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I don’t agree with the assessment, but in terms of a great power being very interested in the interests of a small country, consider Serbia and Russia before WWI.

You’ve been downvoted by others because this is lazy stereotyping.

I think you can't directly acknowledge the guidelines because you know you are willfully violating them. The guidelines are the rules of the road for the community. The moral oblig…

You might be downvoted regardless, as you suggest, but the guidelines are still the social contract of HN. What you call "less than apologetically polite" I would call "not kind" a…

I believe you are being downvoted because your comment violates the guidelines ("Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously... Edit out swipes."); anyway, that's why I downvoted.…

Not contradicting your point, but adding tangential interesting information. Blu-Ray UHD discs can no longer be played on modern computers as Intel has removed the trusted executio…

First, I believe you are right that the CCP believes that "giving Hong Kong the freedom to operate does not work." I believe you are right that the CCP believes that "the same appl…

> So was everything with Taiwan hunky dory when they were a murderous military dictatorship for all those decades[1]? It's good to remember that Taiwan's adoption of multiparty dem…

May I ask what high school? We did not have a linear algebra course in my New York high school. I would have liked to have been able to take linear algebra then.

Oh, another suggestion: show the country and let them name the capital!

I liked it a lot, especially the UI. I disagree with any suggestion that makes the game easier. There are a lot of websites with name-that-country games. For people who are pretty …

I bought San Francisco Dream (Yoko Takahashi) a while back. It had a lot of photos that reminded me of what it felt like when I had just moved here. Possibly not an answer to your …

I didn’t read the comment as trying to denigrate wind turbines. It says 20yr operation with 7-8mo payback which sounds excellent. If anything, I think the understated way the grand…

Just joining in with others who report that I haven't had any problems with LED bulb failures. I've used exclusively LED bulbs for at least 5 years now (maybe about 15 bulbs across…

You're moving the goalposts. He expresses his judgements about the reliability of CCS charging networks in the video. I suppose that you don't have to credit Technology Connections…

At 19:37 https://youtu.be/ZJOfyMCEzjQ?si=cHgDdtSIutz-dWrZ&t=1177 "So now, why are automakers suddenly itching to make this switch? Well, there's a pretty simple answer: the CCS cha…

I didn't watch the video you linked, but I accept your summary of his experience then (1 year ago). The video I link is from 2 weeks ago. A good half of the video is describing man…

My experience is in northern California. Probably no one can speak for the experience across the entire US. FWIW, this guy in Minnesota seems to have had a very similar experience …

He means the United States. In my limited experience, his comment rings as accurate here in the United States.

I would suggest that it's not necessary to speculate too much about why they made a grammatical error. There are many possible reasons. For instance, I suggested that they may simp…

Honest question: did Germany have any say in Tunisia's voting system? Wasn't Tunisia a French protectorate? Do you mean more recently than 1956? In any case, Tunisia is not the onl…

I say this as someone who cares about language, and who has no dog in this Carmack dispute. I think you are overweighting a fairly simple grammatical error. The commenter expresses…

They did ask for a citation. They asked for an analysis of the data. They just also gave their impression. They didn't imply that it was a comprehensive study or scientific. And th…

I second this! In a similar, but different, vein, I also recommend Alan Turing: The Enigma, by Andrew Hodges. Do not be turned off by the useless film adaptation. The book is intel…

If you conduct business (even if only over the internet) in the EU, the EU considers you subject to their laws. Same as with the United States (and probably every other jurisdictio…