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You've shown your words to be meaningless. You said the U.S. car brands were "completely irrelevant" outside the U.S., here you admit that's wrong. You move the goalpost and change…

The Western carmakers have been responding rationally to market signals in moving away from EVs, meanwhile Chinese carmakers are responding rationally to government mandates and su…

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That’s interesting about Austria, thanks for that! I may have underestimated them. (I did check their growth rate and for whatever reason not as strong as S Korea…)

Post made some good points but in the end it's pretty nihilistic to say that elite spaces shouldn't exist merely because they tend to cultivate elites and other elite spaces. Also …

The best insight in the article is actually this: > cheaper real estate presents an opportunity for employers with vision On top of any deterioration in office rents, companies nee…

No comparison between the excellent economic growth of South Korea and that of Greece, Hungary, Austria, or Italy going back to either cold war or post cold war days, despite this …

…he says, as his company eagerly does business with Xi in China. No organization I am part of will ever do business with you if I can stop it. You fought for Turing but I suppose t…

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For a moderator you sure love to put down people and call them names. I think it’s really vicious and inappropriate.

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You’ve correctly observed that success can bring unpleasant side effects. I think it’s too late to save Linux from this. It is used by all manner of parasites. The tracking bugs th…

It’s worse than birth control. There are concentration camps in xinjiang. Called “re-education” or “vocational training.” There are many places to begin educating yourself on this …

You are wrong dang. Why is this 100% simple factual post citing an internationally very prominent Chinese government official with an nytimes link -2? https://news.ycombinator.com/…

This has already happened. Chen Quanguo was party secretary in Tibet during a major crackdown there and in 2016 transferred to be party secretary of Xinjiang where he led a very si…

Totally incorrect. The most cursory research (e.g. a Google for “US government”, a search on the nytimes, lookup in the AP style guide) will refute this. Anyway, regardless of your…

In open source the trend unfortunately seems to be toward a Readme.md with a couple of simplistic examples, then you’re left to read the source in lieu of a proper API reference. I…

Legal documents do this as well (albeit in different language, typically at the top of the document).

My experience with Apple store is also similar to the experience described (actively making false statements, in my case about a laptop logic board).

OP was correctly refuting the prior post which claimed "US govt" (that means federal) is "mostly in the business of insurance (welfare, healthcare) and 'education'. Defense and inf…