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You are obfuscating the point. This issue is not about researchers receiving funds from China. Its about failing to disclose that this funding has been receiv

You are obfuscating the point. This issue is not about researchers receiving funds from China. Its about failing to disclose that this funding has been received. The US is trying to ensure transparency in how the research that is being funded in part by the American tax payer is ultimately paid for. Should US citizens not know this? Does transparency in research funding not matter?

dang 6y ago
Please edit personal swipes out of your comments here. If another comment is wrong, it's enough to provide correcting information. Your comment would be fine without the first sentence. (It might be even better with the last sentence, which is redundant and starts to feel like a cross-examination, but that one is not a big deal.) https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- ipsocannibal 6y ago
  So are you a hacker news moderator? Your comment history seems filled with comments on other peoples comments. If so can your account be labelled as such? Does hacker news support this type of labelling?
  - godelski 6y ago
    Dang and Scott Bell are the two moderators here. I don't know Scott's username but Dang is pretty well known. It confused me at first too but he's been pretty active lately so I think they just don't tag is because it is such a small community and pretty much everyone knows who Dang is.
  - dang 6y ago
    Yes, as godelski explained. We don't mark moderator usernames as different on this site. Partly that's because the site creator (pg) never did so, and partly because we don't want to create divisions between ourselves and the rest of the community. We're community members too, indeed were that long before we ever became moderators. It would feel weird to go around with special hats on. At the same time, I know it leads to confusion sometimes, and I'm sorry about that.
- ipsocannibal 6y ago
  Thanks for the call out. Snark can distract from the conversation.

dang 6y ago

Please edit personal swipes out of your comments here. If another comment is wrong, it's enough to provide correcting information. Your comment would be fine without the first sentence. (It might be even better with the last sentence, which is redundant and starts to feel like a cross-examination, but that one is not a big deal.) https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

ipsocannibal 6y ago
So are you a hacker news moderator? Your comment history seems filled with comments on other peoples comments. If so can your account be labelled as such? Does hacker news support this type of labelling?
- godelski 6y ago
  Dang and Scott Bell are the two moderators here. I don't know Scott's username but Dang is pretty well known. It confused me at first too but he's been pretty active lately so I think they just don't tag is because it is such a small community and pretty much everyone knows who Dang is.
- dang 6y ago
  Yes, as godelski explained. We don't mark moderator usernames as different on this site. Partly that's because the site creator (pg) never did so, and partly because we don't want to create divisions between ourselves and the rest of the community. We're community members too, indeed were that long before we ever became moderators. It would feel weird to go around with special hats on. At the same time, I know it leads to confusion sometimes, and I'm sorry about that.
ipsocannibal 6y ago
Thanks for the call out. Snark can distract from the conversation.