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Re:The deplatforming of a president: An unprecedented week f... by ReaLNero on Saturday January 09, 2021 @02:37PM (#25703805)
This strikes me as insightless pedantry. Of course the union of the two sets isn't the intersection of the two sets! Nobody was debating this.

I am fairly certain what the parent comments meant was that the people on HN are a significant portion of the talent (note: talent != headcount) of big tech.

HN is a fantastic resource for learning about new tech. And being curious around technology is usually a sign that you're much above average.

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Re:The deplatforming of a president: An unprecedented week f... by grzm on Saturday January 09, 2021 @03:03PM (#25704120)
When you have so many people talking past each other because they're bucketing groups of people and assigning to them beliefs and behaviors while dismissing concerns with the casual "do all x believe y?" with on-going violent results, I don't think it's pedantry at all.

In less heated times when people are engaged in good-faith debate, we can be more lax with our language. From the discussions of the past few days, that's clearly not the case right now. We're unlikely to get past this without first being more nuanced ourselves.

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