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by rendall 6mo ago
"Criticizing Israel" is always welcome on HN. Posts that veer into overt anti-Semitic conspiracy theory get flagged because the mask slips too far and they reveal the game.
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by rendall 6mo ago
The accusation is that Israel manipulates HN results. I responded that they do not because if they had been, there would surely be even one single positive article about Israel in the entire two decades of Hacker News' existence. There
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by rendall 7mo ago
Not a single pro-Israel article, nor even any article that even mentions Israel neutrally, has ever reached the front page of HN in the entire history of HN. So, no. Israel is not "winning the up- and downvote war" of HN.
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by rendall 7mo ago
Lol. If Israel could manipulate HN do you think so many anti-Israel posts would appear on the front page, and each mitigating or nuanced comment about Israel would be flagged so quickly? No, Israel does not control or manipulate HN.
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by rendall 7mo ago
I talked about DNC governance and accountability after the 2016 primary, not denying that Russia conducts influence operations or that sexism exists in politics. Pointing to Russian interference in 2024 does not answer whether the DNC clean
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by rendall 7mo ago
> gives the DNC a pass when they really need to fix themselves I've been saying this since 2016, when HRC ran on a campaign of calling her opponents sexists and then blaming Russia for her loss. Sadly, they just shuffled aparatchn
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by rendall 7mo ago
Yes. This is the way. Declarative design contracts are the answer to A.I. coders. A team declares what they want, agents code it together with human supervision. Then code review is just answering the question "is the code conformant
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by rendall 7mo ago
FWIW if I were the interviewer, I would have green-flagged you as a must hire.
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by rendall 7mo ago
I'm just plain cannot visit archive.* sites anymore. Just get a looping captcha.
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by rendall 7mo ago
Modern medicine is part and parcel of natural evolution. There is no short-circuiting of evolution. That's not a thing.
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by rendall 7mo ago
I know that your post has lots of comments, but I'd like to weigh in kindly too. > I've spent decades building up and accumulating expert knowledge and now that has been massively devalued. Listen to the comments that say that
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by rendall 8mo ago
I am going to validate what you say here. Ehto is correct and this is the way. I'll go further and say that if someone is tailgating you and it's pissing you off, generously let them pass. Literally pull to the side of the road if
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by rendall 8mo ago
I sympathize with this a lot. What you’re describing really is exhausting, and it shouldn’t be this hard. My take is that parental controls fail because they’re trying to solve a social and psychological problem at the technical layer. No a
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by rendall 8mo ago
I don't do sarcasm. It's ugly and it makes people question your intent.
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by rendall 8mo ago
The impression that one might get from this article is that the ban is essentially a done deal, but it’s not. What exists right now is political signaling by Prime Minister Petteri Orpo, plus preliminary fact-finding and position papers by
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by rendall 8mo ago
You are a global expert in this space. Now is your time! Write a book, make a blog, speak at conferences, open all the sources! Reach out to Moltbook and offer your help! Don't just rest on this.
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by rendall 8mo ago
Outrage is fast. It’s legible. It doesn’t require grappling with incentives, enforcement mechanisms, or tradeoffs. But outrage has a cost: It replaces diagnosis with blame. It trains the public to expect villains, not mechanisms. It produce
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by rendall 8mo ago
The essay is right about the behavior but wrong about the explanation. It correctly observes that once companies become dominant, they stop acting like normal competitors. Instead of just building better products, they lobby regulators, buy
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by rendall 9mo ago
There has always been an ends-justify-the-means element across the entire electorate and political class. It isn’t unique to MAGA, and it isn’t new. All of the United States law and jurisprudence is a kludge of principle and practicality an
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by rendall 9mo ago
What you’re describing is real, but it actually supports the opposite conclusion in my opinion. Watergate, Iran-Contra, Vietnam, and the Pentagon Papers were exposed because institutions, media, and elites still broadly agreed that certain
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by rendall 9mo ago
I don’t doubt that there are people who choose not to work, but that’s not really the claim being discussed. "A living wage being available to anyone willing to work" is not about whether every individual takes a job. It’s about w
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by rendall 9mo ago
> ...you have US citizens building iPhones in large-scale factories and they are earning minimum wage. But why? Why would a US citizen want to be snapping mobile phones together for 6-12 hours every day? The observation was that the wa
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by rendall 9mo ago
Most people do not understand this.
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by rendall 9mo ago
There is no right party, unfortunately. The Duopoly of Democrats and Republicans rely on this illusory idea of "the other side" to maintain a stranglehold on power for both parties. The sooner we give up that idea that one side is
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by rendall 9mo ago
... I don't think it stopped people from talking about it, though. That gambit has failed.
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by rendall 9mo ago
That's only part of it. It feels worse now because everything is visible. Information moves instantly. Evidence is public. Financial trails can be followed. Citizens now expect ethical behavior from their leaders as a baseline rather t
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by rendall 9mo ago
As a US citizen resident of Finland, I am proud of my adoptive country. I have been so far relatively neutral-to- vaguely-supportive of MAGA wrt the culture wars, and I find Trump's posturing on Greenland appalling and disgraceful. Ye
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by rendall 9mo ago
I was responding to this: >> The list of animals has dolphins and birds but not humans? > It’s Wikipedia. Make the change you want to see in the page. Yes, minor changes will not draw negative attention but the days when randos
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by rendall 9mo ago
With respect, that is naive. To demonstrate, create a new account and go ahead and make that change. It will be reverted. Wikipedia is not the democratic free-for-all it once was. If you do perform that experiment and I am wrong, please com

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