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Not true. All historical white supremacy movements have been built on the narrative of genetic superiority. Skull shapes, race theory etc. Although cultural superiority is entwined…

This a (frankly lazy) narrative often used to dismiss demands for equality. You might be able to point to isolated incidents but to view group advocacy as a whole as malicious powe…

What you're missing here is in reality, your life experience, outcomes and how you are treated in society can be very much a consequence of your "identity". All groups are advocati…

The cargo culting and contrarian smugness on HN can be very annoying. Not very representative of the entire real world of development.

There are options to target them specifically. For example we could progressively make them sterile.

Serious question - Why can't we put our minds to it and kill them all? Why can't we banish this mass killer and cause of immense suffering to humans and animals alike. I haven't se…

A serious investigation based on actual real verified events. The series of secret meetings, lies and changing narrative from so many in the admin that were later exposed as false …

Globalisation has many problems but _causes_ racism? I would argue it's demagogues who take advantage of societal breakdown to inflame inherent racism. More generally we also have …

> All of the clips cut out all of the context Categorically false There are hundreds of videos showing the police brutalising peaceful protest. Watch them. Single example - How abo…

> With this idea in mind, I personally can't picture myself being able to remain calm and not overstep my boundaries sooner or later. It's their job to remain calm and lawful under…

> Bill Gates knew (see ted talk), the rest of us didn't. This assertion is false. Generally speaking competent governments routinely do threat level risk assessments. For example p…

There's a painful cognitive dissonance that people seem to have about this disease - there isn't an option (unless you don't care about lots of people dying) where the economy does…

The point is avoiding mass death. They care about their families lives too and not just economics. It's not a 'political' choice or about 'optics'. It's also not just 'old' people …

> for example the UK or Belgium It depends when each country locked down relative to the number of cases and deaths at the time. The UK is widely acknowledged (here anyway) to have…

Your underlying assumption is a) Sweden is reporting correctly and b) won't in future find excess deaths in the community - as other countries have: https://www.independent.co.uk/n…

Because of the huge amount of excess deaths that get assigned as probable covid cases. This is happening right now in the UK.

Couldn't you in fact make the opposite case? Sweden as the outlier is not reporting accurately and others are? The UK has seen huge excess mortality above the average which is bein…

Big numerator / bigger denominator doesn't make the numerator go away. Are you going to atoms in the universe next? So following this logic lets shut down all hospitals and stop tr…

And if we follow your premise that this is hysteria and we go back to work how many absolute numbers of people will die vs other causes of preventable death? Herd immunity would st…

Hysteria? What negates this thinking is hard mathematics ie that all the other things don't kill at a _geometric_ rate. If left unchecked millions of people will die in a short amo…

All of this has happened before (probably)

Very valid points! It smacks of transplanting a rose-tinted view of 1950s academia into schools. Teaching students in a modern school environment is a world apart from academia. Al…

Great job! I'd love to hear more about the calculations involved for the sun and moon paths and the implementation of the shadow maps. If you have the time and haven't already perh…

It's very hard to see how you reached this conclusion, which seems to show more knee-jerk bias on your part. The article is (in the main) about our relationship to news. The ever i…

Its both: 1. Platforms have a civic responsibility to not promote disinformation. 2. Citizens have a responsibility to escape their bias and bubbles and reject disinformation. But …