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Damn you, Poe's law!

If they hate Lina Khan, it's because she's liable to make demands on them without knowing anything about their business. In the worst case, her office turns outright extortionist, …

They won't always be (prohibitive).

The opening qualifies as sarcastic: > I am so happy not to live in an American small town. Because whenever I'm shown some small town in the States it is populated with all kinds o…

> I mean, look at it this way: when you ask a crew to paint your house, you specify the colors upfront. You don't iterate with them on after every room, or every wall. This isn't a…

The standard you've laid out proposes that any statement about a man's experience in a relationship is by definition misogynistic, because it's centers the man (and, of course, era…

I'd agree that they are "dominant", and that legal authorities should watch Amazon closely for specific violations, but they only control 35-40% of the online consumer retail marke…

What is Amazon's Monopoly? I don't mean this as a gotcha question: I really don't understand what people are claiming when they say this. All three of those companies are now large…

I agree that the enterprise market does not value usability very much, and I would even agree that the enterprise vendors made the right choice to deliver anything at all, in the e…

What you say is true, but these companies aren't successful because their products are usable. They succeeded because of their first-mover advantage, lack of alternatives, and comp…

Don't worry, there's plenty of room for conformity in society too!

Reading this comment (which is correct, I think) gives me the urgent desire to log off HN.

Orwell, from "Politics and the English Language" [0]: > Words of this kind are often used in a consciously dishonest way. That is, the person who uses them has his own private defi…

> I'm merely pointing out a fact. "The Hunter Biden story is insignificant" is a judgement, not a fact, it's a judgement. I'd say that calling it "misinformation" is bizarre, excep…

I mean, read the comment chain you were responding to? How about this: you don't get to decide what's remotely important to people in the context of the election?

The FBI doesn't get to decide what's "important in the context of an election." The contents of Hunter's laptop didn't stop me from voting for Biden, but that's because I'm a cynic…

No, "Orwellian" means almost the opposite: Winston and Julia are perfectly capable of thinking dissident thoughts, despite being immersed in Ingsoc. "Orwellian" refers to dominatin…

"Blurred Lines" versus "Got to Give it Up"? > On March 10, 2015, a jury found Thicke and Williams, but not T.I., liable for copyright infringement. The unanimous jury awarded Gaye'…

Why is this a special concern about GPT-3? I cannot think of an institution, entity, or tool about which those statements are not true. Replace "GPT-3" with "Hacker News posters" "…

Will any downvoters comment? I think democracy is the best option we have, but ignoring its weaknesses and checkered history isn't constructive. The current democracy-worship afoot…

> people who wouldn’t otherwise have had them reinforced. You mean people without access to niche communities / echo chambers? I grant there are people ready to embrace destructive…

That isn't what anyone means by "echo chamber". You're talking about manners, not different viewpoints.

No, but it is _very_ dangerous to Jews for those people to be isolated, never have their ideas challenged, and miss out on the moderating influence of other viewpoints

This has some internal logic, but every experience I've had contradicts your proposition. For example, I'm in my late forties. When I was growing up, it was rare to encounter (out)…

I'm in favor of letting people pursue their preferences, but echo chambers are antithetical to civil society - much more dangerous than so-called misinformation (indeed, they are e…