bobleeswagger

I don't think that the people who flagged your GP comment did so because they have a problem with freedom of expression. I know the users who flagged it. I think they were simply, and rightly, reacting to the flamebait in the comment.

Gee, it's almost like instead of responding to me and challenging their own beliefs (or, ignoring it), they are flaming me through the reporting and moderation bots here at HN. Almost.

Is that really so hard for you to see...? How are those guidelines working out for you on that front?

I know you know the users who report comments. You give a lot of favoritism to subjective interpretation leading to a report from the established echo chamber, but you give little focus to the comments themselves when a commenter is happy to elaborate. It really couldn't be more backwards.

It shouldn't be hard to understand why posts like "Y'all have no idea how fucked the US is and you're all cheering like it's not happening" get flagged here.

It shouldn't be hard to understand that there is no better way for me to call out an echo chamber that I see succinctly, relating to a topic I understand quite well from a few angles.

But hey, if it gets reported it must be breaking the rules, right?

You're a disgrace, my guy. Guess you can try again the next time you find one of my comments too spicy. I'm not a terrorist, stop treating me like one. I'm adding much needed perspective to a site filled with bots. Your subjective interpretation is always wholly inaccurate.

I don't care what Microsoft turned around, what they did to stagnate and gatekeep technology in the 90's is unforgivable, and always will be.

"Conflict is essential to human life"

Thanks for ignoring most of my critique about the site and how you moderate it!

For the record, you don't reference any rules when you do your little schtick. It has clearly happened more than once for me, but I've seen it done to plenty of others. Don't present yourself as doing something that you clearly must be asked for. How ridangculous. My point is that I'm not re-reading guidelines if you cannot give me the courtesy of explaining exactly what parts of my comment broke what rules. Vagueness doesn't help your job in any way. At least you have me here to set a good example.

I already referenced which rules you're breaking, though perhaps I didn't do so clearly enough. You're breaking the rule against flamebait ("Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."), the rule against fulmination ("Please don't fulminate."), the rule against snark ("Don't be snarky."), and probably others (such as the rule against name-calling) as well.

I believe those are all strict matters of subjectivity, I was not flame-baiting, fulminating, or being snarky. I also didn't directly call anyone names. I said the statement. Do you know something I don't about my thoughts on the matter...? Where's the name calling?

If you want to make a case for yourself as a principled poster of dissident views, you need a better foundation to stand on than the GP comment and the other ones I linked to, which are just typical flamebait of the sort we're trying to avoid here.

If you want to be taken seriously as a moderator of this site, I'd start by realizing what a bad job you do when it comes to matters like this. Another opportunity to improve the site drastically, vanquished by you. I know my value, I'm happy to wait for someone like you to realize how much you're missing it.

Next time I'll just make a comment that backs up the ever-present echo chamber, instead of sharing how I really feel about the issue. We all know it's what you're asking for.

Allow me to start by quoting your profile:

"Conflict is essential to human life"

Do you ever ask yourself if the folks who report my comments just have a hard time with freedom of expression?

Do you ever reach out to the ones that report everything that isn't a mainstream opinion? I know they exist. It's the bread and butter of the culture here.

Look, I get it. YCombinator isn't a constitutionalist organization, or whatever. You are based in America, though. I hope you reflect on that. Often.

Let's get to the meat:

If you want to censor people (or your boss wants you to), you should just do it. Bullying folks into censoring themselves is no bueno, and I am more than happy to call this out as exactly that. It's hilariously ironic because I'm the kind of person who could absolutely help this community, but you are certain I need to be pushed out whenever we meet. How fun to push up that hill. Still, I try.

If sharing my thoughts, freely, on topic is "breaking the rules," feel free to call out the specific rule I am breaking. This "PlEaSe ReAd OuR GuIdElInEs" crap is pretty despicable and my time is worth a lot more than that. Your time is worth a lot more than that.

If you can't be specific: Please, don't bother. I haven't broken any site guidelines with this comment, or the last one.

It's a two way street. I'd be grateful if you started taking my perspective into account, but I guess that is a lot to ask, even though you have had so many opportunities.

All this makes a big difference in practical driving.

It really doesn't, it's just a side effect. We already have massive tailgating issues across the US, and most folks have zero idea what the limits of their commuter EV are. Kind of a recipe for disaster.

There are some quirks to setting up SMB so Time Machine is happy, but I have had great success with ZFS+SMB hosting my TM backups. Have been running for a little over a month and nothing is corrupt. Self hosting is still somewhat hard, I don't blame you for bailing on something so critical to uptime in the first place.

That's kind of my point, it's not natural that Microsoft is still around after how much negative they have done for the tech industry. Xbox is their golden goose. VIDEO GAMES?

Come on, let's not act like Windows, in its 11th iteration, is not a steaming pile of shit. I don't know how so many of you defend such a garbage company.

At what point does an investment with Apple actually become just as safe if not safer than the FDIC?

Apple would have to be backed by something other than the dollar for this to be remotely possible.

You say that like it's a bad thing!

More proof that Microsoft should not exist, a company that drops the ball this hard, this consistently should be dissolved immediately.

Every single TV is smart now. Nothing you can do when the industry makes shit choices for everyone.

see what drives them

Failure of the establishment is their primary driver. It's the free market in action, crime pays.

Comma.ai is another great example of CANBUS hacking. I'm a bit worried there are a bunch of zero days sitting out there on CAN implementations. It's such a complicated system.

Regret is a natural part of any long term choice.

There's no crime in simplifying the signal chain to reduce complexity. Theorems are great, but implementations are what matter and usually where things fall apart.

This is something I ask every audiophile I ever meet. Why not use digital audio at all times and convert to analog as late as possible in the audio pipeline instead lf buying ten thousand dollar cables? No one ever gave me a good answer...

If they want to keep the signal pure analog, that is enough of a reason.

ASR aren't science driven because of two cherry picked examples?

You can dislike Amir's methods, but you can't deny that he has transformed the audiophile space by just creating a website for his life passion and sharing his thoughts.

I feel a lot better buying hardware that has been thoroughly tested by ASR. I've even sent Amir some gear to be measured, he's the best of the bunch.

Kind of surprised it took Apple this long to jump on the defer everything train.

You need to hold something back from day one

I don't know if it needs to be held back, but the product needs to have innovation or it's going to feel like features are being held back and put a sour taste in the community's mouth.

I get the outrage. If it's pointed at Docker's inability to productize, then bravo, but I think AWS and the other big guys deserve most of the blame for taking tons of money on the table without contributing much to the state of the ecosystem. It's just tragedy of the commons with more steps.

I think we're past the point where key players like AWS have _ran with_ the technology Docker provided and did not pay their fair share in the process.

Docker as a company may be a joke, but I don't think the software will be nearly as nice to use without them. I think it's ridiculous that so many asshats are jumping on the hate Docker (the company) bandwagon without understanding how much they have been taken advantage of by the big players who can absolutely support them, but choose not to.

Sometimes I am so disappointed at how much ego still exists in tech. We're supposed to be more educated than the folks who came before us, yet we're doing a worse job.

naively thinking a video is just 30 pics a sec

No, that's literally all video is. The problem comes in the implementation of inter-frame diffs.

At my first job, this never got solved. One day a camera showed up, pointing directly at the communal sink.

I didn't use any of the dishes in the office, so it didn't really bother me. But it seemed like those most bothered by it were the ones leaving messes in the first place, why else would you have a problem with it?

Kind of a culture killer, the important lesson learned is you can't let these issues work themselves out, eventually you'll have a war with two sides.

Leadership matters, even in the most mundane of topics, like dirty dishes.

Now ask yourself what that is doing to the industry at scale... It's not surprising to me that academia has become a series of contrived hoops to jump through.

Usually I join in on the hatred for someone like Zuck, but this was a well articulated email that addressed the issue directly. I hope if someone did leak information intentionally that they did resign. Can't feel good to be called out amongst tens of thousands of others and know it was you.

Convenience is the enemy of good security.

The problem here is everyone relying on Docker to foot an expensive bill for free forever.

Tragedy of the commons at its finest.

You couldn't be more out of touch on this topic. Keep playing victim though, it's cute.

They said they intend to delete customer data if they don't switch to paid plans

Customers who are running businesses and knowingly breaking the ToS? I'm not sure why businesses like Docker aren't allowed to defend their revenue.

It's actually pretty hilarious how many of you are coming out of the woodwork to attack Docker, they are not the enemy in any way, shape or form and if they disappear you're gonna miss them.