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I bet that the kvetching doesn't happen now that it's a single Tumblr post rather than a tweet thread. And if it does, the complaints can be flagged instead of the post.
Maybe. But also HN doesn't have a great reputation re: gender, and foone is non-binary. So there are multiple reasons.
Not about the format here; but I was interested in the image for “Brother Rat” downplaying Ronald Reagan’s billing, whereas the three posters available on IMDB has him basically on top billing. Wonder what changed…
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It reminded me of DIVX[1] from 1999. Amazing how many times this horrible greedy idea was tried. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX
It isn't clear to me why it's unreasonable to have different pricing for rental vs. owning. In any case, the general trend seems to be towards not owning digital media in general.
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If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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It isn't clear to me why it's unreasonable to have different pricing for rental vs. owning. In any case, the general trend seems to be towards not owning digital media in general.
The problem isn't the different pricing. The disgusting greedy thing is purposely designing something to destroy itself to enforce that false dichotomy.
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>> I am not staff in any way, but in the spirit of the community, I would just like to point out the relevant guideline here. > Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did. The correct course of action if the article is inappropriate is to flag it. S…
I should keep my mouth shut but... I am genuinely very curious: Can you please explain how this sort of conduct is supposed to help reduce transphobia and the associated suicides/murders? I don't follow at all.
Not about the format here; but I was interested in the image for “Brother Rat” downplaying Ronald Reagan’s billing, whereas the three posters available on IMDB has him basically on top billing. Wonder what changed…
Ronald Reagan, the actor!?
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The problem isn't the different pricing. The disgusting greedy thing is purposely designing something to destroy itself to enforce that false dichotomy.
How is that any different from "buying" a digital rental on Amazon that expires after some length of time?
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>> I am not staff in any way, but in the spirit of the community, I would just like to point out the relevant guideline here. > Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did. The correct course of action if the article is inappropriate is to flag it. S…
I should keep my mouth shut but... I am genuinely very curious: Can you please explain how this sort of conduct is supposed to help reduce transphobia and the associated suicides/murders? I don't follow at all.
When people learn that those whose work/passions they find interesting absolutely despise them & their ideologies
Something clicks in their head. “Why does somebody who leads such a cool life/does cool things not like me/my views?”
In this case, we’re talking about transphobia. If one person who’s transphobic goes on to find out that Foone, who does cool/interesting enough things that they regularly make it to the front page of HN, is trans - they may finally realize “maybe I’m the bad guy” & change for the better.
This, in theory, leads to less hatred of trans people- which, in theory, leads to less trans suicides/murders.
This probably wasn’t the explanation you were after, nor is it amazingly well articulated, but it’s all I can offer you in this instance.
Not going to reply to anything past this in the thread as a whole - I have posted what I wanted and spent my karma.
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I should keep my mouth shut but... I am genuinely very curious: Can you please explain how this sort of conduct is supposed to help reduce transphobia and the associated suicides/murders? I don't follow at all.
Promoting a belief that people are born with gendered brains causes (and has caused throughout history) far more harm (in the utilitarian sense of: negative discrimination x females affected) than ‘transphobia’ (which I’m taking to mean simple principled disbelief in innate gender identity and rejection of socially constructed gender of as a primary basis for personal identity).
If HN staff doesn't want to prohibit links even at the author's request, I don't see what can be done here. It's a link to a publicly available resource. But I figure making comments like these just stokes the flames, like it evidently is right now. Seems these divisive and irrelevant conversations are more likely to promote hatred than to prevent it.
Unfortunately I've contributed by replying in the first place.
My bad.