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Can we please choose not to limit everyone's voice to the whim of the "karma wealthy" just to stave off a bit of bickering and "lol kewl site" comments?

I don't think I ever saw the particular threads you noticed that prompted your thread-opening post with the title "Ask HN: How to stave off decline of HN?

When you are first reading sheet music, you see notes on a stave, key signatures, different shapes representing different durations.

Governments need to stop trying to stave off the death of old businesses, and just let those businesses die. Greater harm is done to society when we try to stop the progress of technology than when we let obsolete businesses kick the bucket.

Are these moves just going to stave a potential exodus of .Net developers or will it actually lead to new developers picking up the language?

Tesla's opening of the patent portfolio in an attempt to stave off incompatible fuel stations is apropos to this.

To Ayn Rand, a "rational" homeless person would rather stave to death on the streets than accept the first crumb of unearned bread or a single night's sleep under an unearned roof.

But after a while, if you do it enough, the shapes become recognizable as rhythms, the tones in the staves become tones not symbols, and then you stop "reading" music, you look at it and you can hear what it will sound like.

The most significant statement I have seen about comment voting here on HN was posted recently by pg, the founder of HN, in a thread-opening post 22 days ago titled "Ask HN: How to stave off decline of HN?

I'm not sure about the whole "benefit" thing -- I tend to believe that honey is mostly a simple sugar that isn't all that good for us and I don't buy into the whole eating honey with pollen will stave off allergies claim.

I feel like there may be a memetic belief that competent security teams can reliably stave off security flaws if they're just careful with two-factor auth and parameterized SQL queries.

Variety does stave off boredom its fun to mix in new exercises all the time but a guy who hasnt trained in a long time, if ever, will get stronger faster on the simplest program of squats, dead lifts, and presses, three times a week.

> Are these moves just going to stave a potential exodus of .Net developers or will it actually lead to new developers picking up the language?I definitely think these changes will keep existing .NET developers in the fold.

As there seems to be little or no evidence of habitation, and the animals depicted on the stones are mainly predators, the stones may have been intended to stave off evils through some form of magic representation; it is also possible that they served as totems.