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> Are they "just" sucking up to management or are they maybe the only ones who buy the propaganda?

IMO, neither. I don't like this purported dichotomy between "management" and "colleagues/employees". I have seen several of my former classmates and colleagues transition into management roles. Their ideology hasn't changed much in the last 20 years. For example, in the Indian context, their view of Kashmir and the army's role there is pretty much the same as the government propaganda. "Management" did not convince them when we were all still in college, and did not convince them when we were all low-level employees. The people just happened to grow up in an environment where a certain ideological bent was considered "right", "virtuous", etc.
Working quite well here in Switzerland...
It's rule by people who use the brand "communist", but they aren't actually communists in any meaningful sense, not even as in what the word meant to the Soviets. China is very authoritarian, but it is not communist or even socialist. Fascism would be an accurate description, though, as Mussolini himself defined it ("Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.")
I bet Tedium is one of those names that has yet to be taken for a social media startup.
Watch the demo at the beginning of the game — you don’t want to click on the ball as your pivot point for the swing — use the upper right part of the window. That’s part of the reason I made the demo — to show the best place to start your swings. :)
I few things of note:

- they are not the only game n town. DNV, ABB, MCA, Wartsila are all big players exploring this area. Other small players include Sea Machines and others.

- the article interchanged “remote control” with “autonomous”.

- a major hurdle: most of the crew on large commercial ships perform maintenance while the vessel is underway. Who will do that on a unmanned vessel?
Never underestimate the destructive power of wealthy assholes.
There is no reason to take survival as the only metric here, no need to oversimplify the problem.

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it" - Alan Kay
One can readily argue that doing business with a criminal deprives law-abiding (or moral) actors of revenue with which to gain an economy of scale.
Having seen all type of consultants over the year:

- The strategic consultant you describe manages to have a higher tariff, but the sales cycle is long and the downtime between gigs significant

- the 'software consultant' has an on average lower tariff (depending on the specialization), but little downtime and faster sales.

Pick your poison and do what you feel most comfortable with.
Even if he did, Facebook doesn't go away. It's here to stay now.

If you're dining with Satan, you can't decline dessert. You have to eat everything Satan prepares for the evening. You can try to run away, but I'm not sure you would get very far.
it's written in the article.
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... on the other note: Madurai - a city where Sundar was born, is known to be a communist enclave in otherwise nationalist dominated state of Tamil Nadu.

Check out his father's background and 'the labour activism'...
No, it's mainly technological. Here you can see the breakdown of operating costs of different wide-body aircraft: https://www.planestats.com/bhsw_2014sep

As shown there majority of the cost is fuel, and as hcarvalhoalves's comment notes fuel economy has improved by 45% since the 60s.

Not having to operate a 4-engine jumbo jet for transatlantic flights or make multiple landings in Ireland/Iceland/Nova Scotia just to fly between Paris & New York is also a huge reduction in cost. That's what ETOPS in my comment is referring to. The operating of having more engines is also higher.

Flights that today cost $400 would cost something like $1000 today if it wasn't for these sorts of technological improvements, and $1000 flights would be $2500 etc.
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Some people work to make money. If providing solutions to bureaucracies pays well, why not do it?
This article is not recent hence the differences in price. FYI.
The counterargument is that censoring political speech is decidedly indecent regardless of anyone's intentions. If political censorship ceases to be unconscionable, then a culture is convinced that there is no right to speech or conscience.

That is clearly true for China. It seems to be true for Google as well.
I think a PWA (progressive web app), that people get directly through your website, is a more viable alternative.

As long as you don't need some native-only functionality of course.
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So china wanted google news and google search censored. Honestly, what's the big deal?

Google news and google search is also censored in the US, Europe, Middle East and everywhere.

Why is it that so many vocal ex-employees are against censorship in china, but demand censorship in the US?

I'm against censorship everywhere but the self-righteousness of these people when it comes to china is getting to be unbearable.

These ex-employees are saying google has to censor news and search because the internet is "too toxic" and causing too much division. This is precisely what the chinese authorities say to justify censorship.

And with the recent revelations of how politically driven and manipulative google is ( and has been ), I highly doubt the chinese or any country would allow google in without certain restrictions.
> Why is it OK to have all our devices, etc. manufactured in China, but it's not OK for Google to offer services there?

This is a great angle. I have no idea, why there is such a huge disparity there, but I have three possible explanations:

1. People do not understand supply chain management (myself included). There is nothing inherently evil about employing people in a foreign country, and not many people are aware that cost of production is lower in China because of (sometimes) horrible working conditions.

2. Google branded itself on "Don't be evil". More or less everyone in western countries would agree that facilitating censorship on a massive scale for the benefit of government officials is "bad".

3. Hypocrisy. Our way of life depends on low wage labour (read: explotiation of the poor) in foreign countries. Our morals follow our wallet.
> After using facebook for 8 years, I had reached a point where I stopped posting content but couldn't stop consuming the content posted by others and also logging into facebook without even thinking. I tried multiple times to deactivate the account but it always resulted in reactivating it. The two main reasons for it was the herd mentality and the FOMO.

I'd argue that deeply reflecting on this offers a huge potential for personal growth. Why the fear of missing out? To me it seems more and more clear that the only thing to miss out on is the present moment as it is for me right here and right now.

> The annoying part is that it is not easy to unfollow everyone and you have to do it one by one. I found a post with some js code that helped in achieving this and it worked, don't know if it will work now

I guess with Facebook and its siblings this is an uphill battle as they will always try to come up with new ways to prevent you from pursuing precisely those kind of goals.

> Its been more than 6 months I've deleted facebook, I'm not missing it, I hardly think about it and quite happy that I'm out of it.

Congratulations on that!
There are costs to everything you do or don't do.

If your argument is that censorship prevents genocide, i would point tou to nazi germany, or soviet russia.
Same, this business model is broken. Tremendous value is relative to the size of the business. Nontech founder = small business = high stakes work for low absolute comp. You make way more as an actual CTO (cash, equity, whatever) because you can grow the size of the pie, often rapidly.
It is an odd thing that a company can on the one hand become known as the one firing an engineer who tried to open an honest discussion on a hot subject like 'gender discrimination' because that engineer was deemed to lack a moral compass, while on the other hand bending over backwards to assist an oppressive - but lucrative - dictatorship in implementing a real-life version of Oceania's Ingsoc [1] [2]. As if these people are so blind-sided by their own ideology that they do not recognise their own moral compasses twirling as if they're in the Bermuda triangle and the 'no' being struck from their previous motto of 'do no evil'.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingsoc

[2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-18/china-social-credit-a...
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Amen.
Post reader I gave up on RSS because Feedly wasn't it for me. I even tried the one as part of Thunderbird.

I have been using https://elytra.app recently. Pretty happy so far (iOS only at the moment, but the developer is working on a web version)
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Don't know why you single out free markets there. A lack of scruples can be advantageous in economically closed environments as well.
I once saw an interview conducted by I believe Tucker Carlson with Bill Nye regarding climate change. It was obviously conducted entirely in bad faith and was just painful to watch. Every time Bill Nye would begin to answer a question the host would cut him off with random nonsense like “Isn’t it true Mr. Nye that you’re not even a scientist?!” and the process repeated until completion. It was obvious that it was pushing a completely biased tribal narrative and was not concerned with logical analysis and discussion. And yet sadly the video was uploaded with a title along the lines of “Tucker Carlson Destroys Bill Nye” with a majority of the comments disparaging Mr. Nye. So I’d have to agree with you that there are definitely a non-trivial amount of the populous that cannot be swayed by facts or discussion and instead stick blindly to their “team” of choice.
and am incorrect in thinking that if they now have an empty seat because you bailed on the leg, that they can let a standby passenger fill the seat?
> 13/ I encourage employees of Google who have been asked to work on censored products to stand up against these requests, as I did in 2006, and make it known that Google's willingness to censor is immoral.

I'd rather formulate it this way:

I encourage employees of Google who have been asked to work on censored products to take a look from different perspectives, apply their values and morale, make an informed decision on whether they want to support what they're asked to work on - and have the spine to follow through with their decision.

The reason why I disagree with the original statement is that it feels like people are forcing their own moral decisions on others. "I'm convinced it's bad, so you have to agree and act like it".
There are many Google mirror sites, most of which are blocked in China. If the Chinese government decides to work with some of the mirror sites to deliver Google search results in China, on the condition that the mirror sites must censor the search results, what would happen? I could think of three reactions from Google:

1. Block those mirror sites from accessing Google search results, but this may be technically difficult.

2. Do nothing. Effectively a censored Google becomes available in China but people can hardly blame google for not blocking the mirror sites.

3. Work with the mirror sites (e.g. require them to display Google ads). This is pretty much dragonfly.

It seems that Dragonfly doesn't really change anything about China's censorship after all?
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That's true in competitive markets, but in tech, winner-takes-all happens more often than not, and it affords the winner a lot of freedom.
Whatever Chinese people say, they use only their own products unless it's Apple.
I honestly don’t know what their returns will be on the latest fund, but it doesn’t seem to reflect anything like your (extremely vague) take so far.

https://www.ft.com/content/c2fe7814-536a-11e8-b3ee-41e020920...
Ask HN: Skipped during raise season when you're new-ish to the job?
I'm curious what's common in other companies.

If your company does raises/bonuses once a year, but you're only 6 months into the job when raise season comes around, how common is it to get "skipped"? This would mean you wouldn't see a raise or bonus until 18 months into the job.
I'm genuinely curious, why do you believe scrum to be "stupid and horrible"?
I miss it too because of that I am working on Zibillion as a hobby project currently, https://zibillion.com/ but it is not there yet.
super cool. The world needs more success stories for NVM
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Google doesn’t really have world-wide competitors in the Chinese search market. Baidu is basically a large scale healthcare scam, while Bing is struggling

Foreign companies face different rules in China when compared to Chinese ones via selective enforcement of law. They will not be exposed to the same real Chinese system.
The Saana comment was pretty far out there.

Yes. It's safe to say that comment had anti-muslim, anti-immigrant, anti-minority bias.

There are many people like that in the world though. It's unreasonable to require them to not exist before we discuss topics like this. In fact, in a very real way, they are the entire reason we find ourselves needing to discuss topics like this.
It's not about a moral compass, it's about attracting top talent. The universities push this ideology, so if you want to get the alumni from the universities to work for you, you have to abide by the tenets.
For me it seems that in times of instant messaging email is the saviour in personal communication - not in professional context though (I still prefer an email over being called many times over). When it comes to private messaging people tend to write mails more with a mindset of writing a letter. Full sentences and the entire communication structure seems to be aimed at being complete and more thoughtful. IMing often feels more like ping pong than actually conversing.
Yeah, that's part of where I was going.

The new theology caught on as a simplified "back-to-basics" doctrine for the masses, and shed a lot of the subtlety of earlier theology.

Instead of being less indoctrinated protestants became more fundamentalist and less nuanced than Catholics -- which can be seen in a very crude example in today's "bible belt" version of christianity (and even someone like Nietzsche alluded to that kind of influence by Luther).
Metrowerks CodeWarrior.

Xcode and Visual Studio have come a long way, but in its day CodeWarrior felt so much more efficient and productive than the alternatives; imagine what it might be today if it had continued!
an interesting way of describing a crypto blockchain like bitcoin or ethereum is that it's a way of incentivizing the storage and preservation of information. In particular, the information of a transaction from one address to another is attached with it a fee for storing it. Your "much simpler solutions" require a trusted third party that has no financial incentive to keep your information around, and depending on the lifetime of your needs may not persist long enough. 10 years ago your solution may have involved myspace or further back geocities or tripod, which are defunct / have refreshed their databases. Spending under 10 cents on a miner fee to store your hash is also a much better solution and cheaper solution than the lawyer escrow. Lawyer escrows and safes are vulnerable to local information loss that bitcoin/ethereum protects against through federated datastores (lots of important papers stored in the world trade center were destroyed on 9/11).
I get the hoopla but what’s the alternative? It’s not that Chinese customers are clamoring for any of the Google services. Without Google, China will continue to develop their home grown services with far more surveillance than Google would put in. There are zero nations in the world which will stand up against China and dare to ask them do things differently. Some scholars even believe that Chinese culture is predisposed to this kind of government and westerners are simply not “getting it”. I personally don’t get either Britain’s tendencies to put person in charge of declaring wars and face on their currency because of no other reason than that person being born in certain family.
> If Google doesn't move in, someone else will eventually fill the vacuum. Who?

Someone with less skills and expertise, who will hopefully make more mistakes implementing censorship? Or maybe someone with more skin in the game (e.g. locals) who might actually be more motivated to sabotage it?

But, conversely, Google implementing such a thing in China - and justifying it as moral there by these arguments - would also give them skills and expertise to do it US in the future, and a canned excuse as to why it's okay.

> Suppose that Chinese-born-and-bred search-engine-and-advertising-company, through virtue of having access to a massive economic resource, succeeds broadly and then enters the western markets. What then?

Then we engage in protectionism ourselves.
> Worth noting, that unlike the western empire, that had the rule of the pope, the Byzantium had separate church and state.

This is an utterly bizarre misinterpretation of Orthodox Christianity. The position of head of the Orthodox Church was in the gift of first the Eastern Roman Emperor and then the Ottoman Emperor until the end of the Ottoman Empire. The Emperor didn’t have total control, the Church was an autonomous power centre of some note but the balance of power between the Church and the temporal power was more similar between Islam and Orthodox lands than the Eastern and Western Churches.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesaropapism

Caesaropapism's chief example is the authority that the Byzantine (East Roman) Emperors had over the Church of Constantinople and Eastern Christianity from the 330 consecration of Constantinople through the tenth century.[4][5] The Byzantine Emperor would typically protect the Eastern Church and manage its administration by presiding over Ecumenical Councils and appointing Patriarchs and setting territorial boundaries for their jurisdiction.[6] The Emperor exercised a strong control over the ecclesiastical hierarchy, and the Patriarch of Constantinople could not hold office if he did not have the Emperor's approval
Clojure is a modernised version of Lisp. It compiles to Java bytecode and runs on the JVM. Clojurescript compiles to Javascript for use in the browser. Some amazing programming tools have been written for Clojurescript. The community is very robust and opinionated, in a good way I think.

Clojure is very modern with its vectors and maps. Lisp is more of an antique, a very valuable antique though. its very interesting to learn about both at the same time, as I did :)
I agree, I own a BlackBerry Passport which my wife just stopped using and every time I touch it I fall back in love with the design, it's just so damn cool, I wish more phones were weird and comfortable like that. I had a Priv, which was a bit different, but now that I have an S9+ I see every 2nd person with the same fucking phone I have, when before I was so much more unique and different.
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I prefer the "proof of work != blockchain" comments when people include the most common consensus protocol in their simple description of blockchain.
... and of course, at the very end, users :)
> It would be, by fair, the biggest failure in modern science. So there is reason that alternatives to dark matter are held to a higher standard than dark matter itself, beyond simplicity - which dark matter no longer really is.

I don't think this is anything to do with a higher standard. It's more like Occam's razor. If there's an alternative explanation that will upend our whole understanding of gravity and cosmology, have at it. But such an explanation must come with something testable that shows it's true.

Here's an example of an alternative explanation, "a wizard did it." But that's not science, because there's no way to prove it. As a result, in the absence of a testable hypothesis, you have to go along with the one that does the least violence to all currently existing knowledge, surely?

I.e. what I'm saying is that it isn't on the Dark matter theory to prove itself. We already have observable gravitational issues that need something weird to be true. Dark matter is just the simplest explanation anyone can come up with that fits the facts. It's on any other theory to either throw out less of already-established science by being an even simpler explanation, or to prove it's justified in throwing out more by showing experimental evidence.

Or, to put it another way. I agree that dark matter isn't a simple theory. But there isn't currently a simpler one on the market.
True, survival bias only applies to competitive markets. Google still has leeway to leave China on the table without going out of business, especially since Chinese tech companies remain isolated from the rest of the world.
Re [2]: https://paraditedc.com/2018/09/30/pdc-2-social-credit-system...

Disclaimer: I wrote the post.
The Fenix 3 is still going strong for me after two years with it. I don't usually use GPS on it, so I charge it about once a week when it's around 50% charge (sometimes I forget to check, which is why I plan for about weekly charging).

Also, the edge is slightly raised above the face on it, so while there are a couple of nicks on the bezel, there are no scratches on the glass. The sapphire glass may also be part of that.

App ecosystem is minimal, but I honestly don't need any apps anyway.
Maybe that's the case for him, but I'm of the oppinion that open protocols will win in the end. You often hear about the network effect of social netorks, however it is important to remember that FB is a subset of the greater network that is the Internet, which is built on open protocols.
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Try peertube.
It sounds interesting when you look at the features. But what about the target audience and Audience Management?
You know aoe2 is pretty big on steam and voobly right now, right?

They are even having a $60k tourney (I think sponsored by MS).

It is still a pretty big and active community and easy to get a game.

Plus, there have been a bunch of great DLCs in the past few years
Sure. I'm not saying that it's good to do that. But I don't think anyone would argue that it's far worse to actively and directly enable the criminal.
Free market ideally tends to reward who’s morally right or ethical as people prefer companies to be ethically responsible. China has no free market.
I've been in this same thread a few months back. Insect loss is definitely happening, but bear in mind your lack of splatter probably also has a lot to do with better aerodynamics of cars these days. Bugs blow over the windshield on modern cars, they don't tend to splat as often. I live in an area with swarms of insects and i never have to clean anything off these days.

EDIT: Out walking my kids while i write this and i just swallowed a bug :(