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Re:Gab Launches Dissenter: Comment on Any Internet Page on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @03:53PM (#19266840)
Libel much?
Re:Gab Launches Dissenter: Comment on Any Internet Page on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @03:37PM (#19266709)
“Ad hominem is a notoriously weak logical argument. And is usually used to distract the focus of a discussion - to move it from an indefensible point and to attack the opponent."

~ Lord Aquitainus Attis

Re:What you can't say (2004) on Monday October 15, 2018 @05:25PM (#18223928)
"John Levy called me and said that because I said "build the wall" I am now removed from the network"
Re:What you can't say (2004) on Monday October 15, 2018 @05:25PM (#18223923)
1. It wasn't his job. It was the YC network he was thrown out of.

2. His own testimony was that "John Levy called me and said that because I said "build the wall" I am now removed from the network."

Re:What you can't say (2004) on Monday October 15, 2018 @02:04PM (#18222055)
Andrew Torba former YC'er got kicked out for triggering other YC alum for saying "Build the Wall" -

or we can go w/ Brendan Eich getting booted from Mozilla.

The list can go on and on and on.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/04/04/mozill...

https://www.facebook.com/garry/posts/10102671732962523?pnref...

Re:PeerTube 1.0: A decentralized video hosting network, based on libre... on Monday October 15, 2018 @01:04PM (#18221491)
Patreon is part of the SV mafia.. They're just as bad w/ arbitrary censorship.

Bitcoin is a better use case for PeerTube imo.

Re:Google workers discussed tweaking search after travel ban on Thursday September 20, 2018 @09:11PM (#18036521)
A meme? Did you happen to watch the video of the post election all hands?
Re:$1M to build decentralized social networks on Friday May 11, 2018 @12:57PM (#17048898)
Blockchains are good for one thing and one thing only. Censorship resistant money exchanges. That's it.

These guys launched the same concept last year. For $25m and they literly have nobody using the platform.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/blockstack-partners-vcs...

Re:Gab is suing Google for allegedly violating antitrust laws on Friday September 15, 2017 @11:03PM (#15262608)
Well done sir. You won comment of the day!!
Re:Gab is suing Google for allegedly violating antitrust laws on Friday September 15, 2017 @03:06PM (#15259842)
They need to be careful.. strong winds of antitrust are blowing around Washington.
Re:Gab.ai, Twitter competitor, raises $1M dollars in crowd investment on Thursday August 17, 2017 @02:15PM (#15039318)
Let's see how fast this gets ghosted..
Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @07:46AM (#14956774)
Highly recommended reading on this subject by four scientists https://web.archive.org/web/20170808013732/http://quillette....
Re:Thoughts on Tokens on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @03:56PM (#14448052)
It's also "very easy" not fall into FOMO token buying.
Re:Thoughts on Tokens on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @03:48PM (#14447982)
Tokens = Branded Gift Cards
Re:Thoughts on Tokens on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @02:57PM (#14447555)
How is it a scam if there is instant liquidity right after the sale in most cases?
Re:Ask HN: Where do you buy Ethereum? on Monday May 29, 2017 @08:03AM (#14438682)
I bet you bank blocks the charge from coinbase because it's a foreign charge.
Re:Declassified memos show FBI illegally shared spy data with private ... on Friday May 26, 2017 @01:25PM (#14425736)
Amazing how this story will get no love on HN.
Re:The Deck ad network is shutting down on Thursday March 30, 2017 @03:14PM (#13998069)
Yes. Very similar.
Re:The Deck ad network is shutting down on Thursday March 30, 2017 @08:19AM (#13994712)
What are your sites?
Re:The Deck ad network is shutting down on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @08:09PM (#13991810)
What's your site? Curious.
Re:Ask HN: YC please talk about Immigration Order on Saturday January 28, 2017 @11:39AM (#13507238)
Racist!! jk

It's refreshing to see a rational response to theses EO's instead of the over the top virtue signaling that is now common place on HN.

Re:Russian hackers penetrated U.S. electricity utility, officials say on Saturday December 31, 2016 @09:07AM (#13291058)
Glenn Greenwald eviscerates this WaPo article https://theintercept.com/2016/12/31/russia-hysteria-infects-...
Re:A bigger problem than ISIS: The Mosul Dam is failing on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @05:38AM (#13269692)
This is eerily similar to Bitter Lake.. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x35szal
Re:Elon Musk, Travis Kalanick, Indra Nooyi to Join Presidential Adviso... on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @11:16AM (#13177101)
His secretary of transportation is pro-gig economy and pro uber/lyft.

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