Is the HackerNews official stance to froth madly at anything Uber because, at the heart of the matter, they are long-standing medallion monopolies held by entrenched officials in very wealthy cities?
Next time you write software, make sure you have Politburo approval in triplicate to stay in the good graces of HN.
This is where you reply about asshole CEOs to sidestep the question.
Truth is the intersection of belief and truth. The moment you start formalizing a belief, be it linguistically, mathematically, naturally, structurally, etc., you are no longer talking about the belief, but the model of that belief.
What we consider axiomatically true in the domain of logic could just be artifacts of a confirmation bias between the structure of our brains and the patterns we have evolved to seek. (Facial expressions, social cues, emotions, etc.) In this sense, logic appears to reveal itself to us, when it reality we are inventing an approximation of it in accordance to the real hard limitations of our neurology. Philosophy, then, is about unwrapping the truth from belief to get down to the core BELIEF, not the core TRUTH.
Beetles in an Austrianian desert almost went extinct because their axiomatic truth about brown, shiny, and rigid being ideal for mating was completely hijacked by empty beer bottles.
Played WoW for years. Grinded most of my members to rank 14.
Ran a PvP guild that lost three times in 6 months during this grind.
Tricked the entire horde to split forces in AV with 3 deep operatives, allowing Alliance to engage with the horde in two 37 vs. 20 waves, allowing them to win for the first time on that server in a year.
I regret none of it. I learned how to lead people in high-stress situations, how to build loyalty, and how to handle high-performance people while feeding their never-ending urge for conquest. I took all those skills and now I run multiple companies in different sectors, all designed to achieve a singular goal when they are all put together.
Because it's ability to generate a limitless supply of zero-days makes it easier for us in San Francisco to go after blogs we don't politically agree with.
Freedom of association means assembling with like-minded interests, not purging unlike-minded interests. What you are trying to defend with that deep-end SJW Kool-aid belly flop is the unchristened but widely-held "freedom of ignorance" where you have the freedom to be stupid by denying information to yourself.
Which of course, not only do you have but also appear ready to fight to the doxx to defend.
The web is not a pull model. Learn the other HTTP verbs... or cherry-pick away to continue the "Fischer Price's My First Venture Outside of Tumblr" shtick everyone sees you pulling, that's fine, too.
The web does allow individuals and private organizations to determine their distribution methodology. And not all of them are winners.
The 1930s model has been dead once the tyrants of socialism bludgeoned it to death. But, hey... you seem hell-bent on justifying why your brand of censorship is awesome, how about a wager:
You post your actual identifying information like social media has trained you and I won't post mine. Guess who doesn't have to adhere to the behaviour expectations of the people in my head and synthetic social pressures and status signalling, and thus, has true freedom of expression? Which one of us is going to be hunted down by axe-grinding autists who are obsessed with ideological purity and which one of us is going bypass that entire system until you hunt each other to death? Which of these strategies will survive beyond the impending eulogy of old media?
Because I gotta tell ya... that bicoastal elitist bubble and the partnership with the thought factories over at mainstream media have gone full diminishing returns after September.
I hear the Global Engagement Centre is hiring. You'd be perfect for them. Maybe we can fight Nazis with nothing but a $60,000 degree in English and composition! Yeah! We can repeat 1945 over and over and over again just so you can feel good!
Did the pixels offend you? Block everyone who disagrees with you.
Now you know why no one you knew voted for Trump.
If the left is obsessed with turning their entire belief system into a remake of the 1930s radio model (One story teller allowed, millions of listeners), then we will get 1930s results.
Meanwhile, I'll be using the internet the way Jesus 2.0 intended and engaging in robust anonymous communication networks to inoculate myself from feinting pearl-clutchers and other paid government emotion hackers.
I'll give you one guess which ecosystem will survive when the powers that be realized their precious fourth estate no longer works like it did in the 1930s.
When most people talk about "politics" what they really mean is they want to recite talking points told to them from their favorite dying old media echo chamber.
Reddit went full political and I left.
The chans went full political and I left.
Facebook went full political and I left.
Twitter went full political and I left.
I go on the internet to escape being repeatedly told I'm not doing enough to live up to the moral supremacist standards set by the Baby Boomers in the 1960s.
Nearly every single massive social network on the internet exists and have for a decade to cater to your daily fill of Silicon Valley bicoastal "look down the nose of the flyover plebs" equality porn. Go there for your schadenfreude. Don't bring it here.
Spirituality means having an imaginary friend. Politics means having imaginary enemies.
I gotta say, watching the political ideology that doubled down on postmodernism massively backpedal on the "truth is relative" meme is endlessly entertaining.
To kill two birds with one stone, as soon as animals demonstrate something more akin to tribal-level human behavior of religious worship (the grand fusion of self, environment, social, and mystery into the realm of higher powers that must be feared) and not postmodernist definitions of worship (the grand disconnection of the self from all other factors to appeal to an idealized self that can never manifest thank you CIA involvement in the postmodernist art movement and their unique ability to capture scary mommies everywhere) then I'll consider the idea that animals are demonstrating religious behavior.
And further more, if animals DO have religious behavior, then artificial intelligence research across the entire board is WOEFULLY inadequate to represent such a core part of the neurological interaction that generates religious behavior... a core behavioral capacity that was somehow missed in every single behaviorist research paper ever published since mankind mastered animal husbandry.
You either get in bed with the idea that only humans worship gods or you have to fundamentally throw all of psychology, sociology, and animal behavior studies completely out the window.