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Topical example is Parler getting shut down by AWS for whatever reason Amazon gave.

I’m just trying to explain the dynamics of typical HN comments regarding Chinese citizens, where the usually American commenter writes under the assumption that the Chinese citizen is held under this brutal dictatorship and must use any and all opportunity to speak up and/or oppose this brutal dictatorship. It’s a relatively recent phenomenon in American politics and it’s interesting to think about.

Most Americans are under the impression that Chinese citizens secretly hate their government but can’t speak up due to the authoritarian tendencies of the ruling CCP. Of course, any news that contradict this feeling can be ascribed to CCP propaganda. And of course, when asked to examine the source of this feeling, it can never be American propaganda but cold hard facts.

This is what is generally called a straw man logical fallacy. The issue is that something as simple as copying and pasting code (say from one file to another, both of which the programmer has written) is made excessively complex due to whitespace being significant. Call it code smell or developer smell or keyboard smell or whatever you want but this issue simply does not exist for programming languages that do not have whitespace significance.

It's actually marked as "labor" or "for salaries". These terms should include benefits and overhead.

You let the real economy be post-growth and you do a money printer go brrr. There, now the economy is financialized and stonks only go up.

Everybody has a different price they are willing to work for based on their circumstances but that doesn't mean you let them do that. Allowing people to work for low wages drives down wages for others, which is undesirable for lots of reasons including income inequality and not wanting people with families to become poor. Sweeping nationwide minimum wage laws is certainly one solution for that.

The ones being subsidized are the kids' employers, not the kids.

It's not just computer engineering. I'm in natural language processing and was in academia and I see a lot of mistakes and misunderstandings in the comments in those topics. Probably the only thing reliable in HN comments is website design.

The leader of an organization that has a large impact on society, and potentially will have a very large impact on society and the world, being secretive is concerning and suspicious, yes.

Edit: Why? Because the public should know the people who have significant amount of influence in society.

That's in terms of nationwide total vote count. That's not how the electoral college works though. Biden won by a few thousand votes in a few key swing states. Therefore, it is more accurate to say that Biden won by a few thousand votes.

Isn’t Signal run by some guy named Moxie Marlinspike who likes to be very secretive to supposedly protect his privacy? Signal is much more suspicious, IMO.

I still can't believe 4chan actually managed to make the OK hand sign into a white power hand sign. Pretty impressive.