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by resters 7y ago
> but you can't possibly claim HN bans politics when maybe 20-30% of the stories discussed here are political in nature. Well, many of the most crucial stories have been nipped in the bud when speculation is flying every which way.
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by resters 7y ago
> But as this article shows, abdicating the responsibility by keeping the topics sterile is similarly suspect, in the sense of fiddling while Rome burns. I believe a willingness to confront the ugly sides of technology with some courage
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by resters 7y ago
Comments critical of Trump are getting downvoted and the users throttled. Not sure what is going on.
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by resters 7y ago
> Given this administration's thinking pattern, wouldn't they see the potential damage to US manufacturers and try to increase tariffs further, vicious-circle style? I think they will want to do that, but ultimately the US has
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by resters 7y ago
Exactly. Trump claimed that he was some kind of expert negotiator who would walk in and teach the Chinese government a lesson and improve trade policy on behalf of American firms. But instead he's made a fool of himself and of the US,
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by resters 7y ago
What we saw is the market responding both to the economics of it and also to the knowledge that China has started adjusting its currency to combat Trump's tariffs. I think many expected this to happen, but what is interesting is that i
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by resters 7y ago
Developing nations (as the US was in the past) typically do not care much about IP. Read "The Lever of Riches" for a history of economic growth and IP law.
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by resters 7y ago
Significant, but two small blips in a sea of front page stories about rude remarks or other tabloid style drivel.
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by resters 7y ago
WaPo has been weaponized against Trump by Bezos, or Bezos failed to stop it. For some reason doing solid investigative journalism is not a priority and instead rallying partisans around talking points and feel good, in-group stories takes p
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by resters 7y ago
There hasn’t been any real information about what happened to the journalist, or about any other entanglements he may have been involved in. There is a good chance KSA wanted him dead, but most in the US do not take seriously the question o
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by resters 7y ago
News feed algorithms that maximize profits for the social media company inevitably promote sensational, emotionally potent content. Doing so is part of their design. Consider the following experiment with YouTube. Search for something, an
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by resters 7y ago
Bezos also owns Amazon. It shouldn’t really be relevant but unfortunately it is.
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by resters 7y ago
The worst thing about this in my opinion is that as much as I personally dislike Trump, the WaPo has lowered the quality of its journalism tremendously over the past decade and so unfortunately Trump’s critiques of the WaPo are not lacking
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by resters 7y ago
> I can't believe how stupid the "Hacker" "News" community is--commenting on things that don't matter, then shutting up for matters of grave importance. Topics like mass surveillance are considered by HN mod
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by resters 7y ago
> Nanosecond pricing updates might be a little more than anybody needs. This statement reveals that you do not understand what is happening when a transaction occurs. The price is simply the market clearing price. It is not as if updates
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by resters 7y ago
> There are lots of procedures where consumers have time to shop around. I'd estimate this is 1% of healthcare spending.
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by resters 7y ago
This would improve the negotiating position of some parties and harm that of others, but only slightly if at all. Most likely it will make hospitals less likely to allow any single price to be negotiated too low. Consider that when negotiat
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by resters 7y ago
I am not a shareholder, but I think market share is the short term goal. The incentives can be phased out as prices increase a bit after competition cools off.
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by resters 7y ago
True, it's really bad UX that cost me and a coworker each 30 minutes this morning. Nobody expects the backend to be completely reliable, but the client should be trustworthy when it comes to reporting the status of the backend.
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by resters 7y ago
Please explain :)
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by resters 7y ago
>> It seems like the US has become what the USSR was > Yep... thats my cue to get off hackernews Surely Fox News will be happy to have you back.
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by resters 7y ago
Some important things to remember when dealing with humans: - If people under you on the org chart are being friendly with you, laughing at your jokes, etc., it is partly due to their desire to get ahead in their careers. - Every person is
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by resters 7y ago
All governments use the same playbook, and one of the plays is concentration camps. The US media shows us the worst of China and the Chinese media shows the Chinese people the worst of the US. Our greatest responsibility is our own nation.
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by resters 7y ago
Extremely well put.
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by resters 7y ago
Exactly. The lack of warrant canaries shows us just how cozy the relationship is.
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by resters 7y ago
This is not unusual behavior for firms that are defense contractors.
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by resters 7y ago
This is what you’d expect a video sharing site run by a major defense contractor to do.
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by resters 7y ago
> It's also worth remembering that he disseminated information on the behalf of the Russian state in an effort to get Trump elected. Not sure why you believe that any more than you would believe the claims that Saddam had WMDs.
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by resters 7y ago
Very well put. It's not just the war crimes committed (or indirectly caused) by the US, it's the major financial crime of the war spending and the crime of falsifying intelligence information to sell the war. Assange helped shed
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by resters 7y ago
> current music is problematic The piano and guitar are still alive and well, as are things like the following: https://teenage.engineering/products/po https://www.apple.com/ios/garageband/

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