Cornbilly

>I don't know why people repeat this so often but it is very frustrating.

The Ron Paul fandom spread this myth around incessantly during the late 2000s.

Luckily for Powell, the prosecutors working for Trump are generally unqualified morons.

So glad my kids can start getting political propaganda pushed on them at 13 without my consent. Thanks Google.

I have a feeling that the HN hypebeasts have a lot of overlap with the folks that previously used to copy/paste blindly from StackOverflow.

It's just Arch Linux with hyprland pre-configured and bunch of pre-installed software.

People have been flocking to it for reasons like

1. They don't want to configure hyprland themselves.

2. They want to say they are running an "elite" distro like Arch.

3. They're part of DHH's weird following that is a mix of insufferable smugness and right-wing politics.

Are you a fan of the FBI director’s Trump worshiping children’s book?

Don’t forget the child porn generator.

This looks like it was just political theater.

Par for the course for Ken Paxton, one of the most blatantly corrupt politicians in the US.

Yeah, the meat industry has successfully tied meat consumption to the American ideal of masculinity and there is an endless supply of insecure men that buy into the world of bro-science.

Sources for this?

Leo Laporte's TWiT podcast network is the only thing that comes somewhat close but it still falls well short of CC or TechTV.

YouTube has a few quality channels but they tend to fit into a particular niche. The bigger names are just lowest common denominator slop like LinusTechTips.

If that is truly your opinion, you should really read up on the Satanic Panic. Equivocating between these two events is simply foolish.

Can I ask you something since you love to brag about being a VC? Do you guys have any morals? Seriously. Because from some one that was raised to believe that lying is wrong and that liars (which Elon blatantly is) are not to be respected, you all seem to have no real values other than money and power.

On the flip side of that, I’m tired of HN libertarians treating capitalism like some sort of infallible religion.

Are you grateful for all of the legal immigrants and citizens that ICE has swept off the streets?

Who is "they"?

> Comments here are very strange, “Reading books should go the way of cursive! Education is more like childcare anyways.”

That's pretty on-brand for HN though. This place enforces a very peculiar version of anti-intellectualism centered on empty-headed contrarianism.

They want to play devil's advocate but they aren't smart enough so all you get are dumb hot takes.

Me too, bud. Me too.

Nah. I live in Baltimore. It’s really not.

Try not living in your algorithms.

HN has a downvote brigade that tries to bury anything that makes Palantir look bad. If I had to guess, random people with investments that think censoring things on social media will keep the stock price up.

I used to notice it a lot with Tesla when it was the hot meme stock.

A lot of (but not all) people are very insecure and cling to some personal attribute (that they put in no effort to acquire) as proof that they are superior to others (gender, race, religion, etc).

More Silicon Valley fraud that will likely be rewarded by the current administration.

People downvote because an oligarchy controlled by big tech is their idea of a wet dream.

Half of the user base of HN is “founders” excited at the idea that morals, values, and laws will no longer matter.

For all of the worship these guys get for being mega geniuses, they sure say a lot of ignorant shit.

Delusion seems to be the main product of SV these days.

So, it doesn’t. Got it.

Does it make my statement somehow untrue?

Also, save the snarky condescension for Facebook and Reddit.

Knowing Ive, whatever it is probably looks amazing but doesn’t function.

Baraka Obama won the prize for not being George W Bush and for being the first black President of a country with a terrible history of enslaving and mistreating black people.

Side note: Democracy will not work in Egypt until the Muslim Brotherhood loses popularity and/or Islam in the region becomes more moderate. Until then, you're just going to end up with the same situation as Ethiopia and Tigray with a Brotherhood-dominated government and the Copts.

I don't think it's even litigation they're worried about. It's the tariff power that the cowardly GOP-controlled Congress has given up to Trump to use as a cudgel.