troosevelt

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by troosevelt 7mo ago
This should be seperate from marking bots because what this really wil do is embed people into hearing only what they want, making discussion worse.
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by troosevelt 7mo ago
I've nver seen discussion of politics on forums do anything but turn into hate-filled, dogmatic posts which aren't productive at all. Every political thread here turns into the same takes and HN imagines itself as intellectually b
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by troosevelt 7mo ago
I don't think he's a genius but if he is, it'd still be underneath my standards.
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by troosevelt 7mo ago
Yes, he did. Now he's gonna be the full-time CEO according to this.
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by troosevelt 7mo ago
How is that not a natural sentence? I think people are reading into stuff. That's just good writing. Could it be generated? Sure. But there aren't the obvious tells you act like there are.
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by troosevelt 7mo ago
There isn't any "this is" in that sentence.
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by troosevelt 7mo ago
I noticed how much basic stuff is getting upvoted that confirms people's priors. I guess HN has always been this way, but it doesn't speak well of a community that views itself as thoughtful. It's frustrating watching this to
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by troosevelt 7mo ago
You're not really saying anything, though. For every tech hype that has failed, there is another that's changed the world. This IS changing the world and our industry, regardless of whether it reaches the heights of the hypers. I
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by troosevelt 8mo ago
You're attributing a whole lot of agency to things that might have different factors. I can't downvote becuase though I've read HN since 2007ish, this is a new account. I would, however, probably downvote threads like this be
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by troosevelt 8mo ago
Yes, and when you see people excusing those actions even here on HN, that's exactly the mindset they have. Who is to say otherwise? There isn't some objective scale, it's all utilitarian.
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by troosevelt 8mo ago
Isn't this kind of Nietzsche's slave morality? I don't, for example, think Phil Knight is an immoral person who intentionally did wrong things, though his company certainly has. You don't just become a billionaire and be
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by troosevelt 8mo ago
I think it's possible if not probable you are correct, but a lot of this is not as coordinated as you might think. Religious conservatives just think porn is the devil, and more and more, I find non-religious people that view it as suc
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by troosevelt 8mo ago
It might usually manfiest as that or you're picking out the most superficial parts of people's identity to criticize. It's just not how I and others view it when we think about where the people who made us come from. Or, to p
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by troosevelt 8mo ago
Does it really bother you that people care about their heritage? US culture is a culture that assimilates, people remember where they come from. It's almost mean-spirited that yall fault them for this. Better than forgetting. I rememb
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by troosevelt 8mo ago
There are things like "Rick Sampson oil". I'm sure there are believers.
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by troosevelt 8mo ago
I found this YT vid from back when CNN was covering these subreddits. Ohanian gives this interview where he says (paraphrasing) that there's nothing they can do to police this stuff (they ended up just banning those communities) and it