cowabungacode

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by cowabungacode 7y ago
> If you're talking about something I actually said as opposed to simply making things up, I'd like to see a link Sure, here you go. I would never "make things up" and lie on HN, that's despicable and I do not ap
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by cowabungacode 7y ago
Do you have no comment about the censuring you do of topics like Russian election hacking? To me that is the most violating of your duty, that you preemptively reduce conversation on particular topics. You replied in depth to every part of
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by cowabungacode 7y ago
> I would have left long ago if flagging had continued to be used to kill topics. Flagging is frequently used to kill topics still. Climate change articles are still flagged mercilessly, before any discussion starts and without regard fo
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by cowabungacode 7y ago
The idea that anyone would refer to people who champion for social justice as a "cesspool" is so disheartening. Equally disheartening is the idea that people find it a strength of HN that it is a haven for the hateful, illogical a
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by cowabungacode 7y ago
> This happens on both ends of the political spectrum No, it doesn't. The left is not a racist, hateful group and they do not coordinate and perform mass shootings. This particular problem is not shared equally by both sides.
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by cowabungacode 7y ago
> The "alt-right" is mostly a boogieman for talking heads. No, it's not. The alt-right uses anonymous web boards like this one (but not HN to my knowledge) to coordinate and celebrate mass shootings that are directly admit
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by cowabungacode 7y ago
> In my opinion the strength of HN in this regard is that it is.... a "haven for alt-right", Really? Do you really think that a strength of HN is that it is a haven for the alt-right? This is shocking and extremly scary to me.
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by cowabungacode 7y ago
While this is about the largest nuclear bomb ever produced, I also find the stories of the smallest interesting. Project Orion was a classified effort by the US to produce minituarized nukes for use in dropping out the bottom of a spacecraf