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I made no indication as to my nationality in my original post and you responded with rudeness and hostility. This is illustrative of the type of person I was talking about. Your country would not exist if the Americans did not have bases in
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> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. > Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. https://news.ycombinator.com&#x
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> Ironically the imperial overlord USA which would hypothetically be getting evicted is the main party urging them to do this. I always found the framing on this funny. Europeans will talk about data sovereignty and decreasing reliance o
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Massive vector for theft of trade secrets and intellectual property. It’s notable that China did not adopt the same policy during the period you are associating with their rise. Indeed, they’ve taken the opposite stance in recent years and
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> Of course, only the site admins would be able to show you actual examples. I’m not asking for timestamps or evidence, I’m asking for general instances where you believe vote manipulation may have occurred. >But this kind of stuff ha
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> What stops people from setting up and aging (or buying) sockpuppet accounts to the point where they control 10+ or even 100+ flag-capable / vote-capable HN accounts, and then using them as a network to deny or boost certain topics
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Vote manipulation is a non-issue here because users require a minimum of 500 karma to vote, and because the site is so much smaller than Reddit it can take months to reach that threshold. Downvoting is also capped so that you're very u
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> be removing education and welfare Both of these are historical anomalies; the middle class developed prior to their ever having been implemented.
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Related: U.S. Consumers Are Collapsing: Cars, Credit, & the Chaos Ahead | The Weekly Wrap - Steve Eisman (Steve Carell’s character from The Big Short) interviews Lakshmi Ganapathi. Uploaded 2025-10-03. https://www.youtube.com
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> Just reading HN, accusing people of fascism has become a lot more common-place then, say, 10 years ago. People are far more open about having conservative ideas today than they were 10 years ago. > The left has gotten so very aggres
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> They weren't referring to the political affiliation of the people working at the newspaper, they were referring to the leanings of the people who own the newspaper. Is Jeff Bezos a conservative?
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> I don't believe self-reported stats are worth anything in this context. Many conservatives have learnt to keep a low profile, since in many circles, right wing association has become a synonym for evil. This is a baseless conspira
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> They are all inconservative hands > Journalists who said they were Republicans continued to drop from 18 percent in 2002 and 7.1 percent in 2013 to 3.4 percent in 2022. This figure is notably lower than the percentage of U.S. adults
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Amazon is the model to observe here; before that, Walmart. Red Widgets and Blue Widgets are sold. The platform rewards whichever product is cheaper. Initially this will lead to the two competing their margin away, and then the only way to
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“Failed to generate challenge. Please try again.”
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I installed it a while ago based on recommendations I saw here. It works far better than Acrobat ever did. Deleting all of the Adobe files off of my computer felt great.
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The pricing of a billboard is based on projected impressions but is decoupled from the billboard’s actual impressions. You pay the flat rate based on projected impressions. It doesn’t subsequently matter if an army of robots passes through
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> When a company puts up a billboard or an ad on the bus, they don't care if the ad is seen by dashcams and dogs. Billboards sell for flat rates, online advertising is sold on the basis of impressions.
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> If the latter is true, it's not something we could ever actually know. That doesn’t follow.
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> it’s a viable theory based on overwhelming evidence from fossil records No one has gathered evidence of cognition from fossil records.
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> the UK was enabling this guy before he got too much heat. How does this quote indicate that the UK was enabling Zhi?
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The DOJ article is far more informative than the CNBC article. Chen Zhi, the alleged perpetrator, remains at large.
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There used to be bots that would do this automatically, but they seem to have fallen out of favor due to the high rate of false-positives (user from Subreddit A posts in Subreddit B and gets automatically banned by the automoderator on Subr
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> It’s highly unusual to have some sort of judicial process. Every forum I ever used prior to Reddit had a ban appeal process, as did most game servers. For a few games reading the ban appeals could be more fun than playing the actual ga
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> At this point it's the most astroturfed place on the internet. YouTube is far worse and it isn’t even close.
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The model only works because of the subject matter filtering 99% of potential users. One good moderator can’t possibly scale to a network the size of Reddit.
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I don’t know if you can still see them without an account but even a few years ago this was well-known and you could verify it yourself by looking at the moderator list of almost any default subreddit; we’re talking about less than a few hu
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Why do you believe the alt-right was Canadian in origin? I was under the impression that it originated in the US. Tangentially, none of them call themselves “alt-right” anymore; this label was imposed upon three disparate movements (techno-
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> I’ve dealt with terrible of both that were just good enough to not get disbarred or lose their license. The existence of bad surgeons doesn’t make performing surgery on yourself the better alternative. A sufficiently-motivated analyst
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> It can be superficially correct and completely broken. This also applies to developer output. If you don’t have someone qualified in the loop to foresee problems and perform testing, you could end up with something that falls over late

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