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The US has four times as many prisoners per capita as China, the "police state." edit: some interesting trivia. Due to the combination of America's incarceration rate, a racist justice …

These are just weird fantasies that you're writing out, with absolutely no reference to any events that have happened in China. You seem to just be writing fiction, and assigning it to the Chines…

Why when Americans do something do we feel like we have to mention the Russians and the Chinese? Maybe I'm just bad at PR, though. If we call this "Chinese" behavior, maybe it will appe…

Were you trying to reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48797302 ? Because as it is it seems like you're being snarky with Wikipedia.…

> The US doesn't need to pass such laws because there are no protections. The US desperately needs fundamental definitions and protections in regard to privacy, but the fact that it is extreme…

I regret to inform you that a temporary exception to a law is also a law. edit: > It seems some vertices imposed that they would not accept a legal vacuum there. I find this sentence unintelligible…

https://www.salahadawi.com/hacker-news-ai-detector/the-great... > We believe that this document is a mix of AI-generated, and human-written content: 78% AI likelihood…

> If you look at "top 100" blogs in year n, I imagine that many of them will be dead in year n + 5 simply because people move on. This is a far more dubious hypothetical. I imagine that t…

Traffic violations and non-emergencies that you would call the police over are problems. That's why we involve the police. Video games are irrelevant.

> Isn't Wikipedia a compendium of facts? Odin's existence is one of those facts. Odin is pretty notable imo, but what I had for lunch yesterday is a fact and it does not belong in Wikiped…

As dramatic as having a runny nose and sneezing all day, having to overuse your asthma inhaler. Is that really dramatic, or just the reality that needs to be considered in a cost-benefit analysis? Are…

1) No it does not have to be said. Nobody is forcing anyone to explain anything. 2) I think that the best satire is fair, and should read to the targets as real commentary. When someone takes your sat…

> The Sacklers got prosecuted because the opioid epidemic was huge No, the Sacklers didn't get prosecuted or even hindered, but aided at every turn, therefore the opioid epidemic got huge.…

To have two primary purposes is difficult in English.

> the author for sure doesn't understand the primary purpose of code review. What's the worth of this comment if you've decided to keep this purpose a secret? The second sentence is …

> in real code reviews bugs and errors are identified by reviewers all the time. I think that this would be better directed at the person who posted "no one ever finds bugs during code review&…

> Review means basically to think/talk about something again The rest is not part of the definition; critics don't review movies in order to change them. But just accepting that at face v…

> To even believe that it only serves a single purpose There are a lot of people who incepted the word "single" into this post in order to have something worthless to argue about. Even wi…

Slaves generally get room and board, and always have the opportunity to quit (although the other option is often death, so slavery is preferable.) I'm not trying to be facetious, I'm trying …

The top 10% incomes have tons of assets, especially homes. Saying that billionaires "disproportionately" have more assets than non-billionaires is a tautology that says nothing. You might as…

> the local subs are the ones that are the most over moderated The local subs are by nature ghost towns, and the first people to get them rolling will often establish some weird culture that will n…

Why in the world would you say this to a stranger about the account of a completely mundane event? I've seen people banned from subreddits for e.g. mentioning the wrong brand names, and even wors…

Knoppix was basically the dawn of mass-market Linux, and I think it goes unsung. Installing Linux on a fresh computer, or even worse setting up dual boot, was way too much of a commitment to try it ou…

They'll just do that trick where they ignore you while the government starts investigating your tax history and some private contractor starts investigating and reframing your romantic history. D…

> by virtue of not having any profiles and social media sites can tag you and form a shadow profile around you. This can be done to you whether you have a profile or not. Having an actual profile l…

Do you hear yourself? You're a guy telling people that if they don't want to be put on a list for reading a book, they should read other books. > erotic novel bought in cash from a second…

> Personally I find everything you listed here safer than letting a kid have unfiltered unlimited access to TikTok. This sounds like you have a media addiction. This is the kind of extreme hyperbol…

Rich parents can not prevent their children from accessing pornography and social media on the internet, and will also not be able to do so after this legislation. Pornography is often delivered by pe…

> I'm telling you why ordinary people support this, and I can tell you they overwhelmingly do This is a claim without backing, and if there were backing to be had, it would constantly be throw…