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Taiwan.

I think it’s legitimate for Welsh speakers to advocate for the Welsh language, just as I think it’s legitimate for English speakers to advocate for the English language. As a nativ…

Great! Maybe now I can get un-shadowbanned on HN?

You left out the big one: genetics.

Plus you spend post-tax money but you gotta earn pre-tax money. A penny saved is nearly two pennies earned, depending on your tax bracket.

So the sole problem in the world is your political outgroup? Boy, that must be convenient.

The “sinking” angle might be the clickbaity angle for the western media, but mostly it seems that Indonesian government types just don’t like living in Jakarta, which is a city wit…

> we might need to take drastic measures to avoid the default outcome If you think there’s a “we” that could make such decisions then you’ve either missed, or are not addressing, t…

How would one know if the Chinese government was supported by the population or not, given that anyone expressing a contrary opinion is likely to be killed?

It’s a completely made up statistic, as far as I can tell, and it’s repeated constantly. It probably does a lot of harm, too, by discouraging people from having a go, people who mi…

We all have our own “life taxes” to pay. Here’s one: since men are larger and headboard than women, we need more food just to stay alive! A few hundred extra calories a day over a …

Better than letting human society collapse though. If that’s what you really believe will happen.

I don’t know if Finland as an example really proves or disproves anything. Finland is a small, homogeneous, and pretty unusual sort of country, and the fact that they happen to do …

Segregating students by ability is one of the easy, cheap, sensible ways to improve outcomes that almost certainly works. Taking slower students out and teaching them at their own …

No, for conspiracy to break into DoD computers. This actually seems like great news for journalists. The fact that this is the only charge implies that prosecutors have decided tha…

Are people obliged to abide by an obviously racially discriminatory contract under EU law?

I would imagine it will be fixed eventually, when the whole “telephone” system goes away and is replaced by some other voice-calling platform or combination thereof.

Does “diverse” actually mean “diverse” or just “no straight white men”?

This has always struck me as a weird sort of edge case, because the hypothetical situation is pretty disconnected from all the other situations where people might seek restrictions…

Genuine question: has the end of net neutrality had any bad effects so far? I remember a lot of doom being prophesied regarding the end of net neutrality, and then I remember it en…

I’ve managed to cut down my news diet to financial papers (the Australian Financial Review in my case). All the important news filters through eventually, and most of the filler co…

The amount of attention I personally pay to the news does not appear to have a nonzero effect on the quality of politicians we get.

We don’t push back on the process, we push back on the principle. The point of the principle of free speech is not that all speech is beneficial but that we can’t possibly trust an…

> The VOC’s stocks pushed the company’s worth to a massive 78 million Dutch guilders, which is a pretty solid business even today, but translates to a whopping $7,9 trillion dollar…

Invading Iraq was easy, the problems all arose at the “okay, now what?” level.