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Amar Shah

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Amar Shah writes amar47shah, a personal blog at amar47shah.github.io about programming and culture. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “A response to LambdaConf's decision by someone who was consulted”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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Why HN links it

Commenters discuss this author's blog posts only in the context of a LambdaConf sponsorship post, which quotes a conference review of his writing on race and slavery. The comment disputes that post's claim.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. A response to LambdaConf's decision by someone who was consulted
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-03-28

What Hacker News says?

  1. > has posted racist and bigoted statements on his blog Still need a citation on this. LambdaConf's own review found this: He is quoted by white supremacists but denies being one; He has never written any hate speech or resorted to insulting or vulgar language (except as a literary device); He is not pro-slavery in the historical sense, but believes individuals have a right to voluntarily sell themselves into slavery…

    Comment linking /pages/lambdaconf-yarvin-call-for-feedback.html

    on “Why We're Sponsoring LambdaConf 2016”
  2. Submitted A response to LambdaConf's decision by someone who was consulted as a story · 24 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted On March 10, I received a letter from John De Goes as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion

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