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Is there any way to disagree with this comment without being disregarded as resentful? Good work is the key to good fortune / Winners take that praise / Losers seldom take that bla…

I guess that’s yet another reason to make a HN account.

> That's right, to get a democratic web you will need to raise a tax and have the government run (or otherwise subsidize) the infrastructure. Is this the terrible conclusion that y…

You’re conflating a more general problem of foundations with democracy. How can a form of governance even be started? On what grounds? How has the mandate to put forth the ground r…

Untenable? You kind of resolved it yourself by saying that “democracies” of today are just “so-called” but are effectively oligarchies. So it’s not an untenable statement.

Criticizing democracy because of majoritarianism is like criticizing programming itself because of how Perl, Ruby, or any other particular programming language works. Democratic go…

What does dplyr syntax look like?