Ask HN: Where do conservative, pro-military software engineers hang out online? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Where do conservative, pro-military software engineers hang out online?

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Post by throwaway15392 » Fri, Feb 28, 2020, 5:12 PM UTC

sendbitcoins wrote: post #8

Follow twitterers, look at their bios, some will point to social spaces: telegram, discord, fb page.

Do you have any specific recommendations?

Re: Ask HN: Where do conservative, pro-military software engineers hang out online?

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Feb 28, 2020, 5:16 PM UTC

jmspring wrote: post #6

Interesting article from about 5 years ago — https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/390048/

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Re: Ask HN: Where do conservative, pro-military software engineers hang out online?

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Post by actbsh » Fri, Feb 28, 2020, 5:21 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #2

Why? Echo chambers are the best way to stop your education.

or maybe that's why they want to visit the conservative, pro-military forums - to keep educating themselves.

Re: Ask HN: Where do conservative, pro-military software engineers hang out online?

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Feb 28, 2020, 5:40 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #2

Why? Echo chambers are the best way to stop your education.

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Re: Ask HN: Where do conservative, pro-military software engineers hang out online?

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Post by downerending » Fri, Feb 28, 2020, 6:26 PM UTC

chishaku wrote: post #4

Please define conservative. Also, pro-military.

Here's a hand-wavy analogy from the ML world. When searching for "better" under uncertainty, one has to decide how quickly to "learn", which is basically updating one's learned information (parameters) in a way that one hopes will ultimately lead to better results.

A "conservative" strategy updates that information more slowly, while a "progressive" strategy updates faster. The tradeoff is that if one updates too slowly, one loses the possibility to improve more quickly and perhaps to adapt more quickly to changing circumstance. If one updates too quickly, one can actually "forget" hard-learned lessons, leading to poor outcomes.

Looked at that way, a conservative is someone who is more wary of change, for fear of losing important societal knowledge.

Re: Ask HN: Where do conservative, pro-military software engineers hang out online?

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Post by jgwil2 » Fri, Feb 28, 2020, 6:39 PM UTC

actbsh wrote: post #13

jacquesm wrote: post #2

Why? Echo chambers are the best way to stop your education.

or maybe that's why they want to visit the conservative, pro-military forums - to keep educating themselves.

It says, "Looking for like-minded peers," so I don't think they're trying to challenge themselves.

Re: Ask HN: Where do conservative, pro-military software engineers hang out online?

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Post by krapp » Fri, Feb 28, 2020, 6:40 PM UTC

Probably Voat, Gab and 8Chan.

Re: Ask HN: Where do conservative, pro-military software engineers hang out online?

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Post by sendbitcoins » Fri, Feb 28, 2020, 6:49 PM UTC

throwaway15392 wrote: post #11

sendbitcoins wrote: post #8

Follow twitterers, look at their bios, some will point to social spaces: telegram, discord, fb page.

Do you have any specific recommendations?

Sorry, I don't have anything specific, but I empathize with your situation

Re: Ask HN: Where do conservative, pro-military software engineers hang out online?

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Feb 28, 2020, 7:08 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Where do conservative, pro-military software engineers hang out online?

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Post by throwaway15392 » Fri, Feb 28, 2020, 7:14 PM UTC

sendbitcoins wrote: post #18

throwaway15392 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have any specific recommendations?

Sorry, I don't have anything specific, but I empathize with your situation

Thanks anyways, and cheers