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A comment on Helion’s fusion power purchase agreement with Microsoft. Parent comment

Re:Helion’s fusion power purchase agreement with Microsoft by ricardobeat on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @12:24PM (#35889620)
Cynism is not disencouraged in the HN guidelines, but the sneering at the community and meta complaint in your comment is. I don’t care for the tone in those comments buy they are expressing something real.

Helion can be a cool company with real tech, and this deal a marketing play, both possibly true.

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Re:Helion’s fusion power purchase agreement with Microsoft by x-complexity on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @09:08PM (#35895948)
> Cynism is not disencouraged in the HN guidelines, but the sneering at the community and meta complaint in your comment is. I don’t care for the tone in those comments buy they are expressing something real.

This guideline needs to be revised: It is extremely easy to be a cynic compared to being an optimist, and the rewards for being such a cynic are mismatched, as per piloto_ciego's outline on the advantages that being a pessimist/cynic has over being an optimist.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35892166

The ever-increasing levels of dread coming from HN is a deadly combination of Neo-Luddism & doomerism that I'm an avid crucifier of.

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