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> political or ideological battle Is that what pointing out taboo facts is? P.S.: I've participated in a lot of political discussion on HN - topics including anti-trust, surveillan…

> some fear it could spur wave of highly expensive drugs While I absolutely believe pharma companies price-gouge to the best of their abilities (charge what desperate people are wi…

> You also haven't answered why you feel this way. My feelings are irrelevant - they make my points neither more nor less valid.

> science is never final Why not wait till we're (more) certain? What's the worst that could happen? Catastrophic, runaway climate-change? I say we risk it - at least the science w…

So the error is... where? If you think I am beyond saving, at least point it out for the sake of any not-yet-lost souls reading.

Ignorance? Well, please point out where I made an error - I'd be happy to correct it.

> stop having babies Most of the west has already drastically reduced the number of babies. All that happened is we were told we need immigration instead.

Left and right ideas are just stepping stones to profit. After all, the 'left-leaning' Google sure isn't pushing for unions, only for what will benefit them.

"orthogonal: Of two or more problems or subjects, independent of [..] each other." ..I guess you're right. I understood orthogonal a bit too mathematically, and since the 'dot prod…

They can both be used by one or both parties to secure power - on that axis, they are objectively not orthogonal.

Whoopi did it first: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115580/

Try as they might, immigration will win over gerrymandering in the end: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/obama-spends-63-million-re... http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2…

Data-gathering companies can and do co-operate, or someone wanting to learn something can just buy the data from several of them - price per bit of data should be the same. So brea…

What he said was: Best case: NK government falls on its own. Least casualties. Worst case: NK attacks (i.e. the missile had hit) or gets attacked, massive casualties on all sides. …

> claiming that thanks to cryptography the world of intelligence was “going dark”. Quite the opposite was true [...] Twenty years ago it cost over a thousand pounds a day to follow…

No 100% accurate license-plate reader exists - and that includes human eyesight. Showing license identification confidence levels, as the author's code does, is far better at dissu…

You underestimate how much patents are used to impede competition - see https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/intel... , and the many less public patent licenses a…

Imagine if some non-US government voided Intel and AMD's patents as a self-defence measure against these probably-backdoored 'features'. Why should they protect the profits of host…

So as long as the immigration was in the past, you're not allowed to criticize it?

History was not the argument - it was to illustrate that what you consider far right has been and is common . > we live in a global market, Treating local businesses preferentially…

Holding the interests of your own country above those of others is by definition nationalism, and almost any opposition to immigration is labelled xenophobia. They are, and have hi…

Not in Germany, but pretty salient: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/09/geert-wilders-... Literally illegal to call for less immigration.

> calling for physical action against individuals They weren't raided for making true threats, but for letting the site become a "lawless realm" and/or for "sowing hate against dif…

Shutting down a club seems just as oppressive. And the definition of 'club' is blurry and stretchy, so it's not unexpected a law against 'clubs' would get abused.

The site was closed for "sowing hate against different opinions and representatives of the country," I am shocked - shocked - that anti-hate animus would be used this way!