupid things
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by LexiMax 11mo ago
I took a vacation from this site many years ago because it was clear that the moderators of this site were at the very least complicit in the rise of bad faith user moderation, from both bots and so-called "fellow travelers." The
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by LexiMax 1y ago
> exemplars of excellent user moderation This is a contradiction. There's no such thing, only shades of bad, and HN has about the worst possible implementation. For what it's worth, I didn't flag or downvote you. YC is s
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by LexiMax 1y ago
If someone disagrees with the mission of Grokipedia, not contributing is the correct play.
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by LexiMax 1y ago
It doesn't matter if you have used them in this thread or not. An account of your age and your disposition should not have access to automated moderation tools, period. Moderation via easily gamified populism is the worst kind of mode
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It's worth pointing out that this profile has been around for three months and already has enough karma to have access to the "flag" and "vouch" tools.
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by LexiMax 1y ago
> If you want to be able to discuss these things freely, find another platform. I believe it is productive to continue discussing these topics here. Hacker News has a reputation as a place where you can have reasonable discussions with s
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by LexiMax 1y ago
If you think that complaining about a language on the internet is an effective way to hamstring wider adoption in and of itself... I've gotta say the results leave much to be desired.
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Peaceful protest makes the massive assumption that there is a working press out there that is willing to be sympathetic. Instead, our press seems to be at best complicit and capitulation-minded, at worst collaborative. For what it's w
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Because this industry is a knowledge-based industry, and it's a good idea in general to always be honing your skills and learning something new. Even if you don't have any intentions of using a new language in your day to day care
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I can tell you why. There's no conspiracy, not really. Instead, it's an attitude of "I know what I voted for, and I'd prefer not to be reminded of its negative externalizes, thanks. Also, I'd really prefer it if t
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by LexiMax 1y ago
Some people enjoy the relative simplicity and straight forwardness of C, some folks enjoy the flexibility and zero cost abstractions C++ gives you. Some people can appreciate both. I actually like both languages for different reasons and I
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It does. And it's completely understandable why, from a game theory point of view. The censors want Hacker News to keep its reputation as a place where you can have debates in good faith, while allowing their censorship powers to shap
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I also have showdead enabled and in any remotely controversial thread, among the uncontroversial Bad Posts you will find a reasonable number of posts that are well argued and have effort put into them, but get downvoted anyway. There are a

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