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Karel Donk
Personal blog · blog.kareldonk.compoliticsprogramming
Karel Donk's personal blog at blog.kareldonk.com covers politics and programming. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 32 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-13, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Commenters link Karel Donk's posts on why basic income fails while governments exist, on sexual repression as the root of male-female conflict, and on a Planet X/Nibiru analysis. None judges the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Karel Donk's Blog. Software Engineer, Graphics Designer and Photographer in Paramaribo, Suriname.
What Hacker News says?
UBI is extremely dangerous as long as governments exist. Take what China is doing with their citizen score and it's not hard to imagine what could go wrong. "...imagine how easy it would be for such a government that was also providing a basic income to its citizens to manipulate their citizens based on that basic income that they depended on. If they can deny citizens access to things like public transportation bas…
Comment linking /an-example-of-the-dangers-of-a-government-provided-basic-income/
on “Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0”Submitted Convincing C programmers to switch to C++: A look at human behavior (2016) as a story · 45 points
HN discussionA basic income wont solve any problems in a sustainable way as long as governments exist: https://blog.kareldonk.com/governments-and-basic-income-why-...
Comment linking /governments-and-basic-income-why-they-dont-go-together/
on “Why we should all have a basic income”Submitted Licensing photos through 500px became a rip-off as a story · 16 points
HN discussionThe "us" vs "them" conflict between men and women goes back thousands of years and was introduced with specific purposes. My personal research on this can be found at https://blog.kareldonk.com/sexual-suppression-and-repression... We'll start perceiving everyone as "us" as soon as most people realize what I discuss there.
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on “The cognitive differences between men and women”Submitted Censorship on the Internet Archive by requiring login as a story · 10 points
HN discussionThe Sumerians knew about logarithms: https://blog.kareldonk.com/planet-x-nibiru-an-analysis-of-ak...
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on “An ancient Babylonian tablet may contain the first evidence of trigonometry”Submitted Psychological Warfare Used in Germany to Make Citizens Receptive to Lockdown as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSources can be found in the footnotes of the below link. "If we go back and take a look at the earliest written records that we currently have of human civilization — the ancient Mesopotamian texts — it becomes clear that marriage was very similar to slavery; marriage law looked a lot like property law. This is described in a lot of details in the Code of Hammurabi. You just have to consider the fact that the Akkadi…
Comment linking /why-getting-married-is-a-very-bad-idea/
on “Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person (2016)”Submitted Court Cases Against the Covid-19 Measures as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSzabo seems to be missing important background on money https://blog.kareldonk.com/on-money-bitcoin-and-cryptocurren...
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on “Shelling Out: The Origins of Money (2002)”Submitted The beginning of the end of the banking ‘mafia’ as a story · 4 points
HN discussionTo get to a universal morality, you should first understand the universal right to life: https://blog.kareldonk.com/the-universal-right-to-life/
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on “Are we cut out for universal morality?”Submitted P2P Is the Future of the Internet (2006) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe Sumerians already knew it existed, and much more: https://blog.kareldonk.com/planet-x-nibiru-an-analysis-of-ak...
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on “Simulations suggest Planet Nine may have been a rogue”Submitted The Manipulated Man as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Truth Is Required for Growth as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mining for a Heart of Gold as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Know Your Crypto-History as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sexual Suppression and Repression II: The Human Battery as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jesus Help Me as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Suriname also becomes Covid-19 police state as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted China’s “New IP” Sounds Like Orwell’s “New Speak” as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sexual Suppression and Repression I: Definition and Origin as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Slave Plantation of Eden as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Access to Porn Does Not Mean Sexual Freedom as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted On the Forms and the True Purpose of Castration as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted ASCII Kombat as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Universal Right to Life as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Court: Politicians Blocking Followers on Social Media Violates Free Speech as a story · 1 points
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