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by jshevek 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by jshevek 6y ago
No. Regulating the speed of cars on the freeway is radically different than giving a group the ability to decide what does or does not qualify as "disinformation" and regulating accordingly.
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by jshevek 6y ago
In a discussion about morality and the health of our society it is perfectly reasonable for decent people who are exploring the question of 'what ought to be' to set aside the decisions of the courts and the letter of the law.
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by jshevek 6y ago
The degree of a corporation's control over the flow of information matters because the harm done to our society is different.
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by jshevek 6y ago
I interpreted that to mean "this is effectively an oligarchy", not a claim of recent etymology.
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by jshevek 6y ago
> So far, your point of view comes across as: "yes, he may be a buffoon, but the media overplay it, and every new action must be taken on its own merit". If the topic is "Is Trump a buffoon?" then yes, that's a
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by jshevek 6y ago
My understanding is that this legislation does not universally prohibit a CEO from stating an opinion about the value of their company's stock.
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by jshevek 6y ago
There is so much wrong in one short post. I didn't claim that I find comments on voting boring, I cited the guidelines. I didn't feel obligated to respond, I felt it was useful and helpful to the community to respond. Your argumen
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by jshevek 6y ago
> The guy is the leader of the free world! He's making random screw ups every few days. He has single handedly turned himself into a joke. I wish this site would allow me to self-detach my own sub-thread. There are things I'd
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by jshevek 6y ago
> The implication was that the vast majority of criticism is methodically wrong. Not at all. Only that there is enough to warrant the expression of concern which the GP made. We each have different tolerances. > the US P's sup
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by jshevek 6y ago
>The criticisms are described as "methodically wrong" At this point are we on the same page, that the GP was claiming that "methodically wrong" criticism occurs, not that all the criticism is methodically wrong? The t
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by jshevek 6y ago
[The parent comment does not suggest the premise of this question:] > What makes you feel he is not deserving of criticism? The focus on that comment was the nature and quality of the criticism, not the simple fact of some criticism occu
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by jshevek 6y ago
> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by jshevek 6y ago
> We don't need to excise all humor from our discussions on HN. This isn't really relevant here, unless you are trying to create a strawman or frame this as a false dilemma of extremes. You can have a sense of humor while al
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by jshevek 6y ago
Both sets of causes contribute to inflated costs, and probably others as well.
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by jshevek 6y ago
When someone makes one of these cancerous ironic joke comments, responding in earnest is a good way to remind people of the culture here.
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by jshevek 6y ago
I agree that political generalizations often do a disservice to people on both sides, who often have their views caricaturized. When you say don't "make... political" do you agree that the cultural trends exist and are worthy
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by jshevek 6y ago
I believe that a forked urbit could only create entirely new, independent galaxies/stars/planets if those were in a completely separate namespace (ie parallel universe). This could be great, maybe, for siloed intranets or maybe a
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by jshevek 6y ago
This is an equivocation fallacy. We have not had a few centuries to sort out the implications of Urbit.
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by jshevek 6y ago
There are many valid arguments against Urbit, but this one... > They struggle to explain it to technical people. Imagine trying to explain this thing to your mother. ...doesn't hold up for me. My grandparents understand computers
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by jshevek 6y ago
If we accept the definition "fundamental dispositions and traits of humans" then I wouldn't consider those examples to qualify, as they are not sufficiently fundamental in my view. They are closer to social norms. If we expe
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by jshevek 6y ago
> I am really surprised how often I have seen "it is just the flu" type rhetoric upvoted on HN This is a unfair way to respond to [alejo's] comment. The fact that you have responded in this way to this thoughtful response
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by jshevek 6y ago
In what way is that quote "bullshit"?
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by jshevek 6y ago
If there is any evidence for your accusation, you should be able to link it. Do you have any?
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by jshevek 6y ago
Can you be more specific, please? Not all of my comment was mere opinion.
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by jshevek 6y ago
I appreciate the form of your comment: A factual claim followed by a statement of uncertainty. My argument is that the comment to which I was responding was a non sequitur premised on a number of unstated assumptions. I threw in a few exam
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by jshevek 6y ago
The technical correctness of your comment isn't of practical significance when you argue as follows: > The 99.99999% case scenario concerns videos that are saying '5g caused coronavirus', and meanwhile you're trying t
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by jshevek 6y ago
> Isn't that exactly what we're seeing now? If "that" is the cause-effect relationship claimed above, no we are not "seeing" this right now. There is a huge difference between events and the narratives, ac
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by jshevek 6y ago
There are many aspects of the culture of reddit which is poisoning the culture of hackernews during this pandemic, to save time I'll just address the portion of reddit culture that is evidenced here: the practice of pretending to inven
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by jshevek 6y ago
The parent suggested a degree of change along a spectrum, you list possible consequences that might occur only if one takes the most extreme form.

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