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Re:Open Whisper Systems Partners with Google on End-To-end E... by lawnchair_larry on Thursday May 19, 2016 @12:02AM (#11727874)
> I think Hacker News should be better than this.

I don't think it should. I think us pretending that we are some group of regal statesmen is a bunch of pretentious bullshit.

Being civil is preferable, but not if it means being fake.

People aren't any less "mean" on HN, they're just good at bullying in more subtle ways, and we are all worse off for it.

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Re:Open Whisper Systems Partners with Google on End-To-end E... by tptacek on Thursday May 19, 2016 @12:29AM (#11727965)
The point isn't that we're "statesmen". It's just that we check as much incivility as we can at the door.
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Re:Open Whisper Systems Partners with Google on End-To-end E... by nl on Thursday May 19, 2016 @03:11AM (#11728570)
Being civil is preferable, but not if it means being fake.

I don't understand this. Everything is fake to some degree. Being civil is a good thing.

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