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0 pointsnitrogen12y ago0 comments

It's an important topic, but like you I preferred when HN was an oasis of tech away from this nonsense.

Unfortunately, politics have invaded our tech oasis, and I don't mean HN. The politicization and militarization of technology is undeniable; at this point, retreating to some new oasis and denying it won't make it go away. While I do want a site where I can see more articles about Erlang and lambda calculus, for now at least, I can accept the pressing need to maintain focus on political issues that undermine our ability to build the technology we want and have it used for good instead of evil.

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run4yourlives12y ago

>The politicization and militarization of technology is undeniable

You make this statement as if it was some sort of new happening. This is as old as technology itself. Finding new ways to kill each other has been the number one driver of technology progress, and always has been.

nitrogenOP12y ago

The web was not invented to kill people.

run4yourlives12y ago

Ah, the web was invented to keep military sites in communication (presumably so that they could keep killing people) while the rest of the world was dying a horrible, nuclear death. So it kinda was.

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0 pointsnitrogen12y ago0 comments

It's an important topic, but like you I preferred when HN was an oasis of tech away from this nonsense.

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run4yourlives12y ago

>The politicization and militarization of technology is undeniable

nitrogenOP12y ago

The web was not invented to kill people.

run4yourlives12y ago

Ah, the web was invented to keep military sites in communication (presumably so that they could keep killing people) while the rest of the world was dying a horrible, nuclear death. So it kinda was.

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