The best way to get the mods' attention is to email them using the contact link in the footer. In my experience they're quite responsive. Just flagging it won't provide them context as to why it was flagged.
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- 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
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I use brew primarily only for packages that are only available on brew. I’m moving to nixpkgs for my packaging needs as soon as the M1 support drops.
Realistically, the act of preparing the issue does trigger different thought processes, often encouraging you to be more rigorous in your presentation. Rubber-duck debugging works similarly in my experience. I know it can sound silly, but it’s helped me more than once. Both techniques have, actually.
Over 140 comments, over 200 points
Unfortunate name collisions in this space. (The concept closure, Google Closure, Clojure.) That’s Clojure he’s using.
> "When you see [flagged] on a submission, it means that users flagged it (this is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html). We can only guess why users flag things, but in this case it's pretty easy to guess - just read the first part of the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html."
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
> "Are paywalls ok?"
> "It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds."
> "In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic."
> "It currently compiles to Rust but I may switch to Erlang."
Why one or the other? Why not both? :)
- https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/amid-backlash-d...
- https://theintercept.com/2019/08/30/guantanamo-bay-press-res...
If you're aware of more recent information, do share. As I said, this is just the results from a cursory search and may not reflect the current situation.
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27395635 over 2K points, over 500 comments
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27394925 over 500 points, over 130 comments
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27394943 over 130 points
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27397486 over 300 points
How do you foresee this discussion being different than the one about Nigeria and Twitter [1] or Trump and Facebook [2] (both within the past day or so), modulo some details? Coupled with the distraction that you yourself pointed out, I think this is an ongoing discussion (has been for years on HN), and will likely be unchanged with this particular entry.
31 points, 19 comments
If you're not willing to engage with him in good faith, I have a hard time understanding why you’re commenting in this thread. Have a good evening.
I thought he might have pinned it, but that isn't the case:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27401409
> "I certainly didn't intend it to be the top comment; that was entirely by upvotes."
Edit to add: as 'Nicksil kindly pointed out, 'dang made clear he didn't do this in this case.
While this may be the case, the comment you reply to is a particularly poor example on which to hang this comment. It's a snarky, insubstantive insinuation, regardless of whom it's in response to, and was edited to complain about downvotes.
> "Still it's sorta good that this post wasn't outright deleted."
It's likely it wasn't flagged and removed because it was in response to 'dang, as he is generally leaves responses to his comments in place even when they're quite bad, even if he doesn't follow-up with a reply in what I take to be added transparency.