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Tips to grow your North Korean Startup

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Re: Tips to grow your North Korean Startup

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Post by dang »

germandiago wrote: post #267
the_af wrote: post #199

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If the only capitalist in Argentina you know is Milei (far right, self-proclaimed "libertarian", worked under a known criminal of our military dictatorship) then you're out of touch. Really, consider how you're shifting the goalposts: you only consider far right libertarians as capitalists. The rest of the world disagrees with you. Anyway, I live in Argentina and you don't. You are wrong. > That is not capitalism. Ca…

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Flamewar comments like this will get you banned here. If you'd please review the rules and stick to them, we'd apprecaite it.

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Post by betsydupuis »

dang wrote: post #311
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Flamewar comments like this will get you banned here. If you'd please review the rules and stick to them, we'd apprecaite it. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The entire have become a tirade that calls into question whether I was assaulted or not. The entire thread has hijacked with someone accusing me of still wanted to be with someone that tried to get me to kill myself and sexually assaulted me.

The person waiting and flooded the comments days after to rank their posts higher, increases the likelihood that this is the tirade of someone accused of domestic violence by two sources.

The thread's topic is completely changed by the flood of comments and I insist that it be removed entirely if you are not going to remove enough comments to reduce the thread hijack.

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Post by lobocinza »

perl4ever wrote: post #208
scythe wrote: post #197

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The user you replied to posted such a source just a few comments down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29831757

That appears to be about China. What am I missing? Also, assuming we have perfect faith in Chinese government statistics and Cuban government statistics... Nevertheless, the wild variations in Covid experiences between countries and controversy over why it happened, make me think it is a useless yardstick.

> What am I missing?

I think nothing. Cuban is an authoritarian government that uses it's healthcare for propaganda. It has all the incentives to lie and AFAIK none of these claims are verified by independent parties parties. Regardless of political system it's a poor embargoed island and it's easier to believe that they are gaming the metrics than really providing better health outcomes.

Re: Tips to grow your North Korean Startup

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Post by mrtksn »

dang wrote: post #308
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Flamewar like this is not ok on this site. Please stop and don't do it again. We ban accounts that keep flaming like this. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Sorry, I got carried away when I was blamed for being a dictator supporter when I was talking about a vacation I had a few years back. I wasn't expecting to be attacked.

Re: Tips to grow your North Korean Startup

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the_af wrote: post #302
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No I don't think so. Cars made by the Soviets sucked too. Even cars made by East Germany sucked. They made amazing spacecraft and terrible cars.

Lada cars were actually pretty good, if rugged and lacking comfort. The propaganda against them was mostly that, propaganda. They were good for budget cars [1]. Now, you can argue they were a joint-venture with Fiat and not an entirely original idea (though the Soviets made improvements in ruggedness and ease of self-service), but whatever: cars made by the Soviets didn't suck. -- [1] from Wikipedia: > The rugged Lad…

I'm born in Bulgaria, We had plenty of Soviet are cars around up until early 2000's, so I'm very familiar with Lasa, Moskvitch, Tranbant and so on.

They are terrible cars. Some of their aspects, like being very basic is considered a plus by some people and that's about the only positive thing that can be said about these cars. The affordability for the Westerners came from the income difference, these cars were not affordable for for the locals as they had to save money for years to buy one.

Very bad, very unreliable, very inefficient, very uncomfortable cars can be popular only when they are extremely cheep or the only option.

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Post by aspenmayer »

aspenmayer wrote: post #19
gitgrump wrote: post #12

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Erm, no? That's unnecessarily reductionist. "Can compel you to pay taxes" is not the same as "authoritarian". Go ahead, criticize the President online in the United States. Notice how you weren't jailed or executed? Now try something similar in an authoritarian nation.

Laws are enforced through use of force or literally denying freedom of movement, or by threatening to do the above to subjects who do not obey. It’s a spectrum. How violent are the reprisals, how lethal, how indiscriminate. How egregious are the prison terms, how outsized are the fines and fees. But all governments are inherently authoritarian, unless they allow subjects to instead choose punishment by exile instead…

It just occurred to me that the closest we have in USA to self-exile is joining a Native American tribe via marriage, or otherwise being adopted onto a reservation and settling on res.

I’ve done humanitarian work and outreach with various Native American/Indian tribes in western states. My great-uncles both married Native women. No disrespect is intended in any of my above statements. I don’t take these issues lightly, but for the purposes of debate, I included this post to illuminate how hard it is to be freer in a free society that has its warts and issues.

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