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by refenestrator 5y ago
This has been eating me up all day in case you happen to check in again. I didn't start posting to whine about being banned a few months ago, I was more concerned about the immediate thread.. but since you brought up my posts, you sp
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by refenestrator 5y ago
That's not good enough. HN will continue to trend towards having 2-5 content-free "china bad amirite" threads a week with an echo chamber of people who don't know any history of the region saying completely nonsensical t
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by refenestrator 5y ago
Ok, fine. Food for thought: You'd probably like to ban the topic entirely, but it'd be weird to have one banned topic and you've said that doesn't work, so that's out. So what's left, being even-handed, I gues
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by refenestrator 5y ago
Look at this immediate thread above your comment, majority vote did decide the truth about how Chinese people think (they're brainwashed!). Then you scolded someone who got salty about it.
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by refenestrator 5y ago
It's not just a civility burden, it's a factual burden. If somebody came onto HN posting obviously dumb stuff about how American people feel and think, they'd be downvoted, because everyone can see the obvious falsehood. But
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by refenestrator 5y ago
Just so long as we're clear that my "ideological battle" was scattershot takes across a bunch of different topics. I'd hate to be thought of as having a coherent ideology :)
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by refenestrator 5y ago
That's just not an accurate summary of my posting history. I post on a wide range of topics. The last 2 weeks I posted about bitcoin, education policy, tax policy, the British royal family, software architecture and that upvoted comm
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by refenestrator 5y ago
Was I not respectful? The shape of global politics is interesting to me. Your call.
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by refenestrator 5y ago
Invade where? Tajikistan? The thing about belt and road is.. we could do that, too. Instead we blow a fortune in the middle east and get salty at them for being smarter. As far as china's ambitions go, anything can change but they h
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by refenestrator 5y ago
Cite? Do you have a quote from "China" on this? I think Xi is quite clear on his view of China's place in the world: hegemon in their region but no desire to be global police like America.
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by refenestrator 5y ago
You don't need to be accredited to buy bitcoin. You might need to be accredited to invest in a bank that operates on bitcoin, or have all your money parked on an exchange that operates in bitcoin, unless they're willing to do the
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by refenestrator 5y ago
If they don't want to restrict themselves to accredited investors, they could alternatively adhere to SEC guidelines for selling financial instruments to the public. Clear auditing, GAAP, prospectus including a frank discussion of ris
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by refenestrator 5y ago
"Many" people is a weasel word, a couple dozen could qualify. It's only an issue for the media-addicted and those who fill airtime for a living.
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by refenestrator 5y ago
How many people are mad at Joe Rogan on this issue at this moment? None, they're all on Chappelle right now, it'll be someone else soon. One other note, on CK, I wonder the overlap between people who want him punished forever and
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by refenestrator 5y ago
They will absolutely forget all about this in a few weeks.
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by refenestrator 5y ago
It's the same conundrum as some open source projects who put up a BLM banner at the height of the protests last year. How do you ever remove it now? Not that the issues have been fixed but there's more than one issue in the worl
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by refenestrator 5y ago
Plenty of overengineered projects became fragile messes as well, it's hard. You need to actively break some subset of "best practices" on any given project.
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by refenestrator 5y ago
Here's the rub, all the things you're asking for cost way more energy and produce way more carbon than being third-world poor.
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by refenestrator 5y ago
I don't think I've seen a US/UK MSM article comparing China to us favorably in at least 5 years. Ive seen dozens or hundreds beating the drum against them.. It's a major coincidence for such a free press, right?
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by refenestrator 5y ago
Band together to protect the billionaires? Could you pick a less sympathetic reason?
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by refenestrator 5y ago
Consider it an anti-godwin measure and it's still a win, whoever is saying it.
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by refenestrator 5y ago
They should be a lot less aggressive and assertive about it, but, given the stakes nd the history I think the polite fiction is perfectly fine compared to lots of alternatives.
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by refenestrator 5y ago
All taxation is double taxation. I pay income taxes, and then when I spend my money someone else pays income taxes on their profit. Similarly, the rich person paid taxes and then their rich kids pay taxes on their inheritance.
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by refenestrator 5y ago
Cite for that 97% figure? I was under the impression there's a large exemption for inheritances under a few million and then it's still a number lower than income tax on the rest. Philosophically, you don't own anything after
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by refenestrator 5y ago
I think it's all technically government property already?
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by refenestrator 5y ago
The benefits are unrealized fanatasies about freedom from government that will never, ever happen. The government, tax, justice systems and regulatory bodies are made out of people, you can't fool them with some "haha it's no
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by refenestrator 5y ago
It's a fact at the macro level. Individual speculators may profit but there's no benefit to the species. They don't even work as currencies because the transaction costs are so high.
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by refenestrator 5y ago
How many people are you shooting?
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by refenestrator 5y ago
In the neighborhood of 1 percent of all energy consumption, for literally nothing, is a colossal waste. Try to think of it in tons of coal. You proud of that?
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by refenestrator 5y ago
I don't really use Twitter, but this is the first time I've heard of the whole thing since a year ago. If he's on there every day fighting with people, then yeah, he's an addict too. If he's just checking in after

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