lurk2
lurk2 on Hacker News
> A comment that sweepingly denounces all immigration from a country
It isn’t a controversial idea anywhere else in the world to suggest that foreign nationals should not have access to critical infrastructure, and that is central to the whole discussion that is being had here.
> The entire purpose of HN is to cultivate higher quality discussions than this
It will be hard to fulfill that purpose if the discussions get shut down before they even occur.
> The public comment process is an anti-democratic pox on our system
This just sounds like your ideas are bad and you’re upset that no one supports them.
Ridiculous. The thread is discussing Chinese espionage.
You didn’t used to have to append the operator to find what you were looking for. People only started doing it because the relevance of Google search results declined.
I can see why you would think that based on the low quality commentary you provide here, but you’re wrong.
People who participate in forums share their insights for free and resent the friction that a paywall adds to information being diffused.
> Wait, how does Google fit in with it?
A lot of people ended up on Reddit because they learned that they could append site:Reddit.com to their searches to get better results. Reddit was never exceptionally well-managed or technically impressive, it was just accessible in search results in a way that platforms like Facebook and Twitter became increasingly hostile to in the mid-2010s.
> but nobody is paying anyone to push those into your feeds
Speak for yourself. The CCP have been showing me images of nice clean high-speed rail stations in China for the last 2 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becoming_Chinese
If the Chinese create such desirable societies, why is it that so many of them are eager to leave China in order to live in the Anglosphere? Why is it that there is no equivalent flow of migrants out of the Anglosphere into China?
It has always struck me as absurd that America is so accessible to Chinese nationals. The marginal boost to economic productivity isn’t worth the threat these people pose to national security; the Chinese understand this, so why don’t Americans?
This is why courtiers were provided with state-mandated GFs for all of human history up until about 40 years ago.
This was Nietzsche’s chief criticism of Christianity. It is also a good summary of Reddit morality where social rejects build an inverted status pyramid. It’s amazing how Google made a few bad decisions on Search and it led to some of the most maladjusted people on earth becoming the internet’s point of reference for what is normal.
“You all” is distinct from “y’all.” The former is atypical but doesn’t sound weird, the latter was appropriated by turbo-liberals in the mid-2010s to signal that they listen to Kendrick Lamar.
You appear to be German so I will assume you lack the cultural context to understand why these two things are not comparable. Asking someone born outside of the deep south to refer to a group of people as “y’all” is so absurd my immediate assumption would be that my coworker was playing a joke on me.
> What kind of "left" version are you imagining?
The Open Society Foundation.
The majority of anti-tech sentiment in America has been coming out of left-leaning circles for the last five years. Go look at a video of the people protesting data centers in your nearest metropole; I guarantee you they look nothing like the caricature you have in your head.
> we can always kill our way out of unjust institutions
lol
lmao
> It's a symptom, not a cause
A symptom of what?
I got shadow banned. How do I delete my account?
> In March, April and May 2026, both technologies independently surpassed nuclear generation. Global solar capacity increased by 510 GW to 2,383 GW, up 27% year on year, while wind added a record 159 GW to reach 1,291 GW, an increase of 14%. By comparison, installed nuclear capacity rose by just 1.5 GW to 399.5 GW, while operating nuclear capacity declined by 0.5 GW to 368.6 GW.
If global solar capacity was 1873 GW in 2025, global wind capacity was 1132 GW, and global nuclear capacity was 398 GW, how could solar and wind have surpassed nuclear in March of 2026 for the first time?
> I have better math skills than 99.9% of people on the platforms, so I'm able to profit significantly by quant trading on it.
lol
lmao
Was the platform promised to you people 3000 years ago, too?
> But, after I add up home loan interest, taxes, homeowner's insurance, higher utility bills, maintenance, etc., the amount of money that I will definitely never see again adds up
So your landlord was renting your apartment to you at a loss?
The idea that international socialists have that domestic labor conditions are made worse by a lack of protections for foreign workers (rather than the presence of the workers themselves) doesn’t pan out if you look at Canada; it’s quite rare for status in the country to be tied to a particular employment agreement, so immigrants are free to leave undesirable employers, but wages are substantially lower there due to the country having accepted about 3 million immigrants and temporary workers in the span of the last ten years.
Your working conditions and salary would be substantially higher if those people weren’t in the country to begin with.
> A wildly grotesque framing you engage in there.
This is an extremely boring way to engage with others.
> There is a thing called human dignity and it involves granting everybody the basic right of dignified sustenance.
I think I am still obligated to throw you the life vest even if I don’t personally like you, but if after the fact you then scream at me that I didn’t do enough, I think you’ve committed a transgression. Screaming that no one is doing enough is by and large all that comes out of these circles and why they ended up fading into irrelevance. People were discussing this issue during the Obama years; you haven’t brought anything new to the discussion.
> The author details how you yourself are dependent on that society you denigrate here.
I’m not sure where you got the idea that I was arguing to the contrary. My premise was that the word independent is semantically meaningful and that the article is making an attempt to undermine that meaning in order to further an agenda. I don’t disagree that e.g. someone who buys their food at a grocery store is dependent on the logistics system in a way that someone who is dependent upon having an oxygen tank delivered is dependent on others, but like I said, this is a spectrum based on the ability of the dependent to make substitutions between the person or thing they are dependent upon. It still makes semantic sense to say that so-and-so is independent of his father, but the children of so-and-so are dependent upon their father, even if so-and-so’s existence is ontologically dependent upon the existence of his father.
If the average employee was less reliant on his employer than vice versa, why doesn’t this situation occur every day?
> And demands of disabled people aren't worth less?
You’re making an implicit argument about the nature of worth. I am using a simplified model based on economic value; if the author has a certain lifestyle that she believes she is entitled to live, and she cannot provide this lifestyle for herself, then the obligation to provide it will necessarily fall on other people. Disability advocacy groups obscure this detail constantly; they want to purchase their dignity using other people’s money.
I think there is a strong case to be made that a just society would be organized around these sorts of principles, but where disability advocates have failed is in wanting to put these obligations on others while resenting the idea that the disabled should even have to show gratitude for the gift they are being given (because this would, in their minds, diminish their dignity). Social justice in the 2010s was built around this idea that marginalized minority groups could treat the majority of the population as workhorses simply because it was considered to be the right thing to do. The model fell apart when people realized they could game the system by claiming marginal status, and also led to a trend of people traditionally tasked with serving as workhorses checking out of the workforce altogether.