This chronic downvoting on HN is getting boring.
This is an excellent comment because it explains Stallman's accuracy (vs his opponents) not in terms of the fundamentals of their reasoning but in terms of their heuristics for judging motivations.
This is an excellent comment because it explains Stallman's accuracy (vs his opponents) not in terms of the fundamentals of their reasoning but in terms of their heuristics for judging motivations.
By the way, it always seemed to me that by civilized discussion once can learn the opponent's point of view and maybe even reach a compromise, but it seems HN works in a different way, hiding downvoted posts. When I expand them, I'm often surprised to see they're not spam nor offensive content, but just statements many people don't agree with.