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Judging by the vote totals of the above post, it seems there is a cadre of users here who believe the Democratic party is detaining children in the basement of a pizza parlor[0]. N…

Since Fox News started fact-checking Trump, Trump's followers have stopped treating Fox News as a reliable source and are voting with their feet towards OANN another very far right…

Cryptocurrency is the ponzi scheme for tech people. Because the cryptocurrency ecosystem does not do investment -- likely in very large part because no one can buy anything legal w…

By the beginning of January, the termination of pandemic-related economic supports is expected to put 19 million Americans at risk of homelessness, and make 11% of the US populatio…

You're shifting the goal posts from the question of a campaign conspiracy (coordination) to a broader question of inappropriate connections between Trump and Russia. Further, the p…

The role of fact checking is not to strive for partisan balance but rather to identify public comments that are untrue. American conservatives would fall afoul of fact checking far…

What do you do when the Republican fact checker repeats what the leader of his party tells him to say even though it is fact-free? A majority of Republicans believe Trump won the e…

This is inaccurate. Go read the report, or at the very least read the Wikipedia summary. The conclusion was that a conspiracy between Trumpworld and the Russian government could no…

There is very little evidence that fact checking actually works to reduce the impacts of disinformation. See e.g. this study of the impact of Twitter warnings on belief in disonfor…

News media. See e.g.: https://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/news-media/r... for more information.

What sort of 'proposal' do you suggest to deter unethical business practices and encourage the prosecution of white collar crime under existing laws? The problem with white collar …

I don't see it as unjustified to point out that the primary risk actors in China's threat model will be the American armed forces and/or three letter agencies.

Quoting from your downstream posts for which HN is blocking replies: > The job is in fact risky, which is why the profession is so highly regarded. Police work doesn't even break t…

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Why would you assume the uplink isn't authenticated and/or encrypted, given that the downlink data has very little value but interfering with the uplink could disable the probe? Sp…

What was your reason for posting this? Risk factors are about probabilities, not certainties. Anyone who has even rudimentary exposure to statistics will understand this. One singl…

This explanation just reworks the question into one of why western interest rates are so low. Western central banks can't raise interest rates above the lower bound without trigger…

> Why can't America build anymore? Is this a cultural problem, or a failure of public policy? America can't build anymore because America's executives have chosen to steal every pi…

We're on different sides of the disinformation control debate but I completely agree with your take on the toxicity of HN. This place is much worse than most of non-ideological Red…

Suppose, hypothetically, that someone with malicious intent installed an advertising billboard, next to your home, that falsely accused you of having committed a horrific crime. Su…

Why do you believe the right of bad-faith actors to load disinformation into the minds of the gullible is more important than the right of uninvolved third parties to live? It's on…

Bitcoin does not scale as a medium of exchange. It has a hard transaction limit of 7 transactions per second. In contrast, the VISA network alone can process at least 47,000 tps. T…

> I think it’s really a middle ground. Yes, a large majority of the wealthy people did get there by working hard, and being disciplined with money. That depends on how you define '…

> Growth in inequality correlates very nicely with expansion of the money supply. This gets complicated. The money supply has to expand to keep up with growth; getting the flexibil…