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Just to note - they specifically added those other commutations to elicit your exact reaction:

"Some look shady, but it's mostly good".

You'd have to research what planes look like departing and landing.

But without that.. I would have thought (as a layman) - is the plane doing anything to add vs cut drag? That could be a clue...

(from a toy perspective of how planes work in movies ofc).

Unfortunately the incredible bleed-through right now each day on politics in HN means I'll likely have to detox from HN itself.

It's saddening, but maybe for the best too.

This is a post where the parent has already taken a very strong position/view, and is thinly veiling it in the form of a question (and not veiled very well either).

Is there a way to report these types of posts? Or better yet, to have HN remove all this incessant political commentary.

Perhaps I'll take the time to finally work on that custom Chrome extension project I've been meaning to tackle..

Exactly this. If I start a private enterprise, I'll be damned if somebody dictates that they have a private right to do or say some particular thing on services I pay hosting for.

Corporations are not beholden to pleasing every single individual.

You have to discern what people here are really outraged about - and sadly, it's not free speech or constitutional rights or any real high principle. Those are just intellectual cover.

After all, you don't see people clamoring in shock and about "unsettled" feelings regarding the moderation that happens here on HN.

Interestingly, ServiceNow is twice the market cap of Atlassian.

HN is missing a `word-break: break-all` on their `default p` class.

(Your reply with an unbroken word that spans larger than the page width forced my page to grow (horizontal scrollbar))

I actually love this concept.

Though would Mozilla grant some type of premium version of Firefox or premium support for your subscription monies?

This is why I love HN - this comment-to-comment dialogue and thought progression is always so riveting!

This is what really offends you?

Not the $10,000 Louis Vuitton handbag or the $80,000 bottle of wine or the other myriad of consumables and products that are clearly priced by what people can pay, rather than purely for their utility value?

You're going to be offended by a lot in this timeline my friend.

There's some value to their fear. I share some of it too.

These are some of the fastest-to-market vaccines ever produced. Some were also developed with technology never used before at this scale.

There's some nuance to the fear though - for example, once frontline, health workers and people like Dr Fauci are vaccinated, and it becomes clear that these are at least as safe as flu vaccines, I'll also likely take one, if only for the sole reason that I sorely miss travel.

Bothsideism is not a good argument for preserving dangerous untruths.

Also, this is a free market. Those who feel they are being censored can freely start their own AntiTube service.

Wow.

Only in the US would non-wealthy people actively and aggressively advocate on behalf of the ultra-wealthy.

How did Confluence and Sharepoint compare? I'm curious (For context: I've only ever worked in BigCo's that used Confluence).

Trickle down economics has created one of the greatest rifts in wealth equality in history. Yet people like the GP still champion the concept and its variants.

I earn fantastically at work, but any vote I make will always be against the political party that spouts the same nonsense.

Regional designations are complicated, but there is nothing complicated about passing judgment over the atrocities being perpetrated today by the CCP.

I'm simply glad that there's finally cohesion by many leaders across the world in urging that Beijing be completely stripped of the prestige of hosting the upcoming Winter Olympics.

Disgusting.

From our Western perspective? No. From the general perspective of any culture that values human life.

Your words are an empty restatement that mirrors what most officially sanctioned Chinese media reports tell us:

That we should not/legally cannot/morally cannot oppose or interfere with these atrocities.

I urge HN readers to very carefully judge empty statements such as the GP, because while it doesn't seem like it, it is actually attempting to persuade you to accept that absolutely nothing can be done.

And that is utterly wrong.

I also want neither but if one must, I'd choose the US government to monitor my communication, a thousand-fold over Chinese surveillence :)

Very interesting to hear what the perspective is from the other side (and a little scary to imagine that even if Chinese people were free to elect their government, that they might still choose the current form). Thank you stranger!

That seems highly inaccurate.

Such tunnel-minded posters.

The GP clearly meant the US is ethical RELATIVE to other countries currently "innovating" i.e. China.

Even as stoutly anti-American as my country and people are, I still fervently hope it's the USA and NOT China who prevail in future techno/political battles.

Yet actually being a shill is not? That's quite the lopsided rule set.

My own country is sadly not responding anywhere near to the level the US is.

I rarely wish I was American, but this strong stance against the CCP and it's horrific cruelties is one of those times I stand with America.

Does nobody else see the sheer irony of a company like Epic releasing anything touching on the topics of 1984?

Well, let me be the first to say I won't be shedding anguished tears for a multi-billion dollar Chinese tech giant known for it's close ties to the CCP.

Never take afternoon advice from a programmer about how to run a business.

Because at the end of the day, that's what team management and engineering teams are. Functional units of a business. And advice like the OP's will lead you to death by a million shed bikes.

But for side projects, sure, have fun with it.

As a psoriasis sufferer, I really appreciate your personal observation on this, even if it's n=1.

Also curious, is it possible that the 15 mins of sunlight per day was the actual cure, rather than the supplements?

Your attempt to disarm the argument against Google's volatile engineering essentially boils down to: "people are all different, and people make up Google, so you can't say Google is one way or another".

That would apply equally to quite literally any collective/group/company/society.

How does such poor reasoning end up voted so highly on HN?

As someone from a country that has seen the first hand effects of Chinese influence on critical levels of government and social influence:

This leaves a very good feeling if it happens.