ephemeralism

Similar to this art project made in a disused room in the Copenhagen Central Train Station: https://www.rapolitics.dk/produktioner-2/hip-hop-samlingen/s...

Or the third option, it doesn't get sold and it doesn't get banned.

Are you in all honesty trying to argue that it would be fair and just if a Chinese person was only allowed to emit one tenth of that of a German person?

There's no source for either of those claims though.

Furthermore, it says restrict to under 3000, while you have changed it to reduce.

That's easy to do on a desktop, but can be cumbersome on mobile. I guess the problem is biggest on mobile, because of this and issues with glare etectera from sunlight, or low screen intensity at night.

Could this not be achieved in some other way that doesn't hurt the readability? Or at least a choice to turn it off or down in settings.

Squinting your eyes, highlighting the text or going to a separate page really breaks the flow of reading.

From your link, the message that Taiwan sent to the WHO:

""News sources indicate at least seven atypical pneumonia cases were reported in Wuhan, China". It also said while China's health authorities replied to the media that the cases were believed not to be SARS, "they have been isolated for treatment"."

Furthermore, from the picture: "I would gladly appreciate if you have relevant information to share with us."

So Taiwanese authorities read publicly available news sources about seven atypical pneumonia cases in Wuhan, and because the media reports said the cases were being isolated for treatment, they asked the WHO if they had any additional information.

Unless I'm reading it wrong, this does not mean that Taiwan had any additional knowledge other than what they had read from publicly available information.

A lot of Stephen Baxter's Evolution novel revolves around this, very highly recommended.

Should probably add (2016) to the title.

Isn't the posting of the article itself in breach of those violations?

Sure, I'll give it a shot. Since the post has been flagged I'd imagine no one's gonna read it, but what the hell.

Since the day I first found Hacker News, some years before I created my account, this site and it's comment section has always been on my daily reading list. I'm a very infrequent poster, but have since then read hundreds of comments, pretty much every single day. I guess my personality leans towards trying to understand rather than be understood.

I don't really have any connection to the Silicon Valley, but from the moment I first laid eyes on this site, it felt like an invaluable resource of insight on a huge variety of issues, not just tech.

Sadly, these days I mostly just hate-read it.

On geopolitical issues, there's almost zero understanding from the commentariat, and if there is any, to make matters worse, a lot of the time you have to squint your eyes to even read it. There's a huge part of the written english webosphere, dedicated to discussing and analysing this, the most important subject of them all, <i>war and peace and prosperity</i>, from a completely different viewpoint, but you'd never know by just reading HN. Luckily you can go elsewhere, and I suspect a sizable number of past commenters have, in frustration, done so.

Here, all you get is the same tired neoliberal corporate media viewpoint. Constant denigration of the long, long, list of the enemies of the American political blob. The glittering valley’s technocrats opinions are indistinguishable from those of the shining city upon a hill.

In this dojo, the opposing voice is almost nowhere to be found, always shut down with cries of robots and unfair comparing.

Russian, Chinese, Syrian, Iranian, Venzuelean viewpoints? Forget it. All these countries have news and opinion sites in english, but never to be linked on HN. Getting those opposing perspectives is not for the HN denizen, unless it has first been approved for reading by the NY Times. HN comments have not yet reached the complete unbearable insufferableness of r/worldpolitics, but to me it seems like just a matter of time.

Sorry, but it just really grinds my gears to read someone casually say that the North American people have no connection to the Iraqi people. The US “embassy” in Baghdad is larger than the Vatican. Like all these endless wars, bombings and sanctions against the Middle East is just a minor matter. At worst a small mistake, that in the grand scheme of things is of little importance.

NO.

The consequences of the West's relentless and cruel war of destruction and chaos against the core of the African and Eurasian landmass will be the defining cause of most of the problems the United States, Isreal, Saudi Arabia and Europe will face the rest of this century. A thousand years from now, all history books dealing with the early 21th century will have The Invasion of Iraq as the focal point, with most everything else a mere footnote.

The United States has tried over and over to prevent any even bigger and stronger entities to form on it's opposing, much larger landmass. It has decisively failed, inevitably so.

In the 2020’s, whether it wants to or not, America and it’s shrinking list of vassals will have to come to terms with what roles they can have in this new world order, our shared future of mankind. If these formerly dominant parts of the world can not imagine a role for themselves that is appropriate, the rest of the world will choose for us.

well, you did invade them. Overthrew their government. but sure, other than that, next to no connection.

Any examples?

Do you have a source for this claim that Beijing instructed her to not give in to any demands?

Why would they do this and not just continue to use riot police and tire the protesters out, as has recently been done with success in France?

I think you have to look very hard to find anything positive written about China or Chinese people in western establishment media.

Especially anything that gets posted on HN.

There's no law preventing him from resigning.

The US have been the instigator in quite a number of wars of aggression, with devastating consequences for the countries targeted and the people living in them. They constantly threaten to start new attacks. Meanwhile China builds roads and bridges and trains and cheap electronics. Is it really that hard to see why one is preferred over the other?

How does elections hold leaders accountable?

How would you describe the United States?

What convinced you that it was Russian forces and not Ukrainian?

I honestly don't understand why Boeing themselves don't ground the airplane. Having individual countries and airlines slowly doing it for them, just generates a ton of negative news stories. And the longer they wait, the more it will seem like they only did it because of pressure.

And God forbid there was another crash, Boeing would be history.