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Minecraft’s creator excluded from event over his ‘comments and opinions’
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#72It's sad how wealth affected Notch or perhaps magnified his character. A long time ago, I started following him on Twitter and I think I lasted about 2 weeks before I unfollowed him. The sheer negativity and woe is me is bananas. If there's a prime example that money doesn't buy happiness, he is one.
He was always like this. Wealth didn't change anything.
Re: Minecraft’s creator excluded from event over his ‘comments and opinions’
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
All I've found regarding notch's racist comments is this GQ article: https://www.gq.com/story/notch-whiteness-tweets I would probably not interpret his comments as racist, at least not in an obvious definition of the word. I've also read his twitter feed a fair amount, and have not spotted any clearly racist statements. I've also heard he is anti semitic, but haven't seen any citations. As for the links in the parent…
https://twitter.com/notch/status/22330335379333120
Since you posted this comment, the tweet has been completely deleted.
http://web.archive.org/web/20190430104624/https:/twitter.com...
Re: Minecraft’s creator excluded from event over his ‘comments and opinions’
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know if that's entirely true—I followed him on twitter for a period of time before and after the sale, and post-sale his tweets got more and more unpalatable. Perhaps you're right, and he didn't change at all, but at the very least the public persona that he expressed changed.
It gets dangerous when tons of the people around you are somehow seeking to feed off your wealth and thus you get very little negative feedback anywhere. Everyone says they hate yes men. In practice most people love yes men.
> Everyone says they hate yes men. In practice most people love yes men.
Sadly true.
Re: Minecraft’s creator excluded from event over his ‘comments and opinions’
#75> Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella recently emailed staff saying that if they didn’t support building a more inclusive culture, “your rewards, your career trajectory, and possibly even your employment will be impacted.” Translation: "If you keep pointing out we illegally discriminate during hiring and promotion, we'll fire you." His comment is a jab at the people complaining about actual racism at Microsoft -- a veiled…
We've banned you for primarily using HN for ideological flamewar, ignoring our requests to stop, and using multiple accounts to do it. Would you please not create accounts to break the site guidelines with? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Your comment is slander, but people of your ideological persuasion are habitual liars.
Look at the repeated slander of rightwing figures, particularly by those from Silicon Valley companies.
The "multiple accounts" are tied to different devices, because it's annoying to transfer credentials -- and I think you know that, if you've reviewed the server logs.
Again, you've engaged in nothing but political discrimination here, because I was referencing a factual thing: Microsoft was recently called out for their racist policies, and this response is laden with corporate speak for retribution against that. It's not a flamewar, because it's discussing a recent and on topic event -- you just don't like that discussing the racism from Microsoft is topical.
You simply don't want to talk about it, and are use propriety as an excuse to shut down the discussion.
You allow this kind of rhetoric, except when it would actually motivate people to critically examine their beliefs about certain issues.
You're nothing but a political censor.
Re: Minecraft’s creator excluded from event over his ‘comments and opinions’
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
All I've found regarding notch's racist comments is this GQ article: https://www.gq.com/story/notch-whiteness-tweets I would probably not interpret his comments as racist, at least not in an obvious definition of the word. I've also read his twitter feed a fair amount, and have not spotted any clearly racist statements. I've also heard he is anti semitic, but haven't seen any citations. As for the links in the parent…
> Believing in conspiracy theories seems pretty innocuous. Sorry - Aren't we in the middle of a measles outbreak (U.S.A)?
How is this related to conspiracy theories?
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Believing in conspiracy theories seems pretty innocuous. Sorry - Aren't we in the middle of a measles outbreak (U.S.A)?
How is this related to conspiracy theories?
Misinformation driven in part by conspiracy theories has increased the spread of measles back into areas where it was thought to be eradicated.
> An unfounded fear of vaccines has spread around the world in recent years, with childhood vaccination rates reportedly declining in several countries as a result. Nothing in the belief system of Orthodox Jews makes them any more likely to oppose vaccines, and several Orthodox rabbinical organizations have called on parents to vaccinate their children. But Hasidic Jews are prey to the same misinformation that has affected others, and some ultra-Orthodox rabbis have come out against vaccines.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/nyregion/measles-jewish-c...
Re: Minecraft’s creator excluded from event over his ‘comments and opinions’
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is this related to conspiracy theories?
Misinformation driven in part by conspiracy theories has increased the spread of measles back into areas where it was thought to be eradicated. > An unfounded fear of vaccines has spread around the world in recent years, with childhood vaccination rates reportedly declining in several countries as a result. Nothing in the belief system of Orthodox Jews makes them any more likely to oppose vaccines, and several Orthod…
The article is paywalled.
So, there is a documented decline in vaccination, but is there a documented link between that and spread of measles?