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by yters 7y ago
what do you think about iceland?
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by yters 7y ago
I understand your mod decision. I would also recommend looking into the OP's claim. I have to agree, the downvoting on this topic is much more than I am used to, and I get downvoted often! So, it appears there is more than the norma
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by yters 7y ago
There aren't any obvious communist elites, but there is a weird whitewashing of communism going on. And, a communist china fits the purposes of capitalist west quite well. So, I would say if there are western elite controlling China,
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by yters 7y ago
I suspect even if they lost the China market, Bloomberg would get along fine.
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by yters 7y ago
As a counter to the other poster, though I do not always agree, I appreciate your efforts, dang. It is not an easy job, and probably quite thankless, but necessary.
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by yters 7y ago
Well, communism is not indigenous to China. It is a western idea imported by western educated Chinese intellectuals, who then indoctrinated Mao. Whether the western control is direct or indirect, it is indisputable that the CCP is not an i
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by yters 7y ago
Do you think the state enforced atheism has any role?
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by yters 7y ago
Further irony in this article generated another comment thread discussing how criticism of CCP is silenced, which itself was detached by the HN mods. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867474
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by yters 7y ago
Why would Bloomberg need to continue selling terminals to China for the journalists to research and publish?
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by yters 7y ago
Why is this comment thread off topic? The underlying reason for the Bloomberg story is the CCP silencing dissidence. Ironically, this comment thread about the silencing of CCP dissidence is itself silenced...
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by yters 7y ago
What would motivate them to desire independence from China?
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by yters 7y ago
This is a good case in point. The parent comment, at the time of my comment, has decent points about how criticism of CCP is treated. And it is itself greyed out due to downvoting. Thus, the OP's point is sustained.
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by yters 7y ago
Ironic since communism is itself a non chinese idea forced on the population through western indoctrination of Mao.
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by yters 7y ago
Or CCP is a shell for communist westerners to try out their social experiments on other nations. Communism is itself a western import to China, not an indigenous worldview.
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by yters 7y ago
This kind of light censorship is in some ways also dangerous because it shapes the discourse in a non obvious way, giving entities like the CCP control over the perceived consensus.
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by yters 7y ago
"humans evolve to possess AGI" is based on a couple of assumptions: 1. humans evolved 2. human mind is reducible to the brain 3. intelligence is computable None of these are proven by anything. They are all assumed, and are the c
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by yters 7y ago
Working from home is the norm. Most of civilization has been farm based.
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by yters 7y ago
Is there any damage to priming the population to give up significant liberties if a crisis can be portrayed as serious enough?
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by yters 7y ago
Given that we don't even know AGI is logically possible, probably isn't, unsurprising a company founded on that idea will flounder insofar as it stays true to the goal.
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by yters 7y ago
I believe people have free will, and thus can reason and be convinced :)
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by yters 7y ago
I like Eclipse, but now that I know my way about, it's much easier to knock out a small Java problem on the command line than to fire up Eclipse, setup a project, etc. Then there's all the magical metadata and whatnot that can ge
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by yters 7y ago
How can you convince people otherwise if they are determined to believe in free will?
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by yters 7y ago
previous to the complete lockdown MD where I live was restricting congregation size, so a middle road is possible
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by yters 7y ago
very few things in life are entirely safe, e.g. many more people die from traffic accidents than will die from covid-19
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by yters 7y ago
yes, good catch those who can catch it without problem, should, so they can develop immunity and be a buffer for the vulnerable
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by yters 7y ago
We aren't quite sure about covid-19's fatality rate e.g. in countries that test outside those admitted to hospital, iceland and south korea, the fatality is less than 1%
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by yters 7y ago
https://daily.jstor.org/why-no-one-believed-einstein/
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by yters 7y ago
https://daily.jstor.org/why-no-one-believed-einstein/
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by yters 7y ago
that was a mass, tightly packed congregation
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by yters 7y ago
It seems that is a general problem of life. The flu is quite dangerous to the elderly, along with many other common diseases.

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