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How do Twitter know the difference between a russian that doesn't like NATO and a state founded undercover PR consultant? Banning accounts on the combo of nationality and polical beliefs is shady.
I would imagine it’s more nuanced than that. Twitter’s blog post about it is here: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2021/disclosin...
Undermining faith in the NATO alliance? Banned! Dismembered a journalist? Welcome! Would you like a tour?
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Edit: it looks like you've been doing a lot of this on HN, unfortunately. We ban that sort of account. If you wouldn't mind reviewing the guidelines and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
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I like your style. I may be skeptical about how practical this approach is, but I sure do like the style.
It might work for software startups, but for almost any kind of hardware or biotech startup, you're going to need funding.
Another key is to fund nonprofit foundations that act as custodians of science & engineering tech released under open source licenses.
Software startups are possible because manufacturing costs have been minimized to near zero & key tech is effectively public domain. Hardware is about 20 years behind the curve, but open hardware licenses are appearing & patents expire quicker than copyrights.
Undermining faith in the NATO alliance? Banned! Dismembered a journalist? Welcome! Would you like a tour?
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. Low-information, high-inflammation comments like this lead to reliably crappier threads. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: it looks like you've been doing a lot of this on HN, unfortunately. We ban that sort of account. If you wouldn't mind reviewing the guidelines and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
The rest of the HN money talk is noise in comparison. Go ahead and ban me house slave.
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It might work for software startups, but for almost any kind of hardware or biotech startup, you're going to need funding.
A key to changing this is to invest in public research universities that release research papers publicly & emphasize reducing the cost of manufacturing & distribution. Another key is to fund nonprofit foundations that act as custodians of science & engineering tech released under open source licenses. Software startups are possible because manufacturing costs have been minimized to near zero & key tech is effectivel…
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> Every dollar returned to the House of Saud allows a regime that would've been considered repressive two centuries ago to continue repressing women, homosexuals, foreign workers, non-Muslims, etc. Saying this make no justice to the fact that it's Saudi Sunni Arab Muslims, practicing, or not who suffer the most under the regime. While Shia are the ones who suffer repressions by Saudi analogue of Stasi nearly all the…
> Saying this make no justice to the fact that it's Saudi Sunni Arab Muslims, practicing, or not who suffer the most under the regime. Considering KSA’s funding of terrorists, I would say Iraqis, Syrians, Afghanis and especially Yemenis suffer an order of magnitude more than Saudi citizens. The millions of Philipino, Malaysian, Indian and Pakistani slaves in Saudi Arabia aren’t exactly thriving either.
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> isn't really conducive to a nice intellectual discussion on the merits of taking Saudi investment though. "nice intellectual discussion" my ass ... LOL fuck the Saudis and their money
who downvotes my comment thinks it is okay to suppress women, criminalize homosexuality, cause famines in Yemen, finance global terrorism or fillet journalists. I take those downvotes with pride :)
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> It is, but I'm not sure it's for the reasons you are implying. I'm curious now. Why is it poor form? > Perhaps you don't, but phrasing it that way is a seriously tonedeaf way to signal it. So you're saying they should have phrased the question differently - perhaps they did in fact do that. But I think asking is perfectly legitimate. Now I'm not implying you said this, but I feel like I should point something out a…
It's an bad question to ask outside the context of a relationship. It's like asking a very personal question of someone before even meeting them for a first date. 'Who the LP's are' is basically none of your business unless you are entering into some kind of relationship, even then - it may be out of bounds. Of course you have the right to not take money even in that case, but that's a different thing then knowing wh…