It's Not Orwell, It's Brave New World

Re:It's Not Orwell, It's Brave New World by angersock on Friday February 03, 2017 @07:21PM (#13564639)

You...do appreciate the difficulty in finding these instances if they weren't bookmarked at the time, right? Also, just how silly it is to have the alleged censors say "Oh, well, that's news to me--can you find examples of the things we memoryholed?"

It might help if you folks kept a public moderation log.

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Re:It's Not Orwell, It's Brave New World by sctb on Friday February 03, 2017 @08:01PM (#13564879)

I don't think it's unfair to ask someone to back up a claim, especially when the dataset is publicly available through the API or (more conveniently) in BigQuery:

  SELECT count(*) FROM [bigquery-public-data:hacker_news.comments] 
  WHERE parent IS NULL;

Story and comment IDs are also simply incrementing integers. We're not making it easy on ourselves to hide this sort of thing!

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Re:It's Not Orwell, It's Brave New World by angersock on Friday February 03, 2017 @09:45PM (#13565339)

Oh nifty. When did you all add that stuff to BigQuery? The Firebase API suggests that that dataset is going away in like a month.

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