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beyondcompute | 4 years ago

That got downvoted fast! A price one pays in modern society for having an opinion different from that of a crowd.

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mattowen_uk|4 years ago

Hacker News group-think is strong these days. Instead of bothering to stop and post a counter-reply, many just downvote like it's Reddit, and move on.

I've been a few times recently, whereas in the past my counter opinions would have kicked off interesting debate.

MonaroVXR|4 years ago

>I've been a few times recently, whereas in the past my counter opinions would have kicked off interesting debate.

Fully agree to this.

mrd3v0|4 years ago

You can't seriously expect people not to downvote any support of expensive locked down standards, can you?

sturza|4 years ago

Generalising is also expensive.