Looking forward to my very first thanksgiving today! (currently visiting the Bay Area from Sydney)
Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving
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#82Happy Thanksgiving to everyone on HN today!
For young people like me who are new to the tech industry, this year has been a realization that tech is anything other than "a rollercoaster that only goes up." But I am so thankful for everyone in this community, and ones like it, for bringing so much rigor, growth, and opportunity to the world. I'm thankful for my co-workers, customers, readers, and friends.
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#83Thank you to @dang and team for keeping the balance right here, it's a thankless (usually) job but it is pulled off with aplomb and style.
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#84Happy Thanksgiving all.
We've got the 'rona again, so pretty small one today. If you're celebrating with loved ones and friends, give them a hug. Wishing I could do that. Don't let those important yet small moments pass.
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#85This is my favorite community on the internet. It's the only one I don't feel gross about after spending time on it. Shout out to all the talented people here and for @dang for keeping things in check.
It can definitely be an echo chamber, the mods tend to flag/ [dead]/ bury posts and comments for no reason and turning on [dead] visibility is basically just 4chan, however I have received the most legitimate use from this site as people on it tend to be experienced and knowledgable
I don’t think you can have both. The mods cannot flag/bury things for no reason, and then have 4chan when you turn on [dead] visibility.
I’m personally of the opinion that even things which get flagged on here are pretty tame compared to the rest of the internet (e.g. reddit)
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#86I'm thankful for this community! Sometimes I don't feel smart enough to be here... but I am thankful to lurk for now!
> Sometimes I don't feel smart enough to be here
That’s exactly why it’s a great place to hang around though.
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#87Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation: The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature that they cannot fail to penetrate and even soften the heart which is habitually in…
Also, this Proclamation issued by Governor Wilbur Cross on Nov. 12, 1936 "Time out of mind at this turn of the seasons when the hardy oak leaves rustle in the wind and the frost gives a tang to the air and the dusk falls early and the friendly evenings lengthen under the heel of Orion, it has seemed good to our people to join together in praising the Creator and Preserver, who has brought us by a way that we did not…
Is it just me, or were people much better at writing these in the past?
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#88It's an understatement to call HN a daily read for me. Does anyone else check the comments before following the link? The perspectives shared here are a valuable part of my information diet. Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving!
Honestly I’ve always gone comments first then go down some rabbit hole after five comments of tangents
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#89I am thankful for HN being there for me every day. This place feels like a cozy home for my higher brain functions.
There has not been a bad mood that I could not eventually distract away by either reading comments or getting actively involved in some conversation here. Rarely do I walk away from a day of browsing HN without new project ideas dancing in my head.
HN has also been invaluable for validating certain technical concepts over the years. All in all, I certainly owe this community much more than it owes me.
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#90I'm thankful for this community! Sometimes I don't feel smart enough to be here... but I am thankful to lurk for now!
When I created my account 11 years ago I thought I wasn't that smart either. Then I got older and cocky and figured out we're all pretending to be smart :)
Welcome!