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by resters 7y ago
Don't forget that the US Government has sought to pursue charges against journalists under the espionage act for reporting on government misconduct, and that America's great firewall (Facebook) started suppressing RT after the 201
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They are, but most exploit profit opportunities introduced into market prices by human actors. If humans were rational, there would be just as many people betting against stocks as betting on them. The idea that upward price movement is a
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Your comment ignores the dimension of the market that is volume and only focuses on price. If you hold inventory, you might be able to sell one unit at $x, but the buyer willing to buy the next 99 units may only be willing to offer a lower
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by resters 7y ago
The platform offers that, though the price premium for a flexible cancellation is not high enough to make me want to use that pricing policy.
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If you read the reviews and stay with a good host, you are getting a level of service far beyond most hotels. Not sure what your experience was like, but I’d be surprised if the host has good reviews.
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It’s so sad that one of the most courageous soldiers in the history of the US military has been treated so horribly by the government.
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by resters 7y ago
I’m the opposite. I have had so many good experiences at Airbnb properties and a few years ago I started being a host. It’s a fantastic platform. You really do have to read the reviews, though, both as a guest and as a host.
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by resters 7y ago
Airbnb has a variety of different cancellation policies available to hosts. As a host, I use the strict one because I can’t always schedule a last minute cleaning, and I find that people who plan ahead and don’t need to change are more resp
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by resters 7y ago
I think we generally agree. As you point out, all illegal immigrants are criminals by definition, so there is a lot of sloppy rhetoric and innuendo that is possible based on that technicality. Trump exploits it to the max. I think Trump int
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Those are reasonable points, and I acknowledge based on the details you mentioned that the incident of Trump referring to a "hoax" may not fit the standard pattern Trump uses. In another comment in this thread I describe the patte
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I didn't downvote your comment, by the way. It's a fair point. Many politicians have tried to rally support for border security by describing illegal immigration as a source of violent crime. Trump mentioned "rapists" in
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Most of the press coverage about China in the US focuses on pollution, sewage, labor practices, authoritarianism, etc. It's not surprising that many have such a one-sided view and forget how easy it would be to present the US in simila
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Trump has mastered the art of saying word salads that convey what he wants but do not syntactically say what he communicated. He is the most talented politician the US has seen in decades, and this is just one example. He says the word sala
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That perspective is remarkably charitable to Trump, who not only claimed that the virus was a "hoax", but mobilized his loyalists in the media to spread harmful ideas about the level of contagion and lethality. It is important to
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> We are what we think China is. This sort of analysis always gets downvoted on HN, but it's true. In many ways we are further along in the direction of having an obedient population (compared to China) but we still have our own gre
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by resters 7y ago
Fascinating. Thank you for writing this comment.
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I think there are multiple useful lenses for thinking about this: - Signaling that the Fed is willing to get involved to stabilize market prices (by making capital cheaper) is meant to calm markets and give participants comfort about making
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I think this is one of the more interesting questions we get the chance to observe as things play out. China's government is more technocratic, more pragmatic, and also more authoritarian than the US. All of those are very useful ch
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It is crucial that the organizational culture reward employees for making this happen. When you think about it, a lot of corporate cultures reward the opposite -- employees hoarding key knowledge so they can use it to their advantage. To do
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Supporting "liberty" would lead just as logically to being "anti-China" as it would to being "anti-US". China is perhaps more authoritarian, but not fundamentally different.
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HN is actually surprisingly pro-Trump. I have been shocked at the broad support for economic nationalism (trade protectionism, etc.) from HN participants, as well as the chorus of agreement with Trump's anti-China stance.
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I wonder if any proponents of deplatforming can comment on the parent's point. edit: why downvote this? I think the parent makes an important point. Is the goal of deplatforming to herd members into their own fortified echo chambers?
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by resters 7y ago
You believe that Assange is both a rapist and a right wing zealot? There is no evidence to support either claim.
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why not just make the screen a module that can be replaced or upgraded, such as by inserting a fresh iPad every few years.
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My narrative had one factual problem, Meng's job title, but it is not biased.
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Ironically, this is an attempt by the Trump administration to steal IP from China. US firms are behind in 5G because they have sat on the sidelines while Huawei engineered the chipsets. It's tremendously ironic that these charges will
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Considering the anti-competitive, protectionist nature of the US backlash against Huawei, I think it's wise to be quite skeptical of these kinds of claims until they have been proven to be true by independent security experts.
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I was a member of an Apple user group in the 1980s as a young kid. Things I remember: - someone remarked how sorry they felt for people who had to type on IBM keyboards. - someone explained the difference between a serial and parallel bus t
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by resters 7y ago
This has been sorely needed for a long time. Thank you for building it!
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by resters 7y ago
why would anyone sign up for a service that will link anyone in their family to law enforcement DNA tracking databases? I’m a customer already but now that I know how non-private the identity data is, I would not do so again.

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