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Comment by penskymaterial | Hacker News Reader

  s/American/British/
  s/European/Polish/

  s/American/Canadian/
  s/European/Indian/

There has to be a common thread here (ignore Canada's lack of boardwalks).

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What does this mean? Use more words please.

They are (quite obviously) saying that this could be changed to British people commenting on how all of the service jobs are Poles, or Canadians commenting how they are all Indian.

Seems like a pre-Brexit example for Britain.

… as a way to express what, though?

That American complaints of this form are not unique and therefore should be disregarded? That American complaints of this form are universal and therefore indicative of a global pattern that should be concerning?

The s/something/other/ patterns are regular expression replaces.

He's saying you can replace 'something' for 'other' in each of those patterns.

I feel like AI has ruined hn

HN and regular expressions are best friends.

I agree! People can't recognize regex-replace statements anymore! a forum commenting tradition that goes back decades.

\bai\b

How does AI relate to my question?

Other countries import cheap labor too.

whats your point?

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