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The cruelty I'm talking about is not individual posters hurting each other. It's how we talk about people who are not here, who can't be here. How we judge the poor and dispossesse…

Yes exactly! This is a much better description than I was able to come up with.

Look I just really disagree sorry. The flavor is different but the beneath it's the same stuff. You can pretty much be as cruel as you want on HN as long as you don't swear or call…

I don't think there's much to be learned from SA in this context. It existed during a different time of the internet, when cultural capital and honestly just raw power were allocat…

It's also very very funny to me the general tone of self-congratulatory nonparticipation all over this comment section about how superior we all are for not using social media or t…

No not really. If you put them in a list of features and compare them it seems pretty close, they have most of the same stuff. But if you actually learn and use both the android on…

I didn't catch if she said she was completely blind or not. She may be able to make out some shape or color distinctions and is using that as a navigational aid. I have a friend wh…

If I mention a sea lion do you understand what I'm talking about?

People are sometimes kind of down on that approach in software, considering it sloppy. Especially in comparison to other engineering disciplines it just looks kinda bad sure. But r…

No dude they are not the same. PUA stuff came out of a deeply misogynist internet subculture with close ties and many overlaps with far right activists, "red pill" violence, and et…

Well the first two at least. I'm describing my beliefs. They are also shared by a lot of people; y'all wouldn't have to yell about free speech so much if this view was unpopular. I…

Correct!

No the second embeds two important differences from the first: that this is new (it's as old as writing at least) and that it's bad (a value judgement you can fall on either side o…

This apparent contradiction is just a moderately clever way of using an ambiguity in the word. If "deplatforming" is taken to mean "depriving people of an easy means to find and co…

Why not? Can you explain what "the issue itself" is in a way completely divorced from the people who have devoted themselves to _making_ it the issue? Even if you can I don't see t…

No, you're embedding a bunch of viewpoints in this comment as facts when there is absolutely room for disagreement. For example I think "rural people's best hope of finally not bei…

> The only reason it hasn't is that the telecom companies have bought out the government. I don't think this is true really. There's been a really big shift in the last 50-ish year…

No it doesn't you can fully engage with the complexity and ALSO blame him for it. I do for example.

We expect "better" from democracies largely because they have more sophisticated and effective ways to defang troubling journalists. You don't really need to murder or imprison the…

I mean spread awareness but that's pretty much every job. I've done a lot of kinds of work in my life but this is pretty much the easiest. At least we're paid well and respected. A…

It's a risk, that doesn't mean taking it is foolish. And I don't think many people would advocate _always_ being maximally vulnerable in all contexts come on. Use your judgement bu…

Yeah learning things is so fun, and also so is just having a bunch of weird skills you're competent or at least knowledgeable at. I won't post my list of accumulated learnings beca…

Yeah that's what they're saying I think. Programming outside works helps your programming inside work sure. But for many (most?), programming ability isn't the limiting factor on h…

There's definitely a bit of a pattern to this in music as with nearly everything. Players within the established tradition "take it seriously" which is on one hand respect for trad…

Or just look at what contemporary jazz is like this decade. Absolutely whole-hearted embrace of pop and hip hop production techniques, sampling, DAW-dependent live performances, th…