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how do you manage all these replies? is it just bookmarked or do you keep a spreadsheet? I see you do this often.
I guess they're engraved into my brain like a wax recording by now. I have keyboard shortcuts to bring up the most common ones, but otherwise I just go find them in HN Search.
More evidence that dang is a superhuman form of life.
Question for the mods: In the old days I don’t remember as much political / world news allowed. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. But I’ve seen more types of TV news s…
Modern information technology provides the enabling basis of the current turnkey infrastructure for a total information awareness-enabled authoritarian regime in the US. As in, it exists now. All of it. Already in the three letter agencies and social networks, you know or can extrapolate what everyone's opinion and views and compliance and "danger" to the regime. Right now. All it takes is a strongman from the D or R…
An alternate theory: they have cooperatively turned that key together, although I wouldn't expect everyone is in on it, or that "the key" is something in particular, other than a "general methodology" of how politics is performed, in the theatrical sense of the word.
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how do you manage all these replies? is it just bookmarked or do you keep a spreadsheet? I see you do this often.
I guess they're engraved into my brain like a wax recording by now. I have keyboard shortcuts to bring up the most common ones, but otherwise I just go find them in HN Search.
Because you had frequent access to these resources/links/texts as a part of your job, I believe they live in your brain's RAM.
Keep up the good work @dang!
A peek behind the curtain, and what I see is what I expect.
What a fantastic job you all (both? still?) do.
Truly anarchism in action. A wonderful thing. Nothing should last foever - long may you run!
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I think "political" content being so heavily suppressed is the community abdicating responsibility; and also is a sign of how much users here aren't able to emotionally regulate to have civil conversation [which is a signal of strength, of health - physical and mental health, mastery of oneself, self-control] - so much practically everything important - including the Emergency Act (war measures act aka martial law) b…
I think "political" content being so heavily suppressed is the community abdicating responsibility; Presumably every single member of this community is also a member of one or more other communities, some of which have an overt intention to be "more political". Given that, no one is being denied an outlet to share their views, give input, discuss, influence, vote, etc. when it comes to political events. So what is it…
My opinion: because here you can find arguably the highest concentration of powerful and knowledgeable minds, and this is the sort of thing that the world needs working on these hard problems.
I find the concern over serious issues that is often expressed here to be rather disingenuous, as people love to engage in bitch sessions about the bad behavior of the members of their outgroups, but the notion that we should consider rising above that level of behavior and think about trying to find actual solutions is somehow ~inappropriate, as this is a place only for "curious conversation" (except for the exceptions to that rule, of course).
dang, could you please describe your Emacs setup?
A few bullets..
1. Does the moderators use some form of automation to extract suspicious posts/comments or they go manually scanning all posts with the full threads? I'm just finding it to be extremely difficult to monitor 24/7 manually.
2. It's really an interesting story this "SkySheet" and just heard about it.
3. I believe this article would be of another level if it was recorded as a podcast where we can hear their natural voices in a live discussion.
4. Am I the only one who find it extremely difficult to understand why [some] HNewsers don't and, won't follow the site guidelines, go blind and write whatever will fill this gap in their ego?!
> In an Emacs file, Gackle collects a list of contradictory statements that people have used to describe Hacker News. dang, could you please describe your Emacs setup?
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Pretty sure right-leaning content per se is still available on reddit and what's actually banned is outright Nazism, racism, violence, etc. Lefty content featuring coordinated politcal violence would also get banned, if it existed.
> Lefty content featuring coordinated politcal violence would also get banned, if it existed. And that last part is the entire point: There simply is no mainstream-relevant occurency of left-wing terrorism and murders any more in the Western world. The most relevant militant group was the German RAF, which has all but dissolved in the early 90s (there are three still on the run and occasionally robbing a bank but tha…
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This is because Reddit was the original free speech platform, and you could find anything from any or no political leaning. Then they dropped free speech and kicked off right leaning content. So of course the alternatives quickly go right. If they had kicked off left wing content all of the free speech sites would be left, and you couldn't talk about your favorite TV show without going into the relative representatio…
Usenet, mailing lists, numerous BBSes, and any number of earlier Web forums look on your assertion with bemusement. Reddit claimed free speech as a value in its early years. That sentiment has evolved, for all the usual reasons.[1] It is possible to host a wide range of significant views without becoming overtly hostile to the majority of the population, and the viewpoints held by those. Reddit was in no way "the ori…