If it’s that important to daily work it sounds like there’s a fundamental issues with documentation, training, and education in the world of software development.
Federated messaging seems popular these days. Maybe federated documentation is a good idea?
Perhaps git could be leveraged to distribute docs, examples, and questions?
Everyone’s brain is a time series database of experience, with a variety of heuristic shorthand’s built in. Presuming they should all consume and process information the same way is arrogant.
Perhaps take some of your own advice; one comment in this thread has not damaged HN.
Consider; for me OP did not leave as painful an impression as the helicopter parenting and scolding that followed. Trigger the Streisand Effect at your own risk.
I don't think I disagree with any of that. But if you're implicitly arguing that more of the GP would be just fine for HN, then I do have to disagree.
Moderation comments are an unfortunate evil. To some extent they do the very things we're scolding others for. I don't feel very good about that and I'd love to find a better way—especially because they're even more tedious to write than they are to read. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... Unfortunately, the system doesn't regulate itself with community and software mechanisms alone. There needs to be a moderation mechanism as well, i.e. humans who are giving the system their primary attention and giving feedback to it. I'd never claim that the way we do it is the only way or the best way, just that it's better than nothing.
While I have you: could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
I’m not the only one that lives here that visits HN. It seems the house internet is blocked from signing up. I use my phone in privacy mode. Internet points don’t mean much.
Honestly though, Reddit/HN without a comment section would be great. Let messenger systems handle propagation.
irc.ycombinator.com would probably be much easier to moderate and be a lot healthier for everyone too.
That’s where we ended up after 1929, until the current billionaire class removed all the guard rails.
Nobody deep on SV stocks and unicorn chasing wants to admit they’re in the bubble too. Why does society owe floating a coder bros data science project?
Anything not science is a meme. That billionaires should exist is a meme. This is social philosophy, not truth. And it’s gamed.
America is a bubble in time and it’s having a real (environmental) impact on the future.
Billionaires are not experts. They’re rich and can pay the fines and schmooze. That is not expertise. It’s selling “free market” and manipulating it based on a meme that speculative finance expertise is real. All it is is social engineering of the masses to accept deflation of their economic position.
Bad take. We need capital markets to effectively value and fund different business efforts (unless you want to do things Soviet-style). And no matter how much fundamental analysis you do, some things remain unknown; all finance is in some way speculative. There are rough patches, but you need to take the bad to get the good.
They aren’t essential, but they are actually useful. There have been some experiments with banning shorts, but they lead to larger spreads on longs because market participants have to hedge by going risk-off on longs instead of shorting affirmatively. Shorts can create moments of volatility, but they improve overall trading liquidity and reduce frictional cost of capital.
Of course they are. If you believe a stock is undervalued, you buy it. If I believe the same stock is overvalued, I sell it. That's how price discovery happens. If only people who already hold the stock are allowed to sell it, then price discovery is impeded.
We need to let people build their communities without tethering agency to outsiders who control the flow of imaginary capital.
Pretending a value in a database is real ownership of something is insane and continues to lead humanity towards fascism to protect the oligopoly at the top of the meme pyramid.
You’re selling an appeal to authority that is a complete mirage, only existing in your head because of years of reinforcement.
People can seek capital from whomever they want. But it’s also true that outside capital is useful. If my community has lots of resources and no ideas about how to use them, then the world is better off if I take my resources and find an under-resourced entrepreneur in a less wealthy part of the world to invest in. That’s what capital represents.
...and then you have a bunch of money and resources, and your community has nothing because you took it all out. Then your community wants to redistribute the wealth (because they see how unfair the results were to them), you and your followers scream "COMMUNIST!" at them, and we wind up in a right-wing authoritarian situation instead.
Please stop believing you are telling me something that I do not already know.
I’ve been following finance for decades.
American communities are under financed because of capital extraction to improve margins. It’s a mathematical fact which carries far more weight than your hand wavy generalizations.
The extraction has decimated US communities, empowered slave labor across the globe, and entrenched power in hedge funds.
Do the actual research instead of parroting cable news sound bites.
The same pattern happened when manufacturing was pulled from cities to rural areas 100 years ago. This time the capital was pulled from rural areas and sent overseas simply to improve profit. We can decimate the planet on any continent. We do it in Asia to externalize real costs and boost financial margins.
At the root it’s nation state currency being manipulated.
Like in 2008. Privatize the gains and socialize the losses.
The entire ledger needs a wipe. It’s pure emotional bias to suggest the future is obliged to carry the debt of the past. There’s nothing in science suggesting such a truth exists.
Federated messaging seems popular these days. Maybe federated documentation is a good idea?
Perhaps git could be leveraged to distribute docs, examples, and questions?