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epistasisyesterday at 8:58 PM1 replyview on HN

Who is doing this corruption?

If it's Apple or Google let us know in the US because we have laws to go after them for acting corruptly in other countries.

Vaguely asserting corruption without specifics or even naming the perpetrators isn't "taboo", it's just poor form and silly. Letting such vague accusations float without evidence, motive, or even people to blame, leads to nothing good, and only vague distrust, which itself enables corruption. It leads to people believing there's no way to know the truth, therefore helplessness, and results in fascism like in Russia.

Lazy cynicism is itself a form of corruption of one's own mind.


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bryan_wtoday at 12:20 AM

> Lazy cynicism is itself a form of corruption of one's own mind

I love this way of thinking. I might use this quote down the road