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It was not pointed at you or at anyone; it was a comment about my general experience as an HN user. I didn't realize that your account existed before you replied. My motives and kn…

I wanted to edit it, as I said in my other comment, but I can't seem to do it now. Perhaps because it's flagged? If you see this and can delete it, that's fine with me. For the rec…

Thanks. I still think you're thinking of someone else; please see my edit. To be clear, I also think those remarks (accusing people of being shills) are a problem; I didn't think I…

> In the last few months this class of posts have all migrated from "You're a Russian spy" and "how much did Putin pay you to post that" to "You're a Chinese shill". You are confus…

In my experience, if someone mentions propaganda then one can expect something like the parent comment with the exact same arguments to appear. > This seems as if its pointed at me…

I did this search at Startpage.com: brazil attitudes toward china poll

The amount of propaganda is damaging my experience here. Not unlike Facebook and other platforms, HN seems to resist discussing how its platform is being abused and how it damages …

> Here in Brazil people are starting to open up for the Chinese loans. I read the opposite. What is that based on? EDIT: In response to the reply below, a search shows plenty of re…

Can you back up this claim? My understanding is that, speaking very generally about a large continent, most African countries did not implement the economic fundamentals preached b…

I think simplifying the issue distracts us from the real issues, which are complex. The U.S. uses its military for good purposes and for bad. Sometimes war is due to other country'…

> No US military leader wants to fight a war; that notion is absurd. I think your general point is good, but there are people, including people in government, who see war as a low-…

Hasn't Austin always been the liberal bastion of Texas, an island in a red sea? It seems odd to blame newcomers.

> Given that that could be used to describe quite a lot of pulp sci-fi from that era Now that is useful context that I didn't know. Could you provide other examples? > Writers, the…

> that’s not the Stranger I remember IIRC, it happened in the martian's commune. > you’d have a different conclusion if you read Job to the end Thanks for the tip. Someone else pos…

It happened in the Martian's commune (sorry, it's been awhile and I'm having a hard time remembering names).

Nor do any other relationships of any kind ...

Note the developer, grugq.

In the two Heinlein books I remember, Stranger in a Strange Land and Job , the protagonist is a middle-aged man who has beautiful young women throw themselves at him. The women hav…

Could some of the situation be due to differences between German and American conceptions and assumptions about journalism? I mean on a nuanced level; obviously German journalists …

The original article, with the same title, researched and written by two residents of the town, is here: https://medium.com/@micheleanderson/der-spiegel-journalist-m... I think tha…

Mods: Would you fix the link? Currently it is the following (410 characters; you'll have to find a way to read it): https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-Kernel-Intern... …

In case people want to read the original story and discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18712382