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I think a quick glance at the headlines on CNN and Fox News on any given day show them practicing the same type of intellectual dishonesty to further their narratives.

I'll give you OAN, that's an entirely higher level of misinformation.

That's a broad brush. There's CNN/Fox News/OAN level bias and then there's ABC. It's a matter of degree.

That's why it's bad to rely on anecdotes. Car theft is up in 2019 and 2020 in the US https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-auto-the...

Not just more specific rules, ones that just come later in source order too (with an identical specificity).

Oh, and more "important" rules too. "!important" overrides everything. Well, except more specific instances of !important, or instances of !important with the same specificity but later in source order.

Specificity is easy, the amount of specificity a selector has is measured using four different values represented by four single digits in four columns. (Of course, a single ID will override a thousand nested class selectors.)

And that's ignoring the origin of the rule (author, user, or user agent stylesheet).

And of course transitions override all of this.

Isn't CSS fun?

Car theft is more common where cars are more common

A search for "dog" yeilded zero results, terrible

Using the USB-C cable that came with your MacBook? Or a cable you paid extra for?

The FDIC is a government agency created after bank runs were common during the Depression. This is much different, nothing has been "reinvented".

They work great to charge my Android. One day MacBook chargers may even charge iPhones!

Everyone that owns (is "enrolled" in) AAPL is "incentivized to get other people to buy" Apple products, just like BTC. These were the only 2 reasons you've ever given for why BTC is a "pyramid scheme".

You've said that both apply to Apple. So Apple is a "pyramid scheme" right? Or does the No True Pyramid Scheme fallacy mean Apple is excluded?

Is there a reason you can't explain the difference between pyramid schemes, Ponzi schemes, other MLM schemes and market manipulation? The most reasonable guess would be that you don't understand the difference.

This is not an argumentum ad hominiem, it's an explanation for why you're so wrong, and why BTC's not a pyramid scheme.

> I’m curious why would you take it as a personal attack

We're discussing BTC, not me. It’s easier to discuss this if you stay away from ad hominem.

> you’d be able to quote where I agreed AAPL qualified as a pyramid scheme.

Sure thing, here ya go (it's right there if you scroll up):

> > So Apple is a "pyramid scheme" right?

> Yes, to a mild extent

...you qualify it with "the owners don’t have much extent" unfortunately the no true Scotsman fallacy doesn’t work here.

> I understand that what people think of Bitcoin is of great importance to you

Sure isn't. Weird shift to a personal attack, but what else do you have left after failing so badly?

It’s easier to discuss this if you stay away from ad hominem.

Tell them that their name is spelled in Latin?

Or that æ is a character formed by combining two separate letters?

Both support the idea that Æ is not a letter in the modern English alphabet.

> yes, to a mild extent and indeed they do

Thank you for agreeing. So your definition is so bad Apple qualifies as a pyramid scheme under it. That makes it appear that you have no idea what a pyramid scheme is.

> so the owners don’t have much extent

...but "to a mild extent" they do, so your definition calls this a pyramid scheme. The no true Scotsman fallacy doesn’t work here.

> [BTC] is structurally a pyramid scheme

The decentralized blockchain? You haven't posted a specific reason to say this that isn't abstract, despite two desperate tries. There are no recruiters, there's no one actively distributing funds for getting new recruits.

Just curious, do you know the difference between market manipulation and pyramid schemes? Pyramid schemes and Ponzi schemes? Pyramid schemes and other MLM schemes?

Or you just use them all interchangeably because you have no idea what they mean?

> not in an abstract sense

...and everyone that owns (is "enrolled" in) AAPL is "incentivized to get other people to buy" Apple products. So Apple is a "pyramid scheme" right?

"Pyramid scheme" is a real thing with a real meaning. Someone posting "BTC to the moon!" on Twitter does not make BTC a pyramid scheme. Typically people are describing market manipulation, and they just don't know what a pyramid scheme is (your post).

Do you mean "pyramid scheme" specifically or just "scheme"? A pyramid scheme recruits members for enrolling others into the scheme, and not in an abstract sense. Bitcoin is decentralized and there's no way to enroll in it, no one to enroll people.

They were never defunded.

de Blasio’s executive budget proposal has NYPD funding at $5.13 billion for the 2022 fiscal year, ~$230 million more than the budget adopted last year for this fiscal year.

You're accidentally arguing that providing more funding to a multi-billion dollar government union ("fiscal conservatism") doesn't reduce crime. Maybe take a deep breath before you regurgitate your comment the next time.

Sure, both browsers have developer tools. This is much more opaque than a Settings menu.

> Web pages shouldn't have typography

What does this mean?

Optimal line length for legibility is, indeed, generally agreed upon to be in the range of 45-75 characters per line (not 100).

Even more infuriating is that they're using en dashes places where they should be em dashes. For example:

    […] choices – e.g. I cannot fix small-resolution screens or bad user font choices – but at least […]

> but the page doesn't zoom

Yes, devs- PLEASE stop doing this!

    <meta name="viewport" content="maximum-scale=1">

Surely there's a horrible subreddit for you to secrete hot takes like "literally FAKE NEWS" on instead of this forum?

I know this is an unpopular opinion, but I don't see constructive criticism as a "flow of negativity."

I know this is an unpopular opinion, but "I know this is an unpopular opinion" adds nothing to comments but a false sense of contrarianism.

CSS only:

    [bgcolor="#ff6600"] {
        background-color: transparent;
    }

> If the comment desaturation makes Hacker News difficult to read

...then make it accessible. Sighted users do not have to click a timestamp or install extensions to have legible text. Why should the visually impaired?

The extension linked to does nothing to improve the legibility of "X points by Y 30 minutes ago..." or "help" etc either.

So why post in a thread that's implicitly about little-known or emerging tech?

"The best under-the-radar car? It's a horse and buggy I tells ya!" Every one of these posts on HN has to have a hot take that's contrarian.

Is "I don't even like Infinite Jest" the new "I don't even own a TV?"

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that instead of arguing in bad faith, you're just incredibly gullible.

on ALL of my alts?! Not to mention when I'm logged out. I'd rather click "install plugin" once.