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dang

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"Conflict is essential to human life, whether between different aspects of oneself, between oneself and the environment, between different individuals or between different groups. It follows that the aim of healthy living is not the direct elimination of conflict, which is possible only by forcible suppression of one or other of its antagonistic components, but the toleration of it—the capacity to bear the tensions of doubt and of unsatisfied need and the willingness to hold judgement in suspense until finer and finer solutions can be discovered which integrate more and more the claims of both sides. It is the psychologist's job to make possible the acceptance of such an idea so that the richness of the varieties of experience, whether within the unit of the single personality or in the wider unit of the group, can come to expression."

Marion Milner, 'The Toleration of Conflict', Occupational Psychology, 17, 1, January 1943

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    Comment #49251306

    Related: Which programming languages are most token-efficient? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46582728 - Jan 2026 (91 comments)

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    Comment #49247892

    Could you please stop creating accounts for comment (or every few comments)? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelin…

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    Comment #49222397

    You can't attack other users like this, no matter how right you are or feel you are, nor how justified or strongly you feel. Preserving a container for respectful interaction here …

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    Comment #49222373

    Thanks! Link added to top text.

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    Comment #49179243

    We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines. Please don't create accounts to do that with. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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    Comment #49175827

    Sorry, I can see how what I wrote wasn't clear. Let me put it this way: you can criticize EA without attacking a specific person. What you did in the GP comment was to make a state…

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    Comment #49140399

    Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewars, regardless of which nation you're for or against. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. https://ne…

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    Comment #49130435

    Please don't shitpost. This is beneath you, or ought to be.

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    Comment #49130408

    Appreciated!

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    Comment #49130403

    The person in your comment was not EA. There's always a way to make your substantive points thoughtfully, though of course this takes more time and energy - sometimes a lot more - …

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    Comment #49129806

    Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If y…

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    Comment #49128530

    Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119065 , which is currently on the frontpage

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    Comment #49128518

    Can you please not post AI-generated or AI-edited comments to HN? It's not allowed here - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated and https://news.ycombinato…

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    Comment #49128434

    Please don't cross into personal attack or post flamebait or take HN threads on generic tangents. We're trying for something different here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidel…

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    Comment #49128324

    Related. Others? C "clockwise/spiral" rule to understand declarations - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42564861 - Jan 2025 (75 comments) Clockwise/Spiral Rule - https://news.…

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    Comment #49125829

    Please don't use quotation marks to make it look like you're quoting someone when you aren't. That's also a snark trope, and we're trying to avoid those here. https://news.ycombina…

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    Comment #49125814

    It's true that metacommenting about leaving a discussion in order to leave a supercilious last word is a flamebait trope. But please don't respond by breaking the site guidelines y…

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    Comment #49125543

    From a superficial look I think the submitted title ("Moonshot built on 20k Nvidia chip cluster from Alibaba") might have been misleading. Article says "That hardware forms a subst…

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    Comment #49115699

    Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait, and also please stop using HN primarily for political/ideological battle? These things are not what HN is for, a…

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    Comment #49114674

    It is not ok to post like this here. Please see this longer reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49114611 .

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    Comment #49114611

    You can't attack another user like this here, and we ban accounts that do, so please don't do it again. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: it looks like your ac…

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    Comment #49112651

    Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse. If you know more than others do, that's great! But please contribute b…

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    Comment #49112648

    Please don't attack another user like this, no matter how wrong someone is or you feel they are. It only makes things worse. I believe I get the positive intention behind your post…

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    Comment #49104066

    We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49090676 .

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