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I apologize if I did something wrong. It's a political post and I am just trying to make the point that we should hope and expect FB to be moral and do the right thing. They control so much of our information that they should make sure far right ideologies (ok, far left also) should never be able to manipulate the data for their purposes.

If such a discussion is not expected on HN, I am probably in the wrong place.

FB and Google are huge companies and control majority of the information people get today. We should want them to be moral arbiters. Otherwise what else can we do? Most of us are so gullible.

Good. We can expect such behavior from vile conservative companies like Cambridge Analytics, funded by Mercer and the cause for Brexit. Why are they even allowed on FB? Such extreme groups should never be allowed.

No it's not different. I just said that not many presidents have targeted and killed their own citizens. Lincoln was probably one of them. Perhaps one could argue Obama was in a civil war with Americans of the Muslim faith / extremists.

One could argue it was justified. I would personally feel horrible if it was justified that way. But, hey, it's not my country.

Let's celebrate his amazing life.

"The diagnosis of motor neurone disease came when Hawking was 21, in 1963. At the time, doctors gave him a life expectancy of two years.[253][254]"

It must be quite taxing to have been given that diagnosis at such a young age, and then live to a relatively old age. I wonder how that marginally impacted his view on life, work and relationships.

Sad he didn't get the Nobel.

It's good. Let's make sure the following conspiracy theories and extreme views are highlighted:

Anything about men's rights, "rape culture", white "oppression", "72 genders", marxism, neoliberalism, fascism, Antifa, conservatism, libertarianism, white nationalist, black nationalism, "Irish" nationalism, hindutva, islamophobia, islamophilia, Catholic church paedophilia, pizza gate, Russia collusion, 9/11 was an inside job, 9/11 was by Al Qaeda, George Soros, Koch brothers, uranium one, Castro Trudeau, PewDiePie, Alex Jones, Rachel Maddow, Sean hannity, morning Joe, ... Just to begin with.

It would be nice if the list of conspiracies and extremist views was a open source list so that we get an honorable and democratic process of deciding it as a people and community. I am sure we as good human beings will be able to peacefully maintain such a list. I wouldn't mind the great overlords of YouTube to maintain such a list either.

Those were massive fups.

That is very different from listing the name of an American on a "kill list" and ordering a drone strike. Judge, jury and executioner.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki

Obama is also I think one of very few presidents who explicitly targeted and killed American natural born citizen. Not accidentally, but actually targeted. Didn't even bother hiding it.

But I agree with the original point, GOP did start this mess on the lie of weapons of mass destruction.

I gave a much more neutral source below.

Welcome to the American security state

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-2...

Entire government is run by shady people. Even tech boards of companies like Dropbox have Secretary Rice on them.

Why is it patronizing? In media and film, such requests are frequently made.

Exactly. This is very troubling : "But we are not going to recruit someone just because they are a woman."

How else do you expect to get gender parity? It should be important to specifically source and hire women.

Of course it is. It allows for fantastic commentary on how bad race relations in America are, and where the division is actually coming from ...

I use vim bindings in zsh, tmux (tmux modality plugin) and chrome (vimium). Pretty much 95 percent of my computer interactions right there.

Why not just use vim? Why bother with other editors? I have changed jobs but carry my dot files with me.

I like to get a fair and balanced view on things. I love "racism simulator"

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/racism-simulator/d...

Use it for a week while visiting leftist websites. It will show you how obsessed they are with people's melanin and chromosomes. Shocking beyond belief...

You need to take introduction to statistics and understand what a distribution is and what kinds of insights we can get from them.

It is certainly not "entirely cultural". We are still part of the animal kingdom. There is actual biology and evolution at play. Ignoring that is pseudoscience.

I can't read nytimes (not a subscriber) but how are they verifying citizenship?

I hate guns and I want them banned in America. But, crime goes up after gun bans https://crimeresearch.org/2013/12/murder-and-homicide-rates-...

I am okay with that because it spreads the violence but each instance of violence is less deadly. So for the sake of no school schootings, I will accept increase in general violence. Let's repeal the 2A.

And it's removed from the front page ...

"Hire people not due to the content of their character, but by the gender they identify with and the melanin in their skin" #civilrights2018

"choose a person not by the content of their character, but by the gender of their identification and the color of their skin"

- The new civil rights movement

National review and Huffington Post agreeing on something. Wow.

Looks like they have an influx of the MBA and ex Microsoft types. Sad!

What's the new Google these days?

I have no idea why you linked that. The two comments you have posted make absolutely no sense. Non sequitors. Why did you use feudalism first, and then some weird alt right stuff second? What's going through your mind?

I don't think you understand what feudalism was/is...

This naming is ridiculous. Did they hire a bunch of Microsoft people ?

The idea of "Nation" being a people goes back thousands and thousands of years. I don't think it was born in the 19th century...

Of course. It's what separates us from the beasts and animals.

Sapiens also talks about how humanism is completely made up. Who says a human deserves rights? Why should humans not own other humans? Because we built up a moral system on made up beliefs, largely religious in origin.

And that is good. Otherwise why protect weak humans? Why not just behave more "naturally", like animals?

Critical thinking is the most important tool for anyone, PhD or not.

In this noisy world that we find ourselves in today, one MUST cultivate critical thinking skills.

I don't trust phds because they "sound smart". Indeed, true smartness lies in simplifying complex concepts without much loss of information. I know the types of faux intellects you are referring to. Beware of them.

I trust phds more because my prior on their ability to use critical thinking is much higher than a Hollywood dimwit who is paid to express emotions in people.

It is still your job to trust, but verify. It is just easier to verify logically sound arguments or insights.