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"enforce political control and nationalistic tendencies of ethnic groups"? This literally means stop nationalist secession movements. Literally no country on earth basically lets t…

Yeah because the internet didn't exist.

> “Internment camps” and “concentration camps” are historical synonyms, the latter has subsequently taken on additional negative loading because of euphemistic use of the term for …

Okay how about this. Tell me which policies of the USSR were racist, who they were racist against and why you think they were racist.

This is a semantic argument that I have no real interest in arguing. Call it genocide, call it ethnic cleansing. Genocide as a criminal charge is mostly a political matter. Califor…

> because everything you cite in support of this describes rather than refutes institutional racism. Please expand on this.

The Iron Curtain was the barrier erected by the Soviets to prevent American media into the USSR. Not to prevent Soviet media into America. What are you even talking about?

Uhh Japanese internment and Mexican repatriation were genocidal actions. The US only stopped mass stochastic involuntary sterilization of natives in the 1970's. Some still happen t…

> During the Cold War, ethnic minorities in the Soviet Union were treated just as bad as US minorities. This part is simply not true. > Today the situation is even worse. This part…

Sure. Did they stop punishing people with their "actual meritocracy" metrics for taking it?

There's some apocrypha that I'd need to dig up the source to but IIRC the story goes that after WWI Keynes was researching the economic impacts of the WWI war economy. His conclusi…

Yeah the reality is that a lot of people think that prior to and after WW2 and/or the Russian revolution the USSR was equivalent somehow to the US. That was never the case the USSR…

yeah the funny thing about these comments you have a bunch of people conflating a lot of stuff. For people who think the USSR was "more corrupt" they're often talking about a narro…

Behavioral programming is just creating a specific type of rules engine which is very close to a state machine. This example is also really complex in reality because it inherently…

Yeah. just don't go on paternity/maternity leave.

It certainly is an example of the agency problem. However the company itself doesn't want to allocate resources regardless of the actual cost. Because regardless at your $/hr, a co…

The issue of legalese in ToS is the same issue of "bad code" or "bad engineering". The law is just another system, another conceptual language of communication, except one filled w…

I think it's really funny a lot of these scare pieces intimate that a US based PR guy for a Chinese company would be privy to intimate details about Uighur detention. These grandst…

This is really interesting. I wish their methodology page talked more about accuracy and blind spots in the system.

My usage of price controls in that way is intentional. The average argument against price controls (e.g. price ceiling sand price floors) is like saying knives bad because I can cu…

Any payment transfer is a complex price control on money. UBI literally means for an individual, for a certain period of time, the first $X of spend cost nothing. That's a complex …

In context you've unlocked the tautology that underpins capitalism. > Pareto inefficiency > almost impossible to know what the “correct” price Yes it's really really hard to price …

TIL is an engagement farming subreddit. It's a popular post because it's engagement farming. It's a form of infotainment for consumers.

> Maybe worst of all are the “snark” subreddits for celebrity gossip and catty bullying. My hobby is better than your hobby.

HN is literally marketing.... Startups literally "launch" on here whether they're Y Combinator affiliates or not. The content of any forum cannot be mostly marketing, because that …