>For example: isn't China supposed to be Communist?

No. It is state capitalism. The communist label is used in the same manner as the democratic label of the democratic people's republic of korea.

Huh? Aaron Swartz never saw a ruling.

Hold on, I can translate.

"Because Aaron Swartz was treated badly, any time a `hacker` appears in court, they will be treated badly because $insert_tinfoil_here."

You are confusing communism with state capitalism.

Please follow the HN guidelines and remain civil, even when the other person has not.

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

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

Presidents can pardon.

It isn't. It is state capitalism. It is still capitalism.

If pure capitalism isn't robust enough that it won't devolve into cronyism then it's just as worthless an ideology as "communism", and for much the same reason. It's not enough that something sounds good and works in theory - humans have to be able to implement it too.

You should have said that this is a book in the title.

Why's that?

So that people will know. Titles are to inform, be descriptive.The way it reads, it sounds like a blog post.

I guess that makes sense. The title comes in just under the 80 character wire as it is, but I'll try to work it in next time.

In any case, my initial comment explicitly said "ebook" at least once. I'm not trying to mislead anyone :)

cry me a river?