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Re:Notes on China by dang on Sunday December 29, 2024 @03:51PM (#42542969)
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Maybe the article is bad (I haven't looked), but a bad article does not justify a shallow dismissal. We want curious conversation here.

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Re:Notes on China by jncfhnb on Sunday December 29, 2024 @04:31PM (#42543397)
Does selecting standout quotes to the forefront not foster curious conversation more than headline reactions?
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Re:Notes on China by AnimalMuppet on Sunday December 29, 2024 @07:41PM (#42545110)
Perhaps it does. "This is just bizarre" doesn't do much to promote curious conversation, though. Maybe say what you think is wrong with it?

(I mean, sure, you're saying it's self-evident what's wrong with it. And, to many people, maybe it is. Your words are still a shallow dismissal, though.

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Re:Notes on China by dang on Monday December 30, 2024 @01:13AM (#42546949)
No—based on long experience I'd say it doesn't. What fosters curious conversation is thoughtful, reflective* responses.

* by 'reflective' I mean something like the opposite of reflexive: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

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