Brad Conte

> "A person I consider trustworthy is convinced crypto will face a systemic risk" makes a great addition to the "Hacker News Parody Thread" submission trending today ( http://bradconte.com/files/misc/HackerNewsParodyThread/ ).

No, it needs to be brought into political discussion and a real analysis of how and why such speech has been spreading and tolerated. I believe that curtailing speech that is hateful is needed while I'm not equipped to define what's hateful speech but believe we have enough scholars who studied hate speech, paradox of tolerance, and the many other facets that pure absolute free speech can take that is detrimental to society to be able to debate in the appropriate forum what could deter those ideas from spreading through the mindless hateful folk. I love how more and more I completely agree that this parody of Hacker News [1] approaches how discussions are done here. From my take where I believe that right-wingers and libertarians are forcing the tolerance of intolerants based purely on ideology I get replies saying that I'm both arguing for a censorship State to a TL;DR from a numbwit under a throwaway account stating that I'm calling for communism. It's truly mesmerising how shallow people can be. [1] http://bradconte.com/files/misc/HackerNewsParodyThread/

"A Technical Blog Post by a Big Name Expert" (2013) http://bradconte.com/files/misc/HackerNewsParodyThread/ Discussion (589 points, 189 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5326511

This might be close enough! http://bradconte.com/files/misc/HackerNewsParodyThread/

Electron is the devil's GUI toolbox Only works in mice there was a whole.HN parody thread - http://bradconte.com/files/misc/HackerNewsParodyThread/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680661 It's important to be self-aware enough that every group has its own groupthink, HN is no exception, and to know the thought bubble you occupy when you're in that group.

I wrote a bit of code that generates a random number that passes the Luhn test.[0] It was one of those random things I did in high school when I was learning to program. [0]: http://bradconte.com/cc_generator

A bit OT but this is quite funny and a bit related http://bradconte.com/files/misc/HackerNewsParodyThread/

http://bradconte.com/files/misc/HackerNewsParodyThread/ Still spot on today :)

Someone else[1] just posted this parody of HN discussions: http://bradconte.com/files/misc/HackerNewsParodyThread/ Besides being funny, it's that "long detailed, objective explanation" comment (second top-level) that makes me read the comments.first. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9251369

Related: http://bradconte.com/files/misc/HackerNewsParodyThread/

This comment thread reminds me of the HN Parody http://bradconte.com/files/misc/HackerNewsParodyThread/ :)

Nice - thanks for sharing! There's surprising amount of hidden jokes in there too - feel free to read the OP's blog post [1] for many of the details (assuming you like spoilers)! [1] http://bradconte.com/hacker-news-parody-thread.html

Piggybacking off a piggyback comment to take the discussion back on topic: There is further parody content in the URLs of the 'reply' links Didn't realize until stalking through to the author's commentary on his personal blog: http://bradconte.com/hacker-news-parody-thread.html, because the relevant replies (including the author's own: ctrl+f "B-Con") were too far down this thread to ever see without foreknowledge.