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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
That’s the story. In actuality, even factual and cited posts will get you shadowbanned if your opinion is contrary to the mainstream (on HN) narrative. I think it’s more “conforming” than “constructive”.
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
I’ll care when women worry about misandry. But insisting I care while women engage in illegal sexism for their own benefit is an abusive, one-sided relationship. Study after study confirms that women are preferentially hired and receive pri
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
You can be on topic and only making calm, cited comments, but get shadowbanned for having sufficiently controversial views. HN is like any other forum which censors certain views for being controversial. Like stating that BLM is a Marxist o
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
A more colorable tactic is that you send a notice to their registered agent of addendums to the contract on your website, with possible future updates. Certified mail to their registered agent is considered “received” by the corporation in
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
This is classic trademark violation, right? Freenode is using the Libera brand to advertise their services by registering a Libera branded domain — purposefully to re-route customers looking for Libera properties. Since Freenode is in the s
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
We already do. Human lifespans exceed their ability to be rational leaders in touch with the modern world.
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
I think it’s a mistake to blame porn, rather than realizing porn is a self-medication for people targeted by institutional and pervasive misandry. I understand even after several generations of men being abused, people aren’t ready to admit
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
My experience suggests most progressives don’t realize that: - they tend to be young; - political activists who have done nothing else; - or drug addicts. I can count on my fingers the number of serious progressives I’ve met who aren’t one
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
What makes plumber not a dream career? I think there’s a lot of bias and assumption about what people want behind your comment.
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
Yes, systemic misandry is real. Two generations of men have grown up with it.
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
There isn’t one. The government decided to loot the middle class and hand it to the elite, with trillions stolen in the past year. Your children’s future was destroyed using the COVID lockdown as a pretense for the theft. At this point, the
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
Its a math mistake on Amazons part. They’ve conflated “most purchases of a toilet seat are made by someone who buys another” and “most people who buy one toilet seat buy a second”. There’s a small, but high volume group of toilet seat purch
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by bopbeepboop 5y ago
I believe ads work — but I’ve seen little evidence anything beyond contextual ads work. But yeah, show someone on a blog about new GPUs an ad to buy a GPU and there’s an uptick. Turns out some of those people do want to buy GPUs. Showing me
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by bopbeepboop 6y ago
What specific guideline did these comments break? I believe that you censoring in support of defamation (knowingly false claims an ethical statement is incitement) may incur liability for HN. Incitement has a specific legal meaning (which t
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by bopbeepboop 6y ago
Yeah, it’s not magic. That’s why it’s cut down nutrient supplements and totally remove processed hormones — not totally remove both. The soil ecology is good at: - turning raw ingredients into slightly more complex ones - accessing things i
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by bopbeepboop 6y ago
As you said: > This is Destiny saying that if it takes someone committing mass murder to stop property damage, it is justified. There's no two ways about it. “If [...], then justified” is an ethical statement — and as you say, there
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by bopbeepboop 6y ago
> The streamer all but said, "will no one rid me off these meddlesome protestors?" On the contrary, they made a clearly ethical statement you’re trying to misportray, in a way which defames the speaker. You say “calmly and rati
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by bopbeepboop 6y ago
The 9/11 attack was a mass murder event. Saying “America deserved 9/11” and “I’m okay with arsonists being killed by militias when the police can no longer maintain the peace” are both moral statements about mass casualty events —
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by bopbeepboop 6y ago
> We don't shoot criminals, dude. Sure we do — when society breaks down and the police can no longer maintain peace. As happened in a number of US cities this past year, when police were helpless in the face of Democrat-endorsed ars
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by bopbeepboop 6y ago
I’d say “Byron-esque” has the same meaning while being more readily understood.
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by bopbeepboop 6y ago
No, the second statement isn’t a call to violence. > "If that means white redneck militia dudes mowing down dipshit protesters that think they can torch buildings at 10 PM, at this point they have my fucking blessing." This is
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by bopbeepboop 6y ago
I certainly think it’s worth trying that out. It creates bad incentives to have quality and agreement in the same signal.
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by bopbeepboop 6y ago
I don’t understand your thinking: A rental house is an asset; a house you live in is a liability. Your argument doesn’t make sense to me if you replace “rental house” with another business: “Why would you put your life savings into gardenin
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by bopbeepboop 6y ago
The first three paragraphs straw man my argument and misrepresent my position as saying flat taxes were the solution and it’s more complicated — when that’s exactly what I said. Literally, my entire comment is about loopholes and unintended
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by bopbeepboop 6y ago
HN unfortunately has started downvoting to show disagreement. It’s happened in lockstep with the political radicalization and censorship across the internet, eg Twitter and YouTube. Contrary to fluffy language, HN is a censorious community
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by bopbeepboop 6y ago
It’s a dishonest political cudgel: Notice how companies like Google, FB, etc that advocate “diversity and inclusion” tend to have highly skewed politics, such as harassing and firing conservative employees. The calls for “diversity” are the
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by bopbeepboop 6y ago
> It's that the amount that's taxed is easily manipulated Did you even read my post? It’s entirely about this fact: you wrote a long rant concurring, but phrased as violent agreement. You just pulled a single phrase out of a mu
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by bopbeepboop 6y ago
The traditional solution is to lower taxes and simplify the tax code. Large corporations have an effective tax rate below the nominal one due to antics with exceptions — while smaller businesses get hit harder. What’s called “progressive” o
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by bopbeepboop 6y ago
I’d second this as being interesting, and add some anecdata: There’s a lot of similar discussion in the marijuana community. When I used to grow (legal, medicinal) marijuana, we had a reading group about soil ecology where we discussed how
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by bopbeepboop 6y ago
It’s not particularly surprising . The level of technique is something tens of thousands of people have in my city — 1% of the few million people in the metro. There’s hundreds of similar metros near mountains, globally. The level of infor

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