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by adrienne 10y ago
It's Upton Sinclair: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
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by adrienne 10y ago
Stephenson also has this ur-hacker myth thing going on in basically all his books, and he makes shit up about sciences (like linguistics) that he doesn't actually know a goddamn thing about. The idea expressed by a commenter below that
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by adrienne 10y ago
He also refers to Convicted Felon Dinesh D'Souza without adding his well-known title! (Seriously, the man was convicted of violating campaign finance rules, and he's an inveterate liar. Why the hell would anyone take his word for
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by adrienne 10y ago
Yup. And since most of the frequent contributors on HN think basically the same way, they don't even notice the ideological stance.
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by adrienne 10y ago
The Economist is a good review, but it's laughable that so many people think it answers for "not particularly ideological". Capitalism is an ideology - albeit one basically invisible to Hacker News members - and the Economi
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by adrienne 10y ago
I know at least two people who have a similar issue, including one who can't even wear most jewelry except very pure precious metals because her skin corrodes it (i don't mean the usual "turns your finger green" thing, i
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by adrienne 10y ago
If only that latter thing were true. It's not. It's especially not after years of the Republicans gutting public education and pushing expurgated, jingoistic, pro-American-exceptionalism textbooks through school boards everywhere.
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by adrienne 10y ago
The "documented atrocities that certain Native American tribes committed" against INVADERS, you mean? Because it was their land, and the word "settlers" is a way to whitewash what people did to them - and are still doing
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by adrienne 10y ago
Well, yes, they also want everyone to be "civil", as though that's the highest ideal to aspire to. As though it's ever "civil" to, for example, call for the denaturalization and deportation of all Jewish peopl
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by adrienne 10y ago
I'm sorry your upthread comment got killed, but it was inevitable -- because it was absolutely spot-on , and HN people just cannot countenance anything that disrupts their self-mythologizing about how rational and civil and merit
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by adrienne 10y ago
This is a very political (and ideological) definition of "politics". Excellent example of how definitions themselves are not, and cannot possibly be, apolitical!
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by adrienne 10y ago
Wages, compensation in general, and screwing your employees over are very political topics. Isn't that supposed to be off-limits this week?
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by adrienne 10y ago
If by "constantly complaining" you mean "turning up every few months to gawk at something particularly awful", then, well, that'd be really stupid, frankly. I am almost never on HN , so "constantly" is a
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by adrienne 10y ago
Yes, precisely. I prefer to not be one of those folks who states her own personal biases and assumptions as though they were Universal Truths. There are quite enough of them around here already.
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by adrienne 10y ago
I note that tptacek uses 'I', 'me', or 'my' at least fourteen times in the comment i was responding to (i didn't count carefully), and yet he's not the one who got chastised.
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by adrienne 10y ago
Some of us aren't allowed to flag comments because we don't have enough karma. And we don't get enough karma because we are driven off the site by appalling comments that the moderators don't seem to give a shit about. A
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by adrienne 10y ago
I mean, fundamentally my position is the same as Anil Dash's, in his famous essay: "if your website is full of assholes, it's your fault." Trying to separate out "political" from "apolitical" topics i
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by adrienne 10y ago
I am quite sure (from both here and on Twitter, where i follow you) that our politics are roughly comparable, although i'm rather to your left. I have no problem with you - in fact i respect the hell out of you - and you are indeed som
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by adrienne 10y ago
Except i don't think it is a moot point, because my thesis is that the HN community perceives certain things as "political" and other things as "not political" and that it creates a bias. Obviously individual us
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by adrienne 10y ago
Also, given how many political stories aren't getting flagged and are getting a lot of discussion, how oblivious a lot of people here seem to be to the political dimensions of their work and hobbies?
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by adrienne 10y ago
Isn't HN supposed to be "detoxing" from politics this week?
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by adrienne 10y ago
I mean, i guess i just don't understand, given some of the comments you leave around with absolutely zero outcry, why polite one-sentence statements - even 48 polite statements - are "vandalism" of HN.
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by adrienne 10y ago
Thing is, he's been entirely right about all but maybe one of the stories he's left a comment on? These stories are political. The whole problem is that these things are political and HN doesn't see that .
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by adrienne 10y ago
This may be the most laughably wrong statement I've seen in this entire thread, and that's saying something.
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by adrienne 10y ago
I do understand that "I'm gonna get downvoted for this opinion, but..." is a form of well-poisoning. It was genuinely not my intention, but I completely understand how what i said looks like that pattern, and that's my o
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by adrienne 10y ago
Looks like you edited this as i was typing, but: I almost never comment, though, and when i do it's usually angry (on account of how horrified and unwelcome i feel basically every time i happen to read past the front page). So grzm has
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by adrienne 10y ago
Yeah, i wasn't saying that i expect to get downvoted for that specific comment, but i take your point that that's how it came across. That's what i understand too, about karma. shrug The HN community has made abundantly cle
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by adrienne 10y ago
The fact that you think there is any such thing as "mere" politics is exactly the problem . ...i'm sure i'm going to have negative karma by the end of this week, but oh well.
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by adrienne 10y ago
Every government action is absolutely political, by definition . The problem is that HN regulars apparently think "politics" just means "stuff people argue about".
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by adrienne 10y ago
My karma's too low for flagging but yeah, this is clearly a political topic that doesn't belong here this week.

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