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It’s because HN is filled with anally retentive people who have no lives aside from monitoring posts on HN and downvoting based on whatever moronic criteria they thought up during …

Topical example is Parler getting shut down by AWS for whatever reason Amazon gave.

I’m just trying to explain the dynamics of typical HN comments regarding Chinese citizens, where the usually American commenter writes under the assumption that the Chinese citizen…

Most Americans are under the impression that Chinese citizens secretly hate their government but can’t speak up due to the authoritarian tendencies of the ruling CCP. Of course, an…

This is what is generally called a straw man logical fallacy. The issue is that something as simple as copying and pasting code (say from one file to another, both of which the pro…

It's actually marked as "labor" or "for salaries". These terms should include benefits and overhead.

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You let the real economy be post-growth and you do a money printer go brrr. There, now the economy is financialized and stonks only go up.

Everybody has a different price they are willing to work for based on their circumstances but that doesn't mean you let them do that. Allowing people to work for low wages drives d…

The ones being subsidized are the kids' employers, not the kids.

It's not just computer engineering. I'm in natural language processing and was in academia and I see a lot of mistakes and misunderstandings in the comments in those topics. Probab…

The leader of an organization that has a large impact on society, and potentially will have a very large impact on society and the world, being secretive is concerning and suspicio…

That's in terms of nationwide total vote count. That's not how the electoral college works though. Biden won by a few thousand votes in a few key swing states. Therefore, it is mor…

Isn’t Signal run by some guy named Moxie Marlinspike who likes to be very secretive to supposedly protect his privacy? Signal is much more suspicious, IMO.

I still can't believe 4chan actually managed to make the OK hand sign into a white power hand sign. Pretty impressive.

It's not generally recommended but you can do a custom getproperty() for Tuple. julia> function Base.getproperty(x::Tuple, f::Symbol) if f == :a return x[1] elseif f == :b return x…

Just an American thing? People online seem to say this all the time but I can’t imagine any country that talk more about sex and ex positivity than America.

It's the result of having a good public relations firm.

Exercise increases testosterone levels, for one. So I would think, yes, if only because being pressured into acting more manly makes men do more exercise and sports to look more ma…

It recedes to normal after the 7th day, so masturbate every 7 or 8 days for best effect..

Multiple branches of US military are pouring tons of money into AI/ML, so they definitely want to get in to AI.

No he didn’t. He just made that one post with the questions and you randomly accused him of sealioning. Just asking questions is not sealioning. I know where the term originated.

From Wikipedia > Sealioning (also spelled sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with persistent requests for evidence or…

It’s because lichess is pretty significantly better than chess.com while being free. Creates that extra motivation to make that post.

Westerners have been saying the era of Chinese economic rise is over for more than 20 years now. For pretty much all of the same reasons. One would think the lesson would be learne…