You said something a bit earlier about HN changing how it moderates flagged comments.
I also see others who are able to swathe away truthful things, while my contesting of it gets me reprimanded.
I saw on your twitter once, you were critiquing how a mis-tweet can be portrayed by certain people.
There is always going to be an outrage circus. Why let them use virtue signalling as a way to censor ideas they don't like?
I can't promise I'll agree and rubberstamp every idea. I think to have a good conversation, the system has to have the integrity to let an opposing view stand.
I put a lot of thought into my comments and being a good contributor. I give consideration to other commentators.
Can you please unban this account and its' IP address?
A does leave out a couple of things. The same time the gamergate / fappening controversy began, he had an activist feminist girlfriend around the time.
Gamergate discovered that the press uncritically reported the allegations of a lot of frauds and charlatans. It never focused on how gamergaters themselves are on the receiving end of threats.
As for the fappening, nothing too special there. Find and arrest the hacker - that's pretty much all you can do, it was never a 4chan thing.
4chan risked reaching the tipping point of becoming reddit. People are happy to have a place to express themselves without a bunch of moral police hypocrites pushing them around. When Poole, in chan terms, went full cuck, he gave up his publicly displayed value just so he could have sex with his feminist girlfriend.
So yeah, I'm not surprised a total hypocrite like that gets disrespect. It's sad to how a girl gets in the way of guys greatness.
> when you broadcast your realpolitik that hard, you're gonna lose people.
Hacker culture may not necessarily be aligned with Eich's personal views / situations. But crucial underlying concept is ignoring nebulous things like that. So taking action / reforms based off the premise feels like a Chesteron's fence [1].
Yeah but significant still. 27.7% of their pie disappeared.
Recent versions of Firefox have introduced third party plugins (like pocket).
After the Eich thing, they lost the "hacker" cred and their talent was pretty easy much poached. Further, the concept of merit - overlooking the political in lieu of skill / talent - is no longer a core value of the organization. [1]
Recruiters were all over linkedin and taking away the best talent left and right.
First I wanted to say USA may be different from others in the fact that silence can't be hold against you. If police detain you, the advice I hear from lawyers is to zip it. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGgKLgVNfAo is a great presentation featuring a former detective and a defense attorney)
In other countries, like UK - not giving an alibi in situ can be used against you.
In USA - I trust the integrity of the legal system, but the police are trained to use deception - ranging from gigantic pretexts, like posing as your telephone repair man, to simple bluffs and lies. (Funny spoof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfF8OSlGhKk)
This creates a chilling effect of distrust which discourages informants. No one worth his salt can take a cop at his or her word. And I think the cumulative result that has on communities is drowned in relation to what we see with cop violence in the public eye.
Not having a line between community and police means cases can go unsolved and serious crime can go unpunished.
> Both houses of Congress are controlled by people who talk euphemistically of the super-rich (who increasingly derive their wealth from inheritance not ingenuity) as "job creators".
I disagree. I hear too much talk about solving gaps and creating jobs, and not single shred of sympathy for the simple rich.
We need to stop thinking its our problems to solve these so-called "societal injustices". It's not my problem. I'm trying to improve myself!
People should mind their own business and try to improve their own situations. If they're in no / shitty jobs, poor health / broken families, they need to figure it out like everyone else! We can't play God and it for them.
It just enable this entitlement attitude of your piousness and their own of what they deserve.
I'm wondering why this person's anger and outrage is so special, she gets her own article in the newspaper.
When people are jerks and rip me off - no one makes me a news article. And that's the problem, in the eyes of the law - you're not this VIP.
I understand her frustration in getting turned around. The rules are the rules. You wasted money on a ticket by hoping you could work on a tourist visa. No, you don't get "let off" or special treatment. Always double check to make sure you are using the correct visa!
> Ugh. Reddit’s business plan is apparently to monetize as much vile toxic waste—racism, sexism, anti-Semitism, stolen celebrity nudes—as they can get away with.
They're distancing themselves from that.
Maybe you're a good writer, I've never heard of you, but you think you're a priest. You're a judge.
I don't want to buy from people who think they have the right to prima facie discount swaths of people. Stick to whatever marketing books you sell, and keep the character judgment for elsewhere.
If you wrote that thinking your agreement with that choir would get people to overlook your own faults or buy your books - you were mistaken.
It happened here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10487628
I wasn't involved with this nor care about it particularly.