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adventured|10 years ago|0 comments|parent|on: Doctor in New York City Is Sick with Ebola
These credible professionals certainly seem to think ebola can infect via aerosol, and perhaps remain in the air for up to an hour:

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2014/09/commentar...

I have to believe the US Government already knows that ebola is capable of this, they've been studying it for decades. If it can spread by aerosol, they're lying to prevent substantially more panic.

Downvoters should start by refuting the linked article - it's a pretty important article. The authors are guaranteed to know a lot more about ebola than anyone here.

PhasmaFelis|10 years ago|0 comments|parent|on: Trouble at the Koolaid Point
> What I don't get is why people willingly go onto an online community (knowing that there exist a potential for harassment) and then cry about it when it happens.

> As before, downvoters should explain their reasoning.

All right. I'm downvoting you for (a) victim-blaming, because you're basically saying that anyone who participates in any online community should expect an organized campaign of social violence and have only themselves to blame for it, (b) because you seem to imply that staying anonymous is sufficient protection when there are trolls who specialize in uncovering identities, and (c) because you're pretending that not intentionally participating in a community makes you safe from that community. Right now, in Gamergate, we've got a bunch of dudes trying to manufacture a political movement based on hounding one woman out of her home because her ex says she cheated on him.

Basically, in your world, no one deserves to be safe unless they cut off all human ties and live like a hermit. And that's bullshit.

ryandrake|14 days ago|0 comments|parent|on: Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones
You're getting dumped on here but you're absolutely right. Anyone who has been in software for any amount of time knows this, too. HN is full of software developers--downvoters should know better.

You can put a button in your app that says "Tapping this will drain your bank account and give you cancer" but if it also enables functionality that the user wants, they will tap it.

dbecker|13 years ago|0 comments|parent|on: Ask HN: Why do you care so much that you're being down voted?
In general, when I see a greyed out comments, I can understand why they were downvoted.

But I occasionally see downvoted comments that seem totally legitimate. If someone feels negatively about a comment (for reasons other than it being nonsense or off-topic), the mature thing to do is to explain their disagreement with the comment.

I agree that asking "why the downvote" is rarely productive. But downvoters should explain their point of view in addition to (or instead of) downvoting.

marcellus23|1 year ago|0 comments|parent|on: Many AI researchers think fakes will become undetectable
For all of human history, the only way to know how an event happened is to either have witnessed it yourself, or heard from someone else. It's only the last 100 years or so that we've been able to record exactly what happened as audio, video, or photography. And still, it's possible to doctor any of these. That's not to mention that you can craft excellent propaganda even by using this "real" recorded media, just by cherrypicking and presenting it in a certain context. I don't think AI generated media is going to a massive sea change in misinformation.

edit: downvoters should reply instead

jasonlotito|13 years ago|0 comments|parent|on: Jeff Atwood On Parenthood
You didn't. I could have assumed you didn't mean what you said, but you were so adamant about it, I didn't want to impress my beliefs on you. Thanks for explaining.

That being said:

"Talking about your kid, when he's not here, and presenting him, or your relation to him, in such a way that you benefit from the exposition"

Is this abuse?

"For all it's worth, I love my kids. Of course. And I would throw myself under a bus for any of them. Of course. And I almost have, twice (under my motorbike, which is not a bus, but weights over 400 pounds)."

Because, in this context, you are using your child and your relation to them, as well as your love, as a way to bolster your own argument. It's a way to lend credibility and weight to what you have to say. It could be said that you felt your arguments couldn't stand on their own without making it clear that you're a parent.

=)

No, I dont' think it's abuse. I understand what I think you are trying to say: using those that would treat their children as mere accessories rather than children. But honestly, I don't think that's something you can see from one single post. Jeff made a post on a blog. It had some commentary, some interesting thoughts. It was something he had on his mind, and wanted to share it. He also used it as a segue into announcing the future birth of twins.

To equate his post on his personal site announcing the pregnancy to abuse is, if I may be so bold, absurd.

> downvoters should try to take care of my kids for a few days

And it could be equally said upvoters should take care of my kids for a few days.

Kids are different, and some can be an absolute joy, and others a nightmare. And you see both sides. People complaining, and people happy.

Throughout my life, I've heard people say "Just wait until..." and at that moment, I'll understand what they've said.

Sometimes this is the case. Sometimes it isn't.

Just wait until you're me. You'll understand.

bambax|13 years ago|0 comments|parent|on: Jeff Atwood On Parenthood
> 49% incredible pain in the ass, 51% most sublime joy you've ever felt; that one percent makes all the difference.

Between 49 and 51 I count a difference of two percents?

> Turns out, we're having two babies, due in mid-February 2012.

Aha. Let's talk again in a year or two, see who you'd throw under a bus.

I have three of those myself. I don't really subscribe to this whole "kids are wonderful" cliché.

The first kid, it's wonderful, yes (but this has been said before, no?) The other kids? Let's say I would agree more with Louis CK:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcnXpOygKGI

Edit: downvoters should try to take care of my kids for a few days ;-)

arthurcolle|3 years ago|0 comments|parent|on: People exposed to lead in Flint, Mich., water will get a $626M settlement
Not to sound callous but maybe they incorporate future expecting earnings of someone living in Flint, MI in their calculations somehow.

EDIT: I know there is a rule against discussing downvotes, but this is a factual statement and the notion that this comment isn't relevant or doesn't enhance the conversation (for anyone who downvoted me) is an affront to any semblance of being capable of reasonable discourse in civil society - any downvoters should really reflect on what makes you feel like a statement made by a poster is actually what the poster thinks may or may not be right vs. your feelings of the post upsetting you.

enraged_camel|4 years ago|0 comments|parent|on: Apple's Texas-Sized Problem
>>If the people and government of Texas feel that way about abortion, far be it for me or frankly any of us (not from Texas) to question it.

Most people in Texas don't want this insane law either, but gerrymandering diminishes their voices.

edit: downvoters should explain why they are downvoting :)

antisthenes|4 years ago|0 comments|parent|on: Houses in Japan are going for as little as $500
That's fine and I understand that these rules are aimed mostly at insiders, who are more willing to comply and have skin in the game of cultural heritage.

And perhaps life really is easy. But as someone mentioned in the thread, spending $100-200k USD to renovate a property AND to basically change your career to a farmer is completely out of the question for 99.9% of the population.

At beast you would get some incredibly wealthy hobbyists who adore Japanese cultural heritage, but judging their success realistically, it doesn't look like there's many takers, so my point still stands.

Maybe the downvoters should put their money where their mouth is and go spend a few million on restoration of these properties.

myWindoonn|4 years ago|0 comments|parent|on: Who gets to define what’s ‘racist?’ (2020)
Racism is when people believe falsehoods about genetics and heritability, particularly when they believe that humans form multiple races. It's that simple. We should require sociologists to take an introductory course in molecular biology so that they grok this part of human nature.

Edit: Downvoters should be required to also take a molecular biology course.

LegitShady|4 years ago|0 comments|parent|on: I didn’t know how to write about my sister’s death, so I had AI do it for me
I highly recommend that if you don't have the ability, for whatever reason, to write a eulogy, find someone else who can do it authentically. An authentic and effective eulogy is about emotional connection. If you find yourself unable to write one, admit you cannot write one, and don't turn it over to an ai or even human service - find a human being with an authentic emotional connection to the deceased who can write it instead.

downvoters should at least have the fortitude to respond why they disagree.

QuesnayJr|4 years ago|0 comments|parent|on: 112 Gripes About the French
This website has serious problems with its voting culture. The serial downvoters should be banned from the site, but they never will be, because dang doesn't see the problem. You can't take disagree, and you can't agree.

Whatever, I'm out. Life's too short.

lovelyviking|4 years ago|0 comments|parent|on: YouTube Down
In the light of the recent events with Apple when you cannot even run programs on your own computer without problems if Apple server doesn't allow it, perhaps some downvoters should give another thought on this
bmn__|5 years ago|0 comments|parent|on: A Handwritten Math Parser in 100 lines of Python
You are correct, the result 2 from the submitted parser.py is erroneous. Downvoters should be ashamed of their abusive behaviour.

It is not well known amongst programmer who would like to use parsers that most algorithms as implemented in countless software libraries are wrong and broken beyond repair. We should strive to make it a well-known fact and promote those parsers that work properly, so that less programmers and end-users need to suffer.

htnsao|5 years ago|0 comments|parent|on: After 48 years, Democrats endorse nuclear energy in platform
Within 5 years every machine, building and device may start the transition to self-charging nuclear diamond batteries with graphene super capacitors. [1] [2] [3]

So these huge nuclear power plants may quickly become obsolete along with coal, solar and wind power generation, hydro and fossil fuels.

[1] https://ndb.technology

[2] https://newatlas.com/energy/nano-diamond-self-charging-batte...

[3] https://newatlas.com/energy/nano-diamond-battery-interview-n...

BTW I think HN downvoters should lose karma for downvoting.

Der_Einzige|5 years ago|0 comments|parent|on: Trust, Slavery and the African School of Economics
Isn't Kerala ran by literal communists?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism_in_Kerala

Edit: downvoters should instead explain to me why my point is wrong. Kerala has been ran by the local communist parties for most of the last 40 years, and communists keep winning majorities there. Seems to go against the OP claim

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Democratic_Front_(Keral...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Kerala_Legislative_Asse...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Kerala_Legislative_Asse...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Kerala_Legislative_Asse...

And so on, the communists and the other party trade power most elections.