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The guidelines say: "Please don't use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battle. This destroys intellectual curiosity, so we ban accounts that do it." "Throwaway ac…

I will obey your decisions as a mod. However, I disagree with the assertion that my comment was about ideology or politics. My comment was about the very concrete conditions of lif…

Honestly surprised at how many people are posting comments about this. You know you'll end up on some list, right? Maybe you think it's ok to debate this kind of measure now, but t…

I took a look at the current top item in "Politics": https://knowherenews.com/event/2471ce59-379e-40fc-87f7-fee77... The impartial version "feels" impartial enough in tone, whereas…

Don't worry, we're getting political commissars in our offices too.

Violence, poverty and deprivation are the state of nature. The way all the evils of the world are laid at the feet of the West has no rational basis. The counterfactual against whi…

Or so you would think, but as I recall her biggest detractors were SJWs complaining about how much skin she was showing. The whole idea of her being just a facade for some male eng…

DHH: Although Thiel would already have been on a Performance Improvement Plan for his legal wars against the press. So easy move What the fuck.

> It seems unlikely that the connection between fines and large African American populations—a connection that cannot be explained by poverty—is the result of African Americans acr…

Yes, Jews are overrepresented in journalism, politics, finance and other highly impactful careers. Take the percentage of Jews in such a category, divide it by the percentage of Je…

As a H1B worker, I know I am depressing wages for Americans. Not just by increasing the labor supply, but also by having a weaker negotiation position than I would have as a citize…

You're being dishonest here. Your choice of words paints a certain picture, but we all know what kind of people get people fired for their controversial opinions, and they wouldn't…

Thanks, I was not aware of that aspect of San Francisco's history. It does not seem to have much of a connection to the present situation, though - or maybe it does? The Democrats …

San Francisco was only ever really tolerant of the right kind of differences, AFAICT. For example, it appears to be a near-complete political monoculture. It even has a prominent r…

This is the future you chose.

> He's flat out wrong about what "all the testing" says, btw. I would be grateful if you could go into some more detail about this. There have been articles on HN recently that mad…

I haven't seen much better logic from the other part. It's not just a political view, they're taking away our rights! If restricting the privileges of marriage to a group of people…

I agree that Greenspun's arguments are disappointingly weak. I'd like to try to tackle your point 1, since I haven't seen people do that before. I should preface that I am indeed i…