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A comment on Richmond’s rules: Why one California town is keeping Wall Street up at night.

Re:Richmond’s rules: Why one California town is keeping Wall... by thrownaway2424 on Sunday October 06, 2013 @01:46PM (#6504753)
Hacker News cognitive dissonance week:

  1) Creating technical arguments against court-ordered search warrants: heroic civil disobedience.
  2) Creating technical workarounds for mortgage debt paralysis: craven violation of sacred property rights.
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Re:Richmond’s rules: Why one California town is keeping Wall... by mikeash on Sunday October 06, 2013 @03:02PM (#6505030)
Can you elaborate as to exactly why a person who does not have the same opinion on both 1 and 2 must be suffering from "cognitive dissonance"? I don't see much of a relation between them.
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Re:Richmond’s rules: Why one California town is keeping Wall... by asdfologist on Sunday October 06, 2013 @06:09PM (#6505651)
Because he's still offended by the massive downvotes on his illogical comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6485956

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Re:Richmond’s rules: Why one California town is keeping Wall... by thrownaway2424 on Monday October 07, 2013 @01:34PM (#6509797)
Yes, because I personally give a shit about your stupid downvotes. I am devastated.
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Re:Richmond’s rules: Why one California town is keeping Wall... by mikeash on Sunday October 06, 2013 @06:15PM (#6505672)
Oh no, my precious internet points!
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Re:Richmond’s rules: Why one California town is keeping Wall... by mmuuoi on Sunday October 06, 2013 @02:18PM (#6504866)
Not really. Both 1 and 2 are reactions to government over reach.
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