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So I am being asked to self-censor by "the community"? Was this comment downvoted because we're not allowed to talk about downvotes? But the topic is downvoting. I'm genuinely curi…

So what exactly is wrong with this answer that it deserves to be downvoted?

If it's far from perfect, let's improve it. It's not downvote or nothing. Downvotes are meant to tame the insults and offensive comments. But what if downvotes themselves are insul…

I get it, but this position makes HN definitively anti-free speech. You restrict speech and you restrict how people think. Calibrating speech is not free speech and neither is fadi…

In business, the survival motive becomes the profit motive. For content creators, the profit motive then manifests online as attention grabbing content. However, virality and truth…

Clarity and brevity are good, but when everyone is focused, no one is talking. Silence is the sound of everyone working. Talking can be a symptom of mismanagement. Also, better Eng…

Ya, it should just read "slippery when wet". Maybe add an exclamation mark to show urgency and that you care. So how we would describe the sign is usually what it should say. Like,…

Not only do we share some common perception, we're also all real. We are part of the universe. So to say people are subjective or that imagination is imaginary or that reality is a…

One-ness is a shape of a thing, much like triangle-ness or circle-ness. Shapes are physical, but they can be copied, unlike the things themselves. And when meaning is associated wi…

(con't) An abstraction is the smallest unit of reason, and logic creates the desired cause and effect as each truth flows through the system.

One-ness is a physical property and that's why we can see it. The magic happens when we call them all one, give it a symbol, and make them all equal. Now "one" has a unique existen…

You're still translating the mouse image into "mouse" in your mother tongue, then staring at the Japanese word. But I do agree translation does about as much harm as good. It's a s…

I would go far as to say it's obfuscation. But I don't think the CSS people feel the same. At this point I've chalked it up to a difference in philosophy and ideology. Brevity, exp…

edit for the record: > You'll offend them... If you encounter someone oversensitive, millineal or otherwise, you'll offend them...

The proper response to "hello" is just "hello". I was annoyed at first, but when I saw the phone of one of the kids that kept doing it, I saw his message app had 1283 unread messag…

That is impossible to police. The topic is Freedom of Speech. You need to ban these topics or there will always be battles, as there should be. Greatgirl also makes an important po…

This. We should call this "fake speech". American absurdism is rooted in fake speech with the intent to cheat and steal. It's perfectly permisible for politicians, businesses, and …

Bottom-line, if anyone feels they've been unjustifiably downvoted, or even "sour" for being downvoted, the feature is being followed by a negative experience for the user. If there…

Upvotes need no further abstraction for their purpose. Good can be good. But if we are to police and shame bad, justice deserves more nuance than this. Downvotes hinder the discuss…

I am not talking about tribal hatred or matters of perspective or what the public thinks or votes about anything here. I am talking about the masterminds and their intent. Trump cl…

The struggle over vocabulary is evident. The truth is it could be called all or none of these things. There was a professor on NPR who also said how each term (terrorism, insurrect…

I feel like there should be some better way to recognize and promote solutions that are future proof. Like transpilers and site generators that only produce vanilla code for deploy…

>the former is a pretextual cover for the latter Setting aside completely how I feel because it absolutely does not matter, the question should be, was it the latter or wasn't it? …

Trump has always gotten away with the things he was gravely incompetent at on the basis of his incompetence. This is just another case. He was pushing Pence to use power he didn't …

Right, except the protesters were sheep led by Trump and his Republican goons. This was nothing short of a failed coup. That can't be an exaggeration. Stephen Colbert did a great j…