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> Apparently Mark Twain never said it. The advice has been written and uttered in various forms for millennia. > If the quote stated "If you are ignorant on a topic it's better not…

Friendly, pedantic, hopefully helpful reminder: > - ideally, the backup process on the home server side should not be more difficult than a cron job running "rsync -avz --delete /m…

> IMHO, space is big + satellites are hard to track, if they're highly-maneuverable or designed to be stealthy = possibility of launching untracked microsatellites that couple with…

> There is a very distinct strain of American thought that says freedom means the biggest or richest get whatever they want. Where did you get this idea? How do you reconcile it wi…

I like serif fonts, but on page 31 of that document, "List of Design Recommendations," it says: "Sans-serif fonts are usually more legible than fonts with serifs."

Of course, you're right. At the same time, we may ask why American society seems to be more ideologically polarized now than at various times in recent decades. If the root cause i…

Here's what should be an obvious one: any time I see communism criticized, the comment gets downvoted, and often flagged. Even comments written by people who lived in communist sta…

Thomas Ptacek and Don Hopkins are two examples of very high-profile users who routinely post guidelines-breaking comments without being downvoted, flagged, or chastised by mods. Ev…

> It's awfully hard not to see this as the commenter just taking this as a stalking horse to bring up an opinion they already held. Isn't this what happens on every HN thread, peop…

No, your premise is flawed. You jump to the conclusion that he made that claim based on a single data point. Just because he illustrated his point with one example does not mean hi…

> This opinion has been bought and paid for by fossil fuel companies who paid PR companies to smear these guys. The science stands up very well, but you've bought in and it doesn't…

> What are you talking about? Where did I make an end of the world prediction? It is you who brought that up. Of course nothing is going to end. Nice strawman. What do you think I …

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Mind-boggling, Dan. What did he say that even remotely comes close to "ideological flamewar hell"? Is "leftists" the keyword? Is criticism of "today's leftists" forbidden here? Mea…

I feel like we're not communicating very precisely. > they don't prevent infection or transmission. The vaccines cause you to have less symptoms. By being less symptomatic you're l…

> to slow the spread Wow, I haven't heard that slogan since 2020. Do you still believe it? Because even the CDC and Pfizer execs and European newspapers are admitting that the vacc…

That kind of argument is disingenuous flamebait and ought to be flagged. By the same logic, are car seats and seat belts injected into the body?

If I'm not mistaken, this comment of yours is itself a violation of HN guidelines.

Have you considered this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29165559

In threads like this, I'm always struck by the absence of discussion from a security-minded, denial-of-service attack perspective. It seems like, if someone didn't want one of thes…

Can you absolutely prove 100% that you're acting in good faith?

Ah, so that's how to farm karma on a brand-new account: 1. Find a comment that's been so heavily downvoted that it's nearly invisible. 2. Make a new account. 3. Post an ostensibly …

So the Democratic Party controls both houses of Congress and the White House, and they're trying to pass bills to give the Attorney General control over all federal elections in th…