whatyoucantsay

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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
Nothing sneaky is involved. Like you and most people, I believe I am fair minded. There's no pretending involved, either. It is very surprising users would have even seen a comment buried deep in an old thread within minutes, but i
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
Seeing good-faith comments which break no rules I'm aware of being flagged is truly disappointing. It's your forum and if you choose rule by law rather than rule of law, I am powerless to improve the situation. In ten years time,
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
Smokers cost the health care system less because they die younger: https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/2/6/e001678
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
We need that guy.
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
"A couple of years out of date" would be the more generous way to say "false". Australia very recently grew past Taiwan's population.
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
The story you linked above, with over 170 upvotes and less than a day old appears nowhere on the first 5 pages of HN. It's hard to imagine HN suppressing any similar story from a similarly credible source about a million people being d
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
"Ideas I disagree with are wrong and should be silenced!" is about as timeless and universal a position as any in human history. It's not a good one, though.
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
> I think this is all premised on the belief that American corporations somehow have the moral obligation (and right) to change the way things in a different country work. > China has its own functioning tech ecosystem, so entrant
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
It's amazing we have Bill Joy to thank for not only C shell and much of BSD, but also VI.
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
Thanks for the resource link. Does the data set include domestic-only Chinese investors?
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
What is this "reunification" you speak of? Taiwan has never been part of the PRC. Before its current state, it was part of Japan. You could go back to the peak of the Qing Dynasty, but clearly that isn't a nation that curre
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
> Boston is the world-center of biotech startups and VC Beijing is likely far ahead. Beijing's total VC investment is much higher, it accounts for over 1/3 of Chinese domestic VC and Chinese firms have accounted for over 40% of
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
That's surprising that publicly broadcasted calls to assassinate the president didn't result in arrest.
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
> You cherry picked and forgot the first line which puts the rest in context. How uncharitable of you to write that. I didn't "forget" it. It wasn't relevant to my point. The first line was specific to this situation,
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
Is prosecution underway? Much of what you mention is surely illegal, even in the US.
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
> The best thing to do is just silence their voices, no ifs, ands or buts. > Remember, these people are against the idea of democracy. Oh, the irony of following the one sentence with the other.
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
The larger concern here isn't the laws of the US. It's the power that internet giants have to shape the opinions that flow through the media. That power cannot be underestimated. Consider how the leaders of both China and Russia h
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
> EU will likely join in. Doubtful. The EU, and France in particular, has been selling China weapons for over a decade.
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
If the US didn't honour its commitments and let Taiwan fall, Japan, Korea and all other neighbours would no longer be able to rely on US protection and seek their own weapons of mass destruction. The instability of that scenario would
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
Highly unlikely. Ever since the US Congress passed a Taiwan Relations Act, military defense of Taiwan is a enshrined in law. Furthermore, Taiwan is a fully democratic nation with a population slightly larger than that of Australia. The enti
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
> Fang stocks have generated enormous returns relative to the S&P 500 though. And yet trivial compared to what MS, Oracle, AOL, Yahoo and Amazon generated in the 90s (or 80s as well in the case of MS). The best part of Facebook'
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
WhatsApp and especially LINE were heavily used in China until they were blocked. After that, local company Tencent's WeChat became dominant.
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
> What's to stop people start migrating to Signal/Telegram/Viber/Keybase/etc.. once WhatsApp starts displaying ads? Network effects.
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
And your Android phone will forever nag you to switch back.
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
It is showing an underlying trend of continued growth, but the sharpest growth segment is that of the fines! The growth in fines will likely continue, given their sheer size and the GDPR. YouTube's continued movement away from being a
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
I'm not a fan. Webstorm (along with its Intellij cousins) is slow, occasionally buggy, and has a horrid UX. Their subscription-based ransomware was long ago eclipsed by VS Code.
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
This fact may be hacker but it is not news.
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
Netflix and its leadership are hard left. India, as a whole, is not.
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
> For the NY Times, this is rather lazy reporting. The NYT has fallen far in the past 5 years. It still clears a higher bar than most print media, but is now a mere simulacrum of journalism.
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
My "JS ecosystem" no longer includes any of those three.

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