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smhoston Writer Liu Cixin on How His Visions of the Future Collide with Reality

That's just conjecture. In order to have a unified world (e.g. the Chinese world), you need a minimum of common ground (facts, historical narrative, etc) that you can base your genuine differences on. Without this minimum of common ground, populations are just splitting into relativist camps where even the most basic facts can't be agreed on.

smhoston Writer Liu Cixin on How His Visions of the Future Collide with Reality

The reason you don't think those are the only options is because you haven't run a town hall let alone a nation of over a billion people.

It's also hilarious that you thought that was a whataboutism. Really embarrassing Freudian slip for you there.

smhoston DPRK Textbooks

They share a border with Russia as well.

smhoston Redditors are right about the unfairness of the market

militarize the IRS

smhoston S.Korea broadband firm sues Netflix after traffic surge from 'Squid Game'

as long as it isn't downward

smhoston S.Korea broadband firm sues Netflix after traffic surge from 'Squid Game'

> They are: the advertisers pays for the service users are consuming

and the users pay for the service the advertisers are consuming.

smhoston I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

vanilla linux doesn't have any good ereader apps

smhoston Why the American shoe disappeared and is hard to bring back (2019)

Why is it so inefficient?

smhoston Can progressives be convinced that genetics matters?

HN crowd doesn't think twice about people who try to run DOOM on a stack of pennies, but are ready to give up before trying to get algebra to run on someone with less working memory. It's weird how different the attitude is.

smhoston Forgetting My First Language

Pretty disappointing story. I would've thought popular culture had developed beyond this kind of saccharine overdose of incestual tension.

smhoston U.S. to work with Big Tech, finance sector on new cybersecurity guidelines

Now that the American empire is going to shit, how are you going to get your dick hard without being able to murder people just because you feel like it?

smhoston Climate change will alter where many crops are grown

Hippies were never a thing. They might even have been a psy op along the lines of MKUltra. And conservatives are losing their ability to control and discipline their younger generations even more so than the liberal side, and many of them hate corporations as vehemently as anybody.

smhoston U.S. to work with Big Tech, finance sector on new cybersecurity guidelines

Yeah, let's drone strike Edward Snowden because you have a small dick. Fucking moron.

smhoston Samsung seemingly caught swapping components in its 970 Evo Plus SSDs

Even if the reviews were good, it still wouldn't be "sort by quality". It would just be how much they liked the thing for the price they paid.

smhoston Climate change will alter where many crops are grown

Maybe. There's a non-zero chance that when younger millenials come to power, they will hunt down oil company insiders and force them to flee to Argentina.

smhoston Arm China Has Gone Rogue

I don't have the numbers on Muslims, but here you go: https://en.mundohispanico.com/the-uterus-collector-sterilize...

You've probably already thought of multiple excuses, because you've been conditioned not to think of immigrants in concentration camps as people.

smhoston Why San Francisco’s city government is so dysfunctional

I think the idea of "There's nothing you can do for me given the current social-political reality" too often gets conflated with "This is all I want my life to be". And even if the person has truly given up on society, I don't think society should ever give up on the person.

smhoston Arm China Has Gone Rogue

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/unworthy-victims-weste...

Just say you don't care. The most unbearing thing for us is that you claim to care while brutalizing and fetishizing others to justify your own crusade.

smhoston Arm China Has Gone Rogue

America killed a million Muslims just in the time that I've been alive. China has done nothing so psychopathic and cruel.

smhoston Arm China Has Gone Rogue

America has the largest slave population in the world, both per capita and in absolute numbers. I know you think that's funny, but most people don't.

smhoston U.S. to work with Big Tech, finance sector on new cybersecurity guidelines

Extra-judicial executions for unauthorized information access is not the right way to conduct yourself as a nation.

smhoston Arm China Has Gone Rogue

In fact, the US is doing all of those things.

smhoston Arm China Has Gone Rogue

> Democracy is when the competing groups are "the US, the state, the courts, corporations, elites"

Americanist ideology is really something else.

smhoston TSMC hikes chip prices up to 20% amid supply shortage

demand shift and panic buying are not mutually exclusive. and it also keeps happening (from this week: https://www.businessinsider.com/costco-shoppers-stockpiling-...)

smhoston Googlespeak – How Google limits thought about antitrust

"Language is not reality" is the problem at stake, because language is really how people and organizations think. Language structures the field of possible self-justifications, and it's the ruler against which behaviors are measured. But, like you said, the fact that monopoly-related language is prohibited doesn't change reality. All the prohibition does is that it stops the organization's (and regulators') ability to measure its behavior against possible self-justifications. It's a strange legal technology.

smhoston Googlespeak – How Google limits thought about antitrust

You justified natural monopolies in your first comment.

What do you think Biden meant when he said "capitalism without competition isn't capitalism"?

smhoston Googlespeak – How Google limits thought about antitrust

That's the policy that the Biden team is trying to change. Following from what you said, do you expect Google to change its behavior once the natural monopoly policy loophole gets fixed?

smhoston Googlespeak – How Google limits thought about antitrust

That's an indictment of every other company as well then. The point is about anti-competitive ideology. If "anything that can be used against the company" also includes anti-competitive thinking, then that's the conflict.

smhoston Googlespeak – How Google limits thought about antitrust

That doesn't follow. You can read it in the exact opposite direction, that every other company culture is already behaving as if it is a monopoly.

smhoston Googlespeak – How Google limits thought about antitrust

What exactly is the logic here, that because IBM used to do the same thing Google is doing, and because IBM was not a monopoly, that we should be okay with Google behaving this way?