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by metacritic12 7y ago
While this article is technically correct, I think it is actively harmful to the landscape of general public knowledge. A lot of this article is just playing "gotcha", where she's pointing out technically a lot of cultural gl
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by metacritic12 7y ago
Serious question, is this list specifically designed to troll crypto? It literally lists the exact items the technology is designed against , with little good faith to recognize the problems crypto is actually solving. An analogous for &q
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by metacritic12 7y ago
It would be nice to have a table of how many hours per day does a moderate hobbyist do for each of the activities. For biking, I can imagine 4-6 hours being moderate, and for skydiving it would be just 10 minutes. That way, we can do the
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by metacritic12 7y ago
Why not let workers who want to "pressure" GitHub exercise their First Amendment rights and quit? At the same time GitHub should absolutely pay a bit more to get engineers who don't care about this issue. We don't need t
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by metacritic12 7y ago
You are in the minority.
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by metacritic12 7y ago
Isn't wealth the red herring, and income the proper measure? After all, the median (50%tile) wealth is nearly zero. Amongst those with zero wealth, the top income earners clearly have better lives than the low income earners, sin
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by metacritic12 7y ago
A public entity has an incentive to maintain appearances to the public. That incentive might accidentally be aligned with providing a quality service, but more often it is not.
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by metacritic12 8y ago
To quote Scott Adams, why are people seeing a single data point as evidence for climate change, when those same people deride the alt-right for seeing cold weather in April in their town as evidence against climate change? It's behavio
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by metacritic12 8y ago
Now I know an ad-hominem is ipso facto against HN's rules, but look at not just the Hitler comparison, but the writing style. Disconnected sentences. Run ons. This is more than a case of someone who's a bad writer or a non-nativ
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by metacritic12 8y ago
Why did this post get flagged? I though free speech issues were very pertinent to Hacker News. A post below by kyrieeschaton critiquing the Israel lobby was also flagged. Her/his post just suggested the Israel lobby was involved in
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by metacritic12 8y ago
Wow I didn't know that -- that's ridiculous. Imagine if it were any other country, friend or foe. A law against a person making his own financial decision against Canada, or China, or England, or Germany, or Turkey.
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by metacritic12 8y ago
Is this a surprise? I imagine many powerful countries' cyberespionage groups are going after the other side.
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by metacritic12 8y ago
The nature of "laws" are also different in China versus a rule-based society like the USA (heck even Europe is less rule-based than the US). Even if China nominally had a law against IP theft, on the ground in it can be very diffe
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by metacritic12 8y ago
Right, but if there was a post about how the US is still polluting with a lot of coal, how often is the top post "But China..." Similarly, India has even more US immigrants, but look at the top critical articles on India. There&#
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by metacritic12 8y ago
I find it interesting that if you look at the top articles on HN mentioning China in a negative light, more often than in other articles, you'll get comments talking about: - How another country (the US usually) is even worse in many w
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by metacritic12 8y ago
I think the West is finally waking up to the rampant IP theft that China perpetrates, and how their growth is fueled by this. Regardless of what you say about Brexit or Trump, the part of the populism movement that resonates across the spec