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padolseytoday at 3:21 PM8 repliesview on HN

The most extreme virtue-signal is to go completely browser-default and have no styling whatsoever. Like lowercasing because your pinky can't be arsed to reach for the shift-key even though you've a billion dollars in series A.


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thomascgalvintoday at 4:52 PM

https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/

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psadauskastoday at 3:46 PM

I've mostly stopped caring about using using proper capitalization, commas, grammar and spelling in my writing of comments, primarily as a signal that i'm not an llm.

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xnxtoday at 6:46 PM

"Countersignaling" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countersignaling) might be the better word: "Countersignaling is the behavior in which agents with the highest level of a given property invest less into proving it than individuals with a medium level of the same property."

davedxtoday at 4:49 PM

Virtue-signalling or just the daddy?

https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/

Waterluviantoday at 3:23 PM

Netscape knows best.

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sphtoday at 3:31 PM

Ah yes, the jeevacation special

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MrBuddyCasinotoday at 3:26 PM

Array language proponents also like to do this. In their case I‘ll allow it, it matches the substance.

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cmrdporcupinetoday at 3:42 PM

lowercasing everything -- just means

you're literate smart... poetic; because

you read e.e.cummings

and william carlos

williams

...

fin.

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