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by unabst 6y ago
So I am being asked to self-censor by "the community"? Was this comment downvoted because we're not allowed to talk about downvotes? But the topic is downvoting. I'm genuinely curious and believe there is a better way to
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by unabst 6y ago
So what exactly is wrong with this answer that it deserves to be downvoted?
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by unabst 6y ago
If it's far from perfect, let's improve it. It's not downvote or nothing. Downvotes are meant to tame the insults and offensive comments. But what if downvotes themselves are insulting and offensive? Are there really no other
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by unabst 6y ago
I get it, but this position makes HN definitively anti-free speech. You restrict speech and you restrict how people think. Calibrating speech is not free speech and neither is fading speech. > the community signals that it has found some
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by unabst 6y ago
In business, the survival motive becomes the profit motive. For content creators, the profit motive then manifests online as attention grabbing content. However, virality and truth are highly specific properties that rarely overlap. Clickba
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by unabst 6y ago
Clarity and brevity are good, but when everyone is focused, no one is talking. Silence is the sound of everyone working. Talking can be a symptom of mismanagement. Also, better English won't help when the goal is to dodge work or respo
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by unabst 6y ago
Ya, it should just read "slippery when wet". Maybe add an exclamation mark to show urgency and that you care. So how we would describe the sign is usually what it should say. Like, "STOP".
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by unabst 6y ago
Not only do we share some common perception, we're also all real. We are part of the universe. So to say people are subjective or that imagination is imaginary or that reality is an illusion for the purpose of dismissing them from real
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by unabst 6y ago
One-ness is a shape of a thing, much like triangle-ness or circle-ness. Shapes are physical, but they can be copied, unlike the things themselves. And when meaning is associated with a shape, that meaning can then be copied and read. So we
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by unabst 6y ago
(con't) An abstraction is the smallest unit of reason, and logic creates the desired cause and effect as each truth flows through the system.
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by unabst 6y ago
One-ness is a physical property and that's why we can see it. The magic happens when we call them all one, give it a symbol, and make them all equal. Now "one" has a unique existence of its own on a piece of paper on a mathem
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by unabst 6y ago
You're still translating the mouse image into "mouse" in your mother tongue, then staring at the Japanese word. But I do agree translation does about as much harm as good. It's a shortcut that helps you shorten the learn
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by unabst 6y ago
I would go far as to say it's obfuscation. But I don't think the CSS people feel the same. At this point I've chalked it up to a difference in philosophy and ideology. Brevity, explicitness, obviousness, conciseness, and symm
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by unabst 6y ago
edit for the record: > You'll offend them... If you encounter someone oversensitive, millineal or otherwise, you'll offend them...
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by unabst 6y ago
The proper response to "hello" is just "hello". I was annoyed at first, but when I saw the phone of one of the kids that kept doing it, I saw his message app had 1283 unread messages. They basically can't keep up wi
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by unabst 6y ago
That is impossible to police. The topic is Freedom of Speech. You need to ban these topics or there will always be battles, as there should be. Greatgirl also makes an important point. It also appears she only made this point once, here, an
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by unabst 6y ago
This. We should call this "fake speech". American absurdism is rooted in fake speech with the intent to cheat and steal. It's perfectly permisible for politicians, businesses, and even individuals to say whatever they need to
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by unabst 6y ago
Bottom-line, if anyone feels they've been unjustifiably downvoted, or even "sour" for being downvoted, the feature is being followed by a negative experience for the user. If there is nothing that can be done to improve the e
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by unabst 6y ago
Upvotes need no further abstraction for their purpose. Good can be good. But if we are to police and shame bad, justice deserves more nuance than this. Downvotes hinder the discussion experience, and it limits participants to those with age
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by unabst 6y ago
I am not talking about tribal hatred or matters of perspective or what the public thinks or votes about anything here. I am talking about the masterminds and their intent. Trump clearly intended to steal the election. Wells Fargo and Wall S
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by unabst 6y ago
The struggle over vocabulary is evident. The truth is it could be called all or none of these things. There was a professor on NPR who also said how each term (terrorism, insurrection, coup) has legal connotations. But I call BS on all of i
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by unabst 6y ago
I feel like there should be some better way to recognize and promote solutions that are future proof. Like transpilers and site generators that only produce vanilla code for deployment. Because it wouldn't matter how dated the tool is.
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by unabst 6y ago
>the former is a pretextual cover for the latter Setting aside completely how I feel because it absolutely does not matter, the question should be, was it the latter or wasn't it? > but you probably wouldn't be able to prove
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by unabst 6y ago
Trump has always gotten away with the things he was gravely incompetent at on the basis of his incompetence. This is just another case. He was pushing Pence to use power he didn't have. His allies all pushed the fraud narrative. And he
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by unabst 6y ago
Right, except the protesters were sheep led by Trump and his Republican goons. This was nothing short of a failed coup. That can't be an exaggeration. Stephen Colbert did a great job of bringing this up in his interview with ex-prosecu
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by unabst 6y ago
I've figured it out. The minimum "accidental complexity" in a system can only be equal or greater than the "essential complexity" imported from outside the system. If the complexity could be less, then that would be
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by unabst 6y ago
UCLA and Cedars-Sinai are both world class providers, but take little to no insurance available on Covered California. LA Care is a rare "public option" run by LA county. When I switched from Oscar to LA Care this year, I did so b
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by unabst 6y ago
Exactly. If that was the debt at the end of his practice, just imagine how much debt he bestowed during the 30 years it ran. I wonder how many patients went bankrupt... seriously, with the leading cause of bankruptcy in the US being medical
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by unabst 6y ago
I just changed my insurance to LA Care. The doctor they gave me was with UCLA medical. I called and they said they did not and never have accepted LA Care. I called LA Care. The lady said, "I really wish their clinics stopped doing tha
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by unabst 6y ago
Are we sure the availability of options equals entropy? It doesn't appear as though we all act to simply increase our options. Preferring options over reward may also constitute delayed gratification and sacrifice, which is another int

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