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i don't understand this response. are you truly unaware that the truths of many policies are "verifiable" but not practically verifiable until many many years after they are implemented. again - this is the whole point of the study of history.

Look at the length and substance of that comment of mine and the one that started this subthread. They are similar in length, similar in glibness. I don't know what the score of gop is but it's not grayed out so I'll assume it's higher than the score for mine. What is the difference in the two? Maybe homophobia is more palatable than nazism. Maybe mine accused the reader instead the author (but almost everyone that responded defended card). Maybe Wikipedia is more authoritative than a literary journal.

so you think propagandist literature has no effect on its reader?

I don't know what it is about science fiction and fantasy authors in particular - maybe it happens in other fiction genres too and I'm just not aware because I don't read them as much, but a lot of them seem to succumb to extremist (usually right-wing authoritarian) politics

i don't know about fantasy but for sci-fi i think it's obvious: it's because a technocracy inevitably becomes a fascist dictatorship. that's why the nazis were heavy on industry and eugenics ("science" is the ultimate moral authority and all that). it's also for example why the mcguffin in Captain America: The Winter Soldier is so plausible (it was hydra whose aim was to use an ai to a-priori adjudicate who was guilty etc).

why writers in particular? not sure. probably having something to do with feeling confident in their ability to create fictional worlds and translating that into some kind of presumption of ability to govern real worlds.

Edit: lol no responses only downvotes. Don't point out flaws in technology ideology or else people will get bad. Lol

I normally downvote comments that complain about downvotes, but not for quoting well-sourced interesting/concerning background facts about relevant authors.

Below I linked to a published literary essay and I got downvoted.

In an August 2013 essay Card presented as an experiment in fiction-writing called "The Game of Unlikely Events",[173] Card described an alternative future in which President Barack Obama ruled as a "Hitler- or Stalin-style dictator" with his own national police force of young unemployed men; Obama and his wife Michelle would have amended the U.S. Constitution to allow presidents to remain in power for life, as in Nigeria, Zimbabwe, and Hitler's Germany.[174][175] Card's essay drew extensive criticism, especially for its allusions to Obama's race and its reference to "urban gangs

Further down in this comment chain I posted a link to a literary essay that enders game is about fascism. I got heavy downvotes. I'm sure that by quoting this paragraph from wiki I will get more downvotes. People are in denial about their heroes.

Maybe Ender went too far, but he did act in self-defense

the book is literally about a kid committing genocide and the reasons why he should feel okay about it (ie a pretext). or did you not read it through to the end?

whenever someone mentions ender's game in a positive light i worry about that person

https://web.archive.org/web/20070206121131/http://www4.ncsu....

tldr; orson scott card is a bigot and ender's game is nazi apologia. if you don't want to read the above it's been written about in numerous places (google "ender's game book fascism").

r/programming, r/math, r/physics, r/compsci. All of them don't have nearly the strict moderation you practice here and all of them are great places to have substantive discussion.

I'm gonna repeat what I've said many times: by enforcing a strict decorum what you actually accomplish, and I mean exactly you dang, is give the air/pretense of intellectualism without any of the substance. Hence the constant barrage of hypercritical (but superficial) disparaging comments. It's like any other system that privileges one type of language - those that can deploy it effectivity feel empowered and emboldened because they feel they are the defacto ethical/just/concordant.

If you wanted proscribe things for the betterment of the community you should proscribe content (e.g. hate speech) rather than language.

edit:

this comment is the exemplar par excellence of what your rules produce:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17034295

for many hours it was the highest ranking comment on that post. it is pure invective cloaked in "constructive criticism". it took me pointing outing how absolutely rude it was for it to start bubbling down. i'm not a hero. i'm simply pointing out that it is absolutely necessary to point out when someone is being rude.

I'm hoping to persuade you!

you can't because i fundamentally disagree with you and i have zero incentive to abide

If you think it's possible for a large, public internet forum not to get a lot of ignorant or shitty comments

why is it that the tech subs at reddit don't have the same kind of policing you practice here and are just as productive? i wonder if it's because community policing is more effective than whatever brand of dictatorial policing you practice here hmmmmmm. the only difference between the moderation here and at reddit that i see is your self-importance and the effect it has on anyone who feels they're part of the same self-important rarefied club.

You've been posting a shocking number of nasty swipes at people.

i don't take swipes at people who don't post vile things to begin with. i will never understand the whole "you have to tolerate the intolerant" ethos. you can peruse my comments (as you have) - i never incite but censure is a public service.

We've had to ban you before for that, so would you please stop?

you seem to be oblivious to the fact that i don't care (hence the throwaway).

yes there is but somehow it is not as good as the codementor extension (iirc you it doesn't play well with cell navigation bindings)

I would think we should hold academic products to a much higher standard

who is we? are you a tt prof at literally the number 1 cs school in the US? are you a reviewer for any distributed journals? the author of this book is a wildly successful researcher. why should i trust literally almost anyone's here opinion over their opinion?

lol hn never fails in it's shallow dismissal of an enormous amount of work: as of right now there's a comment on how this textbook is too shallow (I guess if it were a content marketing medium post it would be much better) and how it can't possibly be substantive because it's written in markdown.

man what a bastion of intelligent discussion this place is.

I'll take this opportunity to get jupyter advice: one thing I don't understand about jupyter vs jupyterlab is why notebooks in jupyter classic have functioning vim bindings (ie in cells) through the codemirror extension but jupyterlab notebooks do not. in jupyterlab you can have vim bindings in the text editing view but not in the notebook view. for the life of me I cannot understand this design decision. how hard can it be to just leave whatever thing that makes it work in jupyter classic alone so that it continues to work in jupyterlab.

cool extension but literally every other use of the term visual debugger refers to a graphical interface for something like gdb (where you have to manually type in commands to set break points, step, continue, etc). so I don't think it makes sense to claim that this is not a visual debugger simply because you've decided to redefine the term to suit your needs (publicizing your extension).

Perhaps you all stay only in 5 star hotels?

this has gotta be the answer. I have the exact same experiences and feelings as you. I always look for basically the cheapest Airbnb and it ends up cheaper by 2-3x than local hotels and I've never had an uncomfortable stay. What I have had are completely normal rooms in working class homes - which is fine because who the hell cares about enjoying the hotel room when you travel!

what are you talking about? it says it right there in literally bold letters on the home page in response to "what" rather than "why":

Chapel is a modern programming language that is...

parallel: contains first-class concepts for concurrent and parallel computation

productive: designed with programmability and performance in mind

portable: runs on laptops, clusters, the cloud, and HPC systems

scalable: supports locality-oriented features for distributed memory systems

are you such a literalist you need literally "why? because ..."

i have a question for you: why do so many hners jump on the same silly meme over and over again even when it's not accurate?

i meant exactly what i said: it's a humble qualifier . "I think" functions as an admission of fallibility. it transforms a certain claim into a proposition subject to change. its purpose is rhetorical rather than formal.

the difference between your hypothetical tweet and this article is that humble qualifier "I think".

what I've seen hn (and startup culture in general) distort is people's confidence in their own opinions. this is probably because it is repeated ad nauseum that you cannot start a successful startup without being an iconoclastic innovator.

what isn't repeated ad nauseum is that you should save that kind of arrogance for your vc pitch rather than take it on as a mantle.

Looks like a good summary. Will read. But at the rate the discipline moves I feel like we need one of these every couple of months for everyone (not just "lay" scientists). Anyone know a good journal or something that produces a similar sort of survey frequently? Like once a quarter?

With the bailout were basically saying its OK to not pay taxes but expect a bailout

suppose this were true and this legislation set that precedent? let me ask you: how often do we have a need for a "bailout"? do a really quick cost/benefit analysis and you'll see that you're implying we should let these people struggle today to save some money in ~10 years. does that make sense to you?

oh no! who will think of the precedent!!!

I often wonder how things would be viable businesses if you were good at grinding.

you should go ask a miller.

it's called outbound sales. there's no "big break" there. literally everyone does it.

that's because all of that goes without saying (since I assume that the typical hn reader already knows about 1. pivots being costly 2. the early adopter grind). those points aren't key features of their succuss either because every startup experiences those pains.

To me that’s just a subjective list the author likes.

but the prompt isn't "list some books you like" but "how should I learn" so there's obviously intent in picking those books.

God that's impressive. takeaway: make products for people that use computers but don't know how to use suites of tools.