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Please don't beat yourselves up about this, only men use the internet anyway. Men definitely wouldn't be offended by this misogynist word

Is this what Hacker News has become? A place to whore yourself and your business? Please don't encourage these kinds of posts.

He wasn't just abrasive, he was incompetent.

This might be one of the worst articles I've ever read.

""I advocate never lying in personal relationships. But if you have Anne Frank in your attic and a Nazi knocks on the door, lie....I lie to any government official." (Blanton's politics are just this side of Noam Chomsky's.)"

I don't see how the quote is even remotely related to Chomsky's politics.

A lot of these links are expired. Wish there was an updated version of this.

That is one side of it, yes. Congress takes your money to do a lot of horrible things, like the hundreds of thousands of documented civilians that were killed as a direct result of the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

But Congress takes your money to do a lot of things, and some of them are absolutely important, like taking care of the medical problems that older people have.

Open source definitely will not save the planet, but the ideas behind Free Software might.

When will this be voted on?

Trolls are an important part of anonymous communities. They prevent people from having their heads so far up their asses that the community becomes an echo chamber. Too much moderation will contribute to echo chambers, as well.

I find it hilarious that people naturally assume the U.S. is not an oppressive government. Why don't you ask the black population of your country whether they feel oppressed?