showdeadplease

    pkill -SIGUSR2 emacs

That will cause Emacs to interrupt whatever it's doing and display a backtrace.

I'm glad to be proven wrong this time.

Hey, dang, where are you, man? Gonna ban this guy for "ideological flamewar"?

Nah, this Dan is a founder, a YC alum with 11,000 karma points. He can say whatever he wants. At worst, he'd get a "Well, yeah, you're right, they are religious bigots, but please be more subtle about it." But he won't even get that, because no HN user with >=500 karma's going to flag his comment.

Of course, weberc2's comment is downvoted.

Nah, HN isn't biased to the left at all, dang. After all, people on both sides complain, therefore it must be perfectly balanced, right?

Emacs is too complex. There is nice editor `ed` that helps me with basic corrections.

That's not how the Senate works. They are not required to hold a vote in order to declare "nay" on a nominee. Declining to vote is effectively a "nay". It's no different than declining to hold a vote on a bill which they know will not pass.

This is how Congress and the co-equal branches of government are designed to work. Congress and the President often don't get along. It's a feature, not a bug.

Containers have little value as ends in and of themselves. Containers' purpose is to contain something of value.

Of what value is wrongness?

Thanks, Dan. It's nice to have a concise statement on record to the effect that HN would rather be wrong than be right and risk offending anyone. Truth is not a goal here.

The Senate is not required to hold hearings on nominees. The Senate did not hold any hearings until 1916.