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> What's with all the "China is evil" articles lately ?

Perhaps people are realizing that China:

- is an ever increasingly authoritarian surveillance state with few checks and balances

- lies to its people, censors truths and has weaponised nationalism to externalize its faults

- benefits from the world order yet does not play by the rules (intellectual property, market access)

- locks up hundreds of thousands of its own people for forced 'reeducation'

- has begun annexing the South China sea and eroding Hong Kong's democratic institutions

The West made China rich with few preconditions (and much to their own selfish benefit) and are now facing a potential hegemonic power that has zero interest in sustaining a democratic or liberal order. Say what you will about democracy, it tends to temper belligerence and prevent the type of insanity bestowed upon us by Mao, Stalin and Hitler.

The Chinese Communist Party simply can not, and should not, be trusted.

> Are there any websites (non-chinese) where I can find news about positive advancements in the country ?

Where have you been? The last decade has been a pro-China 'Asian Century' circle-jerk across almost all the media.
Can you add a link for those of us who want to try to play on mobipe anyways?
It sure if it’s related but I learned from my brother in law’s girlfriend that her little brother had been hoarding scooters because they had some app that could disable the tracking and let you ride for free.

I guess the fact that these show up on a map contradicts that.
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It is great to see a rumour posted on NGA, then badly translated and posted onto reddit and now reposted on some other messageboard with some editorialising and now reported as fact on HN.
The double standards, lack of historical context and nuance, the surgical separation of capitalism from the power concentration it creates and its consequences (inequality, skewed democracy etc), the euphemisms (usually using the word freedom), and the reflexive assumption that critics want Stalinism and so on, all these things are just too infuriating and requires too much effort to step by step reply too, hence my downvote.
"5 years before Instagram existed" ... right place, right product, wrong time.
Maybe it is not meant to be taken too literally and just means violence, may even be an artifact of the translation.
I feel like the obvious solution is to pay chargers based on how much of their charge was used the following day after releasing the scooter into the wild.
I cannot for the life of me understand why they don't make setting up all those variables part of the installer (in the case of Windows, and possibly Mac?) / first time setup process, or define some sane defaults that don't get in your way. I can't help but feel most people likely have a similar enough setup to how I have my environment variables configured at the minimum, why not automate that repetitiveness at the installer / default configuration level.
Great, comparing old browser Users with people which have disabilities. facepalm
Sorry dude, but the crux of your joke is that elite programmers shouldn't look at Perl 6.. because it took a while to develop?

And it is hardly "tongue in cheek" when you talk trash about the language (which you have never used) throughout this news item.
> are also persecuted all over the US and Europe

Persecuted? I mean, maybe there's social stigma. But I can start a local chapter of "<some_minority> support group" and no one is going to knock on my door and disappear me in the night. I can make a website that's entirely dedicated to criticizing my government, and my internet connection won't be blocked. I can jaywalk across the street without a CCTV camera auto-detecting my face, associating it with my Citizen Social Credit score, and then having it be broadcast on a massive digital billboard to shame me in front of thousands of people.

Okay, that started to drift from your original point a bit, my bad.
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The reason hardly anyone knows the names of important party members after Deng Xiaoping and before Xi Jingping is that it was policy. Deng recognised the dangers of creating a cult of personality, such as he had witnessed (and suffered) under Mao.

Xi is quickly reversing this, presenting his person and ideas as central tenets of the party. It's a direction that should cause concern, since I think it's mainly Deng's policies that laid the groundwork for China's rise and current status on the world stage.
Does that have anything to do with his ability to inspire people to do something with their lives? We're headed down this dangerous path where it seems we need to be able to vouch for every aspect of a person's life before we're allowed to celebrate anything they've done. People can do amazing things. And they can be assholes. And most of the time they're both.
Thank you both! I will look into them.
Using a cookie that fits within the constraints imposed by the GDPR? It does have a list of criteria to which data it applies.
I almost had to laugh after the US just recently abolished Net Neutrality. And what is the grind with cookie notices and GDPR? I very much like to know what companies can do with my data, what data they have and demand deletion of it.

This is not against companies, it's for people. Companies should have had these information in the first place, now they just need to display it to the user but I guess thats too much to ask.

Im all against filters but cookie notices and GDPR are consumer friendly laws which I like a lot.
That’s a completely pointless observation.

PEGI is a pan-European (note: not solely UK - it’s an industry body) rating system. It doesn’t censor content or creativity, it just recommends that younger people can’t buy extreme content. It’s not active censorship.

Ofcom doesn’t apply to games - it’s TV, radio, phones, communications regulator (Office of Communications).

The ICO regulates data protection and privacy. In what way is this related to game and creativity censorship?

HMRC is tax collection. The only way this can affect game design is via tax breaks - these tax breaks are not predicated on specific creative requirements.

So - how is the UK in any way similar to China in terms of game censorship?
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>I'm not too sure we can give lessons to the Chinese government on this subject.

I simply must call BS.

Are the Germans not qualified to give lessons on the subject of pervasive surveillance, or the concentration of thousands into camps on the basis of their religion? Are the Bosniaks not qualified to speak of ethnic cleansing, particularly as it applies to a Muslim population? Are the British, whose colonial empire committed many of the same crimes China seems intent on repeating, without any wisdom to offer on the subject?

Perhaps the recent density of criticism directed at China, in particular reports on the surveillance state and concentration camps in Xinjiang, are signs that something has gone very wrong.
There's probably a template which rearranges the words a bit and fills in your company specific info. It's going to be aahmazing!
The scooter business it's proving to be a real life experiment of the many fucked up factors and forces that influence an urban modern society: vandalism, hoarding scooters for profit, tension between governments, companies and users, blatant violation of traffic rules, etc...

As you scale something like this the problems become more evident and harder to manage.
These businesses looked pretty solid when they had small fleets, but now that they are scaling it's pretty easy to see the cracks.

Watching how this unfolds in the next two to three years is going to be a hell of a ride (no pun intended)
"it's possible to put above average commitment into a company, while still being entirely health. "

Healthy or not, if the employee does not get above average renumeration for their above average efforts they are being ripped off. That's what the financial pathology here is - if everyone is working with an above average output, but thei pay is average, from the point of view of the company the cost of labour for above average output is less than the market rate, and it's harder to get fair compensation.

I don't think there is anything wrong in working ones ass off, but if the worker is just an employee they should make sure their compensation is fair, versus the market rate.

People often imagine that they will get a fair compensation for their work, while generally actually they get only the compensation which they ask for.

That's why this 'work hard party hard' culture can be detrimental IMO - it easily blinds people to the financial realities of their situation.

That's not to say that professional 10x operations would not exist where labour is rewarded faiy, but that the employee must be aware of what the unspoken gameplan actually is. Is it cultish razzle dazzle to get cheap labour or actual 'entrepreneurial spec ops' type activity.
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IMHO W3C should stop churning through ever more complex CSS specs and take a step back to review their goals. At this point, only Chrome will realistically be able to implement CSS Grid Layout Level 2, with FF increasingly becoming a token implementation to satisfy the "two interworking implementations" criterion.
As someone else mentioned, Fortnite is tencents game, they’re a 40% stakeholder in epic and this is a huge upset for them. So maybe this is like you said temporary.
I cannot find a fix either, and am getting bored of having to fix Chrome UI.
And to give the 1ns L1 access time some physicality. During 1 nanosecond light in vacuum travels 30 centimeters, or 12 inches. Signals in conductors travel slower. It is ridiculously short amount of time.

This means that there will absolutely never* be anything that can give faster access that is going to be farther than that from the CPU. Or more specifically half of that distance as the message to request what part of the cache to read must travel to the cache itself.

* Unless we find out FTL is possible. But it's a rather safe bet to assume no.
Sure, but intel CISC instructions can do more, so in the end is a wash.
Thanks for the link... enjoyable and educational :)

Wonder where Immortal Technique would fit within that chart.
Having learned to code in a time and age where being opinionated wasn't a thing, opinionated languages feel like golden cages.
Queuing works great when you have mostly constant load. Take image resizing, if you size a queue system to handle resizing 10k/images a day it will fall over on the day you get a million. If you use serverless it might cost a few extra bucks but you will not have a capacity problem.

The million at once thing happens more often then you think, take the case where a website gets a new logo. Now you have to redo the watermark on all the images. Or maybe you want to convert your jpg to webp.

You can also use lambdas to process your images on-the-fly as clients request them. We use both pre-process and on-the-fly depending on if we need hashes ahead of time.
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> But I can start a local chapter of "<some_minority> support group" and no one is going to knock on my door and disappear me in the night.

Absolutely true. But you WILL not be given access to venues to host events, and you will most certainly be labeled a "violent activist group" or (if you're from a particular religious group) be accused of "feeding the fire of terrorism". With all the negative consequences that come with that. (This is not science fiction by the way, it happened in a certain west european country not too long ago).

So yeah, I'm not sure it's a better deal.

I wasn't trying to start a flame war or anything. I just find the hate towards china very curious and very dangerous. What bothers me isn't necessarily the negative criticism it's rather the fact that we're accusing them of things the US and Europe have been guilty of for centuries, but you're right we're drifting away from the main topic of the article.

Thanks for replying.
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Sure, if fires existed in vacuums that would be the end of the story. Instead, they often exist near camp sites and other inhabited areas. Tracking down and minimizing causes of man-made fires, which tend to cluster around inhabited areas, happens to minimize the chance of death in forest fires - regardless of the total energy built up.
I would say neither the Great Wall nor the European laws will threaten the freedom of internet as much as the large US internet monopolies enforcing their behavior on the whole network.
This was so interesting to read. I greenfielded a project recently and while we went with GraphQl (largely for the same reasons they did) I also admired Falcor a lot, and well remember the day I saw it hit 1.0 here on HN. Falcor has been my road-not-taken, despite being happy with GraphQL.

How could Falcor move to compete? it's a neat technology.
Blood and gore used to be enough reason in Germany to get a game altered?
Perhaps you answered your own question. Uk has many cards up its sleeve to censor china for whatever reason it needs.
So rename it "paint" tag, color all explosions and blood in green and blue. Claim it's just 100 tag you're out.
True company culture can be anything. But if someone talks too much about culture, it just makes me think about all the extra non-work parties, get together a and events you'll be expected to go to.

My idea of a good company culture is a place where everyone works hard during working hours and then goes home and leaves the work at work so they can relax and spend time with friends and family.
Performance competitive technology requires paying for its development. Electronics manufacturing is inherently heavy industry, nothing short of mandating FPGAs would tilt it any other way.

The world we live in is built upon a series of choices, the most important of which is whether you take a higher paying job or building what you desire.

There will always be a lag between the latest product, or in the case of Linux vs Unix, reverse engineering and developing a compatible product.
Maybe they want to be beyond suspicion of self-dealing.
To bad they are not doing this with RISC-V. Getting a large costumer and high performance implementations would been a great boost.

Since this is about vertical integration for them it would make a certain amount of sense.
Interesting. I forgot NGA as one of the influential online forums in China when I wrote about that topic.

For those who don't know, NGA was originally a forum about World of Warcraft (the online game). Then it got popular and became more generic , similar to the "wow" subforum on Baidu Tieba (Chinese equivalent of reddit, but earlier than reddit).
Agree that getting the region wrong is sloppy.

But how does one avoid asking every time when cookies are blocked? What other implementation option is possible? This is what cookies are for.
Although in retrospect it seems weird to ask you about a package you didn't even use, so, uh, there's that
You speak as if western powers invading, destroying and supporting coup d'etats in foreign nations is a thing of the past. It's not. We are right to bring up the issue of Tibet but the chinese would be more than happy to mention the endless list of countries the west has destroyed/seriously compromised in all parts of the world (central/south america, the middle-east, central asia and now even Africa).
They stated the reason why they are moving their US-bound production out of China is to avoid financial shortcomings from the current tariff issues.

They even said that the non-US bound production is staying in China.
When I hear "opinionated" I think of Ruby on Rails. Would be nice if Go had more opinions on structure and conventions perhaps.
I grew up with doom so this is awesome. I know that he is the original creator and that this is technically a free mod, still wonder if Bethesda will just let him do this if it proves to be popular.
Not to bag on Rockwell, I appreciate his reviews and viewpoints, but do you trust that he has the requisite expertise to correctly analyse the quality of such an adaptor?

I... don't. His write-up doesn't inspire confidence either - I have no idea how he has performed the measurements.

I know enough to know that audio measurement is a very tricky endeavour, and most other measurements put the lightning adaptor's output at a few dBA worse in SNR and dynamic range than the iPhone 6S' jack output (but otherwise similar). Both are easily worse than a good external DAC. Certainly not "better quality" than the inbuilt option as Rockwell claims.

It's good enough for almost everyone, and is likely to be capable of higher fidelity than most source material, but most agree that it is objectively a worse DA.
I noticed Romero has been selling a lot of his gaming collection in eBay the past year.

Along with this Sigil release, it makes me think he's struggling a bit, I hope not.

Still a cool concept, I miss games that come with packaging and games.
And then suddenly, Google gets the right of life and death on almost any content on the internet. This is dystopian enough to be believable.
I'm in China right now. WeChat is bloody amazing.
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It would still use any bundled Firefox services. Mozilla makes (most?) of their money from search engine referrals so this alone is likely to be a direct support of them.
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So, if you are using an interpreted language, you're indifferent to cost savings enough that savings from running on ARM likely won't make enough to be a differentiator.

> If the arm servers are noticeably cheaper then people will be incentivized to make their software run on it.

Yeah, I don't think the incentive is as large as you perceive it to be. Few, if any, customers are going to hire back the people they got rid of five years ago to port their old code over to a platform that is 50% cheaper to run, let alone smaller to no existent savings.

But that's kind of missing the simpler problem though: there's a reason beyond form factor that the ARM version of Windows has limited features/offerings...

> Why isn’t windows more common on Azure and AWS? It costs more per hour.

Actually, with three year reserved instances, the pricing is largely the same in Azure.
I came to believe that these negative forces are all around us. They are constantly at play. As the landscape changes, they adapt to the new realities, but are mostly invisible.

When a big company comes is with a sudden alteration to the "environment", these negative forces respond, with a force that is congruous to the speed at which the original change happened.

If a change in society happens quickly, it is very visible. All the reactions also happen quickly and are also very visible.

If the change happens slowly, the reactions also follow gradually and slowly, and everything seems less drastic and less noticeable.
That's a good question...I don't care about the performance of a browser because nowadays everything loads instantly anyways. Brave has built in anti-ad features, also can operate in TOR mode and that's pretty much the only reason of why I'm using it.
Thanks for the links. These are very interesting articles. It's refreshing to be exposed to a completely new perspective.
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I don’t miss these shops in the UK. They were very expensive and literally had nothing in stock here. You’d regularly phone up, confirm stock, get there after a 20 mile drive and then they couldn’t find the stock or had filed the wrong resistors.

Now we have RS etc. Free next day delivery on everything. I regularly buy £0.20 of resistors at 7pm and they’re here by 10am next day.
That sends a very loud message to shareholders of other companies: make sure that management is securing whatever data the company has or risk having your entire investment be wiped out.
If that's what you're doing, then surely 12 1.44gb USBs?
I think it's called lead by fear, something politicians/leaders are good at all throught history. Not only in China mind you. The Trump campaign is full of it, just as the nationalist movement in Europe.
One possible solution is to look at the place where the scooter was charged. Next, look at the place it has spent waiting to be charged. If the distance is less than 100 feet, don't give a payout. This can also be gamed, but more elaborate rules can be implemented. Ultimately, it will not be worth a hassle to game the system on a wide scale. A sort of equilibrium will be achieved. Cat and mouse it is.
I just pointed out how the UK does not have cards up it’s sleeve.

But as you seem to know something I don’t, please enlighten me - any examples of the UK government actually censoring games?
Can you explain to me how the deletion policies work?

If you ask for your data to be deleted does that include your address in my contacts? Does it include your messages to me? Does it include your posts that appeared on my feed?

In the physical world all of those would be mine. Addresses: It would be my paper address book with your address written in it. Email: would paper letters you sent to me that I keep in my files. Your posts in my feed would be postcards I received from you keep in a scrapbook or shoebox.

It's not clear to me how those are handled by the GDPR and at what point things sent digitally from you to me end being my property and no longer your property.
> Some mornings, I had to reassure myself I hadn’t joined a cult. We were teammates, not co-workers, and our meetings would end with a rousing “Go team!”

Most startups (if not all) are a cult: they have even 'evangelisers'. Why? They need money from investors and sometimes with nothing to show. So founders need to preach. Employees wake up one day in this environment also. Like in any cult, some people believe more and some people believe less. Some don't believe at all and some pretend to believe. Meanwhile money flows.
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Hence the need for penalties on false positives. Alas, here this won't happen on its own, because streaming platforms need people with money (and their content) more than the reverse.
Me too, me too...

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You were obviously playing four minutes thirty-three seconds of silence by John Cage[1] on repeat in the background! Crystal clear copyright violation!

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Their country, their rules. The US has no God given right to world domination with their products.