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Disagree. News orgs exist to inform of facts. Positive facts allow us to double down on what works. Negative facts allow us to inspect what went wrong.

Don’t. Think fearlessly and don’t lose the kernel of independent thought.

This is a distraction and diversion from the original comment. Hollywood is not at the scale of the internet. Some privileged people got cancelled in Hollywood, who cares. When a h…

I think all wars are fucked up in unique way. I see a lot of bashing of US Military here with knee-jerk reactions based on Afghanistan withdrawal. I'd suggest what a successful war…

Lot of discussion around here is knee jerk and not nuanced. Criminal law is complex and there are areas where it should be reformed and other areas where we need better enforcement…

That's been my general observation. I see the following hypocrisy: Murderers and violent crimes should require rehabilitation, better lives in the prison and discussion here tends …

I thought we, the liberals, are mostly aligned that non-violent climes should not be punishable by prison time.

I can digest your take. I’d say that governments shouldn’t be on Twitter. I have conflicting internal voice - on one hand, I don't want any of these social media companies to allow…

That's known as hindsight bias and if anything, you're naively glossing over. The 2008 fiscal stimulus dwarfs COVID printing machine. Here is the actual data: https://www.mckinsey.…

I don’t understand HN’s obsessive love for TikTok. It’s almost universally praised here.

Here is Twitter CEO promoting a dictatorship as a place to go for meditation: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/12/09/latest-...

I fundamentally disagree with Twitter's ideological position. Banning the president, allowing Taliban leaders, it is a censorship extravaganza and the selling point is ecochambered…

IMO this argument isn't all or nothing. Sure, popular things are hated but Node is especially eggregious. There is more to it than "its just popular". In my experience, the entire …

I’d say Twitter has done more damage to the society than FB. Twitter is a pure outrage machine. I might be in the minority but Instagram is still awesome. It’s gotten more ads but …

I think the government policies for COVID which were supposed to help the poor backfired and made things worse. Those that didn't invest, got shafted as commodities are becoming mo…

Everytime I learn Awk, I forget it. It is an infrequently used tool for me.

I should start paying attention to these pesky plots then ;-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle#/media/File...

Absolutely not. “Sharing resources” doesn’t work when there is not enough to share. A civilized society works when supply and demand intersection determines the price of goods and …

> Finally, the ban on misinformation would be temporary, because the crisis will pass. Coronavirus is here to stay, don't get your hopes up: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/arc…

Thank you for taking the time to put this all together and further your points. Jeez, the future looks dark when it comes to inquiry of truth. I've had discussions with other engin…

Ask liberals or conservatives and they will quickly point out their it's not their side that's misinforming. The fact is that they are all misinfoming. Just yesterday in the congre…

> But it's something like 1 in 17,000. 1 in 500 Americans have died from covid. This is true but misleading. You need to account for age as the primary factor that determines the r…