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Come on now, don't be disingenuous. Of course they are mutually exclusive, because you mean "not being reddit" as in "we are better than reddit" -- an elitist stance.

> When I see comments criticizing others' comments I am always reminded of reddit. I think this is exactly what you're hoping to avoid when you come to HN. > I don't think HN is go…

> This seems extremely pedantic. "Use case" as it's used today basically just means "case" or "situation" for a particular project or task or goal. It's not business jargon or a bu…

> You're picking much too fine a nit here. I think you feel that way because of the HN/tech echo chamber. Nobody says or feels the need to say "use case" outside of such circles. >…

> HN has a history of comments like this that criticize other comments and add nothing to the discussion I disagree. HN is a place that seems to pride itself on the quality of its …

Corparate-speak that makes its way into common language is frequently justified post-hoc by subtle differences in meaning like the ones you allude to. The problem is that these dif…

> For my personal use case at least, this timeline worked out well for me. Hint for Hacker News commenters: 99% of the time, if your phrase includes the term "use case", you can sa…

> Many things are harder, not easier, for large companies than for small. Poor large companies, they are the real victims here.

> This is what happens when incentives are not aligned with regulations. No, this is what happens when one leaves the fox guarding the hen house. If incentives were aligned with re…

> Why are you so bitter? I don't know, it's just how I am. > I doubt PhD+ people do that type of research "just for fun" Well you'd be surprised. All the professional mathematician…

> Yeah but now, what? "now, what?", what? > What was learned from this? That 42 is the sum of three cubes. > Why did we look for a solution in the first place? They did. I do not b…

The very idea of a "scientific theory" is a philosophical concept, and your implicit assertion that empiricism trumps abstract reasoning (which I am here neither agreeing with nor …

> How can it be a state machine if you aren't mutating it? You are confusing a state machine (which is an abstract model of computation) with the behavior of a program implementing…

Maybe they do disagree with me. It is impossible to know, because they are not free to say what they really think -- which is another fundamental problem with not-democracy.

> Russia is a democracy. The US was a democracy when it genocided the native Americans. askmike is right. Democracy alone won't help Hong Kong. China will not stop. Pacifist Hong K…

Nothing is perfect, but dictatorship is worse. I live close what remains of the Berlin wall. People risked their lives to jump it and escape to the democratic side. Nobody ever wan…

> I don't see where OP is implying that individuals suffering from unfortunate accidents outside of their control are driving up health care costs No, OP is just proposing that hel…

Have you read any of them?

> my answer to that is that the government should not be paying for people's health care. It enables bad behaviors and it forces people who make good choices to subsidize people wh…

> The whole debate about nutrition confuses me. It is only confusing if one spends too much time paying attention to those who want to sell you something, or develop some sort of g…

You are right, and it is also the case that totalitarian policy can be implemented in a variety of ways and for a variety of reasons. It can be a last resort measure to save a soci…