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by pvg 2y ago
You should mail the mods at hn@ycombinator.com with such questions
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by pvg 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43739510
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by pvg 2y ago
This is quite literally a slippery slope argument No it isn't. If you want to do Nazi apologia, go right ahead but at least have the integrity to own it. They started with a bit of 'what if the state decides which life is worth
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by pvg 2y ago
Big related thread the other day https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43723408
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by pvg 2y ago
Big thread a year ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40032869
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by pvg 2y ago
That's because it's one of the things that we know, empirically, turned out so wrong, it's one of the wrongest things humanity has ever wronged. Most people don't need to be told that, for this obvious reason.
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by pvg 2y ago
I dunno, I took one look at it and thought 'this clearly wasn't influenced by the Cosmic Microwave Background at all! I can tell by the pixels'.
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by pvg 2y ago
A thread 11 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6693653
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by pvg 2y ago
That's cool but a couple of useful things to be aware of: Show HN prefix is mostly for things that people can try themselves https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html And how HN handles follow-up posts https:/&#x2
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by pvg 2y ago
Recent big thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42291101 And slightly less recent same thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40503678
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by pvg 2y ago
That is the tradition. I tooke a bodkin gh & put it betwixt my eye & the bone as neare to the Backside of my eye as I could: & pressing my eye with the end of it (soe as to make the curvature a, bcdef in my eye) there appeared
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by pvg 2y ago
You were trying to suggest something about his motives precluded him from deliberately targeting children. It didn't and there is direct evidence for it. A mass murderer is simply a mass murderer, not someone involved in a 'confl
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by pvg 2y ago
McVeigh knew exactly what he was doing. From a recent book on him and the bombing: “Mike and Lori knew all the details of the plan, and they never discouraged McVeigh, even when he said during this visit that the death toll might include w
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by pvg 2y ago
My claim is that it would not be so different that the front page is inundated with these topics while also ensuring that people are more able to talk about these topics when they feel it is relevant without being stifled by individuals.
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by pvg 2y ago
You should still totally do that! I'm just saying, a toplevel post in response to something already going on on the front page isn't likely to get any attention, you end up inadvertently throwing away the thing you want talk about
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by pvg 2y ago
You're better off posting that in the already active thread about librarians & libraries
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by pvg 2y ago
Hang on, you've not responded to anything I've said and are just piling on the questions. You kinda have to address what this different HN would look like and how it would be different and/or better than the one now. Like, yo
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by pvg 2y ago
It's like Promise Keepers but with potato instead of promise. What could be more starchy and wholesome.
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by pvg 2y ago
Few things can improve a dad support slack like regularly mailing each other potatoes.
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by pvg 2y ago
What do you find not right about it? In time of political turmoil, people start posting regular news stories to HN because there's a glut of big, activating political stories. They're still mostly offtopic so other people flag the
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by pvg 2y ago
The elephant is the most discussed set of topics on this site in the last few months, by an elephant-sized margin.
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by pvg 2y ago
It's a structural necessity for a 30-ish things a day site vs an infinite-scroll-feed site. The world can definitely move a lot faster than a nerd messageboard that's closer in design and spirit to a crusty pokemon (or, dunno, pla
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by pvg 2y ago
The point of the comment is that "repetition" is probably not an adequate explanation for flagging. [...] What's relevant is that aggressive flagging is happening now. Why not? Why does only the flagging need to be explain
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by pvg 2y ago
Some big Show HN threads a couple of years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30399881 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25150702
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by pvg 2y ago
Big thread at the time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33608886
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by pvg 2y ago
Thread the other day https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43723408
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by pvg 2y ago
Thread the other day https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43714004
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by pvg 2y ago
The linked discussion was on April 14th. Very few topics that narrow get two back to back megathreads on HN. Fundamentally, you're arguing this one should get three (or more) megathreads and that's a very uphill argument because
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by pvg 2y ago
Ongoing thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43716526
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by pvg 2y ago
Yes, that's part of.. err, let's call it the 'charm' of the place. This is probably also worth checking out for some tips on good ways to present your work when you are ready to post again https://news.ycombin

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