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Dang has no interest in upsetting Chinese loyalists, so he’ll never release the data behind his claims of “no voting manipulation”.

I’m not sure Disney is a productive company for society. I’d argue that Lebron James and Disney are purely for entertainment. And the owners of sports teams are able to attach valu…

The person in the article said “white people are so fragile”. That’s a racist statement, so no spinning needed.

Do you deny that the Chinese government makes it extremely difficult for US companies to operate there?

So there’s a time limit on censorship and free speech?

This is why free speech is such an essential right in the United States, and probably contributes to the success it’s had as a country in making things. It’s hard to create when so…

Not to mention that the government initially ignored a huge amount of complaints before finally investigating.

I agree that zip2 was not a great accomplishment aside from making money, but it certainly wasn’t copyright infringement.

There’s no way to know how many of those were Chinese nationals because the only group with that data is FINCEN. So how exactly did you do this, and which county was it?

I’d think that the person who abuses customer privacy would be much lower class than that. I’d much rather work with someone like the WhatsApp founders than a Zuckerberg.

Considering that Amazon fulfills orders using counterfeit items from suppliers that they know have previously provided fakes to customers, and then removes reviews that point out c…

How was his statement incorrect or unjustified? (tip: calling something incorrect and unjustified just because you don’t like it is a bad way to start a conversation)

Looks like you got downvoted by the usual anti-science politically-correct contingent here on HN, but you’re right to investigate that possibility. Here’s an analysis of the last m…

A lot of subs are full of edgelords. The sub was quarantined because they need to make Reddit more palatable to investors and advertisers.

Maybe Google should have put that in the explanation instead of not giving a reason.

For users. See all of the responses about gifs and bandwidth. I hate autoplay video but don’t want to sacrifice gifs to block it.

This seems specifically targeted to give Uber an advantage over Lyft especially with the 10,000 dispatches rule. I’d also keep an eye on where the TLC commissioner ends up now that…

Why is someone a shill for saying something negative about a totalitarian dictatorship?

Yes, a company at that scale could do it, but they’d have to actually spend some of their $200 billion instead of hoarding it Scrooge McDuck style.

This might explain it a little better: https://therealdeal.com/issues_articles/money-laundering/

No, at least in the US. The Realtors have lobbied very hard to make sure that the real estate industry doesn’t have the same reporting requirements that banking does. So a lot of d…

That’s just another reason why Chicago’s population is lower today than 25 years ago, and Illinois has lost population for five years straight. Corruption and bad policies are ramp…

Par for the course for a company that “illegally diverted over $100 million from a fund used for safety operations, and instead used it for executive compensation and bonuses” acco…

They could afford to pay out a regular dividend, illegally skipped safety measures on pipelines, and “an independent audit from the State of California issued a report stating that…

Looks like the decisions that favor patent trolls were all decided by majority Obama appointees. Makes me wonder if the new Supreme Court appointees will accept any challenges to t…