| ▲ | high_na_euv an hour ago |
| And somehow people freak out some bullshit about free market when there is gov intervention, even if it is reasonable |
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| ▲ | voakbasda an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| Let’s be clear: if the CIA was doing it, then it was not overt and obvious. It was secret manipulation. Is that the kind of government intervention that you want to get? |
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| ▲ | huxley an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | As a general rule, probably not ... But if I had my druthers, I'd rather the CIA was "manipulating" us more often by subsidizing jazz artists rather than funnelling cash and prisoners to torture sites in El Salvador. You dig? | |
| ▲ | mannanj an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | [flagged] | | |
| ▲ | Forgeties79 an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | > deep state actors Can we please not do this here? Can we please not vaguely gesticulate towards some government bogeyman anytime our comments are downvoted or flagged or just because we see something we don’t agree with? To quote Sesame Street: One of these things is not like the others, one of these things doesn’t belong. | | |
| ▲ | hulitu 9 minutes ago | parent [-] | | > Can we please not do this here? Why ? The quality of HN has decreased due to those paid propaganda spreaders.
People shall have a minimum of spine. |
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| ▲ | john_strinlai an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | if you have anyone specific in mind, you should email hn@ycombinator.com if you dont have anyone specific in mind, this comment does nothing except "FUD" edit: really, getting downvoted into oblivion for this? baseless and general accusations of deepstate actors is really what we want the comment sections of hn to be? | | |
| ▲ | enragebait 44 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Absolutely certainly true. You’re naive if think there is an intelligence organization in the world who can log into the internet who doesn’t scrape analyze and opinionate over the intellectual bastion which is HN. | | |
| ▲ | john_strinlai 28 minutes ago | parent [-] | | baseless and generally-applicable accusations of deepstate activity are worthless as a comment. that does not mean i dont think governments, corps, etc. aren't scraping data or even attempting to shape narrative. but i dont want to read general, non-actionable, vague comments about deepstate actors while browsing hn. comments like that are not interesting, they don't pique curiosity, they don't promote good conversation, and there's nothing to learn from them. they are a net negative on hn. | | |
| ▲ | hulitu 6 minutes ago | parent [-] | | > there's nothing to learn from them. Some people never learn. When the "police" is at their door, it is too late. |
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| ▲ | shwaj 26 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Your tone implies that the same people who freak out about reasonable gov intervention, are also (hypocritically) okay with the shenanigans being discussed. Who are these straw men you refer to? |
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| ▲ | kersplody an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| And for people that know their history, the DoD basically built Silicon Valley as we know, funding research and buying essentially 100% of the output of valley fabs for several years for Radars, then ICBMs, and then flight computers (F14 was arguably the first modern microcomputer) from about 1962-1972. Only when silicon companies scaled beyond this demand did the consumer computer revolution begin to take flight. |
