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From guidelines: In Comments Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity. When disagreeing, please reply to the argument…

Agreed. It's disturbing that there are so many members who are seemingly intelligent, but either haven't read the guidelines or think that guidelines don't apply to them.

> I don't have the mental energy to give everyone I come across the benefit of the doubt... people who don't take the time to try and understand me get dismissed pretty quickly. So…

No, he is being sarcastic. I believe that counts as gratuitous negativity : https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

A few examples would help us understand the problem better. Based on just this description, it could be anything .

Sony is Japanese.

In other words, you want free content. But content costs time and money to produce. And content is inevitably colored by the source of the money. When the source is advertising, th…

Ongoing internal investigation? Or -- and forgive me, I don't know a universally inoffensive way to broach this subject -- because her being a gender/ethnic minority in her line of…

Incorrect. This is a prevalent yet still poorly understood phenomenon that has an impact not just on those in the tech sector (as many of us on HN are), but also on society at larg…

You can hardly be blamed. This quote just on page 3: My manager did not communicate to her management chain the positive impact I was having on the product - in fact, she once told…

Isn't a contract that violates a law, Bad in Law?

I just realized this comment is irrelevant. This is the most important bit about this article: > We know now that the explanation was that Simon was snared in a trap set by people …

It seems a lot of America's 'justice' takes place in the absence of a judge or jury: in the presence of a prosecutor with a plea bargain offer. At least in third world countries, t…

Paper is a technology that revolutionized the way we practice politics and law. It didn't lead to a utopia but made the system scalable beyond a tribe or village. Technology is mea…

A damning indictment from Stockman's The Great Deformation (referenced in the article): The paper trail uncovered by congressional investigators shows that the $400 billion (notati…

Could it also be rephrased, "You know nothing, JS"?

> Illegal cannabis = freedom to live in a place where your children aren't exposed to drugs You're abusing the term "freedom". Freedom is the right to act, not immunity from the ef…

I thought on HN, disagreement is expressed through refutation, not down-voting.

Downvoted because this has become an almost knee-jerk reaction against any attempt at consolidating or unifying multiple standards, which should be the goal.

I think you might be mistaking HN for reddit. Have a look at the guidelines ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ).

Replying to this comment because it seems to be the only properly argued, non-partisan 'against' comment at the time of this writing. I don't agree with some of the author's conclu…

Browsing through the backer comments, I find that about half the reactions to that demo are similar to this one: > I too am very disappointed with the bare bones tech demo you crea…

Isn't that a good reason as any to not put all our eggs in the Google basket? One of the two major browsers and two major blogging platforms are already run by Google; the world's …

Because democracy without an underlying system of values is indistinguishable from a tyranny by the majority (in other words, it cannot be two foxes and a hen voting on what's for …