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Re:Lego Microscope by escape_goat on Friday April 23, 2021 @11:59AM (#26916099)
I prefer it when the commentary on Hacker News does not extend to hot takes. I am sure there are many hypocrisies to be observed on HN, but you are drawing a patently false equivalence between the carbon footprint of cryptocurrency, which if it produces value, certainly does not do so directly, and the impact of the plastic pollution caused by lego pieces, one of the most heavily conserved categories of plastic object in the world.
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Re:Lego Microscope by sombremesa on Friday April 23, 2021 @02:39PM (#26917722)
Say what you will, but any post on HN that even mentions cryptocurrency in passing has an environmental alarmist as the top upvoted post whereas here any such thing will be downvoted to the bottom.

> I prefer it when the commentary on Hacker News does not extend to hot takes.

Seems like you don't speak for the hivemind. Hot takes get upvoted on the regular around here. Just not when they don't conform to the echo chamber.

I found a name for the phenomenon that I was looking for, I think.

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