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Please don't take the thread further into nationalistic flamewar. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
My comment is on andrepd's meta topic of: “I don't like that HNers tend to focus on negative or critical things about China, Russia, or Africa when these topics arise.”. My comment is "new" in that, in this thread, what I've said was not yet said in response to this specific complaint. My comment is related to the thread, and not generic (it mentions the characters introduced by the parent thread [China, Africa, crit…
I'm sorry I wasn't able to respond to this in depth. I hear the questions. There just isn't always time to give an in-depth response everywhere. You're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com, as long as you don't mind unpredictable response latencies.