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Upvoting and downvoting especially incentivizes echo chambers. I take it you've never had people follow you around threads and downvote everything you posted? Happens bizarrely oft…

Whoever makes that decision for each platform.

I did neither. Welcome to HN.

I think the number of discussions that are off-limits should be very small and platforms should be much much more transparent. However, if allowing certain discussions means also a…

He didn't do it productively, he made it into a rant about political parties; you can't get useful discussion on such a loaded topic like that. That's another part of this...you ca…

You seem to be projecting onto me what you think I'm projecting. ;) I didn't call it a stronghold. There are certain subreddits that were aligned. The donald before it moved, consp…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_synagogue_shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Jersey_City_shooting Every day? No. But when it's 2021 and you gotta worry about gett…

I think that's the real issue in all of this discussion: there is simply no will. It's too hard, it's too impossible, we've decided big tech has already won, we've ceded decades of…

>I like weed as a productive drug, it's stronger than caffeine for me, but I develop tolerance and addiction quickly. Any solution to the tolerance problem? Quitting/breaks is obvi…

I don't mean to ask the obvious question, but have you taken them to the doctor? It's very well possible that they literally can't "shut the hell up". You are frustrated, but they …

...is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by inattention, bouts of excessive energy, hyper-fixation, and impulsivity, which are otherwise not appropriate for a person's age…

https://www.amazon.com/Empire-Niall-Ferguson/dp/0465023282 Solid author, genuine attempt objective history, the causes, the justifications, the sins, the benefits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_democracy

We can with a shift towards the Switzerland model, but practically, that's very difficult to do.

See Fareed Zakaria's work on the importance of responsible elites. Or Plato, if you're feeling frisky.

How then shall we perform it?--At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it?-- Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant,…

Think through your last two paragraphs. Yeah, people that feel good are probably going to be more productive than those feeling bad (assuming you're not feeling too good). I can't …

Ha. I say that because we're going full on reefer madness with stuff like: "uninhibited abuse of THC and other dangerous mind altering drugs"