Show HN: Ancap News, a Chrome/FF extension to bring out HN's true colors
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Meh. That doesn't jibe with my experience at all. I'd say the general zeitgeist here is the exact opposite of libertarian laissez-faire capitalism. It strikes me as closer to "European style social democracy mixed with American progressivism and general scorn towards any notion of individual merit".
Maybe 10 years ago there was a libertarian zeitgeist here, but I sure haven't seen it for quite a long time. Or maybe I'm just clicking through on the wrong stories.
Nevermind the massive amounts of communism and socialism apologism, the massive amounts of people that believe the government should institute massive welfare programs for the "impending" robopocalypse, and the tons of threads about how amazing the Seattle $15 minimum wage is. All of this definitely sounds like anarcho capitalism to me.
edit: also I'm not an ancap and Milton Friedman is not an ancap before you comment on my username.
So an extension seems like overkill. But I get it's about the statement so, whatever floats your boat I guess.
But you're right that it's fundamentally about having an artifact. Many people are mad about "startup culture" and how it's affected the places we work and the things we love to do, and HN is a big part of how that culture is reproduced. That very real-world effect IMO makes "exit" insufficient; just black-holing the domain or whatever solves nothing.
It is liberal/globalist consensus: extremely liberal on social issues, globalist on economics.
I'm actually not sure how the logo could be made yellow and black without distracting from the signature stark yellow/black diagonal to the right...
invert(100%) hue-rotate(210deg) brightness(2) filter: hue-rotate(30deg) brightness(2);Hardly, not anytime recently anyway. Dang will straight up ban you for being ancap on here.
I'm an ancap and I haven't been banned, so I'm not sure about that. But I certainly don't find the prevailing zeitgeist here to be particularly libertarian as of late.
I didn't even have to go back 24 hours to find an example..
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14755236
He simply calls anything politically right-of-center an "ideological flamewar" and removes / bans as he sees fit.
Another easy example. He's so hypersensitive to any perceived "nationalism" he sees it everywhere.
Possibly, their main account has enough points to downvote others, so they can use the throaway account to bait replies and then downvote the replies using their regular account (something you can't do to your own replies).
Sock-puppet accounts should be identified and banned; and threatening repeat offenders with a main ban is part of the game.
Trust me, if you debate against socialism / large government on here, a mod WILL show up and accuse you (but not whomever you are arguing with, the user who endlessly supports larger government is immune) of flame-baiting / being inflammatory / trolling / being nationalistic / etc.
My experience is that folks who told me I deserve to have my kids taken away from me for being genderqueer didn't get banned, so YMMV.
But also: throwaway accounts with the word throwaway? No one should feel bad when they're banned. No one should feel bad for banning them. That is the actual social contract of throwaway accounts, and they're tolerated insomuch as people just use userscripts to mute them out most of the time.
>That is the actual social contract of throwaway accounts, and they're tolerated insomuch as people just use userscripts to mute them out most of the time.
I love reading comments from throwaway accounts because I feel like you're getting a genuine opinion that someone is too afraid to share on their main account. And those opinions are the most interesting to me.
>No one should feel bad when they're banned.
I bet this sort of casual dismissiveness wouldn't fly with you if the authors were anonymous genderqueers.
Yet, you are here rather than on Usenet or 4Chan or whatever.
I hate them because they're often people spewing ideas they're too cowardly to own. If you feel discriminated against for being slightly conservative, imagine how I feel being an atheist genderqueer. We are unpopular creatures.
> I bet this sort of casual dismissiveness wouldn't fly with you if the authors were anonymous genderqueers.
It happens all the time. I challenge you to find me complaining about it even once. Throwaway accounts are throwaway.
People who participate in bad faith deserve to be warned, rate limited, then banned. Those are the rules of this community and while I don't always agree with the interpretations therein, I think it's important we recognize them and respect the boundaries that are drawn while within this infrastructure. We can attempt to undermine it externally if we feel the need.