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I wouldn't call it "obvious" that someone would accept another's opinion without any info to back it up and then extol it, though it's very interesting to me that you did.

I'm sure you would, but at least do us the decency of bringing data and leaving hyperbole out.

This is a wildly incendiary ideological rant and it has no place on HN.

What data did your friend use to come to that conclusion? Would you be willing to share so we can come to our own conclusions based on the evidence presented?

That's what a free market is, yes. edit: or would you prefer "that's what a free market does"? Either way, this is a remarkably incendiary, and frankly absurd, attempt to recast vo…

HN, in the general case, values civility over decency when the two conflict. I regard it as a fundamental flaw; your mileage may vary.

Citation please.

I am deeply ambivalent about my tenure at Amazon overall, but I unconditionally applaud the level of psychological safety in their dev culture: there is a shared understanding that…

There really isn't a discussion to be had, unless you seriously want to try the claim that "shallow" and "substance-free" don't have substantial overlap. Just accept that your comm…

They're referencing the site guidelines, so this statement is demonstrably false.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

Normative statements are based on one's observations and interpretations of facts, and that basis can be meaningfully scrutinized.

I'm not dang, but I'm going to refer you to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html , because this is remarkably inconsiderate and inflammatory rhetoric.

> "But they're really really actually super-duper truly totally bad!" isn't a valid argument, since many, many people can use it and they will. It is absurdity to make the claim th…

No, they got it right the first time. "Everything is political" is a reminder that we do not exist in a cultural vacuum. More pointedly, the simple act of existing in a space as a …

You refuse to acknowledge that sedition actually occurred , choosing instead to worry over a theoretical slippery slope of censorship that somehow ends the United States. QED. Safe…

> loaded words The literal definition of sedition [1] is: If two or more persons [...] conspire [...] to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or…

The United States will be done in by... stamping out the free expression of openly organizing to commit sedition against the United States. Spare us.

It's a damning indictment of "big tech" that it took Democrats having a trifecta in federal government and a violent mob breaking into the Capitol during a congressional session to…

> Increasingly, you step out of line once with the Left-leaning mindset, you are muted or banned. Citation needed.

A tale as old as HN itself: a service enforces its own Terms of Service, and commenters fall over themselves to defend an absurd absolutist ideal of "free speech" even when it dire…

Non sequitur.

You may notice there's quite a gulf between "uncomfortable" and literal sedition [1]. > To oppose by force the authority of the United States government; to prevent, hinder, or del…

At what scale? How does it compare to the 6,600 pedestrians killed by drivers in 2019 [1]? Is it even within three orders of magnitude? [1]: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a3113…

I agree that the fault ultimately lies with the Bush administration for making false claims. However, it is _critically_ important to also place fault with the media outlets who si…