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So... what's the critique here exactly? "Oh hey everybody, Paul is out touch!" - Okay, now what? Rich people are rich, that's truism. Some comments made good counter arguments but …

Not the point of the story at all. Read before commenting.

In the modern world: any tech proposition that starts with protection of children as a goal can be dismissed out of hand, since it's emotional manipulation masquerading as tech pol…

It's currently #1 on the front page too. HN drowning in AI slop, what a sight to behold.

You don't generally reach that level of wealth and success without at least having strong sociopathic (maybe even psychopathic) tendencies.

I will be that guy: how is this different from HN? Or the many niche subreddits that already do this? I am seriously asking. To me, it seems like a poor version of subreddits with …

My first reaction to the title was: "duh, selection/survivorship bias" but their counter is pretty solid: > Firstly and perhaps most importantly, selection bias is possible because…

If you read the news with enough cynicism, you'll realize that rules like formality, password strength or cybersecurity hygiene are for the average Joes, not the morons/perverts wh…

> "tangential annoyances" It's relevant to the central argument of the article, so I don't consider it a tangent (assuming that one even cares about the so-called policy).

The author should consider smelling his own perfume, given the state and design of the site where he delivers his musings and gives us the moral lecture on not making the lives of …

Instead of the ceremonial complaint and preemptive whining, why don't you consider making the argument coherently and see how people respond? Ironically, the pointless arguments yo…

So we now have just pure marketing slop on the HN front page? How is this interesting or "curious" again? The AI slop season is affecting HN in clever ways.

The tech is interesting and useful, no need for the scary moral framing. The original application of the entire field of data science or ML is/was actually based on this paradigm o…

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Yeah, maybe let's change the title to remove that 84% rate. It's meaningless because it's just 254 websites, given the scale of what Google Safe Browsing deals with. How is this se…

> We owe a real debt to the soldiers who died for the world we live in. Why? It's a job. Chosen voluntarily (usually), with known risks. Never mind the propaganda part that they ar…

I like to think that you wrote this whole comment to sneak the paper title instead of it being an apt pun/nod.

Setting aside the context of this quoted verse and how NSFW stuff is judged in religious texts, this doesn't address the more important point that OP raised: the visuals of this ve…