Just just look at seanmcdirmid's submission and post history. Shitting on China is what this account all about.

It's a total coincidence it has a ton of karma, too. Yup

Unlike most HN posters, I believe Sean lives (or at least lived) in China and thus has much clearer view of what's happening on the ground there.

> in China

I believe in Hong Kong instead. And thus has so many prejudices.

I lived in Beijing for 9 years. You know you are doing something right when the pro Chinese crowd calls you anti Chinese and the anti Chinese crowd calls you pro Chinese.

Personal attacks, such as you posted in this thread, aren't allowed on HN and will get you banned here. I don't want to ban you, so please don't do this again. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

It's of course difficult to remain respectful to other people when their views are remote from yours. The temptation is strong to think that they can't possibly be reasonable or fair, they must be in bad faith, etc. But after many years of moderating these disputes I can tell you that most of these perceptions are mistaken—what's really going on is that people have such different backgrounds that it's hard for them to relate to each other.

I was called a "pro Chinese crowd" for urging people to check this account's history, and you are threatening me with ban for personal attacks.

Do what you have to do.

Those are separate issues. We need users, including you, to follow HN's rules regardless of what other people are up to. The way you attacked seanmcdirmid in this thread was unacceptable and obviously against the rules.

At the same time, users aren't allowed to accuse each other of being shills, etc. - this too is well-established and also in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. If you feel that users are breaking the rules you're welcome to flag the comments or to let us know at [email protected] but responding by breaking the rules yourself is not ok.

I heard that five and ten years ago so I’m not really worried (or if you mean china will always be three years away from commercially viable high end chips?).