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Nothing sneaky is involved. Like you and most people, I believe I am fair minded. There's no pretending involved, either. It is very surprising users would have even seen a comment…

Seeing good-faith comments which break no rules I'm aware of being flagged is truly disappointing. It's your forum and if you choose rule by law rather than rule of law, I am power…

The comment was specifically directed at you and it was an appeal to conscience. > "In fact you have a long history of making things up about HN moderation, posting them, and conti…

Smokers cost the health care system less because they die younger: https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/2/6/e001678

We need that guy.

"A couple of years out of date" would be the more generous way to say "false". Australia very recently grew past Taiwan's population.

The story you linked above, with over 170 upvotes and less than a day old appears nowhere on the first 5 pages of HN. It's hard to imagine HN suppressing any similar story from a s…

"Ideas I disagree with are wrong and should be silenced!" is about as timeless and universal a position as any in human history. It's not a good one, though.

> I think this is all premised on the belief that American corporations somehow have the moral obligation (and right) to change the way things in a different country work. > China …

It's amazing we have Bill Joy to thank for not only C shell and much of BSD, but also VI.

Thanks for the resource link. Does the data set include domestic-only Chinese investors?

What is this "reunification" you speak of? Taiwan has never been part of the PRC. Before its current state, it was part of Japan. You could go back to the peak of the Qing Dynasty,…

> Boston is the world-center of biotech startups and VC Beijing is likely far ahead. Beijing's total VC investment is much higher, it accounts for over 1/3 of Chinese domestic VC a…

That's surprising that publicly broadcasted calls to assassinate the president didn't result in arrest.

> You cherry picked and forgot the first line which puts the rest in context. How uncharitable of you to write that. I didn't "forget" it. It wasn't relevant to my point. The first…

Is prosecution underway? Much of what you mention is surely illegal, even in the US.

> The best thing to do is just silence their voices, no ifs, ands or buts. > Remember, these people are against the idea of democracy. Oh, the irony of following the one sentence w…

The larger concern here isn't the laws of the US. It's the power that internet giants have to shape the opinions that flow through the media. That power cannot be underestimated. C…

> EU will likely join in. Doubtful. The EU, and France in particular, has been selling China weapons for over a decade.

If the US didn't honour its commitments and let Taiwan fall, Japan, Korea and all other neighbours would no longer be able to rely on US protection and seek their own weapons of ma…

Highly unlikely. Ever since the US Congress passed a Taiwan Relations Act, military defense of Taiwan is a enshrined in law. Furthermore, Taiwan is a fully democratic nation with a…

> Fang stocks have generated enormous returns relative to the S&P 500 though. And yet trivial compared to what MS, Oracle, AOL, Yahoo and Amazon generated in the 90s (or 80s as wel…

WhatsApp and especially LINE were heavily used in China until they were blocked. After that, local company Tencent's WeChat became dominant.

> What's to stop people start migrating to Signal/Telegram/Viber/Keybase/etc.. once WhatsApp starts displaying ads? Network effects.

And your Android phone will forever nag you to switch back.