At this point I'm not even upset or shocked. It just further supports the narrative Russia is seeking to manipulate/exploit the internet to their benefit.

Considering the average Russian is poorer than an Indian, it looks like Putin is going to fuck over his country as his countrymen cheer him on and suffer in poverty and alcoholism.

The West will crush the feeble Russian economy back to Tsar days.

We are seeing bullet holes from what seem to have been cyber warfare between the former cold war foes.

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It's the ultimate simulation. We know very little about space and even fiction (ex. star wars) seems to generate even more demand.

As people got excited and started throwing money at them, so did the scope obviously. I love Star Citizen's attention to detail but it's suffice to say that they've hit people's patience.

With Hangul, you can start writing your own name, lot of English words in Korean which is understood in Korea. Even Konglish (Phonetically typed Korean in English) is understood to a certain degree.

Anything beyond that, you will need to learn the Korean words, but it gets you a lot farther than most languages.

No I don't have scientific evidence to support this but from anecdotal experiences. Somebody wants to write a paper on it let me know, I'll give you 0.1 bitcoin.

Please post your scientific references using APA format in all of your comments from now on. Anything less is a disappointment to your high standards.

https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=korean+language&btnG=&hl...

> The only unique feature of Hangul is that all the letters making up a syllable are arranged in one square

That's one feature that makes it superior to say Chinese. Chinese character is a bitch to learn and it's been bastardized by the communist party to increase literacy.

I also won't apologize for criticizing the defense industry and any individual/startup involved/acquired by it.

After all, I turned down money from a VC who I found out sold his company to the defense industry and had multiple off-shore shell accounts that I tracked using https://panamapapers.icij.org/

All that aside, I don't believe it's fair to have ANY and ALL of my comments downvoted because some people disagree with my views.

I have nothing but respect for HN folks. So many smart people, so much talent and potential, I only seek to learn from everyone else who is clearly smarter and successful than me.

I will dial it back but this downvote manipulation is very real and I'm seeing high karma accounts abusing their power very openly with little to no repercussion.

I feel like HN is approaching Stackoverflow levels, where contribution is discouraged unless high karma accounts approve.

Having said that, I believe that there is a ring of high karma accounts manipulating and censoring comments. I see regular comments that shouldn't be downvoted censored because it's critical of some startup/company that has HN users involved.

Anyways, my trust for HN is at an all time low.

Now it's blatantly obvious somebody is drive by downvote manipulating my comments.

What measures exist against high karma accounts downvoting the exact same username out of personal beef? I did mention Peter Thiel is gay (which he admitted publicly and I'm merely stating facts-please see my profile).

I was able to graph the time of the downvotes and map it across time and what I'm seeing is a clear pattern of willful downvote manipulation.

This is pretty disheartening, because I thought HN was an open and accepting place. Everyday, it's becoming more and more like Stackoverflow.

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I didn't say the MOST, it's among the more scientific languages. I'm not pushing for Korean patriotism, that's just your own assumptions.

> So, you're talking about the alphabet used to write the language, not the language itself. At best you've proven that Korean has a highly regular writing system. But I'd argue that the average HNer could learn to read, for example, Spanish in about two minutes.

Hangul is the writing system that is uniquely different from a latin based system like Spanish. Your argument is moot.

Taking a look at Sanskrit, it looks very cool. I think it's aesthetically better looking than Korean alphabet.

http://www.omniglot.com/images/writing/sanskrit_cons.gif

AI really should have no place in military but it's going to happen. Some spineless fucks are going to spread their legs for a 5 star general to sell their company.

The defence industry is in the business of killing humans and you play a direct role by selling your knowledge and skills to make it more efficient. Fuck that shit.

https://www.fda.gov/safety/reportaproblem/

Let's not forget about alleged mold in Soylent not that long ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/soylent/comments/53eikw/mold_on_soy...

This is yet another example of how dangerous VC money is because it enables idiots to push their garbage with little to no oversight.