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Please don't take HN threads on generic nationalistic flamewar tangents. I'm sure you didn't intend it, but that's what this leads to, in the statistical case.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: we've had to ask you not to do this on HN more than once before. Please avoid it in the future.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34492512 (Jan 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34073107 (Dec 2022)

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Sorry Dang. I hadn't realized it was coming off that way, but I'll be my best to check myself in the future.

I can see how what I said would be construed that way.

Appreciated!

He was drawing a pretty reasonable comparison between economic incentives in the respective countries and how it has downstream affects for regulatory response. Don't make it something it isn't.

You make a good point, enough for me to realize that I misunderstood the comment. Still, the last sentence of the GP comment veered into nationalistic putdown.

Flamebait in a comment has to do with the most inflammatory thing it contains, not the most interesting thing. When a house is on fire, people don't admire the décor.

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