dicomdan

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by dicomdan 6y ago
> though the majority of the population is jobless and moneyless This doesn’t match the actual unemployment numbers.
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This is pure disinformation.
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Unfortunately car culture is making a comeback now because nobody wants to use public transport during the pandemic.
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Great, now we have Jacobin articles pushed to the top page of HN. Breitbart next?
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One factor is that China has had a Firewall blocking all foreign digital competitors and information sources for a long time.
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by dicomdan 6y ago
The family in China should contact their representative and ask them to unblock Signal, Telegram, or any other method of communication. If they care about their citizens abroad they will surely do so.
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White House has clarified that this will not affect the mentioned gaming companies and other holdings. Only WeChat itself.
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by dicomdan 6y ago
NYT article is fine, but OP here decided to editorialize it to make it sound like SpaceX failed.
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by dicomdan 6y ago
It's already gone from the top.
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US doctors make 3 times as much as doctors in France. It's not a salary problem, but artificial limits on supply on all levels of the pipelines. https://www.medscape.com/slideshow/2019-international-compen...
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by dicomdan 6y ago
Using PPP values instead of real values to compare countries is mathematically incorrect, by definition.
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by dicomdan 6y ago
EU needs to solve this problem at its roots and put pressure on tax Haven states directly. If that necessitates a reform that gives expanded authority to EU so be it.
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Stock market is reacting very positively to this vaccine. The journal paper and health analysts consider immune response to be significant after booster and side effects relatively minor in all participants. Yet here you're quoting a T
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by dicomdan 6y ago
What you're saying about CanSino is purely false and smells of propaganda: https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/07/07/cansinos-covid-19-... It's not even a serious candidate due to lack of effic
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by dicomdan 6y ago
Can you point to the open dataset that shows which users upvote which content, and which threads are promoted or demoted by moderators or superusers?
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by dicomdan 6y ago
Does it mean every thread that is downranked by moderator or superuser will have your comment in it that will show up in search results visible to everyone in the community? Or are there threads that are promoted or demoted silently?
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Sarcastic jabs aren't a productive way to add to discussion. The rules of HN state that conversation must get more nuanced as it continues, not less.
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by dicomdan 6y ago
Thanks for the response. If you claim there's no bias, would you be willing to release the full list of posts that have been nudged / downranked from the front page by moderator or trusted users as part of a "HN transparency
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by dicomdan 6y ago
Can you present evidence of moderation not having a one sided bias? Every time I see anything critical of the US / Europe / Canada and other liberal democracies it's sitting at the top, no matter how unsubstantiated. While ev
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Biden just release his Build Back Better plan and it basically puts defence against Chinese espionage and predatory economic practices as a centerpiece.
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It's like saying we should allow unregulated fentanyl sales on the streets as long as drug dealers provide a disclaimer to the addicted.
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by dicomdan 6y ago
It doesn't, and why would it? Gentrification is by definition a good thing - making the area nicer, more modern and more prosperous. All these things require investment. People are confusing gentrification with displacement, which are
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by dicomdan 6y ago
Students will still be on campus, while teaching is done online. Sounds like a win win for students who get to interact with their peers, and professors who get to stay safe.
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1) better protection of nursing homes 2) better treatments 3) herd immunity
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by dicomdan 6y ago
Google no longer allows users to see deaths in Sweden in their search result UI (it's greyed out as of last week), so now one has to go to government website directly.
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Official Sweden Covid case and mortality stats(experience.arcgis.com)
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by dicomdan 6y ago
Let the students network and collaborate with each other. Classes and office hours can be done online. Value of universities is primarily in peer interactions.
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by dicomdan 6y ago
It wasn't that complicated to index it to salary, there was an amendment proposed but Bernie threw a tantrum and it got rejected. Meanwhile European nations have suffered much lower unemployment because governments decided to subsidize
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by dicomdan 6y ago
Should the international laws be amended to consider state-led cyber attacks an act of war in additional to traditional aggression? Seems like UN Security Council should deal with these matters.
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by dicomdan 6y ago
The difference is that Zoom does China’s censorship outside of Chinese borders.

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