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by iron0013 7y ago
The current headline at the source is "Google to begin lifting coronavirus ad ban". Either The Verge changed their headline, or you are violating HN guidelines by editorializing your submitted title.
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What in this very even-handed and factual post could possibly be construed as a “flame”? Just because this commenter is engaging with an interlocutor who obviously is flaming doesn’t mean that they themselves are. That’s just the all-too-fa
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by iron0013 7y ago
Chinese style technocratic authoritarianism might excel in the face of pandemic, but one need look no farther than Brazil to see that old-fashioned grievance-based reactionary authoritarianism falls flat on its face when it needs to deal wi
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by iron0013 7y ago
Sorry, but opposing racism is not merely a political stance—and obviously (or at least obviously to us non-racists) is in no way “pushing an agenda”.
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This is propaganda.
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by iron0013 7y ago
Nobody's inundated by cancel culture except the reactionaries that obsessively make it their straw man.
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Except it obviously doesn’t take one to know one. Are we having an actual conversation or just lobbing empty rhetoric
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by iron0013 7y ago
Did we read the same article? The author discusses three main ways that trump could fail in the face of a pandemic: 1) he could spread misinformation about the disease and its prevention and treatment, 2) he could shut down travel from affe
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by iron0013 7y ago
Well okay, if you insist: Eric S. Raymond is a toxic loonytoon. And there’s plenty of evidence to support that assertion.
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Despite the many examples in this article and elsewhere about him already deploying it irresponsibly? Or maybe I missed the implied “/s”
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by iron0013 7y ago
I thought Quillette had been blacklisted on HN. It’s a right-wing rag and never leads to any interesting discussion.
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by iron0013 7y ago
Any other subreddit would have simply been banned long ago for unremitting and unrepentant rule breaking and evasion. And by the subreddit moderators themselves, no less, not just the users!
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"Sanders won a plurality, but tellingly he did terribly in second alignments." <-- This is a lie, by the way. Second alignments benefited Sanders more than almost any other candidate: https://www.npr.org/2020&#x
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by iron0013 7y ago
I wonder if "inexplicable Republican best friends"* like Rayiner, who try to tell Democrats who their candidate should be, know that they are actually showing their hand and telling the rest of us who they're most afraid of.
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They obviously don’t mind the thousands of pro-trump shills, either
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Oh sure, I suppose my family could have lived digging through landfills like the wretchedly poor do in Ethiopia and Indonesia and elsewhere. And perhaps I wouldn’t have died, just been left permanently physically and mentally stunted by mal
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by iron0013 7y ago
I’m telling you that in my lived experience, food stamps filled my belly and prevented me from dying.
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Doesn’t the top .01% already live off the rest of us?
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Speaking of children, that’s who’s gonna starve if you decide to let them suffer the consequences of their parents’ poor choices. I would have personally starved to death dozens of times over if not for food stamps.
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Gee, why am I not surprised to not see a single mention of Prop 13, the obvious driver of CA’s housing crisis, including the market imbalances that have lead to high home prices across the state
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by iron0013 7y ago
You said Clinton’s message “...just didn't click with a lot of people. Trump's did.” That’s a numerical comparison. Are you saying that X > X+3000000? It’s an incoherent claim, so find another argument.
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by iron0013 7y ago
But by vote count, Clinton’s message clicked with more people than Trump’s did. That’s why he had to rely on the electoral college to “win” by negative-several-million votes.
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That’s not what the head-to-head matchups against Trump say. Polls have shown over and over again that almost any democrat beats Trump in a head-to-head matchup, but that Bernie, Biden, and Bloomberg are all just about tied in beating Trump
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by iron0013 7y ago
Whenever longform articles are posted from more recent dates, the HN comments are full of people complaining that the article is too long, takes too long to get to the point, employs flowery prose, etc all of which this article would be jus
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Totally awkward way to wedge a dig at Greta in there. I guess when all you’ve got is an axe, everything looks like a grinder.
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Anything the current justice department knows is automatically shared with at least two foreign governments (Russia and Israel) along with any other governmental or non-governmental organization smart enough to hack Trump’s completely unsec
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by iron0013 7y ago
Interesting! But also from 2013, just worth noting
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Doesn’t version control largely solve this problem?
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This has been the repeated topic of conversation among some well-known statisticians on Andrew Gelman’s blog over the years. It’s worth searching his old posts for it
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by iron0013 7y ago
This is a great article, but I’ve come to believe that HN commenters are utterly incapable of appreciating how absolutely essential journalism is, and in fact how many great journalists there still are writing today. When I read the kind of

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