DavidWanjiru

Are there bots that downvote comments on HN? Why would anyone downvote this comment?

About remembering which letters I type to go to which site, I assumed that's just the latest and greatest with browsers, and loved it without noticing that I do. But now that I know it's a Firefox feature, I'll knowingly love it now.

The govt is not my girlfriend. Why would I want tell them anything?

BS plauditory apology.

You don't get to call something you said "profound." Others can find it profound, but you can't. It's like a comedian finding themselves funny. It's normally the audience that finds the comedian funny.

Since we're talking health outcomes here, how prudent is it to measure these outcomes based on respondents' self assessments of how healthy they are, as this study does, rather than empirically measuring those outcomes?

I don't follow chess, and I didn't know it's gendered. That doesn't make sense. Why would chess contests be gendered? That's like a gendered photography contest.

How do people know where to find/make the things they do have an innate need for without advertisement as you seem to define it?

What law is he being above? The article says he checked with the US embassy in Oslo before travelling, and they said it was all good. He isn't trying to be above the law, he double checked with the law first.

He makes capital. Capital is a resource that you need to run, say, a software company. Makers don't usually go too far without it. And they, makers, are the ones who put their creations on the market, for good reason.

The companies he owns make and sell stuff and services. You know, a bit like the company owned by Bill Gates, whom you seem to hold in better regard.

Hacker News is not a trade union or some other special interest group where the nature of discussion topics is predictable and consistent. It's a group of people who start off with a special interest, tech, but are more broadly interested in life. If you want a forum exclusively about tech, HN is not it.

As to worshipping rich people, anything you consider worth people's time can be similarly dismissed as perfunctory worship of it.

While I also find the comments more compelling than the links themselves, sometimes a thread degenerates and gets marooned on Pointless Island. It helps to be able to identify PI from a distance and hence stay away.

I may be wondering because I'm standing on an atoll of ignorance in a sea of knowledge, but I wonder why the intelligence themselves can't became Tor admins and do away with needing to recruit anyone.

Is these a way to get in touch with this person, follow their work, read their research, etc.?