> Apparently Mark Twain never said it. The advice has been written and uttered in various forms for millennia. > If the quote stated "If you are ignorant on a topic it's better not to discuss it" that would be advise.…
Friendly, pedantic, hopefully helpful reminder: > - ideally, the backup process on the home server side should not be more difficult than a cron job running "rsync -avz --delete /mnt/raid user@server:/mnt/storage" A…
> IMHO, space is big + satellites are hard to track, if they're highly-maneuverable or designed to be stealthy = possibility of launching untracked microsatellites that couple with space assets and wait for activation…
> There is a very distinct strain of American thought that says freedom means the biggest or richest get whatever they want. Where did you get this idea? How do you reconcile it with the Declaration of Independence, the…
I like serif fonts, but on page 31 of that document, "List of Design Recommendations," it says: "Sans-serif fonts are usually more legible than fonts with serifs."
Of course, you're right. At the same time, we may ask why American society seems to be more ideologically polarized now than at various times in recent decades. If the root cause is natural human failing, what is the…
Here's what should be an obvious one: any time I see communism criticized, the comment gets downvoted, and often flagged. Even comments written by people who lived in communist states, offering first-hand accounts,…
Thomas Ptacek and Don Hopkins are two examples of very high-profile users who routinely post guidelines-breaking comments without being downvoted, flagged, or chastised by mods. Even if you were to concede that, you'd…
> It's awfully hard not to see this as the commenter just taking this as a stalking horse to bring up an opinion they already held. Isn't this what happens on every HN thread, people expressing opinions relevant to the…
No, your premise is flawed. You jump to the conclusion that he made that claim based on a single data point. Just because he illustrated his point with one example does not mean his point is based on one example. In any…
> This opinion has been bought and paid for by fossil fuel companies who paid PR companies to smear these guys. The science stands up very well, but you've bought in and it doesn't matter if 10 or 10,000 studies confirm…
> What are you talking about? Where did I make an end of the world prediction? It is you who brought that up. Of course nothing is going to end. Nice strawman. What do you think I refer to by "end of the world"? Don't…
Mind-boggling, Dan. What did he say that even remotely comes close to "ideological flamewar hell"? Is "leftists" the keyword? Is criticism of "today's leftists" forbidden here? Meanwhile this thread[0] that rants about…
I feel like we're not communicating very precisely. > they don't prevent infection or transmission. The vaccines cause you to have less symptoms. By being less symptomatic you're less likely to spread the disease. You…
> to slow the spread Wow, I haven't heard that slogan since 2020. Do you still believe it? Because even the CDC and Pfizer execs and European newspapers are admitting that the vaccines don't prevent infection or…
That kind of argument is disingenuous flamebait and ought to be flagged. By the same logic, are car seats and seat belts injected into the body?
If I'm not mistaken, this comment of yours is itself a violation of HN guidelines.
Have you considered this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29165559
In threads like this, I'm always struck by the absence of discussion from a security-minded, denial-of-service attack perspective. It seems like, if someone didn't want one of these platforms to succeed, all that would…
Can you absolutely prove 100% that you're acting in good faith?
Ah, so that's how to farm karma on a brand-new account: 1. Find a comment that's been so heavily downvoted that it's nearly invisible. 2. Make a new account. 3. Post an ostensibly reasonable comment simply asking for…
So the Democratic Party controls both houses of Congress and the White House, and they're trying to pass bills to give the Attorney General control over all federal elections in the country, but you say that it's "the…
> Apparently Mark Twain never said it. The advice has been written and uttered in various forms for millennia. > If the quote stated "If you are ignorant on a topic it's better not to discuss it" that would be advise.…
Friendly, pedantic, hopefully helpful reminder: > - ideally, the backup process on the home server side should not be more difficult than a cron job running "rsync -avz --delete /mnt/raid user@server:/mnt/storage" A…
> IMHO, space is big + satellites are hard to track, if they're highly-maneuverable or designed to be stealthy = possibility of launching untracked microsatellites that couple with space assets and wait for activation…
> There is a very distinct strain of American thought that says freedom means the biggest or richest get whatever they want. Where did you get this idea? How do you reconcile it with the Declaration of Independence, the…
I like serif fonts, but on page 31 of that document, "List of Design Recommendations," it says: "Sans-serif fonts are usually more legible than fonts with serifs."
Of course, you're right. At the same time, we may ask why American society seems to be more ideologically polarized now than at various times in recent decades. If the root cause is natural human failing, what is the…
Here's what should be an obvious one: any time I see communism criticized, the comment gets downvoted, and often flagged. Even comments written by people who lived in communist states, offering first-hand accounts,…
Thomas Ptacek and Don Hopkins are two examples of very high-profile users who routinely post guidelines-breaking comments without being downvoted, flagged, or chastised by mods. Even if you were to concede that, you'd…
> It's awfully hard not to see this as the commenter just taking this as a stalking horse to bring up an opinion they already held. Isn't this what happens on every HN thread, people expressing opinions relevant to the…
No, your premise is flawed. You jump to the conclusion that he made that claim based on a single data point. Just because he illustrated his point with one example does not mean his point is based on one example. In any…
> This opinion has been bought and paid for by fossil fuel companies who paid PR companies to smear these guys. The science stands up very well, but you've bought in and it doesn't matter if 10 or 10,000 studies confirm…
> What are you talking about? Where did I make an end of the world prediction? It is you who brought that up. Of course nothing is going to end. Nice strawman. What do you think I refer to by "end of the world"? Don't…
Mind-boggling, Dan. What did he say that even remotely comes close to "ideological flamewar hell"? Is "leftists" the keyword? Is criticism of "today's leftists" forbidden here? Meanwhile this thread[0] that rants about…
I feel like we're not communicating very precisely. > they don't prevent infection or transmission. The vaccines cause you to have less symptoms. By being less symptomatic you're less likely to spread the disease. You…
> to slow the spread Wow, I haven't heard that slogan since 2020. Do you still believe it? Because even the CDC and Pfizer execs and European newspapers are admitting that the vaccines don't prevent infection or…
That kind of argument is disingenuous flamebait and ought to be flagged. By the same logic, are car seats and seat belts injected into the body?
If I'm not mistaken, this comment of yours is itself a violation of HN guidelines.
Have you considered this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29165559
In threads like this, I'm always struck by the absence of discussion from a security-minded, denial-of-service attack perspective. It seems like, if someone didn't want one of these platforms to succeed, all that would…
Can you absolutely prove 100% that you're acting in good faith?
Ah, so that's how to farm karma on a brand-new account: 1. Find a comment that's been so heavily downvoted that it's nearly invisible. 2. Make a new account. 3. Post an ostensibly reasonable comment simply asking for…
So the Democratic Party controls both houses of Congress and the White House, and they're trying to pass bills to give the Attorney General control over all federal elections in the country, but you say that it's "the…