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MadeThisToReply··on Open secrets about Hacker News
I don't know about China, but in Vietnam there are 14 family names which account for about 90% of the entire population.

Roughly 40% of all Vietnamese people are called "Nguyen", which makes it one of the most common family names in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_name#Family_name

MadeThisToReply··on Facing sky-high connection fees, rural Ontarians go off the grid
What wars did David Cameron start? You sure you're not thinking of Tony Blair?

Incidentally, Cameron is far from the only UK politician to have studied PPE at Oxford. An alarmingly high number of our leaders are products of that one degree program at one university [0] - which suggests that this program deserves a lot more public scrutiny than it gets, given the shoddy results it seems to produce!

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/feb/23/ppe-oxford...

MadeThisToReply··on Facing sky-high connection fees, rural Ontarians go off the grid
Most countries/languages use a comma as the decimal separator - it's the English-speaking world that's unusual for using a dot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#/media/File:...

MadeThisToReply··on YouTube deletes rapper's 'Let's Go Brandon' song claiming medical misinformation
I know it's too late to save the word "dogwhistling" from losing all meaning, but can you at least try to use it correctly?

"Dogwhistling" doesn't mean "saying something that means something else", it means using coded or indirect language to communicate something to a specific group of people while hoping that the general audience doesn't pick up on your meaning. Everybody knows what "let's go Brandon" is code for, and the people who say it aren't trying to hide what they really mean.

MadeThisToReply··on Mihály Csíkszentmihályi has died
"Cheeks sent me high"
MadeThisToReply··on I couldn't debug the code because of my name
Yep. For example, the name of the third-largest city in Poland is "Łódź", which might look like it's pronounced "lods", but is actually pronounced more like "wootch".
MadeThisToReply··on 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company
> The goal in Western capitalism is to create wealth for stakeholders.

*shareholders.

MadeThisToReply··on New wave of strikes will test worker power
I don't think people are okay with it - they just don't have the power to do anything about it.
MadeThisToReply··on Nobel Prize: We will not have gender or ethnicity quotas – top scientist
> I think that equality of outcome not only will not solve the problems that our societies have, but exacerbate them.

As should be obvious to anyone who has studied the history of communism.

MadeThisToReply··on Tesla’s headquarters will move to Austin
If you think the abortion debate is as simple matter of "men vs women", you obviously haven't looked up the facts, otherwise you would know that men and women in the US oppose abortion in roughly equal numbers.
MadeThisToReply··on Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return
Do you think the Democratic Party will ever admit that they lost in 2016 not because of "misinformation" or "fake news" or Russian interference or any of the other nefarious conspiracy theories they've promulgated, but because they put forward a terrible, unlikable candidate whom no-one was enthusiastic about and who offered nothing but sanctimony and a continuation of the failing status quo? Maybe it's not Facebook's fault?
MadeThisToReply··on Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return
> The goal is to regulate Facebook into oblivion.

No, the goal is to regulate Facebook so that the Democratic party controls what you are and aren't allowed to see on Facebook. It's entirely about power and control and anything else is just lies and distortion.

MadeThisToReply··on Ruby removed “Participants will be tolerant of opposing views” from its CoC
FYI: basilgohar's comment was accurate when it was written, since my comment was downvoted at first, but has since been upvoted again.
MadeThisToReply··on Ruby removed “Participants will be tolerant of opposing views” from its CoC
I think you mean "of literally every country in the entire world".
MadeThisToReply··on Ruby removed “Participants will be tolerant of opposing views” from its CoC
> Literally nobody thinks impact & intent are equivalent

You haven't been paying attention - the (preposterous) idea that "intent doesn't matter, only impact" is a key premise of modern social justice activism and is taught to undergraduates as unquestionable fact.

MadeThisToReply··on Ruby removed “Participants will be tolerant of opposing views” from its CoC
> intent is a big part of judging a wrong

As well as being a bedrock principle of the law, it's also basic common sense. If I accidentally step on your toe, that's obviously different to me deliberately stamping on your toe in an intentional attempt to injure you. If you set out to deliberately injure your colleagues then this is OBVIOUSLY different from doing the same thing accidentally and should be treated differently - and anyone with a working brain can see this.

The idea that "intent doesn't matter" is preposterous. Accepting it as a premise leads to insane and preposterous conclusions that no-one believes. People who say that "intent doesn't matter" don't actually believe it.

MadeThisToReply··on Ruby removed “Participants will be tolerant of opposing views” from its CoC
> to weaken the specificity and balance of the CoC.

This is a feature, not a bug. When the rules are clear and specific, they can be enforced fairly. When they're vague and unclear, then the only consistent principle is that the people who "enforce" the "rules" can do whatever they want and you have no recourse or due process.

MadeThisToReply··on YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content
"‘Skynet Is A Private Company, They Can Do What They Want,’ Says Man Getting Curb-Stomped By Terminator"

https://babylonbee.com/news/skynet-is-a-private-company-they...

MadeThisToReply··on Vaccine passport app exposed hundreds of thousands of users' personal data
How many times in your life have you needed to register for school? How often do you need to apply for a visa? How often do you do these things compared to how frequently you enter a public building like a restaurant or supermarket?

(And which visas are you applying for, by the way? I've crossed borders hundreds of times and have never once been asked for proof of vaccination?)

If you think existing vaccine mandates are remotely comparable to what's being newly rolled out, you're insane.

MadeThisToReply··on Vaccine passport app exposed hundreds of thousands of users' personal data
Not bothering with a movement license (sorry, "vaccine passport") in the first place?
MadeThisToReply··on Book review: The Checklist Manifesto
Having read the book, I fully agree. Atul Gawande is obviously a smart guy, and the book is very readable, but I gained almost nothing from reading it that I couldn't have gained by just reading the LW article linked in the OP. Not recommended.
MadeThisToReply··on The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used
Why the hell would you want a new laptop every year? Doesn't seem very "reasonable and responsible" to me.
MadeThisToReply··on India’s caste system remains entrenched, 75 years after independence
You think that's bad? Wait until you hear about the horrible service I got from my local garage the other day. Took my car in for a routine service and the staff were completely unprofessional and rude. Didn't do the job I asked of them and then had the gall to charge a fortune for it. What a rip-off!

Just thought I'd mention that, since the theme is apparently "random complaints which have nothing whatsoever to do with the linked article".

MadeThisToReply··on Reflections on Using Haskell for My Startup
I don't know about Haskell specifically, but the question isn't "how many developers are able and willing to work with $language?" but "how many developers are able and willing to work with $language relative to the number of companies hiring for it?".

For example, Elm is still a tiny, niche language, but from what I hear it's relatively easy to hire for Elm because there are many more people who want to work with it than there are companies that are hiring for it.

MadeThisToReply··on 'Sexual favours were the norm in music industry'
Presumably they meant to write Parler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parler

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