milemi

What a ridiculous article. Kudos to WIRED for digging deep to let us know what the people who did this have to say about this mystery of mysteries.

The irony of you repeatedly doing what you’re telling me I shouldn’t do is forever lost on you.

What is up with people here trying to sound like hectoring kindergarten teachers? The post wasn’t inappropriate, it was just nonsense.

Google chat bots make more sense than this post, so maybe that’s your clue right there.

Not everyone finds the same things to be fun. Shocking, but true.

Until now, but sticking it to NYTimes might create some joy.

It's a standalone js app and all the future words are in it. You can get a word for any date by setting your system clock to that date.

I see your brother in law (way to draw grand conclusions based on a sample of one, btw), and raise you an article in nytimes, which might be, just might be, a bit better researched https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/04/technology/alex-jones-inf...

The article isn’t recent, and I challenge you to find a more recent record that paints a less gloomy picture for him, but I doubt you’ll find it.

Alex Jones is a non-entity now compared to his heyday. Deplatforming works, your extended family notwithstanding.

Luckily I wrote down those deets before it went dark. Best water I ever drank. My frogs are loving it too.

A reminder that people have tried that, and it invariably turns into a chan. Which is what YouTube would become if it went hands-off.

I'm not super familiar with YouTube's policy on this, but apparently they decided to curb what they deem to be COVID-19 misinformation. I completely agree that what these two are doing is spreading misinformation, this is not anywhere in the range of a seasonal flu, the numbers are clear on that.

It's very naive to think that what these two are doing is a good faith attempt to present a dissenting opinion. If someone wants to use this tragedy as an opportunity to launch their right-wing media career I don't think YouTube is obliged to be an accomplice.

As for my opinions being silenced, if I ever yell fire in a theater, or tell people to drink poison laced Kool-Aid, or tell them to ignore this pandemic, I hope I get what's coming to me.

I really really like it, just like I really really like what's his name being deplatformed. I like it even more that I can't readily remember his name, right, Alex Jones. YouTube has no duty to be a platform for Diamond and Silk in scrubs.

Population of NYC was 8.4e6 in 2018

I think the idea is more to stop you from unwittingly infecting someone by shooting droplets while you speak or cough or clear your throat, than to filter out the air you breathe. So it's not your mask that protects you, it's all the other people's masks.

There are, but the only two examples are Banach and Tarsky.

You haven’t stopped to think why it might be a good idea to collect this data? You really think it’s being done for profit?

If I have to be hospitalized, and nobody should enter my apartment for three days to take care of my cats, and it turns out it’s unwarranted, that’s a big inconvenience for me.

you mean SARS-CoV-1 in the first para

This poorly written op-ed, rich on bombastic proclamations and backed with absolutely no research, getting to the top of HN is a (chef's kiss) testament of a what a giant circle jerk this site is.

Median age of admitted patients in the article above was 49. That’s not elderly. Also, only half of them had pre-existing conditions.

Only -1? Stop slacking off shittwaddles.

Is he not aware that there’s hundreds if not thousands of keyboard models on the market? Now, if he was talking about the Apple TV remote, that I’d be totally on board with.

I wasted 10 seconds reading the beginning of this so I don’t have to read the rest of it.

I doubt that. Googling "google customer service" gives me this https://www.google.com/contact/ How about starting there and telling us what happened? I don't see any mention of any attempt to figure it out.

I wish OP had gotten to the bottom of why the account got suspended and told us about that.

He still sends paper checks, issued by a fictitious Bank of San Serriffe, so you still have something to frame, in addition to being listed at https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/boss.html

You totally convinced me, I’m so sorry now for all the bad stuff I said about Hitler.

I'm not reacting to a personal insult. I'm reacting to ageism.

It's the people who are reacting back who are taking personal offense at what they perceive as an attempt to take away their freedom to casually demean people of the group they're not (yet) a part of.

That's assuming you have a choice to not be affected by someone's opinion. If there was a pervasive culture of people posting articles on HN casually assuming that you're an idiot you'd find it much harder to ignore.

And if people on hiring committees, in fact just one person on each hiring committee, absorbed this by simply not having time and effort to expend to mentally challenge that assumption, you're pretty screwed, all philosophical arguments aside. Assuming you have to work for a living.

Hi, the fringe complaint-seeking internet loony here. Ageism is a real thing with consequences affecting the very livelihood of millions of people. I don't know the author's age, but people in their thirties sometimes think calling themselves old farts is cute. My bet is they'll change their minds once they hit their fifties, if they don't exit the industry by then. But dismissing all that as trolling is certainly the easy way to go.