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This has been eating me up all day in case you happen to check in again. I didn't start posting to whine about being banned a few months ago, I was more concerned about the immedia…

That's not good enough. HN will continue to trend towards having 2-5 content-free "china bad amirite" threads a week with an echo chamber of people who don't know any history of th…

Ok, fine. Food for thought: You'd probably like to ban the topic entirely, but it'd be weird to have one banned topic and you've said that doesn't work, so that's out. So what's le…

Look at this immediate thread above your comment, majority vote did decide the truth about how Chinese people think (they're brainwashed!). Then you scolded someone who got salty a…

It's not just a civility burden, it's a factual burden. If somebody came onto HN posting obviously dumb stuff about how American people feel and think, they'd be downvoted, because…

Just so long as we're clear that my "ideological battle" was scattershot takes across a bunch of different topics. I'd hate to be thought of as having a coherent ideology :)

That's just not an accurate summary of my posting history. I post on a wide range of topics. The last 2 weeks I posted about bitcoin, education policy, tax policy, the British roya…

Was I not respectful? The shape of global politics is interesting to me. Your call.

Invade where? Tajikistan? The thing about belt and road is.. we could do that, too. Instead we blow a fortune in the middle east and get salty at them for being smarter. As far as …

Cite? Do you have a quote from "China" on this? I think Xi is quite clear on his view of China's place in the world: hegemon in their region but no desire to be global police like …

You don't need to be accredited to buy bitcoin. You might need to be accredited to invest in a bank that operates on bitcoin, or have all your money parked on an exchange that oper…

If they don't want to restrict themselves to accredited investors, they could alternatively adhere to SEC guidelines for selling financial instruments to the public. Clear auditing…

"Many" people is a weasel word, a couple dozen could qualify. It's only an issue for the media-addicted and those who fill airtime for a living.

How many people are mad at Joe Rogan on this issue at this moment? None, they're all on Chappelle right now, it'll be someone else soon. One other note, on CK, I wonder the overlap…

They will absolutely forget all about this in a few weeks.

It's the same conundrum as some open source projects who put up a BLM banner at the height of the protests last year. How do you ever remove it now? Not that the issues have been f…

Plenty of overengineered projects became fragile messes as well, it's hard. You need to actively break some subset of "best practices" on any given project.

Here's the rub, all the things you're asking for cost way more energy and produce way more carbon than being third-world poor.

I don't think I've seen a US/UK MSM article comparing China to us favorably in at least 5 years. Ive seen dozens or hundreds beating the drum against them.. It's a major coincidenc…

Band together to protect the billionaires? Could you pick a less sympathetic reason?

Consider it an anti-godwin measure and it's still a win, whoever is saying it.

They should be a lot less aggressive and assertive about it, but, given the stakes nd the history I think the polite fiction is perfectly fine compared to lots of alternatives.

All taxation is double taxation. I pay income taxes, and then when I spend my money someone else pays income taxes on their profit. Similarly, the rich person paid taxes and then t…