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And for the record, all my bitcoin dealings have been this year (late starter) so I have nothing to worry about with unclaimed income. (Thank you flying spaghetti monster)

I got a notice that registered mail failed to deliver from the IRS. Since I have no other dealings/reason for them to send me mail, I'm assuming I'm one of the ones. Will find out Monday.

Lots of companies do this (SV and others), if it makes good business sense for them to do so why do we care?

>When I read the above, the first reactive thought I had was "What about Ralph Northam? He is in his college yearbook either in blackface or a Klan robe. What about Justin Fairfax? He's been accused of multiple sexual assaults. Both of them are still in their elected positions"

Therein lies the danger of bias and silencing "one side" of a politicial conversation. Because the mainstream media does not blast the story everywhere and call for their heads, bad people are allowed to do bad things, even if they're members of a party that does a lot of good things.

You asked a question, and I gave you the answer. If you choose the believe the far left is harmless and has never killed/hurt anyone, there's nothing I can do to stop you. Enjoy your day.

As others have mentioned, the Las Vegas shooter is one recent example. Congressman being shot down on a baseball field. Dismissing facts by calling it "rambling" doesn't make it any less true.

It's not that conservatives don't want hate groups banned, every reasonable person does. It's because of the ever expanding definition of what hate speech is.

I'm no conservative, but I definitely see their point when "I love America" is hate speech, yet "Straight White Men should die" is not. Look at Twitter as an example.

I blame the internet for much of why politics is the way it is today. This is why I too like HN, it doesn't seem to take a side, as far as I can tell and I can ignore most political stuff if I want.

Yes.

It doesn't get as much publicity so few know about it. That's the problem with today's bias, and muting one side.

Many platforms have been doing this. It's likely because the majority of tech folks are left leaning, whether leadership in the company or audience. It's basic marketing.

I'm not sad that some of these really hateful people are blocked, that's a given. But choosing sides is dangerous. Not every conservative is spewing hate speech, in fact many from the left (even celebrities) post what could be considered hate speech.

They say "anonymous" but right after signing up with my work email they followed me on Twitter. The two are only connected by my name. Could be coincidence, but probably not.

Also, the community there is pretty toxic. I understand it's mostly the design of the app to be a place where people can say what they want, but I think it attracts a certain type that I'm not terribly interested in getting close with.

I used to view Digital Ocean as kind of a play toy, good for experimenting and not much else, but these days they're a key player for sure and they've been a super reliable VPS host. Can't wait to try out some container stuff.

Notice the president was mentioned in the article. Tells you everything you know about it.

This has very little to do with actual science, and more to do with hatred of Trump.

Incredibly tragic. He seemed like a very good man, and most certainly a titan of our industry.

I do get to pull that. I choose not to engage with people locked on to their ideas, so I don't have to. Complete waste of time. The worst thing you can do me is downvote my comments.

That's all the power you have. Have at it bub.

> I have seen plenty of evidence that for example the internet as a whole is biased against conservatives, or even really reality,

This is where I stop having the conversation.

You've lost sight of what an "opinion" is and what it means. You're not alone in the world, but it's not a discussion I care to have. No amount of evidence will convince you of anything.

I can tell someone's political leanings just by whether or not they think Google is biased.

A lot of people are ok with the way things are. Will they be ok when they have an opinion that's not whitelisted by tech?

To be fair it has flipped considerably, if you consider the extremists in each group.

In the 2000s the extremist conservatives wanted to censor everything (mostly due to religion) and liberals wanted freedom of expression.

Now it seems that extreme liberals want to censor "hate speech" which is absolutely valid, however the lines are moving or getting blurry to the point where they want to censor conservative ideas altogether, and conservatives want "freedom of expression".

I've seen this shift and I'm sure many others have as well.

Touche

I agree with this also. Very rare

Yep 404 to me too. Slashdotted perhaps?

Agree. Some of the most effective people can be "assholes" when they stick to their principles in the face of pressure.

Fear of the unknown. We still don't know the long term effects, so he may be on to something.

Also it's pretty crazy to put a battery that close to your face regularly. I know only a few have exploded, but the risk of that alone would deter me.