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"I see no situation in which extra-judicial deportation (or extradition!) is the right course of action." I see one: where the country in which the crime was committed (the "deport…

Sorry but I'm struggling to understand how, if we assume that: 1. "Country A is a close ally to Country B and has identical punishments for the crime Alice has committed [...] She …

Toilet paper, I think.

Could it be this? http://www.urth.net/

An actual civil conversation between two mature people on the Internet! This brought a tear to my eye.

> They ask themselves "is this really what I'll want?", as opposed to "is this what the person I'll be after a few years of this will want?" or "will this turn me into a person I w…

Regarding the "bumping" mechanism and its effect on "normies": isn't almost every forum like this? I can't think of a forum that doesn't shift threads with recent posts to the top.…

...so why is the right to live an absolute right? What does it mean for a right to be absolute? (e.g. if someone kills other people to save himself, was he entitled to do so on the…

I am thankful for Hacker News. Never before have I come across a community that is as insightful, friendly, and helpful. Thank you, everyone, for making Hacker News the place it is…

I don't quite understand this. Many women worked in the fields, or at home, or giving birth. They suffered, I'm sure, just as much.

I don't think "差不多" means "Fail Fast, Fail Often". 差不多 literally means "not much difference". It's usually used by Chinese workers to dismiss shortfalls in quality/quantity that ar…

I agree with this. Some amount of emotional venting is completely healthy but when it gets to the point where someone is unable to deal with any negative emotions on their own, and…

I think this is one of the most significant reasons why Japan is the way it is, but one of the most ignored. It's difficult, in today's political climate, to accept that maybe immi…