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I live in Europe, here we have more left wing fanatics and fewer right wing fanatics.

That said, some of the True believers (politics, religion, programming languages, etc) are the nicest people. As long as you can handle non-rationality.

(Also, being Swedish originally, I'd rather die than offend someone in person; the internet is different.)

Edit: How about an ASCII face for "advice dog" comments? What I commented on could have been said by lots of cool people I know (they might not know me, though :-) ).



How about down voting "advice dog" and other meme comments lest HN be overrun by memes?


Your comment reminded of me of a hypothesis I once read about Fermi's paradox, that it may not be physical infection that extraterrestrials would worry about catching from humans, but memetic infection.

Same principle here.


You just described the climax of the movie Independence Day.


What figlet did for ascii art fonts your new website could do for ascii art meme spewing.

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On HN, the actual rasterization of image macros takes place in the reader's mind.


V hfrq gb or noyr gb EBG13 va zl urnq.


Yeah, well I can decode double-rot13!




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