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There is nothing new nor particularly insightful about this article. It's the same tired self-inflated story about how Trump supporters are idiots and if only we could somehow educate them how our POV is right, this would all go away.

If anyone was truly interested in resolving this conflict the talk would be about how to reach consensus and peace between the extremes. But no, it's this constant self-congratulatory stream of "news" and opinion pieces as if they've invented something completely novel.

Notice I said the extremes. The radical postmodernists are just dangerous as gun-yielding rednecks.

Thank you for ending this exchange on a positive note.

You are confused; I didn't give Trumpistas a pass, I accused the other side of having double standards. Ergo, not whataboutism.

You are well within your right BTW to find the comparison disingenious. I find it too. However, I'm not interested in giving one group of people power to do whatever they want without legal repercussions and enforce it on another group of people. Should the law not be equal to all?

When you have no arguments, divert.

Having different sets of principles for different groups of people is what one calls partisanship; and partisanship is a very critical problem in the US right now.

Put some of my own favourite books (maths, business and Japanese fiction) onto the engine and got recommended african-american and feminist literature (and a cookbook.)

Then I sampled three of these recommendations and put them into the engine (Martin Luther King, Maya Angelou and Carol Anderson) and again got recommended feminist, african-american and anti-capitalist literature.

One does not simply escape the leftist bubble it seems.

I agree with you to the most part.

> which should not be a forum for international politics (outside tech topic) in the first place

Which is why I'm highlighting the account for pushing a 100% political agenda.

You can have good companies anywhere in the world. The problem is building and showing demand for whatever you’re working on - and the more forward thinking / exotic it is, the more risk-taking people you need around you to make adoption happen.

This is something that reigns in SV, and partially elsewhere in the US also, but is absolutely missing from Europe, for instance. Here in Finland people go to work to get a paycheck, not to rock the boat. Why would they take risks in adopting new tech?

Would be interesting to hear how it is in Canada.

I disagree, but for personal reasons which I don't know how widespread they apply:

1) I travel frequently, for instance to the SV area which provides a good example. I opt to rent a car 95% of the time for my (US) trips, and the reason is that I prefer to move freely. When you're on the whim of an Uber (and in the States you usually can't walk anywhere), it's psychologically unpleasant having to rely on someone to constantly pick you up from somewhere. So much more liberating to have a car parked and move when you please.

2) When you end up moving, you can joyride, which I often do.

You're the one who needs to prove that literally the only change needed in turning America into a peaceful nation is reforming the police code. I thought you guys had - just as examples off the top of my head - nationwide gun, drug and mental health "epidemics", but I guess those are completely moot now.

> every single American cop

based on what?

I really hope you don’t actually think the real world works this way. Police are not a ’tool’ in a vacuum, but rather a massively complex interconnected system influenced by thousands of different external forces. Changing the ’rules’ for them would do nothing.

I’m sure there’s truth to it, but there are 800k police officers in the US. Are you ready to condemn the entire profession because of a handful of bad experiences?

I don’t get it. Are we now advocating that police is overall more of a force of evil than good? Legitimate question.

Hello. It's not terrible; I think most of it makes sense but it is a bit hard to read at times. Maybe a proof reader could help make it less heavy (i.e. more simple english.) There's quite a lot of content on the front page and a modern users attention span is quite short.

HN wants to make everything seem and feel exactly the same but I personally like the flow of words and information - you can tell you've invested yourself into the software.

Will give this a spin.

"How did you try to solve this?"

quite a harsh oversimplification of what is going on

"Finland producing..." funny choice of words here.

This forum is very hard science, measurement, real-world - but I've extracted great joy and peace in some of the more eastern, buddhist-type teachings. Building compassion towards other people needs to start by being compassionate towards yourself.

You don't need to buy into the dogma, but some of the buddhist authors have developed great mental practices of dealing with fear, for instance. As an example author, I thoroughly recommend Thich Nhat Hanh.

Self-compassion also has great benefits in the business world, as you learn to understand and listen to your counterparts better, instead of being driven by a selfish agenda. This is, of course, just a by-product and not the main dish.

Interesting, didn't know that. Thanks!

> overt influence operations that are clearly labelled, like the BBC World Service

Huh?

Different types of damages and consequences, I'd argue.

The title feels like a big understatement. Huge damages done with an extremely easily accessible attack surface and cheap means of conducting an attack.

Good times ahead for anti-drone technology manufacturers.

Yes, the UI is bugged. The 'send message' function for instance doesn't seem to work at all. I had to hunt the person I was trying to message from LI and send them a DM through that.

Additionally, it contains less active people at least in my geography when compared to 1 or 2 years ago.

Yeah, I'm fairly sure one of the first news pieces on the attack literally said the security team discovered the breach when "alerted by suspicious activity on their customer database" - sounds a lot like an IDS functionality.

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm mostly looking to hire in Finland - you're not located there, are you?