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by newen 6y ago
The US government has the ability to make my life absolutely miserable. The Chinese government doesn’t without invading the US. So I’d much prefer Chinese surveillance since it’s inconsequential to me.
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by newen 6y ago
The modal American is the more correct term I guess. Mode is a type of average, so it works out.
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by newen 6y ago
Why are you assuming an average Chinese citizen would want to be an activist or work for change? Most likely they have positive views of their government just like the average American citizen.
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by newen 6y ago
It’s fact isn’t it? The US government as well as Americans themselves regularly use crimes done by Russia and China to distract from crimes done by their own government.
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by newen 6y ago
It’s easy to find a lot of idiots who hate Trump too. Editing matters a lot.
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by newen 6y ago
Give me a break. All politicians put ads on Facebook. Surprising I know but Clinton put ads on Facebook too. Obama puts ads on Facebook, he gets marketing awards. Trump does the same thing and suddenly it’s armageddon and the Russians are c
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by newen 6y ago
Trump wasn't elected because of magic mind hacking by Facebook or whatever. He appealed to issues that people were concerned about, whatever you may think of those issues, and so they voted for him.
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by newen 6y ago
Point of order, there are no sets that intersect with an empty set ;)
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by newen 6y ago
Right, because anyone who is not virulently anti-Russian is a pro-Russian troll bot. Same goes for China, of course. How could it possibly not.
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by newen 6y ago
Christian bosses and managers in certain parts of the country a couple of decades ago firing you when they find out you don’t fit their morals. Now, the same people fire you if you’re not woke enough. It’s good, it’s progress.
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by newen 6y ago
Why do people still say that you can’t expect quality from open source projects when there are multi-million to multi-billion dollar organizations behind them?
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by newen 6y ago
They’re really easy and actually fun to get into. And of course Facebook and YouTube’s recommendation algorithms help a lot. You get to speculate about what’s going on behind the scenes and what not without so called rationalists ruining th
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by newen 6y ago
Debatable considering that donating art works (whose valuations can be, let's say, subjective) for tax purposes is a fairly well known way to reduce your tax burden.
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by newen 6y ago
Around half of Nvidia's revenue now comes from data centers. I assume a massive chunk of those computers use Linux, so looks like they did do something about it.
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by newen 6y ago
Ramadan is not really fasting these days. Most people do feasts every day (or something close to every day) on Ramadan when the sun goes down.
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by newen 6y ago
The thing about TikTok is it’s a very different experience for different people due to its recommendation algorithm.
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by newen 6y ago
This is like a tragedy of the commons situation where there are massive, life changing incentives for people to break the commons. You can’t run a society where you hope that all individuals will be good.
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by newen 6y ago
For one, courses were significantly more difficult and the homework was harder in the top 20 university. For example, the junior level CS algorithms course I took at both were so different that I wouldn't even call the one I took in th
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by newen 6y ago
I have taken classes in Physics, Math, and CS in a top 20 ranked US university and a university ranked in the 200s. The difference in teaching skill and the difficulty in the materials taught for the same course is massive and very noticeab
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by newen 6y ago
With around the same population as the US too.
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by newen 6y ago
Where are you getting this information from?
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by newen 6y ago
Too true. In most other countries, no one office holds this much power.
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by newen 6y ago
I don't see articles from amnesty international going viral in western media. The last big China bad news story in HN was [1], which was literally funded and assisted by a CIA-funded organization. An article which uses a few blank spot
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by newen 6y ago
Yeah, it's like US companies buying UK companies and then massively profiting off them. Why should China subsidize startup costs for a company and then sell it so the US can make massive profits off it? It doesn't seem to be in th
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by newen 6y ago
Zoomers have not been living under decades of Cold War propaganda. Maybe older folks should re-evaluate all of their assumptions about geopolitics hammered into their brain through decades of propaganda before venturing into criticism about
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by newen 6y ago
There is a massive difference between bombing conducted by a country and bombing conducted by another country using the country's weapons.
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by newen 6y ago
Thousands? Pretty much every article that I have read about concentration camps, I have tracked down to unreliable sources like CIA-funded propaganda organizations.
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by newen 6y ago
This applies to any internet discussion site that doesn’t list your entire background, which is basically every internet site. How many people do you think does the same thing in HN? I’d say it’s most of them. There is no way to tell whethe
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by newen 6y ago
If everything was left up to consumer choice, we’d be driving gas guzzlers and the ozone layer would be already gone.
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by newen 6y ago
A mechanism to transfer money from people's paychecks to defense contracting companies.

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