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The way your comment was phrased ("Should China or some similar power of the time have meddled in the US civil war? Or maybe the War for Independence?") implied that other powers d…

Well, France meddled in the American Revolutionary War to hurt Britain. That's just the reality of what rival states do.

Taiwan has symbolic value. The CCP has made "reunification" a major part of its "platform" for decades, and a leader who accomplishes that will go down in history in the pantheon o…

I'm sorry. HN attracts a certain audience, and so do cryptocurrency companies, and some people from this audience tend to immediately pivot to "culture war" issues whenever allegat…

Cancelling student debt is an example of a moral hazard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard It sets a bad precedent and merely encourages other people to borrow money in th…

Not the person you were replying to, but I am aware of the college affirmative action for minorities and the exemptions to the one-child policy. From what I understand, the current…

I didn't realize this when I wrote my earlier comment, but something that I found disturbing was that you seemed okay with the prospect of your own children being discriminated aga…

My comment doesn't contradict anything that you're saying. I pointed out that America has made many grave mistakes, such as slavery, and that we can still improve America today. Th…

I agree with you that people in China deserve a standard of living similar to the West. I also think that people in China deserve to have more freedoms and a representative governm…

This is a false moral equivalence. The US was founded on the idea that "all men are created equal." The US has made terrible mistakes, such as not immediately banning slavery and n…

Another person replied to your comment and criticized you for interpreting my post in a certain way. (The reply is now flagged and dead.) I would like to make clear that the ACA-5 …

Thank you for your support. I do not know where you live, but one issue that I am concerned about is California's ACA-5, which seeks to bring back racial preferences to public univ…

I am Asian-American, and I'm growing concerned over rising discrimination against Asian-Americans. Asian-Americans have no social or political capital, i.e. in my experience, anti-…

If the justification of affirmative action is to "correct the harm caused by previous institutional bias," how is it justified that it discriminates against Asian-Americans when we…

Thank you for your reply. I think I understand this better now.

I'm cautious about approaching culture war threads, but I have to ask this question: What is your definition of "neoliberalism?" To my understanding, it is a center-left economic i…

For my supplemental essays, I wrote about the importance of PL theory for software engineering, where you want to design programming languages that increase programmer productivity…

The reason why I applied to Cornell, CMU, and UPenn was that they all have strong PL departments. CMU offers an undergraduate PL concentration where you learn FP and constructive m…

Never in my comment did I advocate for policies that give Asians a leg up, and I'm curious to know which part of my comment you interpreted that way. I just want to be judged for m…

Yes, I agree completely. Because I personally don't come from a poor background, I fell into the racist trap against my own race of forgetting about poorer Asians (who may also liv…

To play the devil's advocate, if these poorer neighborhoods, which may correlate with race, have a culture that discourages kids who study, that might actually be an argument to ta…

>> I implore you, in the meritocratic tradition of the hacker culture, to speak out against affirmative action and support Asian kids who want to pursue these passions. > How are y…

Hmm, that thought never occurred to me. I had assumed that having specific interests would help me because I knew exactly what the school had to offer (courses, concentrations) ins…

College applications season is ending and decisions are out. I don't know about going in undeclared, but choosing a different major is a risk that can backfire if your classes and …