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Paradite
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Paradite is a personal blog at paradite.com about programming and writing. Since 2016, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “Extinction is Natural, So is Global Warming”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Paradite's posts on online discourse and polarization, including a 2014 post about taking a "war of words" too literally. Comments mostly cite the posts as support for their own points.
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.
Blog posts about web, programming, technology and other interesting stuff.
Most-linked posts?
- /2014/01/23/good-articletaking-a-war-of-words-too-literally/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-09-22
- /2014/11/11/internet-polarized-society/2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-11-10
- Extinction is Natural, So is Global Warming2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-11-06
What Hacker News says?
I observed and wrote about this polarizing phenomenon about 2 years when the protest in HK broke out: https://paradite.com/2014/11/11/internet-polarized-society/ Still, I can't believe it has grown so out of proportion in the U.S as well.
Comment linking /2014/11/11/internet-polarized-society/
on “White House Bars NYT, CNN, and Politico from Briefing”Submitted Extinction is Natural, So is Global Warming as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFor people who are new to this topic and find it to be surprising: This is not new. There is a term for this called "echo chamber": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_chamber_(media) I have observed this trend happening on Internet since 2014 and written about it in my blog: https://paradite.com/2014/11/11/internet-polarized-society/ Previously it was more for closed communities like reddit and Facebook groups, but…
Comment linking /2014/11/11/internet-polarized-society/
on “YouTube's tendency to push everyday users toward politically extreme content”Submitted Bilingual Numbers as a story · 3 points
HN discussion(OP of parent thread here) Okay. I understand your points. Actually I have posted the reasons for such considerations before on my blog: https://paradite.com/2016/02/18/stay-independent-problems-wi...
Comment linking /2016/02/18/stay-independent-problems-with-dependencies/
on “Google starts tracking what people buy in physical stores”Submitted How to Reduce MacOS Finder Memory Usage as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt doesn't work if you suddenly lost your access without prior notice. I have documented a few cases of such unnoticed termination in my blog post: https://paradite.com/2016/02/18/stay-independent-problems-wi...
Comment linking /2016/02/18/stay-independent-problems-with-dependencies/
on “Twitter’s deletion of its FB app caused old cross-posts to temporarily disappear”Submitted Free Giveaway Marketing “Scam” on LinkedIn as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSomewhat tangentially related, I am bilingual and I view numbers mostly as two separate languages depending on context of where I first see / use them. Sometimes a unified mental image is also stored for fast access. Wrote about my experience a while ago: https://paradite.com/2017/09/17/bilingual-numbers/
Comment linking /2017/09/17/bilingual-numbers/
on “How I See Numbers”Submitted GitHub uses SVG path to draw icons as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOn the topic of tracking, you might want to check your browser extensions as well. I discovered tracking codes inside a browser extension back in 2013, and I doubt that it would be the last one: https://paradite.com/2013/12/07/solved-issue-with-vglnk-all-... (Ironically by visiting my blog post you are contributing to tracking by Google Analytics)
Comment linking /2013/12/07/solved-issue-with-vglnk-all-websites-having-a-script-related-to-vglink-attached-to-the-end/
on “Kite telemetry code in Sublime package SideBarEnhancements”Submitted Stay independent – problems with dependencies as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMy thoughts on this hasn't changed: https://paradite.com/2018/11/06/extinction-is-natural-so-is-...
Comment linking /2018/11/06/extinction-is-natural-so-is-global-warming/
on “Carbon dioxide now more than 50% higher than pre-industrial levels”Submitted Tech Recruiter Uses Fake Command in Cybersecurity Job Ad as a story · 1 points
HN discussion"Probably it is a good time for us to reflect on this, and maybe next we can try to appreciate and acknowledge others’ arguments before jumping into a rebuttal." [cit. https://paradite.com/2014/01/23/good-articletaking-a-war-of-... ]
Comment linking /2014/01/23/good-articletaking-a-war-of-words-too-literally/
on “AI Company Accused of Using Humans to Fake Its AI”I have been thinking about the issue of "saving the planet", which is similar to "saving the endangered spices from extinctions". Ultimately I think humans are just selfish by nature and they only do things to ensure the continuation of humans as a spices. Everything else is sugar-coating it. So really, there is no morality to be discussed, it is just natural instinct. My unpopular thoughts on global warming: https:…
Comment linking /2018/11/06/extinction-is-natural-so-is-global-warming/
on “Japan to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission”I took the CS1101S course taught by Martin Henz (who did the adaptation), where this JavaScript adaptation of SICP was the textbook. I enjoyed writing JavaScript and functional programming. Here is an old screenshot of the interpreter that I was able to build: https://paradite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/interpreter....
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2013/10/interpreter.png
on “SICP: JavaScript Edition available for pre-order”I worked with the author of this post on the said project. I am the guy that wrote most of the angular 2 stuff before the author joined the front-end (from back-end). Here are some of the posts about my (not so negative) experience. I hope they provide another perspective on this issue and maybe give some context on why the author felt that way: From Angular to Angular 2 – (Almost) Everything Changed https://paradit…
Comment linking /2016/11/20/developing-agenda-in-angular-2/
on “Angular 2 is terrible”Not new at all. I wrote a piece in 2014 on Hong Kong's protest talking about the exact same issue of Facebook: https://paradite.com/2014/11/11/internet-polarized-society/
Comment linking /2014/11/11/internet-polarized-society/
on “The Facebook bubble just popped”I wrote about beliefs that many people find outrageous... Questioning probability – Controlled probability theory https://paradite.com/2014/10/23/questioning-probability-cont... Extinction is Natural, So is Global Warming https://paradite.com/2018/11/06/extinction-is-natural-so-is-... More: https://paradite.com/opinions/
Comment linking /opinions/
on “Ask HN: What’s the most outrageous belief you’re confident is true?”I have been following the issue of Internet polarization since 2014 [1], and I propose two different ways to mediate the situation on a societal level: - Have a neutral platform to facilitate discourse and mutual understanding. This is hard as it requires a largely informed populace. - Complete segregation of groups having different opinions. This proves to be also hard because of incidents like this. [1] https://pa…
Comment linking /2014/11/11/internet-polarized-society/
on “Gab.com Booted from Hosting Provider Due to User Account”Good point. Here are some of the arguments to substantiate my comment: 1. Each country has its own cultural and historical background. I here state without justification(purely based on my understanding as a Chinese citizen) that China has its own unique cultural and historical backgrounds that discourages the dissemination of information deemed to harm social order or stability. Hence, with that assumption, it is j…
Comment linking /2014/03/13/linear-progression-and-stages-belief-or-fact/
on “The Great Firewall, China’s New Cybersecurity Law”Completely off-topic, but the world is more than just us versus them: A good read from 1998, Taking a “War of Words” Too Literally : https://paradite.com/2014/01/23/good-articletaking-a-war-of-...
Comment linking /2014/01/23/good-articletaking-a-war-of-words-too-literally/
on “The GPS wars have begun”Reminds me of the article Taking a “War of Words” Too Literally, (March, 1998), Washington Post I've reproduced it on my blog: https://paradite.com/2014/01/23/good-articletaking-a-war-of-...
Comment linking /2014/01/23/good-articletaking-a-war-of-words-too-literally/
on “Are You Ok?”It's all too late. If you are already depending on Google for email, contacts, map services, identification services(Google Plus login, Google Identity platform), then it is very hard to change the status quo. One problem is the compatibility/migration, another is lack of quality open-source/private solutions. Google gives you everything free so you wouldn't want to migrate to a paid service. As an experiment, I tri…
Comment linking /2016/02/18/stay-independent-problems-with-dependencies/
on “Ask HN: How do you escape Google?”
