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Hello dang, For future reference, am I allowed to know what ideas/opinions are permitted on HN, in what quantities, and which ideas aren't permitted? Are discussions about social i…

Ideological trolling? What does that mean? No offense intended, but it's a bit confusing knowing what topics/opinions I'm allowed to discuss and which ones I'm not. For the record,…

I support women having equal rights as men. I want movements that support equal rights for men and women to be taken seriously. So somehow by wanting to support the rights of women…

People are certainly free to talk about whatever they want to talk about. But I think feminists would find nearly universal support if they'd spend more time talking about real lif…

> More than 40 Twitter users sent similar strobes to Mr. Eichenwald after they realized they could trigger seizures, he tweeted Friday. I'm not suggesting that these people shouldn…

A lot of comments about this on Ars Technica are about debating whether flashing lights or an image can ever be an assault or not. I think it probably can be, and examples like "sh…

a) Just for the record, I'm not a fan of being a "dick" (more on that below) towards women. My thought-crime was merely pointing out how gaming communities insult everybody equally…

a) Red pill? Gamergate? What's that stuff? Certainly nobody should ever google any information and do their own research and make up their own mind. b) You'll notice that in my res…

a) Where did I say that women aren't experiencing harassment on some gaming communities? In fact, I explicitly acknowledged it. Your post is kind of pointless virtue signaling or s…

* Disappointing that the false meme about some gaming communities being hostile to women because they're women was promoted in this article. Some gaming communities are very hostil…

Mayer got a multi-hundred million dollar compensation package to sign up with Yahoo and run them into the ground, but somehow the narrative here is that a man is being paid more th…

You make a valid point about defiance. The Overton window and the timing of ideas is something that I've thought about a great deal and I'm not going to dispute that. The real answ…

Stunning observation, but thanks for proving my point. If my professional identity was on here, I wouldn't feel comfortable saying politically incorrect ideas.

Sure, out of a population of a billion on Facebook, if even .1% speak their minds that's still a lot of people. That doesn't really negate my point that most people are silenced mo…

> Without names attached, people’s words become either mean — or meaningless. The complete opposite is true. The true meanlessness in society is the bland echo chamber on places li…

I wonder if a younger Bill Gates would have supported heavy taxes on his company's computer software that allowed 1 accountant armed with a spreadsheet to displace the jobs of, I d…

I find the logic presented in this article to be ridiculous. If markets for healthcare can't exist, why is medical tourism a thing? But enough about that, let's proceed. Yes, if yo…

Yeah, less than 24 hours after a video of a woman asking Alexa if it's connected to the CIA goes viral and Alexa refuses to answer, we get a fun, light-hearted PR distraction piece…

* The article makes some great observations about energy levels. I think you can definitely run a company more productively if employees had more leeway about picking their own hou…

Not a huge fan of outright bans, and think this is probably the wrong priority for India to focus on. (I understand this is just Delhi) Air pollution is huge right now. And sad to …

What does criticizing air pollution have to do with prejudice?

I honestly don't think he hates anybody but the 10-15 year old audience he has to continue to pander to for years and years on end.

I think there's fair room for critiques on this implementation and their methodology for selecting priority. If more than a small number of protesters brought up these kinds of rat…