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by slg 2y ago
You are pointing to a disrupted market as evidence that the market didn't need to be disrupted. A quick search suggest that EU ban on CO2-emitting cars was from 2022, 5 years after Tesla started selling the Model 3. The global trend
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by slg 2y ago
>What’s impressive about Tesla? There is this weird revisionist history now that Musk is hated to dismiss all Tesla's accomplishments as meaningless. The traditional auto industry would have never embraced EVs to the extent they ha
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by slg 2y ago
>Indeed, which is why they are talking about it more than any other topic right now (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43003292 for a partial list). As I said upthread of that comment, I still think this is the wr
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by slg 2y ago
>Ok, that explains the misunderstanding. From my point of view it's not binary, and yes it's an editorial decision. Moderating and editoring (not a word) are more or less the same thing, no? IANAL and I don't know if it is
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by slg 2y ago
I view a "moderation call" as a binary allow or disallow. Once you get to the point of personally deciding that a post is good enough for the front page but not good enough for #1 or #2, you are making editorial decisions. I trie
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by slg 2y ago
Yes, I understand that. But you are missing the point of my comment. From the FAQ: >The basic algorithm divides points by a power of the time since a story was submitted. Comments in threads are ranked the same way. > Other factors a
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>moderators turn off flags on stories I replied to your comment in that other chain, but just want to point something else out here specifically. There seems to be more than just flags that are dragging down this story. The top post on
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by slg 2y ago
>this continues to be by far the most-discussed topic on HN right now I wonder if you are maybe too close to the problem to see it from a normal HN user's perspective. From my perspective, I don't get this impression because I
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by slg 2y ago
At what point does a story become big enough to disable the flagging mechanic? Maybe this post isn't the one to do it, but there has been an onslaught of stories about the damage Musk and DOGE is doing to the US government including l
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by slg 2y ago
Those goalposts moved fast from "Society almost never..." to "There's no law requiring...".
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by slg 2y ago
>Society almost never differentiates between goods and services produced directly by human hands, versus with the aid of tools. This is objectively wrong. "Handmade" is an incredibly common marketing keyword slapped on all sor
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>there was nothing in it to suggest the US president’s decisions affect him, but his emotional response to Reddit news is about as extreme as if his wife died. Do you not realize that you are judging what "decisions affect him"
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by slg 2y ago
Are you arguing that USAID is entirely some CIA operation or are you arguing for throwing the baby out with the bathwater? Because this is not evidence that the entire organization is a net negative for the world.
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by slg 2y ago
>How are you making the jump from calibrating your emotional response to distant political changes that have no immediate significance on your own life, are par for humanity, and don’t matter in the long run, to nihilism in your immediat
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by slg 2y ago
>2. This case (and 99% of cases of political outrage I see on the news) is trivial in the context of what is “normal” for human political history, even the political history that many people alive today were around for. >Will this eve
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by slg 2y ago
Statements like this seem to originate in that environment polluted by propaganda that the previous comment mentions. For example, I genuinely don't know how someone can look at something like the dismantling of USAID as anything but
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by slg 2y ago
Quite honestly I do not care about the feelings of anyone who self-identifies as xenophobic and is offended at being called racist or vice versa. Bigotry is bigotry and bigotry of any form shouldn't be tolerated, excused, or empowered
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by slg 2y ago
People often use "racism" as a stand-in for all bigotry. You are correct that this technically isn't racist, but it is instead textbook xenophobia, so your comment is mostly just an annoying pedantic correction that doesn&#x
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by slg 2y ago
>When people form a couple there’s many things like this where one part of the couple has the bar set in a completely different location. Which I think is ok. It’s ok for one half of the couple to not do as much card writing. The workloa
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by slg 2y ago
>Yes. Needing medication because your friend has visa problems is crazy. There was an "or" in that list of possible reactions. I was not giving an example of a situation in which someone would or should have every one of those
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by slg 2y ago
If you click through to the original blog post[1], you will see him advocating for exactly this. >Our status as the world's leading democracy is in question. We should make it easier for more eligible Americans to vote, such as maki
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by slg 2y ago
>This thread is about people whose well being and ability to enjoy life is ruined by politics Another facet of empathy is being able to understand other perspectives besides your own. Maybe this was your interpretation of the bounds of
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by slg 2y ago
The empathy you are showing in this comment would feel a lot more genuine if you didn't reveal with your prior comment how little empathy plays into your overall worldview. I'm personally fine, you don't have to waste your t
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by slg 2y ago
>If I chose not to be chronically keeping up with stuff on a moment to moment basis that only has vague intangible impacts on my life or those around me, specifically online, does that make me less empathetic or less tolerant of having a
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by slg 2y ago
>So you’re saying people are making a rational estimation of the various harms caused to their fellowmen, determining that political actions in Washington are the primary component, and feeling bad about the harm? Trump released an execu
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by slg 2y ago
>Completely well off people, whose lives are not affected at all by national politics, apart from slight changes in tax rates. They live in a state and city that shares their politics. They're isolated from everything on the nationa
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by slg 2y ago
Talk like this is never apolitical. No political change can occur without discussion first and therefore preemptively dismissing political discussion is inherently an endorsement of the current power structures. There is no way to actually
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by slg 2y ago
>My understanding of the 90 day extension is that it's supposed to be there to allow a deal to close It is also important to recognize that Trump isn't just talking about invoking the 90 day extension. He is promising companie
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>Disregarding a law that was passed by a bipartisan majority, signed into law by the president and ruled on by the supreme courts feels like the start of a very dangerous path I don't understand why this is not the primary takeaway.
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> it's simply a matter of time How much time? Because the way free speech absolutists talk about these ideas always seem to imply that we are mere moments from a country like Germany collapsing into authoritarianism. What evidence

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