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This is intensely interesting because everything points towards China never backing down, and protesters having nothing to win. The default assumption is continuity of the party and the system.

Yet, looking at history, systems are not that stable. The Berlin wall and Sowjet union seemed like they would not end.

I assume 3-letter agencies have vast amounts of resources dedicated to analyzing how to create the instabilities that may ultimately make such systems collapse.

Bottom line, historically speaking, we should not be surprised if China collapses. We should also not be surprised if the party keeps its tight grip for another 100 years.
From the very first paragraph of your link

> Under the principle, each of the two regions could continue to have its own governmental system, legal, economic and financial affairs, including trade relations with foreign countries.

Yet they're trying to pass a law that essentially allow China to extradite people in HK to mainland China, for any reason mainland China makes up. That is not 1 country, 2 systems as the legal system in mainland China can dictate what people they want extradited from HK. Even the EU have made a formal complaint against the law.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-extradition-eu/e...
Can you explain the use case for your unsound type system? Is it unsound just because mypy types are inexpressive?
Hong Kong is a matter of national security to China. Something countries go to wars till the last man over. So what you mentioned is nothing, China has a lot more goodies in the bag. Here's one: Granting pardons or giving immunity to top criminal gangs as a long as they kill xxx revolt leaders.
I am a mainland-born Chinese who studied in the US and have been living in HK for over a decade. Just want to share what I saw recently: an overwhelming majority of Chinese people who grew up in mainland, regardless of where they live and work now, disapprove of the HK protesters' activities. Many mainland Chinese living in HK, who were largely not interested in politics in the past, have started donating money to pro-government causes. Supportive comments of the mainland government have risen dramatically among private chatters. It seems to me that the HK protesters' messages do not resonate well with most Chinese people.
True. But I doubt anyone would be able to go through the rigmarole of getting the tickets and go on the trip within that 16-day window.
Our cities did not used to be so divided but this was the direct outcome of Roosevelt era polices which actually forced it. The FHA when created would not insure mortgages for blacks and went to far to finance new subdivisions for whites only - requiring that no blacks be allowed to buy. Legal unionization allowed exclusion of low skilled labor which effectively pushed nearly a half million out of jobs and thereby out of their homes.

Throw in how most New Deal recovery efforts were only aimed at states the Democratic party needed votes in and this lead to the exclusion for any funds to help poor blacks in the South.

The FHA created this mess and on purpose. It simply comes down to politicians constantly trying to focus the ire of the people on those who did not cause it so as to keep people divided and the situation perpetuated.

Want to fix housing segregation and outcomes, get politicians out
In response to the protests, the government line has been to continue to stall and to claim that everything happening in Hong Kong is magically just the result of foreign interference by actors like the CIA, that way they don't have to actually listen to their own people, they can just plug their ears and say lalalalala the CIA did it all.

This comment appears to support that general narrative, so I suspect people are seeing that and not wanting to see the standard government obfuscation line here are downvoting it.

Just ask yourself, if the CIA has such control over Hong Kong that it could cause 10 weeks of protests by large large amounts of the population, whether or not they wouldn't have already declared independence and declared themselves a mini United States state or something to that effect.

The Hong Kong government's accusation and Beijing's continual messaging that this is all just the United States messing with them is untrue, a bald faced lie and ridiculous on its face if you think about it, but they haven't come up with anything better just yet so they're just sort of holding onto that line for anyone who will listen.
Macau is 1/10 the size with an economy mostly focused on gambling? Macau has a significantly weaker democratic tradition having been part of the Portuguese military dictatorship until 1974?
They have very specific "5 demands"

1. no extradition to china

2. retract characterization of protests as riots

3. exonerate arrested protestors

4. investigate police misconduct

5. resignation of the PRC-appointed executive and... democracy

they are literally protesting for democracy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Hong_Kong_anti-extraditio...
I suspect "well" might be an exaggeration. I bet they were doing the same complex-claims-process, but no consumer action groups got involved.

Without a consumer action group, most customers will just be disappointed when told that they were disqualified because they filled the form in in black ink instead of blue. The few customers that make a big fuss can be given flights.

It's only when a group gets involved that you have to give them all what they're entitled to, and it gets expensive.
the range of notes in pentatonic scale is only five. but the rhythms (the important part of modern music) have a lot more combinations. katy perry's writers used the exact same rhythm with the same notes, which is highly improbable
I always wondered if this could be reality
I like the comparison with first class functions. I do feel like they are more commonly understood nowadays than when I first started programming ~12ish years ago.

I think because languages like Java are evolving towards a world where those things are common, the average programmer is 'forced' to learn those concepts.
Julie Eadeh (a diplomat at the US consulate in Hong Kong) was seen meeting a leader of the protesters. It certainly smells fishy.
pjc50 - it won't let me reply to you directly. I just mean it as a demonstration of the links between local HK authorities and foreign intelligence services. It wouldn't take much for the CIA to leverage those links.

Keep in mind also that Chinese state media has publicly accused the CIA of involvement in the HK protests. Haven't seen that reported much have you? You wouldn't.
they met the "political unit chief of US Consulate General" from the article. Where is the relation with the CIA.

The fox news article also mention "one protester". Seems like a isolated incident. Why talk about "the protesters" ?

EDIT: The parent post was saying "meeting" the CIA before they change it to "official of the US", hence my mention of the CIA.
"From JavaScript" also includes another side: When your frontend is in JS, your backend can be a simple REST API. And building a REST API requires much less framework than building a server-side-rendering webapp does, so it's tempting to use Go or Rust or whatever you like.
Well, that is a bit paranoid.
Looks like an operation that CIA assisted in spiriting away protesters from the 1989 Tiananmen square massacre.

The reader is expected to see that article and see that the CIA took some action in HK in the 90s and come to the conclusion that because they helped protesters to flee the country in the 90s they are behind the current protests by inference.

I personally see a coincidence or red herring.
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The tension has been building up for a while, way before there was any sign of a protest.
A lot of services peak in the millions. I don't know what you consider the top ten, but a lot of chat apps - Discord, Skype, Whatsapp (even prior to Facebook acquisition, and which famously had what, 50 employees?), a lot of games, mobile and desktop, top apps in the app store, top couple hundred websites or so.

If we just think about TPS, bajillions of applications you've never heard of are dealing with large loads (10-100k TPS) in every economic sector you can think of.
I can understand that, I fear they are fighting a losing battle though.

I listened to a commentator over the weekend talking about this whole business. He said that China have very many economic levers they can apply to HK to get their way and that military force is still a very distant option. The first thing that will happen is that Carrie Lam will be pushed aside and replaced with someone more hardline. They won't do it now because it would look like a victory for the protesters.
Unfortunately Hong Kong can't be saved. Government officials are puppets of Beijing and they are all afraid of their future. They want to avoid hard labour and re-education camps...
May I ask you why you are against the protests? Also would you support the CCP making a public statement taking a step back and agreeing to listen to the protesters' concerns?
Maybe a one-way trip to Mars could be the way to start a new life if your current situation sucks?
How are the ringleaders surviving? Not a lot of bank to made protesting I suspect.

I resent the claim tho that my comment supports the "general narrative" - I explicitly disavow the Chinese regime as authoritarian that "deserves comeuppance". I'll add here that I think the protesters have a genuine cause that deserves support.

I do, however, think that the CIA, the U.S. and the west generally - doesn't actually give a fuck about the interests of the HK people. It's just convenient to them currently to make China look bad.
Complicating the nature of these protests is that the 5 overt demands put forth by protestors (all related to the Extradition Bill) do not reflect a large cause of the latent / tacit discontent: the inability of youngsters to buy a home and raise a family due to collusion between property developers and government to restrict land supply. This author has stated the problem better than I can:

https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3022107/midst-h...

Decades of this squeeze have placed youngsters in a position where they have nothing to lose: Hong Kong has so many shiny buildings and not a square foot to their name. I was once getting flowers for my wife and ended up talking to a couple planning for their wedding reception at the florist. I was shocked to learn that they had discussed it and will not be having children because it is unaffordable. In my opinion, the Extradition Bill is just the final straw that broke that camel's back.
> it would be entirely reasonable to expect Pepsi to deliver what it promised.

It's presented in the ad in a totally ridiculous way, and that was part of the reason - it was considered to be effectively be puffery, because even if you believe that Pepsi might reasonably be able to make good on the offer, it's obvious they would not hand a fighter jet to a teenager for them to fly to school. It was fairly obvious from the ad that it was making an exaggeration. Puffery generally does not get sanctioned even when much more realistic claims are made than that.

But the claim also fell down on other reasons - it wasn't taken to be an offer in the form it was presented, and the value (of the points, as per the cost of purchasing them) meant that a written contract would be required to pursue it as fraud.
Why would they? You need a pretty convincing story to justify protests that disrupt 'normal' life, especially to mainlanders who saw a miraculous improvement of their living standards in their life time. It's pretty easy to exploit the scenes of protestors throwing a Chinese flag into the sea and drumming up a patriotic sentiment with it.
You should post on r/selfhosted (https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/)

Been waiting for something like this for a long time ...

Only thing I would change is use sqlite rather than mysql. That way your data is in a single file that is easily portable.
>“With the rise of the internet,” Soule says, “modern movements can mobilize constituents through their websites and social media. If your end goal is to get 500,000 people to turn up on the Mall in Washington, D.C., Twitter is great at that. Facebook is great at that. But if your goal is to actually make lasting change in the system, you have to work within the system — to essentially get a seat at the table.”

>“Occupy Wall Street,” she continues, “mobilized a lot of people and got a key point across about income inequality in the U.S. But did it result in real change? Unfortunately, no. Had there been a nice set of organizations able to get access to the political and economic system that the movement criticized, the changes may have been more enduring.”

The idea that OWS could have worked within the system to get the changes they wanted seems misleading to me.
For a second there it felt like reading an old 2600 issue. Love the format.
If I remember correctly, Maccau was a troubled place with a lot of gang violence (probably related to the large number of casino's) when it was handed over the to Chinese from the Portuguese. I don't think they enjoyed quite the same level of democratic and independent rule that Hong Kong-ers became accustomed to.

Macau's economy is also largely based on casino's.
Dude you need to go play outside more
His point stands when you compare the streets of the major cities to the onslaught of Western propaganda that ignores everyday life. Propaganda against "communism" which just isn't there. A large portion of the lawmakers in Beijing are industrialists.
People hasn't understood yet that even if they pay over $1500 for a phone, they're still not the owner of that hardware. And this concept is already deep integrated in Smart TVs or all other IoT gadgets around there.
Fortunately, we have still some choices, concerning PCs, but on the Apple side, the war is lost
Why do you want to update your dependencies if they work? Isn't the whole point of dependency management to avoid using different versions of dependencies than the ones they have been tested on?
Author here, I'll check this every so often and try to answer any questions…
Catcher in the Rye will be published as an eBook for the first time
> But Gatsis also claimed that even with the security flaws he exploited, Demirkapi could never have accessed Follett data other than his own. Demirkapi counters that he "100 percent had access to other people’s data," and says he even showed Follett's engineers the password of the friend who had let him access his information.

So - someone is lying. Isn't lying about the extent of a security breach a fairly serious matter? Blackboard operates in the EU. Is the disclosure portion of the GDPR retroactive?

Of course - I'm not making any presumptions about which of the two parties is a liar!
Practicing R Functions on Vectors
HKIA is the critical lifeline of Hong Kong, the economy is already suffering, i think its matter of time before PLA gets involved. I'm very concerned for Hong Kong and its people.
So far China has been extremely calm and restrained itself from doing anything premature and yet they are being portrayed as the absolute worst people.

On the other hand there are governments like the US which immediately respond with military action even in countries where people protest which have nothing to do with the US and they are being portrayed as the heroes.

It's funny how the HK protests and the immense media coverage coincide with the trade war escalations between the US and China.

Even this forum is being gamed by people who come here and specifically post and upvote a narrative which they want to push on us. Anyone who doesn't see through this bs is naive.
I know SecLists Full Disclosure exists, but it is a shell of it's former self: https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/

What are other places can someone report a vulnerability that will get companies to actually listen and fix the issues reported? Is there a Google Project Zero for the rest of us?
Cognitive dissonance?
> Flexibility is a strength, not a weakness.

"There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.": https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/
Headline reminds me of this Dilbert cartoon:
https://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25

A troll tour guide says, "Over here we have our random number generator." The troll places its hands on a slab of rock and relays the message of "nine nine nine nine nine nine." Dilbert asks, "Are you sure that's random?" The troll responds, "That's the problem with randomness. You can never be sure."
i think you should re-consider this choice for a few reasons.
- every software has to do this, and they pretty much just do it and make it an option to configure.
- just assume folks will run this in a docker container and it becomes an entirely mute point.
- you have literally ostracized your core audience by making it impossible to run in a docker container.

just some thoughts. wish i could try it, but i'm not firing up my linux vm just to do so, knowing I can't run it reliably anywhere (because if it's choosing random ports, how will i now it won't randomly conflict with something?)
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But, "lets stuff everything under legitimate interest" is totally valid if it is actually legitimate interest. Opt-in consents under GDPR is probably your worst strategy. The lawful basis you want to be under is contract basis: you gather the information you need for the contract. You hold it until the contract is up and then you delete the information. That's the best for everyone.

Legitimate interest is the next best for everyone. You collect the data for contract purposes and you retain it beyond the contract period, or you use it for something other than the contract, but it's for a legitimate reason. You must tell the user that you are using the data for the legitimate reason and what that legitimate reason is!!! It's a very good way to use data. If the user objects, then they can object and you can't use the data (you have 1 month to respond).

After that (and ignoring lawful basis, etc) you have consent. Consent is an awful reason to collect and retain data. You don't need it for the contract. You have no legitimate reason to have the data or to use it. You just want it. So you ask the user if it's OK.

No company should choose consent. It's horrible, even for the business. As I've written before, if the user opts out, there doesn't seem to be a way to opt them back in if they change their mind. So if there is any way for you to turn consent into contract basis, you really, definitely should! If there is some reason that the user would like to consent, they you shouldn't be using consent. You should offer them a service.

It's super frustrating to me that people harp on about consent, because that it really going against the grain for GDPR.
Do you really think that a protest movement with such widespread support has leaders that need to be supported financially somehow by the CIA?
In general, leaving such things open leads to a proliferation of different 'solutions', as multiple people try to solve the issue... leading to the additional confusion and cognitive load of trying to find a single solution which suits your use-case and works, when often none of them are perfect.

Sometimes a 'benign dictator' single approach has benefits...
Pandora's Flask: Monitoring a Python Web App with Prometheus
I totally agree that a combination of physical controls and touchscreen is the way to go. However there are ways to improve the design for touchscreen. Virtual knobs in my experience are pretty difficult to use on a screen, however sliders work reasonably well in their place.

Most industrial touchscreens I've seen are resistive which makes them much more difficult to use, especially for dragging motions, so that may be compounding the problem. Capacitive screens are generally much easier to use.
That's a complete misunderstanding of the problem. The compressor should be compared to the machine that runs the AGI, not the AGI itself. Your brain is compressing data all the time but it is happening unconsciously. There are other flaws with the idea of compression being a path to AGI but this is not one of them.
You’re implying that the people should just lay down and take it? They are risking their lives for their principles and they are doing it the right way.
This is roughly the same business model as Uber. They should have just raised a billion dollars first and claimed it would all make sense when the roomba was invented.
Have you visited there then? What I know is there haven't been major terrorist attacks for quite a few years.
Take any fMRI study with a bucket of salt. Especially when the press release generalizes from "frontal cortex imaging of a ball game" to "extremism in young men", with p values near the significance limit. That said, it's an interesting topic for wider discussion.
> The author of this particular column is a writer of feminist literature so of course her views are going to be extreme.

The Guardian is a mainstream publication, not an extremist one. They can publish whatever they want, I’m just saying this rhetoric is hateful, unhelpful and possibly part of the problem of male extremism mentioned in the OP.
I agree with your sentiments, except

> Planting evidence into protester's backpack

Look at the video. The officer bends over to pick something off the ground and is not being subtle in any way in placing the items into his backpack. It's impossible to tell from the video what the items actually are, but it doesn't look suspicious to me. Perhaps a length of tube he was using to transport a protest banner? Whatever it is it looks like the sort of thing that would easily fall out of a loose backpack like his in a minor skirmish.

It could be the planting of evidence, but I don't think we have enough facts to make that assertion without strong qualifiers.
As a Canadian living in Shenzhen, I can confirm that most Chinese people here appear to genuinely resent/disapprove the HK protesters.
What could force possibly accomplish? Do you think an economy would operate after you massacre thousands? Do you think people would show up to work? They could sack the city, guaranteeing no money would come out of it. If it’s profit they want then they will need to bend, not break.
Israël?
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I'd counter there're three reasons for the strong response from the general public of HK.

1. The suppression tactics used by the HK police affects both protesters and non-protesters.

Hong Kong is a very high density place. There was a recent incident where HK police threw tear gas in a residential district in Tai Wai; another one in Shum Shui Po. Let's say I'm not a protester and I live in some high density apartment complex nearby - I get gassed anyway. If I have someone with respiratory issues in my home it could be life threatening.

2. Triads are involved in protester suppressions

These people are lawless. If you appear in the wrong place at the wrong time, you get beaten, or worse, sliced. Again, this concerns both protesters and the general public.

3. The government is breaking the rule of law

It is one thing for some protesters to break laws, but it's quite another thing for the government to do it. It means the government is not keeping the peace and let everyday people carry on with their lives. Which again, concerns a lot of people who were originally not protesters.

Hong Kong is a different case from mainland China, because Hong Kong is a small place. If something bad happens in Causeway Bay, it's very close to home if you're in Wan Chai. Mass protests and crackdowns also happen in China. But let's say it happens in Beijing, it doesn't really concern you if you're in Suzhou or Xi'an.
Do you claim that the establishment of precedent has no value in increasing the plausibility of a claim?
> I don't want a language that shoehorns my thinking into "one"-ness.

Reworrded for you:

> I don't like Python because I don't like Python