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by slg 9mo ago
Why hide it if you know you won't be punished for it?
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by slg 9mo ago
>This is so obviously false. One of the biggest but most pointless questions I have about our current moment in history is whether the people in power actually believe the stuff they say or are lying. Ultimately I don't think the a
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by slg 9mo ago
While being the focus, Minnesota is not the only place it's happening. For example, ICE took at least 15 people in the Los Angeles area today[1]. That article is from a local food publication that has largely shifted to covering all I
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by slg 9mo ago
It's wild to see someone this forthcoming with their selfishness. You literally said "It’s not fair to me", as if a just world would prioritize your inconvenience over the safety of others.
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by slg 9mo ago
Considering theft is a property crime and stalking is often a prelude to much worse, I think they made the right choice.
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by slg 9mo ago
Bovino has said the agents involved in the shooting are back at work today. Even if you believe that they were 100% justified in their actions, they killed a man, any decent organization that cared about human life would believe that has a
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by slg 9mo ago
>Let's be honest: you're doing much more than "suggesting". Lol, I don't know what that is supposed to mean. I'll admit to including an undercurrent of shaming with that suggestion to hopefully cause some i
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by slg 9mo ago
We were discussing post level moderation and not comment level moderation. I'm suggesting the site allow more politics, I'm not condoning abandoning all the site’s rules. I don't think the level of discourse in the comments
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by slg 9mo ago
Every reminder that powerful people see that the status quo is unacceptable has value. It's also obvious that a post being flagged reduces the number of people who will see that post, that's the whole purpose of flagging.
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by slg 9mo ago
Alex Pretti was a nurse. What power did he have? I'm not attributing ultimate power over the fate of the nation to you or HN. You are a tiny cog in a huge machine, but you're still a bigger cog than me. So I'm asking you to
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by slg 9mo ago
>There's another argument too, although I quake a bit at bringing it up. Suppose the truly extreme, end-of-world scenario really is coming to pass. What contribution do we make by jettisoning HN's mandate, going to war and turn
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by slg 9mo ago
I didn't ask where the line was, I asked if it existed. "The line" is a rhetorical device meant to encourage the reader to consider whether their previously held opinions should be held in perpetuity or whether they need to
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by slg 9mo ago
Well then, thanks for explaining why that the hyperbolic example in my first comment was in fact not hyperbolic.
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by slg 9mo ago
You seem to be a little sidetracked from my original point so let me reiterate it, "It's coming for everything and you'll have to draw the line somewhere." I understand you can dismiss that with "There is always a f
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by slg 9mo ago
If you're not doing anything about this, you're ignoring it. I don't say this as an insult. I say it as a wakeup call. I'm right there with you, only maybe a few degrees closer to not ignoring it. I have been to protes
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by slg 9mo ago
With the direction we're headed, there's a non-zero chance that some day soon I'll click on over to https://news.ycombinator.com/active and see "[flagged][dead] US Erupts in Civil War" and I'll
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by slg 9mo ago
For how long can we keep ignoring this?
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by slg 9mo ago
Remember when part of the argument to force a TikTok sale was protecting American's private data? Honestly, if I had to hand my personal data over to someone, I much rather give it to the nebulous "China" that people always
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by slg 9mo ago
>Anyway, it’s only those people who would be “disenfranchised” under a voter ID system and I’m not convinced our government would benefit from incorporating the opinions of someone so unserious I hate calling something a slippery slope,
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by slg 9mo ago
>All these positions are presented without evidence. What evidence do you need that making it more difficult to vote will result in fewer people voting? Isn't it common sense?
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by slg 9mo ago
>Similar obligations are present wherever election integrity is taken seriously. The flip side is even more true. If someone is claiming they care about election integrity and isn't willing to pair that with funding of an equivalen
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by slg 9mo ago
We like to pretend that we aren't just dumb animals, prone to getting scared and angry in order to protect our pack. These algorithmic feeds almost dehumanize us with the way they play off our innate animalistic psychology. Big tobac
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by slg 9mo ago
>- giving to much ways for money to influence politics I think what we're learning is that mass (social) media means that this simply isn't preventable in a world with free speech. Even if the US had stricter campaign finance
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by slg 9mo ago
And if we want to go beyond that, we really just have to blame capitalism. What happens when you build a society around the adversarial collection of money? You get a society that by and large prioritizes making money above all else inclu
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by slg 9mo ago
>and then prioritize for outrage and emotionalism This isn’t inherent to social networks though. It is a choice by the biggest social media companies to make society worse in order to increase profits. Just give us a chronological feed
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by slg 9mo ago
How are you defining "real ones"? Because it seems like you're implying that someone can't have political opinions while also occasionally making apolitical decisions.
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by slg 9mo ago
>Yes, anybody who puts a sticker on their car apologizing for owning it is somebody who bought it to make a statement. Or the opposite, buying the car wasn't a statement at the time and they don't like that driving it feels lik
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by slg 9mo ago
>I can run claude code on my laptop with an instruction like "fix the sound card on this laptop" and it will analyze what my current settings are, determine what might be wrong, devise tests to have me gather information it can
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by slg 9mo ago
The part that gets me is that even if you stipulate that this man’s life was in jeopardy and that the driver’s actions justify using lethal force (which I don’t agree with, but just go with me for a second), his actions clearly did not make
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by slg 9mo ago
Who said anything about regexp? I was literally talking about something as simple as "if(text.length > 100)". Also the example provided was distinguishing "a 2 page essay or 'asdfasdf'" which clearly can b

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