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Sure, the ones posting cat videos don't. But what are the odds that TikTok would ever let a Taiwan Protest go viral? I wonder if it even lets use use the word Taiwan...

I think there's a few possibilities: Maybe he has some political ambitions. Maybe he's trying to get cred with trump so that he can try to have influence over the tik-tok ban (a huge competi…

Fascinating, could you share an example link?

I understand your point -- is my complaint about kubernetes itself or just the way that people at my job set it up? But in practice perhaps my feeling is that if a tool/ecosystem has too many via…

I feel like I was lied to about what kubernetes is and comics like this sorta partake in it. The sales pitch is basically akin to "mongo is webscale" but "kubernetes is scaling/por…

> But its perfectly fine for a US company to do it? China blocks facebook/twitter/instagram/pinterest/gmail/wikipedia/twitch and even US newspapers. So clearly they …

Literally just watched it today and it's definitely in my 10 least favorite movies I've ever watched. Wish I had seen your comment.

Well for all the whinging about how biased-to-the-left universities are, it sure seems ironic that the only colleges that explicitly banning attendance over different opinions are colleges on the righ…

I've been doing it for ~20 years off-and-on. Initially I thought I'd find an audience/community that resonated, but never did. So no. My experience has been that I have to post to HN ab…

There's stuff all the time: https://eji.org/news/alabama-attorney-general-releases-white... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unarmed_African_Americ…

shrug Well I've been on HN for about 20 years, and I'm not anti-pg (he's about 50/50 by my accounting). I'm also anti-censorship, anti-authoritarian, anti-mob. But he missed…

I don't think you're discussing in good faith. I doubt you're truly unaware that everybody saying woke in 2025 unironically is angry and making an insult. I also don't believe you …

I think it's okay to refer to the word "woke", but if you use it more than 3 times in your writing, then it's hard to take you seriously. Why? Because it's a word that gets pe…

Yeah, that's where he lost me too. I get the impression that in his head the firing of a college president is a bigger problem than racism.... like bro 24% of the world lives in a caste system. I…

Spending too much time in the richest, most tolerant counties in the country can make you forget that we still have colleges that won't admit gay students, or that many people still don't be…

I don't usually love this type of post, but this one is the exception - very valuable. Just the section on how to rewrite alone communicates something incredibly valuable that grumpy-engineers li…

I'm not sure why this isn't considered anti-competitive behavior. Once a communication company has 1-billion users perhaps we need to classify them as a more of a utility and hold them to st…

I'm not asking for a philosophical proof of which terms are or aren't bad. I am proposing that rather than taking every single complaint seriously that we try to set some basic structure or …

Well I think you addressed the simplest case, which wasn't really the situation here (nor in the meme). I think if somebody directly offends you by calling you something you don't like, then…

I know that this strictly isn't "freedom of speech" because these are comments on an internal website, but it really does seem problematic. In a remote-first environment, where there is…

This blog piece perfectly encapsulates an interesting discussion we are having as a society - "Do we need to care if a word has a hurtful etymology (if nobody using it nowadays knows that history…

Looks to be 100% about aging, but I don't see anything specific to programming

Yeah that's a problem -- Here's my law for honest leveling - If somebody of a given level is incapable of doing something of the level below them, then your leveling system is broken (and th…

So what if your dad died last month, and the DM decides it'll be a cool twist for his BBEG to abduct your character's dad gouge his eyes out and try to kill him? It's good to be able to…

Presumably you've had different experiences, but from my personal D&D experience I've had zero people who abused the "distress signaling" and seen multiple cases where people w…

Yeah I agree. To me the "If you know you know" mentality is a negative signal about something, suggesting that something is possibly seen as cool/trendy (which is a negative signal agai…

I love css. My hot take is cascading rule sheets should be used for much more configuration; hits a sweet spot in between repetitive text and overpowered code-config

Unclear doesn't mean safe, it just means hard to quantify. Your child could be in a car accident and their survival odds could be unclear, scientifically speaking. Doesn't mean "totally…