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lord_ring_11 | 7 years ago | on: Successfully Countering Russian Electoral Interference

So ture. How many govts have been toppled in recent times through military action. I think surprise is that it is happening first time to west without direct military action. Last time govt was toppeled in west was French govt in WW2.

lord_ring_11 | 7 years ago | on: A world of free movement would be $78T richer

Well i hear sometimes that india was better off under imperial rule than now. There was better rule of law. I guess india should have waited another 50-100 years for independence.

lord_ring_11 | 7 years ago | on: A world of free movement would be $78T richer

I doubt it even works for trade. Full free trade has caused money flow to 3rd world countries at the cost of natives. China has policy of trading off ip for privilege of cheap manufacturing. So its growing in tech at the cost of west. What west gets in return in temporary cheap goods and must of 2$ crap toys which break.

lord_ring_11 | 7 years ago | on: A world of free movement would be $78T richer

And what makes u think that people who come acustomed to those values and cultures will auddenly change when broight to rich countries?

lord_ring_11 | 7 years ago | on: A world of free movement would be $78T richer

Well written. Totally agreed. There is systematic underestimation of culture migration along with all its goods and bads in these articles. No one digs into why the country became what it is.

lord_ring_11 | 7 years ago | on: A world of free movement would be $78T richer

Details? I dont know a german to ask!

lord_ring_11 | 7 years ago | on: A world of free movement would be $78T richer

“If enough of them came, they might vote for an Islamist government...”

Given the rate of expansion of islam, i would say when not if.

lord_ring_11 | 7 years ago | on: A world of free movement would be $78T richer

I am ok with selective immigration. But open borders is truly crazy idea at this point. If we open borders like suggested next thing we know will be - developed countries becoming like garbage dumps we see in other countries. There is a reason why some countires fall into downward spirals. If u get its people en mass without filters, you get that mentality too.

Why dont we experiment in smaller scale with liberal companies like facebook/google/microsoft opening its employment where anyone from anywhere can come and say i want to be employed here and goog/fb/msft have to take them in? Lets even throw in a restriction that person should be cs degree holder from anywhere in the world. Lets see how it goes.

lord_ring_11 | 7 years ago | on: Hundreds of skulls reveal massive scale of human sacrifice in Aztec capital

Didnt church burn people in the name of heresy to conserve their power. It included much celebrated joan of arc in france.

lord_ring_11 | 7 years ago | on: Jogger accidentally crosses U.S. border from B.C., gets detained for 2 weeks

Why is boundary around your house also not an absurdity? Can few people stay there tonight or permanently. Tgey might not respect you though.

lord_ring_11 | 7 years ago | on: Mementos of a Forgotten Frontier

Come on. Yet another political/social piece.

lord_ring_11 | 7 years ago

What kind of political crap being submitted in hn now a days. Pretty rare to see any technical business things. Just politics.

lord_ring_11 | 7 years ago | on: Amazon employees protest sale of facial recognition tech to law enforcement

Seriously? All the proclaimed freedom in country is built on the backs of soldiers/police. And we are worried about helping them? If we cant trust the govt then boot them. I am more worried about big companies which are accountable to small set of shareholders more than big govt accountable to najority.

lord_ring_11 | 7 years ago | on: Intel CEO resigns after relationship with employee

Why is this even worth discussing?

lord_ring_11 | 7 years ago | on: Tesla goes up in flames in video captured by actor Mary McCormack

Probably because of ratio of count by vehicles maker to incidents.

lord_ring_11 | 7 years ago | on: U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes, Ramesh Balwani

Amen. The risk reward is crazily skewed towards breaking law. Most relying on ethics and social pressure.

lord_ring_11 | 7 years ago | on: Motorists ‘are being misled by autonomous driving aids’ – report

Can someone who uses these auto drive features comment? I would imagine it would be really hard to suddenly “take over” if u were not in full control from before in a few seconds. It would take that long to even fully understand what is really happening. When i drive normal car much of my driving is anticipating and avoiding bad situations rather than recovering from them.

lord_ring_11 | 7 years ago | on: Apple Isn't Your Friend

Didnt the article just say iAd failed because apple held high standards unlike cheaper ad prociders like g and f? Now he is comapling that apple lets customers down?

lord_ring_11 | 7 years ago | on: Can Facebook Be Cut Down to Size?

Yeah there are competitors and always will be. Point is does fb use its monopoly in one area to enter into another? Just being monopoly is not illegal.

lord_ring_11 | 7 years ago | on: Facebook Gave Some Companies Access to Additional Data About Users’ Friends

Probably because some employee could not justify “impact” on this. If anything it will lower some key metric that was getting measured, because not giving all friend info will lower app adoption growth numbers. Most levels at facebook is filled with metric obsessed robots (because of how incentives are aligned).