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by krapp 4mo ago
I want to know what the hell Joseph Gordon-Levitt is planning...
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by krapp 4mo ago
>Even then, 60% of dems think the party is already too far left. So I'm not sure exactly why you are rooting for some socialist party. Nobody wants it. If people wanted it, the party would exist. The party does exist. We're in
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by krapp 4mo ago
Darializa Avila Chevalier wasn't running in 2024, Kamala Harris was, and she was trying as hard as possible to appeal to the right to the point of alienating her base entirely. I don't think "crazy rhetoric" is the reaso
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by krapp 4mo ago
Except the thesis is that the mainstream left (which would be the Democratic Party) is already just as extremist as MAGA (which has become the mainstream right.) When people resort to calling Joe Biden a communist, or even Barack Obama,
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by krapp 4mo ago
She does seem like an actual leftist I'll give you that. But rhetoric doesn't count for much, what has she actually done that's radical? I can only judge from her Wikipedia page but under political positions it says "H
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by krapp 4mo ago
People keep saying this but the "extreme left" in the US isn't even that extreme. One one side you have conspiracy theory poisoned neo-Nazis and Christian nationalists and on the other... people who want affordable healthcare
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by krapp 4mo ago
That's the neat part, you don't!
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by krapp 4mo ago
I have a browser plugin that highlights most recent unread comments on HN with a yellow background, and counts new comments in the thread listings. One could even add "next unread" links as well. I've seen imageboards that to
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by krapp 4mo ago
It isn't a problem. Site authors being able to choose their own design is fundamental to the web, it is as much a platform for personal creative expression as it is information. Not everything has to look like a whitepaper.
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by krapp 4mo ago
It only seems to be effective in one direction. Trump shrugs off controversies that would have ended the careers of other politicians (which unlike the price of eggs, he's often actually responsible for.) Meanwhile Biden being the re
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by krapp 4mo ago
One of the more common reasons I've seen cited for people voting for Trump is that they blamed Biden for high egg prices. Giving people a scapegoat is always effective.
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by krapp 4mo ago
It is when capitalists own the means of production.
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by krapp 4mo ago
Yes, Hacker News is one of the most heavily tone-policed and aggressively moderated forums on the web. The aegis of this forum is "avoiding the Eternal September effect at all costs," and those costs may include your comfort and f
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by krapp 4mo ago
That should be obvious but unfortunately lots of people believe (or have a vested interest in pretending to believe) LLMs are living, thinking, sentient entities and that belief is going to influence the politics and legislation around AI t
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by krapp 4mo ago
You can have a chronologically sorted tree view - sort each subtree chronologically and then the root comments, keeping the hierarchy. HN doesn't do it because it would undermine the goal of karma sorting, and potentially lower the qua
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by krapp 4mo ago
Moderators were able to kill posts and ban people on forums well before Reddit came along, that's kind of the whole point of moderators.
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by krapp 4mo ago
You don't have to if you don't want to. Maybe find a protest near you to join, or just stay home. I haven't cared about the 4th of July since I grew old enough for fireworks to no longer be "cool." It's OK to n
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by krapp 4mo ago
Sure. People post them all the time. Most are HN clones. All of them die with a whimper after the initial HN juice is gone. The problem isn't technical, the problem is that social media and Reddit already do what people wanted forums t
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by krapp 4mo ago
And notable Hacker News eschews all of these affordances and others because they're considered unnecessary complexity. The only way to sort a thread is by karma, the only way to read it is top to bottom, even if it's 10,000 commen
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by krapp 4mo ago
That's literally just how imageboards work.
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by krapp 4mo ago
One of the more popular "explanations" of the Mandela Effect is that CERN broke time somehow. And of course there was the whole panic about them creating a black hole and destroying the world that was popular enough to make mainst
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by krapp 4mo ago
>The issue here is that there's no practical way to ever update the Bill of Rights in the 21st century. Bug or feature? Given that this isn't an issue in any other modern democracy, I'd say "bug."
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by krapp 4mo ago
The US might actually do better with a parliamentary system. We could even change the Presidency to an actual monarchy, since that seems to be what many Americans really want, but as a ceremonial position only.
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by krapp 4mo ago
That's how markets work. People have the right to choose to do business, or not, based on whatever criteria they value.
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by krapp 4mo ago
I didn't claim anything of the sort. And OP literally said "It might be ignorant, but I don't care," so...
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by krapp 4mo ago
Doesn't at all. You can take cash, keep cash and spend cash without any bank being involved. Cash is more anonymous than crypto and (if it's USD) accepted just about everywhere. Banks give you an advantage with transaction securit
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by krapp 4mo ago
Cash doesn't require a bank.
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by krapp 4mo ago
The HEB across the street from me took down their kitchen and installed a pizza oven and now they just sell pizzas. They're good pizzas but I do miss the Tex-Mex. They still have an "Asian" market too but it's far too ex
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by krapp 4mo ago
I'll be sure to inform all of the physicists that @Noaidi on Hacker News has solved physics and that they can go home.
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by krapp 4mo ago
>I think no matter how much you hate the administration, it's probably not a good reason to defend a terrorist group taking a nation hostage. I don't think anyone who hates the administration is defending the US military here.

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