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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
The article doesn’t say China did it, it says China benefits from this. Big difference.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
I write all of this to help others understand the issue from multiple perspectives, not to justify or defend anyone. Here’s what I’ve learned in the last week or so. There is a good lecture on YouTube called Why Ukraine is the West’s Fault.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
Inevitable and predictable consequence after western social media companies facilitated political change in the late 2000s and early 2010s. If you care about an open internet, you should be against banning any sort of media, no matter how m
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
Sounds like a great use-case for a browser extension. Too bad YouTube and the biggest browser are owned by the same company…
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
> the top 10,000 individual Bitcoin investors control roughly one third of the cryptocurrency in circulation. The relevant comparison here is to other currencies, not to organizations in general, and to the ability and incentive of these
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
I don’t think it is nonsense. Consider being an expat: you are outside (the physical location) of your own country. Your “citizenship” is essentially with an entity that is far away. The digital country could have embassies in every nation,
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
This never works. The mob is a fickle beast and wants blood, always and forever, and will never forgive even the most repentant sinner. If you are ever accused of something, rightly or wrongly, never accede and never give in.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
I don’t think Facebook having bad algorithms is comparable to bridges collapsing or the plague.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
I cannot make any sense of your comment. Did you mean to reply to someone else?
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
Everything isn’t unaffordable. Living at a high quality of life with iPhones and Uber eats might be unaffordable in certain cities. But the basic costs of having a family (food, shelter, etc.) are probably cheaper today than at any time in
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
Which past generation had an easier time? Baby boomers, maybe? But they still lived under the threat of nuclear war. I’ll take bad social media over nuclear war, plague, or famine any day.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
The idea is complete nonsense. Even with absolute worst case climate change scenarios, the average person will have a quality of life vastly above basically anyone in the past. Especially during the Middle Ages when plague was killing peopl
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
I wouldn’t describe it as business news, more like mainstream news. Over the last six months or so, I have noticed a massive increase in the downvoting of unpopular opinions. Before you had to be deliberately belligerent to get flagged or d
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
I find it amusing that Facebook is currently under attack by the media (broadly defined) for manipulating people, influencing elections, increasing polarization, harming its users etc. Yet that is exactly what the media has done for centuri
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
Because it makes Duerte look bad, who is the “Trump” of Southeast Asia. Please note that I am not defending Duerte, simply saying that Western media and elites clearly don’t like him. Quoting Wikipedia: He declared the intention to pursue
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
I wish this wasn’t just a proxy for who western elites deem important or politically advantageous, but was actually honoring those who have made the world more peaceful. In an increasingly multipolar world, such an award would be appreciate
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
The upvote / downvote system is at fault here too, at least with online discussion forums. Everything that doesn’t match the local culture and norms is immediately downvoted. It’s a self-reinforcing echo chamber. Reddit is notoriously
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
That’s code for, “if we publish something that the foundation dislikes, they will cut our funding.” There is no such thing as editorial independence when it comes to funding, unless it’s done anonymously or automatically.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
There is a big logo immediately beneath the headline. If you click on it, it says the foundation partially funds the website.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
I think it’s because most people actually don’t want to pay taxes. They understand that the rich are able to go offshore and are somewhat jealous of them. But people want access to this, they don’t want to participate in some kind of class
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Gates Foundation has spent $250M on journalism(cjr.org)
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
Not wanting to enable and reward nefarious tactics is not “acting out of spite.”
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
It already has had a massive chilling effect, because anyone that even raises the slightest question about the situation is labeled as some kind of right wing Trump supporting radical. A lot of very normal, thoughtful people are not okay wi
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
Should we ban car commercials? Cars kill lots of people. Should we ban soda commercials? Obesity kills a lot of people. Here’s the issue: if your entire value system is based on extending life at any cost to other values , you’ve already l
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
Yes, evolution is taught in schools. But that doesn’t mean the average person can explain how evolutionary theory works beyond a few sentences, in the same way that the average person cannot tell you more than 2 or 3 of the amendments to th
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
Disappointed that this is downvoted. You are absolutely right: most people don’t actually investigate the origins of their beliefs and just adopt whatever their social tribe believes. The average urbanite atheist knows as much about evoluti
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
This is the classical liberal take: ultra-individualism. Everyone can have their own god(s) (even metaphorically) and things will just work out if everyone got along. Historical trends seem to be going in the exact opposite direction. Indiv
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
So authoritarian action is okay if it’s against bad things? We are in for a scary future, enabled by the attitudes in this thread.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_of_record * A newspaper of record is a major newspaper with large circulation whose editorial and news-gathering functions are considered authoritative. It may also refer to a
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
No, actually this has been a known thing for years. There have even been topics asking why HN hates crypto so much, which appear every six months or so.

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