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"...as long as you agree with us about everything"

Let me make a counter argument - the signal to noise ratio was always awful. Look at UseNet, at Eternal September. What changed wasn't the signal to noise ratio, but rather how the…

Seems like a recipe for elitism. The groups of interesting people would be virtually impossible to get into, and the pleb groups would be boring. One of the things that worked abou…

>we'll have to ask ourselves if giving that much power to the individual a safe endeavor What's the alternative? Every collective effort is a series of individual efforts.

Do you have any source information for this? As far as I understood, the Wright brothers started out by building hobbyist gliders in consultation with fellow aviation pioneer Octav…

Isn't that a bit like saying that every innovation depends upon milk? I guess, technically, every innovation does begin with a baby drinking milk, but it seems like a stretch to at…

Every breakthrough starts from government funded initiatives? Wilbur and Orville Wright disagree.

Wow, Musk's getting coverage on HN. Let's check it out... ...oh. OK. Hmmm. Starting to get a little worried about the neutrality of coverage. It's never good when technical issues …

If I was served malware by Facebook, I could definitely contact Facebook for assistance, and even sue them if necessary. And the point about "URLs I dont know" is exactly my point …

How safe is bladerunner.social? Do we know who runs it, what their privacy policy is, where the data is housed, etc.? If I clicked that link, and bladerunner.social served me malwa…

I don't want to be a Stanford art major who describes people they meet in passive-aggressive terms like, "clear skin and dead, vacant eyes".

One of my first real entries into "the industry" was as a beta tester for WC2:ToD on Mac OS. Warms my heart to see its included here. Shout out to all my Burning Blade bros from th…

It's considered shhhware

Nerfing the world will only nerf it for the powerless. The power elites will always have full power devices, flying cars, all of that. There is no alternative to freedom.

A combination of beeswax and microcrystalline wax (made from petrolatum) works the best, but beeswax alone will provide fine water repellency, just slightly less durability and eas…

"This is a noble pursuit—I wish we would civilize the women in my home country on the subcontinent." OwO

The missile knows where it is... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZe5J8SVCYQ

If this is the case, would we expect to see lingering side effects in adults who were afflicted by gut issues like Crohns disease in their youths?

>Why would you introduce your children to anything associated with Elon Musk? He makes good stuff, and doesn't frequently go on weird aimless rants motivated by clearly disguised p…

The goal here of flagging Tesla up front seems entirely obvious, and to be expected of vindictive modern media in a panic over the loss of their monopolistic control over media dis…

One glance at the edit history on the Project Vertias entry will prove the lie of this theory...

So, no thoughts on how Musk's attitude seems remarkably consistent with the speech and actions of the internet's founding minds, I take it?

I don't know how much you remember about the transition from BBSes to the internet, but the heavy handed moderation of FidoNet is one of the exact reasons we all flooded into UseNe…

> government, FANG, it's all the same If you believe that, then you also support efforts to force big tech to respect freedom of political speech, yes?

Credit scores are not determined by the government. If a credit ratings agency took that step, it would harm them because Twitter posts are unlikely to represent a meaningful varia…