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https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/input.html#attr-input... > The following extract shows how a messaging client's text entry could be arbitrarily restricted to a fixed number …

> That's how human society works most of the time. No, that's how it breaks apart and dies.

> He watched on. Now that he had changed sides to the SS, he admired the strength of Fritz and the police man even more. He finally had left the camp of those who were wretched eno…

> The greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons. -- Hannah Arendt You don't cease to be come a person responsib…

True, but it's not outright impossible to see some of one's own flaws. At the same time, another person might perceive a flaw "false positive" where they just don't know the full s…

> it would better address the political and humanitarian issues raised. That wouldn't make it "better", not doing so makes it completely unacceptable.

That certainly explains the regular silencing of criticism of China on HN. The irony is really something though: http://blog.samaltman.com/e-pur-si-muove > Also, smart people tend …

> Unreason and anti-intellectualism abominate thought. Thinking implies disagreement; and disagreement implies nonconformity; and nonconformity implies heresy; and heresy implies d…

> while we are all waiting That phrasing I disagree with. As Noam Chomsky said, this generation has to decide whether there will be organized human life on the planet in the future…

Why does something you imagined that wouldn't really add anything worthwhile not being the case take away from it? Good on them that their careers cannot be hindered for this; not …

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No, fuck totalitarianism. We don't even know what China might be if it weren't for totalitarianism. Just like an individual under such pressures cannot become themselves. Speaking …

> we're all supposed to be ashamed of porn and sex outside of marriage in the west So basically, you're not aware of any of the stuff I'm referring to, and reroute it to what you d…

I generally agree, but in this day and age, there is also real horrid, vile stuff... just follow banner ads on random free porn sites and you'll find a lot that is more an excessiv…

If you have issues with protecting children from harm by predators, apart from that kind of being a red flag, I would rest assured that any kids ideally will be adults one day, wit…

It's nauseating that an important topic like this one gets headed of with cutesy deflection from someone with a nick that's a homophone of "gas the jews".

It's pre-emptive in that it doesn't address any of it, you just says that "this" has been said about other things, supposedly implying that since this somehow refutes even one sent…

> People have been saying this What is "this", in this context? The article isn't 1% as shallow as your pre-emptive dismissal of it.

> Maybe we should be, though? [..] Great. I'm not sure that should top your list of injustices, though. It doesn't top mine, because it's not one thats happening in my back yard. S…

> War is essentially an evil thing. Its consequences are not confined to the belligerent states alone, but affect the whole world. > To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is …

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> Strikingly, no concern was voiced over the glaringly obvious fact that no official reason was ever offered for going to war -- no reason, that is, that could not be instantly ref…