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0 pointsnprateem1y ago0 comments

Of course. How else would Americans justify their superiority (and therefore valuations) if a load of foreigners for Christ's sake could just out innovate them?

They had to be cheating.

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dang1y ago

Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

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

p.s. yes, that goes both ways - that is, if people are slamming a different country from an opposite direction, we say the same thing (provided we see the post in the first place)

LPisGood1y ago

I see where you’re coming from but that comment didn’t strike me as particularly inflammatory.

dang1y ago

I'm likely more sensitive to the fire potential on account of being conditioned by the job.

Part of it is the form of the comment, btw - that one was entirely a sequence of indignation tropes.

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dang1y ago

Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

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

p.s. yes, that goes both ways - that is, if people are slamming a different country from an opposite direction, we say the same thing (provided we see the post in the first place)

LPisGood1y ago

I see where you’re coming from but that comment didn’t strike me as particularly inflammatory.

dang1y ago

I'm likely more sensitive to the fire potential on account of being conditioned by the job.

Part of it is the form of the comment, btw - that one was entirely a sequence of indignation tropes.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse