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What personal attacks? I responded directly to the guy's comment. It was an attack on what he said, not who he is.

Job ads being one. Also, HN has behind the scene deals to peddle certain news organizations ( nytimes, wapo, wsj ) and certain ngos with certain agendas. What do you think HN is? W…

> This is a great solution for hacker news types How is it a great solution when hacker news has ads that most ad blockers can't block?

> It is like Milo Yiannopoulos; it looks like communication but it is better to think about it as noise, static, or nerve gas. You surely don't have an agenda. /s So much HN commen…

> How do you avoid being in a bubble? Simple. By exposing yourself to a variety of ideas, opinions, viewpoints. >Whether it is curating the subreddits you see, or selecting the new…

> Not only that, but the US government is neither as aggressive nor as forward-looking about such partnerships What? The chinese modeled their economic system after the US. We love…

> If you write code on .NET, you should adopt this release ASAP. If you require the new features maybe, but if you are writing enterprise code, you shouldn't rush into things. > Do…

> Colon and rectal cancers have increased 51% among adults under age 50 since 1994, the cancer society said. Percentages can be deceiving. 51% off what base? Was it 100 people in 1…

> Are you referring to the missing warrant canary? That's certainly part of it. But even before then, reddit was sharing data with the authorities. Just like google removing "don't…

> I am a heavy Reddit user and I don't notice any of these things You don't see politics related content on reddit daily? I used reddit since reddit was days old ( years before the…

> Reddit works because it’s anonymous, information-dense and relatively ad-free. Reddit is none of those now. It's not anonymous ( they track your identity and feed it to the gover…

A couple of us got flashlights and went to the main street and it was pitch dark and quiet and eerie. That was fun. Other than that, living without power got real boring, real quic…

I guess that's one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is America has a truck driver wage/compensation shortage. I'm sure if the companies increased wages that shortage wo…

> Citation needed. So you want a link snope or politifact link? Even if people provided citations, wouldn't you reject them because it isn't snopes or politifact ( the approved "fa…

Reversing engineering cracks, visiting porn sites just for warez passwords or just wasting time reading 2600. It was the golden age for young kid with a passion for computers.

> Amazing how, a decade or more after the python-perl skirmishes, some still ... still ... cannot give up their attacks on perl, using the mask of accounts created in the last day.…

awk is a fundamental part of the unix ecosystem. It's in the hall of fame of utils along with the likes of grep. If you use unix or linux in any semi-serious capacity, you are fami…

Monitoring heavy trafficked interstate corridors is one thing. This is entirely a different. Amazon/tech is at a point where we could get blanket surveillance on most streets, in o…

It's definitely an end of an era. Some other telling factors. The level of activity/projects in perl compared to python. http://twimgs.com/ddj/images/article/2014/0114/Tiobe1.gif h…