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Writers and Drugs(lithub.com)
39 points by dang 4mo ago|20 comments
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by dang 4mo ago
Definitely not singling you out! probably the other comments were posted later, or I didn't see them for some other reason.
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by dang 4mo ago
> should spark intellectual curiosity Maybe it should, but you don't need much experience with the internet to know that a comment like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48648885 doesn't and won't. Th
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by dang 4mo ago
Please don't post snarky one-liners here. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html .
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by dang 4mo ago
PG was certainly known for that (e.g. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/11/22/22-2/ ) but I don't think it made him rich. Selling Viaweb did.
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by dang 4mo ago
Recent and related: Fender escalates legal campaign against S-style guitars - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48189539 - May 2026 (132 comments)
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by dang 4mo ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48659798 , which is currently on the frontpage
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by dang 4mo ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48663324 .
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by dang 4mo ago
> You can't be serious. Please edit out swipes from your HN comments, as the guidelines request: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html . Edit: your account has unfortunately been breaking the site guidel
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by dang 4mo ago
Comments moved thither. Thanks!
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by dang 4mo ago
You crossed into personal attack here. Please don't do that on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: could you please not post flamebait generally? You've been doing it in other places with th
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by dang 4mo ago
Whoa, you can't do this on HN, regardless of how you feel about health care policy or psychopathy. You've been here a long time, so you ought to be familiar with why comments like this destroy what HN is supposed to be for. If you
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by dang 4mo ago
I appreciate the expression of feeling here! I know it sucks to get upbraided by moderators (and we don't enjoy it either). But it's definitely not personal. The moderation response would have been the same regardless of user, sin
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by dang 4mo ago
These are the previous moderation replies, and you certainly saw some of them, since you responded. Interestingly, sometimes your responses were positive and sometimes rather hostile (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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by dang 4mo ago
Comments moved thither and thread re-upped (as in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 ). Thanks!
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by dang 4mo ago
Related. Others? Summer Rhombus picture competition 2026 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546270 - June 2026 (2 comments) Rhombus Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43394881 - March
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by dang 4mo ago
Can you please not post AI-generated or AI-edited comments to HN? It's not allowed here - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079
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by dang 4mo ago
Much of the language in the GP is pejorative, and therefore emotional, and therefore not possible to treat "from a purely logical perspective". I doubt that a purely logical evaluation is possible of any statement at all, outside
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by dang 4mo ago
I believe you when you say you didn't intend it that way, but unfortunately the meaning of a message has more to do how it lands than how it was intended—in the sense of the effects that it has on the receivers and also on the channel.
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by dang 4mo ago
It's the way the human psyche works, which is why the second-order versions from marketers, media, etc., exist in the first place. Trying to change that globally would amount to modifying human evolution. That kind of task you can&#x27
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by dang 4mo ago
Appreciated!
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by dang 4mo ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48651613 .
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by dang 4mo ago
You broke the site guidelines here. If you'd please review and stick to them, we'd appreciate it.
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by dang 4mo ago
Can you please not post like this to HN? It's against quite a few of the site guidelines, including: " Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. " " Please don't fulminate. " If you'd please review https:
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by dang 4mo ago
Can we please focus on thoughtful conversation instead of importing the worst comments from other forums*? Not to judge the feeling you express - I'm sure we can all relate. But as an HN comment it's pretty well guaranteed to turn
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by dang 4mo ago
Related. Others? Plotnine: Grammar of Graphics for Python (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25948840 - Jan 2021 (37 comments) Plotnine: A grammar of graphics for Python - https://news.ycombinator.
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by dang 4mo ago
Thanks! we'll put that in the toptext too.
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by dang 4mo ago
One past discussion: F3: Open-source data file format for the future [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45437759 - Oct 2025 (125 comments) plus this bit: An Open File Format for storing the information from a f
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by dang 4mo ago
Discussed at the time: LLMs trained on “A is B” fail to learn “B is A” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37621999 - Sept 2023 (158 comments)
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by dang 4mo ago
Please don't post personal attacks to HN, regardless of $Person. A comment like this does not gratify curiosity, only indignation, and we're here for the former not the latter. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguid

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