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Re:US burns through all high-skill visas for 2015 in less th... by frandroid on Monday April 07, 2014 @08:52PM (#7550731)
I don't think it's inappropriate language, but I find your statement that the Queen can suspend Canadian parliament any time she wants is totally incorrect. The case you link to is an exceptional one that had no jurisprudence, and was most likely decided by the Queen's representative, not the Queen herself, which is not an insignificant difference. This was the aftermath of an election with a minority government result, which almost never happens in our First Past the Post system. Your misrepresentation of this case is more offensive to my eyes than your language. My HN values intellectual correctness over proper language. :)
Re:US burns through all high-skill visas for 2015 in less th... by dang on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @04:59PM (#7555983)
Of course truth is more important than civility. But the two are compatible—there's no tradeoff.

It would be great if we had a way to correct all false statements on Hacker News, but we don't. That shouldn't prevent us from addressing the corrosion of the discourse by garden-variety incivility. Pulling out those weeds is one of the big things we all can do to make HN more conducive to truth-seeking discussion in the first place.