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I'm not sure what this means. They are behaving poorly HERE. I am not criticizing them for the crazy stuff they do elsewhere. That's an entirely different conversation.

If you're going to sell your services and goods here, you need to comport to the cultural norms HERE.

> What is stopping others from claiming they have been behaving in an un-Chinese manner or an un-European manner or an un-Russian manner so far?

Nothing.

> How is a naive notion of nationalism of capital an argument of how such entities should behave when they operate in most recognized nations with different ideological and regulatory frameworks?

They can and do change business practices to fit the region.

Save up some money, then quit. Devote ALL of your time to it. Once you're spending all of your time on it, you have a consulting business. You will figure out over time how to optimize your business, find the clients you enjoy working with, earn more money, etc.

It sounds like you're concerned about finding new clients? There is a market rate for your services. As long as you charge that market rate and do good work, you will find clients. Client will refer you to other clients. Some clients have an unending stream of work, etc. Getting started can be a bit difficult, look for clients where clients are looking for you (angel.co and similar sites). Now is a good time to get started, there is a mountain of work out there.

What entitles you to that level of control over email? If any of the emails you sent were modified by Google, you would be outraged, but we should just accept "editorial control" over Twitter, Facebook, HN, etc.?

I think that's the real debate happening here. It's not just about censorship, it's about exercising control over the content. Many feel strongly that this sort of control should be in the hands of the creators of that content, not editors/moderators/site owners/etc.

> This site also allows us to edit our comments, without the explicit consent of every person who responds to them.

I would be ok if the person who originally submitted the article made that change himself and there was a history associated with the submission that showed the change. That's the creator exercising control.

> This isn't a direct democracy, it's a news aggregator.

It's kind of acting like a newspaper though? If content is being edited, that's the job of an editor. I don't think it's such a far stretch to imagine top comments being edited to improve the conversation, etc. at that point, what's the distinction with a newspaper?

If you want an exciting color, you'll wrap. That's what has changed.

It's not a company. It's a division of a foreign government. That was the point being made. If it was an independent company, none of this would be happening.

Whatever space junk we leave behind will be gone 100 years from now. https://www.nasa.gov/news/debris_faq.html

They have a number of installations in California that were done for real clients and are fully functional. It may not be viable or scalable, but it is absolutely not fake. It is an actual product that works.

Yup. I'm pretty sure most software engineers don't even know how something as basic as hashing works. They just put lego blocks together, without much understanding of even how those lego blocks work.

When it comes to traditional voting, it's fairly easy to understand. You cast your vote, then someone counts them. You don't care how they count it, even if it's with an aid of a machine. You just care that you cast, someone fairly counts.

With a blockchain, there is no person involved and there is no counting. You vote and some piece of software that most software engineers don't even understand tells you who won. That is really not going to engender trust from anyone, not even software engineers.

I work on blockchains all the time and even I wouldn't trust that thing. Good luck convincing someone who doesn't even know how to reboot their iPhone.

So is your position that Jews are not allowed to live in certain places on this planet? Tell me more.

You almost don't even have to. Microsoft's Edge is basically a rebranded Chrome with all of the Google stuff stripped out. You can keep using the same extensions, etc.

There's literally a Wikipedia category for Israeli children that were murdered.

If you murder a child, then "it is reasonable to assume, that his father, his grandfather, his older and younger brothers will hold a grudge, so to speak."

Let me know if you see a point to this conversation, because I don't see it.

Yes!

A dollar is a good just like any other. If there is more of it, it is worth less. If you print more money, the dollars that people hold and have are worth less.

That said, the US has gotten away with printing dollars for a very long time with very little inflation in basic consumer goods. It seems to mostly end up in real estate, stocks, etc. where most are happy to see prices shoot up. Except, of course, those who are just getting started and can't afford to get in on the inflated prices.

In what country? In the US, the unemployment rate is 11.1% right now?

What problems? There are no major structural problems yet. There will be major structural problems if OP's ideas are implemented because they're not sound. That's not related to the economic system, that's related to OP's ideas.

I think it's a bad idea to have people with little understanding of economics, but a high sense of moral superiority, fix the problems they create through their incompetence. Politicians are the last people you want doing this.

Freeze evictions? Landlords go bust. Freeze mortgages? Mortgage servicers go bust. Now what? Mortgages when created are aggregated into securities with guaranteed contractual payments. No payments? What happens to the securities and the organizations that own them? Banks, pensions, retirement accounts, etc? What happens to the mortgage market and the young family who needs to buy their first home?

Actions have consequences. It's nice to have ideas over the internet, but reality is a bit more complicated.

This is acting under the assumption that something can be done, that the thing done is effective, or for that matter, isn't harmful. There were, of course, many things done. Were all of them effective? Were some of them harmful?

Doing something harmful, like for example forcefully depriving many of a livelihood during a pandemic, can be considered immoral and irresponsible.

Because those same taxpayers voted in a government that prohibited many of those businesses from operating.

> There is no end in sight to either corona virus or the economic downturn, so it’s just throwing 8 weeks worth of taxpayer money into bad investments. What’s going to happen within 8 weeks to ensure these employees won’t just be let go again?

The purpose of the funds isn't to prevent future unemployment. It's to funnel funds to individuals who would otherwise be unemployed. The funds can only be used for payroll to be forgiven. So this is an unemployment payout by other means, in addition to the federal unemployment benefits that were expanded.