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"Please don't use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battle. This destroys intellectual curiosity, and we ban accounts that do it."

But I heartily encourage you to try it, and let me know how it works out for you. Perhaps you can get away with it by making 51% of your posts about random tech debris.

If you think you haven't seen systems of censorship in America, that's concerning.

Deepwater Horizon, where reporters, scientists, and anyone with a camera were barred from the entire area.

The Dakota Access Pipeline, where Stingrays were used to prevent news getting out, and no mainstream reporter went for days.

Coverage of Sanders' 2016 campaign, where he had roughly 5% of the coverage Trump got.

Whistle-blowers getting exiled / jailed while the whistle-blowees walk free.

The no-fly list, which you could end up on without any due process, and have no way to appeal.

There is no shortage of examples... if you look. I even seem to remember certain important stories getting removed from various social media forums...

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum" - that's a system.

Maybe - but I think that if I posted 12 times a week about US transgessions - or German, or Irish, or Australian - I'd be facing a ban in extremely short order.

I'd not like to see this normalised.

> "You missed the many, many articles on surveillance in the US and how that discussion isn't a prerequisite for discussions about China."

I must have... The last ones I remember are from like 2014, and as I recall there wasn't much signal in the noise. Feel free to link me to the most recent discussion (DDG shows me nothing - zero results - for the past month when I search "surveillance" on this site, no idea why).

While it might not be a prerequisite, isn't it sort of important context? Because I haven't seen any signs of improvement on this front, while I've seen a very sharp rise in the number of China related posts.

> "you point out that the poster has an interest in stories about China, but not how that's a problem."

I mean, if this site and it's users want to talk about China that much more than the US that's fine, but how is it a problem for me to point that out? And is it perhaps a little disingenuous to call a consistent 40% China related post history with over an 80% negative connotation "an interest in stories about China"?

Did we ever find out what the "leverage" on Bernie referred to in the Podesta emails was about?

I can't answer your question, but it is faster and more efficient. I've used it and it works.

There was no legitimate reason to remove this man's comments. He provided a legitimate perspective, and wasn't flaming anyone or being rude.

Defending him was your job, not mine.

There was a time when your comments here would be discussed and generally agreed with instead of blindly downvoted and removed.

Come to think of it, I can't remember the last time HN had a good discussion about US censorship and surveillance.

Weird.

Breathing. Experienced meditators say that the breath remains interesting even after decades of practise.

I feel that music and art could bear lifetimes of study without getting boring as well, but I might just be a slow learner.

If anyone proved beyond doubt that plants are not conscious & don't make decisions, I sure didn't hear about it. I have little doubt there are many flavors of consciousness out there, and while humans and animals and plants have their differences, they are not as large as some assume.

What I believe is this: We don't know nearly enough about consciousness, how it's made, and what it is, to make statements like that. And when people make the mistake of assuming they know otherwise, anything that follows is likely a pile of ballsack.

I suspect the dividing line, if we assume there is a single one, is pretty fuzzy and subjective. If a tree is cut down, is it still a tree? What about when it's cut into planks? At what point does an acorn become a tree; at it's first leaf, first sprout, first branch?

If we had answers to these kind of questions, the world would be very different to what I've observed.

>However, consciousness also gives out somewhere. Plants do not have it.

Stopped reading there.

1. Nothing. Which is what makes this seem soooo shady, and both parties refusing to give even a surface exuse.

2. They're not trying to influence policy, but young impressionable Redditors. Even a 1% change in opinion can be huge at key moments, narrative framing is still effective, even things like the semblance of disagreement can be massively persuading.

I've witnessed my own national subreddit turn from a great little corner of the internet to a shill-ridden shithole. It probably only took the coordination of two or three real full-time people, some coordination on mod replacement, and clever software. But it has been remarkably effective.

The same tactics that worked for my little country would probably work as well or better in other subreddits, and there's no real creativity required to pull it off.

Give it an hour - I guarantee there are worse ones to come.

Currently, you're downvoted to near the bottom, while the top comment is defending this violation of dignity.

What's going on here; are we that out of touch with this community's values?

Quick tip: when people give out about a massive company (one with a real influence on the world, mind you) doing something they feel isn't right, that's :not the same thing: as assuming the company has a moral duty to heal the world.

I feel like the Wim Hof method ought to be mentioned here. It is imo the fastest and most direct route to understanding what this article is talking about.

That is horrifying.

I don't suppose there'd be any way to know if companies are using this neo-phrenology during interviews?

> Topsoil should properly be measured in volume, not distance

Should it though?

And regardless of how clear or unclear that is, I gotta say I dislike seeing when the sum of a multitude of reports is expressed in a headline, only for people to nitpick through it without even attempting to check the actual methodology for themselves.

1 cm/year is 33 times faster than 3 cm/100 years, not a few hundred times faster.

AFAIK terra preta is far from fully understood, and farther still from being widely used. Very cool stuff though.

Also see: Alcohol, Cannabis, Portugal's decriminalization etc.

I'd just like to encourage people to think a little longer about what you might be saying, before reactively downvoting.