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Useful references for dealing constructively with a polarized world:

- Rapoport's Rules: https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/03/28/daniel-dennett-rapoport-rules-criticism/

- The Principle of Charity: http://philosophy.lander.edu/oriental/charity.html

- Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

HN Formatting rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

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grzm··on Ask HN: Why can't we comment on “X is Hiring” posts?
I'm sure there are a whole bunch of us that _don't_ find it to be an issue and don't feel the need to prolong its discussion. This type of topic draws in the type of individual that finds it to be an issue: those that don't, move on.
grzm··on Design the next iPhone
You need karma > 500.
grzm··on [dead]
This sounds terrible. I would recommend contacting the police to start officially reporting what you are experiencing (if you haven't already).
grzm··on Solving my truck’s TPMS sensor problem with the help of an RTL-SDR dongle
Anti-lock braking system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-lock_braking_system

grzm··on John Carmack's new AGI company, Keen Technologies, has raised a $20M round
Artificial General Intelligence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligenc...

grzm··on Elon Musk sells $6.9B worth of Tesla stock
You can email the mods (including 'dang) by using the Contact link in the footer. (@dang doesn't do anything special, fwiw)
grzm··on [dead]
There’s a hiring thread explicitly for this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32306920

grzm··on Ask HN: Dang – May we please have multiple threads for askjob types?
Those things are all true.

If what 'samstave is looking for is feedback from the mods, they should do as the guidelines ask and email hn@. If they're looking for feedback from the HN community, they should address the community. There are plenty of Ask HNs about that. 'samstave by their own admission has been a member of HN for over 15 years, and should be well accustomed to the guidelines and expected behavior.

grzm··on Ask HN: Dang – May we please have multiple threads for askjob types?
'samstave:

The guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) ask us

* Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Send it to hn@ycombinator.com.

* Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put *asterisks* around it and it will get italicized.

grzm··on I don't care how you web dev; I just need more better web apps
Parse error:

blind to rank

in conversations

Meaning ignoring class/hierarchy when speaking with others

grzm··on HNNotify.xyz: Subscribe to Your Hacker News Feed
I think there are times both can be true, but only very rarely, and only because dang is human. ;)

(And that only applies to the “annoyed” aspect. His politeness is pretty dang constant.)

grzm··on Ask HN: Why is everything in JavaScript changing so fast?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backspace#^H

> This sequence is still used humorously for epanorthosis by computer literates, denoting the deletion of a pretended blunder, much like a strikethrough; in this case, however, the ^H symbol is faked by typing a regular '^' followed by typing a regular 'H'.

And

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epanorthosis

> An epanorthosis is a figure of speech that signifies emphatic word replacement. "Thousands, no, millions!" is a stock example. Epanorthosis as immediate and emphatic self-correction often follows a Freudian slip (either accidental or deliberate).

grzm··on HNNotify.xyz: Subscribe to Your Hacker News Feed
dang is Daniel Gackle. Dan Grossman is https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dangrossman . The Dan Gs on HN are dang common.
grzm··on Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall (2018)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeshare

> A timeshare (sometimes called vacation ownership) is a property with a divided form of ownership or use rights. These properties are typically resort condominium units, in which multiple parties hold rights to use the property, and each owner of the same accommodation is allotted their period of time. Units may be sold as a partial ownership, lease, or "right to use", in which case the latter holds no claim to ownership of the property. The ownership of timeshare programs is varied, and has been changing over the decades.

grzm··on Is There A “Great Resignation”? Basically its just boomers retiring
Mix of two things, I think. Gen X is a smaller demographic, and often overlooked/forgotten, and I've observed an apparent tendency to apply "boomer" to include what is actually Gen X, when in fact the Baby Boomers are often parents to Gen Xers.

Time dilation, recency bias, and all that. Anything that happened before you were born is all history, right?

grzm··on Open source is not about you (2018)
I think there are at least two factors at play: genuine disagreement about what open source is, and a variant of the Eternal September effect.
grzm··on Open source is not about you (2018)
> ” The thing is, that has nothing to do with open source, it's always project-specific, so the full post largely doesn't make any sense as a comment on open source.”

I think that’s exactly the point he’s making. To phrase it another way, open source is orthogonal to the relationship between the stewards and the community.

grzm··on Germany’s move to legalise cannabis expected to create ‘domino effect’
You may be thinking of liqueur.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liqueur

> a usually sweetened alcoholic liquor (such as brandy) flavored with fruit, spices, nuts, herbs, or seeds

vs liquor

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liquor

> a usually distilled rather than fermented alcoholic beverage

see https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/amaretto

> an almond-flavored liqueur

and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limoncello

> Limoncello (Italian pronunciation: [limonˈtʃɛlːo]) is an Italian lemon liqueur mainly produced in Southern Italy

grzm··on [dead]
This post isn't a Show HN. From the guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html):

> Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead.

grzm··on How ice cream became the ultimate American comfort food (2021)
And volumetric! (Having a hard time seeing people weighing servings at the ice cream parlor, though.)
grzm··on Ask HN: Do you upvote direct replies?
You can also use the "favorite" link for that purpose as well.
grzm··on How ice cream became the ultimate American comfort food (2021)
Me, too! Tends to be a bit more pricey, but well worth it, in my opinion.
grzm··on How ice cream became the ultimate American comfort food (2021)
5 quarts (4.7 liters) is common size. Yes, it's cheap. But not usually very good quality, though.
grzm··on Ask HN: What would you do if given a sabbatical?
Bureau of Land Management:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Land_Management

Among other things,

> "The BLM administers 205,498 miles (330,717 km) of fishable streams, 2.2 million acres (8,900 km2) of lakes and reservoirs, 6,600 miles (10,600 km) of floatable rivers, over 500 boating access points, 69 National Back Country Byways, and 300 Watchable Wildlife sites. The agency also manages 4,500 miles (7,200 km) of National Scenic, National Historic and National Recreation Trails, as well as thousands of miles of multiple use trails used by motorcyclists, hikers, equestrians, and mountain bikers.[61] In 2013, BLM lands received an estimated 61.7 million recreational visitors. Over 99% of BLM-managed lands are open to hunting, recreational shooting opportunities, and fishing."

grzm··on Bunny fonts – privacy respecting drop-in replacement for Google Fonts
Cost of storage and management.

Time is money, and it's expensive to pay people to mess with things if they don't have to.

I might not choose to make the same tradeoffs, but I can understand why others might.

grzm··on Apparently macOS sometimes just kills some apps randomly
Editorialized title.

Post title is "Purgeable Mac Apps".

Submitted title is "Apparently macOS sometimes just kills some apps randomly"

grzm··on US prison workers produce $11B worth of goods and services for little to no pay
See this comment for more expansion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31785350
grzm··on US prison workers produce $11B worth of goods and services for little to no pay
This ignores the realignment of the parties in the 1940s. See the formation of the States' Rights Democratic Party (Dixiecrats). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixiecrat
grzm··on Lego will start building its bricks in the United States
> this is a copy of a comment there

From my experience, copying and pasting comments from one thread to another isn't how HN is expected to be used. If there's an issue, email the mods via the Contact link in the footer. They're often busy (as they're few in number), so they may not respond immediately, but they do respond.

grzm··on Jun 14: Plato's CRITO: Vol. 2, pp. 31-43
I’d email HN directly (email in the footer), and ask if this is an appropriate use of HN. (@ does nothing special on HN)
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