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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.

It's not generally recommended but you can do a custom getproperty() for Tuple.

  julia> function Base.getproperty(x::Tuple, f::Symbol)
       if f == :a
         return x[1]
       elseif f == :b
         return x[2]
       else
         return x[3]
       end
       end

  julia> (3,4,5).a
  3

Just an American thing? People online seem to say this all the time but I can’t imagine any country that talk more about sex and ex positivity than America.

It's the result of having a good public relations firm.

Exercise increases testosterone levels, for one. So I would think, yes, if only because being pressured into acting more manly makes men do more exercise and sports to look more manly.

Multiple branches of US military are pouring tons of money into AI/ML, so they definitely want to get in to AI.

No he didn’t. He just made that one post with the questions and you randomly accused him of sealioning. Just asking questions is not sealioning. I know where the term originated.

From Wikipedia

Sealioning (also spelled sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with persistent requests for evidence or repeated questions, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity. It may take the form of "incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate".

One post is not it.

It’s because lichess is pretty significantly better than chess.com while being free. Creates that extra motivation to make that post.

Westerners have been saying the era of Chinese economic rise is over for more than 20 years now. For pretty much all of the same reasons. One would think the lesson would be learned after 20 years.

He is just lying low. He is not missing.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/alibaba-founder-jack...

Lying low. Not missing.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/alibaba-founder-jack...

Great job with the baseless speculations during the last few days, everyone.

That's not what sealioning is.

Ha, what timing. Now we can make laws about domestic terrorism and give the government the same powers.

Yep, it really feels like people are actively and willingly giving away control and free speech rights to the government and a bunch of corporations. Once the power is in their hands, it will be very difficult if not impossible to get it back.

Three year old article [1]. It was used in leftist circles a lot for a long time and especially in the last four years.

[1] https://www.theroot.com/white-supremacists-killed-more-peopl...

Google trends: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...

Of course it's bad. It's just that no one cares because most people downvote comments they disagree with.

ARR for SaaS companies do matter. It usually means you can sell the company for a decent multiplier of the ARR.

And they’re definitely getting more than $1M ARR, not just creators ARR.