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The Canadian printer who successfully sued the Soviet Union
- sebmellen 6y agoFrom the end of the video: > There's an ironic twist to the story. A woman who showed up to the celebratory party claims she was not paid when Edwards' company went bankrupt.
- dkdk8283 6y agoI’m missing how this is relevant to the Soviets defaulting.
- ffpip 6y agoI s̶e̶r̶v̶e̶ sue the soviet union
- ffpip 6y agohow do you do markdown on this site? test test __test__
- sokoloff 6y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc Formatting is kept simple; I think in part to encourage thoughtful exchange and discourage cheap humor.
- ffpip 6y agoAhh. I was trying to strike text. Doesn't seem to be supported. Thanks!
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- huhtenberg 6y agoThere's ^H for that.
- dredmorbius 6y agoWord: ^W
- segfaultbuserr 6y agoFormatting support on HN is bare minimum, the only options here are italic text (two asterisks) and codeblock (four-space indention), and there's nothing more. It's very unlikely that Hacker News will add any new styles, since the minimalism is intentional, which can be a bit limiting. However, you can use plaintext mailing list and forum traditions for everything else (e.g. manual blockquote mark ">", deletion mark "^H", sarcastic mark "/s", new subsection mark "- title" or "* title", etc). I usually use the more readable HTML <del></del> markup for strike text. Of course, Unicode abuse is always possible, just like what you've did here... Only one thing to beware: To make a newline, you must make a new paragraph by creating an empty line (e.g. "line1\n\nline2"), merely a "line1\nline2" doesn't work. Just like LaTeX or Markdown, a line break in the source code is not the same as a logical paragraph in the output, it makes sense, but the lack of other formatting options makes it a bit inconvenient to making a list. But it's tolerable in the end.
- lqet 6y agoLike this: s̶e̶r̶v̶e̶ https://yaytext.com/strike/ https://yaytext.com/strike/
- ffpip 6y agoThanks! Have edited my comment
- Sniffnoy 6y agoHuh, I'm surprised Canadian courts allow (or allowed?) that. The US won't let you just sue foreign governments in its courts like that.
- detaro 6y agoNot an expert or lawyer, but the US FSIA has an exception for commercial activity carried out by the state in the US, which seems pretty much like the exact scenario here.
- reaperducer 6y agoThe US won't let you just sue foreign governments in its courts like that. "Manhattan federal judge George Daniels signed off on a pro forma default order Monday against 'the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran'" https://nypost.com/2018/05/01/9-11-victims-families-win-multibillion-dollar-settlement-against-iran/ https://nypost.com/2018/05/01/9-11-victims-families-win-mult...
- learnstats2 6y agoISDS provisions which the US demands in trade deals are designed to allow you to sue foreign governments in court. Some examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investor-state_dispute_settlement#Cases_lost_by_government https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investor-state_dispute_settlem...
- skissane 6y agoUnder international law, it is generally prohibited to sue a government in another country's domestic court system (state immunity). What exceptions to that general prohibition exist is a topic of great controversy, and different countries take different positions. Exceptions for commercial cases–when a foreign government directly engages in international trade or commerce–are widely accepted. This case falls into that category, so Canada was not being particularly exceptional in allowing it. Exceptions for human rights abuses, torture, terrorism, etc, are much more controversial. The US legal system is actually a bit of an outlier here (albeit not uniquely one) in being willing to entertain lawsuits against foreign governments on the later bases when most legal systems will not permit them.
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- vl 6y agoInterestingly Soviet Union was well-known for paying foreign commercial bills on time. This one should have slipped through bureaucratic cracks.
- hartator 6y agoInterestingly bureaucracy has many cracks.
- gonesilent 6y agoI don't think anybody would be drinking the vodka and eating the caviar if it happened today.