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> Americans on the Internet frequently react as if you are insulting their nation I'm surprised someone on HN would make such an overly broad, and with it, ina
by wdr1 8y ago
> Americans on the Internet frequently react as if you are insulting their nation
I'm surprised someone on HN would make such an overly broad, and with it, inaccurate statement.
Personally, I've seen a lot of debate. Not all of it constructive, but rarely (if ever) anything like "omg, you bastard. #murica ruelz"
- ucaetano 8y ago> someone on HN would make such an overly broad, and with it, inaccurate statement You must be new here!
- drharby 8y agoI really dislike the double standard on HN. Such statements are given an echo chamber effect if it fits a certain narrative. Sure, something can be said about inherent community biases and the like, but it doesn't change the fact that minority opinions are drowned out many times while noncontributing noise is upboated bc it pokes fun at America, Trump, Bezos, or whatever boogeyman exists. But here we arw
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- scarejunba 8y agoIt's rarely that. It's usually a superficially constructive claim - America can't do it because it's not dense, America can't do it because it's too populous, America can't do it because its cities are too dense or too sparse or too far apart or too old or too new, America can't do it because Americans prefer what they have. They'll usually have some irrelevant statistics. Presumably total population, total surface area, some other such superficial analysis. I never engage in these discussions. This is the first time, and probably the last. But I've seen them time and time again.
- tracker1 8y agoIt probably should be left to individual states to work out to a large extent. That said, I really do think that common carrier rules should have been applied and stuck to very early on.
- GW150914 8y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17919077 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17919077 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17919170 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17919170 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17919093 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17919093 So yeah, there’s that.