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Re:The Best Place to Drink Is the Emptiest Bar in the City by shagie on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @03:11PM (#36497366)
Keep Your Identity Small (2009) http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html (see also https://hn.algolia.com/?q=keep+your+identity )

> I finally realized today why politics and religion yield such uniquely useless discussions.

> As a rule, any mention of religion on an online forum degenerates into a religious argument. Why? Why does this happen with religion and not with Javascript or baking or other topics people talk about on forums?

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Also https://pbfcomics.com/comics/deeply-held-beliefs/

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Re:The Best Place to Drink Is the Emptiest Bar in the City by musicale on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @07:55PM (#36500403)
> online forum degenerates into a religious argument. Why? Why does this happen with religion and not with Javascript

Isn't it a law that all programming language discussions eventually devolve into religious arguments?

I can't imagine Javascript is somehow immune.

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Re:The Best Place to Drink Is the Emptiest Bar in the City by elzbardico on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @09:13PM (#36501026)
Paul Graham wrote this in 2009.

Nowadays? I believe that quite a few homicides could be traced to have started with discussions about baking, beer brewing, or cooking.

People are fucking opinionated about everything nowadays.

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