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>Sam Harris

Sam Harris has been consistently taking alt-right positions for the past few years (at least). I don't think it's unfair to associate him with the movement.

I think perhaps part of the issue is that lots of Americans who think of themselves as liberal, and who were shocked by the idea of Trump becoming President, actually agree with him on a lot of issues. So, yeah, Sam Harris still presents as an anti-Trump liberal. But if you look at what he's actually saying, he's much closer to Trump than he is to the liberal left. (His atheism is these days just a fig leaf for an anti-Islam stance.)
If a Tesla has a fatal accident because of some 3rd party component, the headlines will blame Tesla, too.

Boeing is not free of responsibility here, they chose to sell said engines as an option on their planes. They have worked together with Rolls Royce to integrate their engines with their plane. In theory, engine problems could even be caused by Boeing's software mismanaging the engines.
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Claims without citations, 5 day old account, comment history shows user is from china: not sure if I'd trust the comment.
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> is ruled by a governing entity elected by Hong Kong people.

You called "elected" by a group consists of 1200 people as elected by Hong Kong people?
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If you are making the point that we'd better address cancer or traffic accidents, then your argument falls under the false dichotomy fallacy. This is probably why you've been downvoted.

If your were not making this point, then I don't have the answer. :-)
Well, you seem less noxious and more trusting.
Yes, as an Austrian I've also never heard "Pflücke den Tag", and am only familiar with the translation you mentioned.
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Every story has two sides and things on the other side - police officers bitten to bleed or eyes flashed by high power laser pointers. The sad thing is, we gotta take whatever the media feeds us:)
The post doesn't contain much in terms of commentary, but it does include a quote describing this as a "psychological warfare tactic", so it doesn't seem to be that biased yet.
That's how my dentist's billing website works. Except it's limited to 8 alphanumeric characters, not 10, and they were quite happy to accept my pasting a 16-character generated password into the field. Unfortunately, they don't have a password reset link; instead, the you call the receptionist and they read out your password to you over the phone. This isn't a legacy system, either. I can only imagine the backend is written in QBasic or something.
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Thanks for sharing this very well written article. I loved the part about the picture of Hitler turning out to be Moe from the Three Stooges.
Raw or barely cooked brain? Care to elaborate a bit? :)
This is really bad and definitely triggers memorys of the Tiananmen massacre. I'm very interested how the rest of the world is going to react to these developments considering the position of China only got stronger since the Tinanmen situation. I recognized that the reaction of e.g. Germany was considerably weaker to the HK protests than e.g. the Arab Spring protests, but I guess we just have to wait and see.

Edit: Grammar
Agree. Don't count on PRC under the current leadership to think anything remotely like that.
I've seen 6 characters and 16.
Have you used "Visual Studio"?... it's all a matter of perspective...
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SCMP still publishes a lot of anti CCP articles and is banned in China.
Related to the topic, I highly recommend this short documentary about the Cavendish banana and the deadly fungus affecting it: https://youtu.be/YkI3zkQ4WBo
Even pip is pip-installable. What makes poetry any different?
> savePromiseDone && emailPromiseDone ? res.send() : null // sync, will wait until emailPromiseDone and savePromiseDone are defined ie. their functions are done

I'm not sure this is correct. Getting to this line already implies they are done, as the await will block. You could just put res.send() on this line no?
Wondering what percentage of the donations the author forwarded to the library maintainers and authors that his product relies on..
It does look rainier than Munich, say: https://www.weather2travel.com/weather-comparison/?placename...
Unlike the governments of the countries in the Arab Spring, China knows the west won't try anything (overtly), so a statement would only look foolish and help their claims that the protests are orchestrated, rather than serving as a warning.
For some perspective, in 1912 the Communist Party of China wasn't even a thing.
I remember ECHELON [1] being the talk pre-Snowden, in the 90s and prior.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
Anyone know the editor/(IDE theme) used in the product video and twitter post ?
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There is no perfect election format, even if the presidential election of US is often discussed for possible modifications: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele...
Strange how putrid governments find members of society happy to oppress other members of the society. Such as those soldiers happily waiting to execute orders against the freedoms of their fellow citizens.
It would be exactly the same outcome with different numbers. Do you really believe the CCP would allow someone like John Tsang to run in a situation where he might actually win? Of course not.
It's OK to claim an adjacent territory, bring in settlers, oppress the natives, etc, just not OK to cross water to do so. is that your position? Hardly?
Here are a couple examples from 1972 and 1988.

Since the 70s journalism has surfaced the idea about “The Concealment of the State”, pieces touching on covert and surveillance aspects of the national security establishment in developed countries, how the deep state draws power from the national security and intelligence communities, and the idea of “mass secrecy” as a source of power.

I can’t find the reference right now, but seems like this idea was even showing up in Tom Clancy’s popular page turners.

Examples on listening to communications:

Q. So far we've been talking about various kinds of sophisticated electronic intelligence gathering. What about tapping of ground communications?

A. Of course all trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific telephone calls to or from the U.S. are tapped.
Every conversation, personal, commercial, whatever, is automatically intercepted and recorded on tapes. Most of them no one ever listens to, and after being held available for a few weeks, are erased. They'll run a random sort through all the tapes, listening to a certain number to determine if there is anything in them of interest to our government worth holding on to and transcribing. Also, certain telephone conversations are routinely listened to as soon as possible. These will be the ones that are made by people doing an inordinate amount of calling overseas, or are otherwise tapped for special interest.

— David Horowitz (August 1972). "U.S. Electronic Espionage: A Memoir". Ramparts, 11.

// via http://cryptome.org/jya/nsa-elint.htm

Somebody's listening . . .

and they don't give a damn about personal privacy or commercial confidence. Project 415 is a top-secret new global surveillance system. It can tap into a billion calls a year in the UK alone.

They've got it taped

In the booming surveillance industry they spy on whom they wish, when they wish, protected by barriers of secrecy, fortified by billions of pounds worth of high, high technology. Duncan Campbell reports from the United States on the secret Anglo-American plan for a global electronic spy system for the 21st century capable of listening in to most of us most of the time.

— Duncan Campbell (12 August 1988). “Somebody’s Listening”. New Statesman, Cover pp. 10 - 12

// via http://cryptome.org/jya/echelon-dc.htm
> Can you rely on South China Morning Post (scmp.com) to be unbiased as their current owner is Chinese Alibaba Group ? Apart from mild criticisms, I don't think Alibaba group can afford to publish against Chinese government.

Not sure why your comment was killed, because I think it's a valid question. But since it was, responding here.

Yes, they're owned by Alibaba. I happen to know some SCMP employees which gives me confidence that they're still editorially independent. They of course have a pretty pro-status-quo stance, and I don't recommend on relying on them entirely as your only source of information, but I don't believe China has any editorial influence.

(Also important to note Alibaba isn't necessarily in the CCP's best graces lately.)
Damn, is it me who wrote that post ?

When you're a creative person, you're like a tree : you bear fruits whatever you do, you just can't help it :-) (I took that sentence from a presentation online, somewhere on youtube)
How much money did private enterprise make from the Arab Spring? Hundred billion or so?

To pretend like it was a moral issue is insane. Most people don't care in the slightest in democratic countries. Virtually every country involved in sending troops couldn't point to it on a map nor talk about the region with any sort of knowledge.
We walked in and replaced Hussein with ISIS. It will go down as 21st century Vietnam.

China has nukes. Absolutely nothing will happen regardless, just like 30 years ago. Perhaps some more outrage on twitter I guess?
The reaction from a Westerner is ”wow, this is nothing compared to all the crazy shit we had to do to get democracy, and now with the democratic institutions and independent justice systems in place, definitely worth it”.
Having worked in clinical trialling, what I saw made me realise that the final stats may be worth much less because of mismanagement of data.

I can give some hare-raising examples[0] but for obvious reasons... The one I can give is it was known that docs who prescribed this to multiple patients and saw an apparent improvement the attributed to the new drug, would switch the patients on the old drug to the new and not inform us. Obviously they couldn't or they'd invalidate the trial and they knew it. And it was done entirely with the patient's best interests at heart. Docs care about their lives.

That may have been rare and a flaw in the trial protocol, but much worse stuff was done via utter incompetence. And I mean including at the top of these giant drug companies. Run by idiots, really.

Wider lesson: just cos you hand over a process to a third party does not mean it's going to be done right.

[0] tribute to the thread elsewhere
I disagree, Python 3.x was always meant to be the next version of the language. This seems to intentionally not take that position because the dev team can't settle on which way to go. Python 3.x was difficult to pull off, but it happened, and I actually think it was a bit too conservative with its changes. This would be a parallel language built-in to the same tool.

It'd be kinda like if there was a way to declare your Python code's major version, and then having Python being able to run either.
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> I am not very familiar with CSP based concurrency

I strongly recommend to check it out. I was absolutely mind-blown when saw this talk (without prior knowledge about Go), and that changed my life quite literally.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDDwwePbDtw

I did a few concurrency related projects (see "Visualizing concurrency in Go" https://divan.dev/posts/go_concurrency_visualize/, for example), and it's way more easier to reason about and work with than any other concurrency approaches I've seen so far.
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Earth greener today vs. 20 years ago thanks to China and India
I mean… reddit’s app pretty clearly allows NSFW subreddits. You have to check a setting on the web to search for NSFW content, but that’s not actually in-app so it’s a-ok.
FYI, some alleged that mainland policemen are already operating inside the HKPF.

Personally I think the PLA option is a non-starter at the moment. HK for all its bads is still vitally important to the Chinese economy especially during the current trade war with the USA.
Same way as going to acting school doesn't guarantee you become successful Hollywood actor.

But what about those who went ahead, uploaded their code for free and launched new companies, thanks to the support/popularity received from users of their free code.

Such people minted millions or even billions which they could have never been able to achieve in their lifetime charging normal rates for programming.

You want to be part of a lottery promising big bucks but not happy because not everyone gets suitable payout. Congrats! you discovered how lottery works.

And now you want a payout which helps you pay rent? Such jobs exist, but you might have to write boring code.
The question then becomes: Does the "true jerk" have more control over his actions, or is he bound by his personality traits just as much as the "remorseful jerk"?
Can we not say that the former can't control his reactions due to their "true jerk" disorder?
I suspect the real reason is fear of retaliation from China... Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93Norway_relations...
i think the communist party has successfully managed to get most citizens to view themselves as part of a larger community more than as individuals
Yes, for Chinese these territorial issues are bigger that the Communist Party. In Western countries they would be called "bi-partisan" or "cross-parties" because there is a national consensus on them.
>Does it imply that you can't selectively focus on things?

Yes - the ability to focus on one thing necessarily involves the ability to ignore lots of other things. One of the key traits of autism spectrum disorder is an inability to filter out irrelevant information. Constant awareness of everything is often functionally equivalent to a lack of awareness, because it degrades the signal-to-noise ratio of your perception.

For example, the artist Stephen Wiltshire can draw extraordinarily accurate cityscapes from memory, but often struggles with basic tasks. Being aware of the precise number and arrangement of windows in every building you pass is an active impediment if you're just trying to get to the subway station.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/04/autism-artis...
It has already given Trump ideas. Huge ideas.
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Do you really think JK Rowling's gender has harmed her earning potential? She was outed - if that's the word - as a woman - almost as soon as the books began selling and no one seemed particularly bothered.

It seems odd to pick a woman who is a billionaire as evidence of poor earning potential.
Google can monetize. They can charge for Android and ask a fee per phone which you pay when you buy the phone.
But Google choose to break the law and accept the fact that it will be fined because in the end it has more profit and that will cause a lot of irritation and higher penalties from the EU. And probably someone will cry about faul play as well.
Best quote from the article: “they constructed miniscule headphones specially adapted to the heads of rats”
> “There’s also the fact that companies just can’t be bothered a lot of the time – there are roofs all over Europe where solar could probably save money, but people are not jumping to do it.”

That's why believing in market forces alone is a little naive. There has to be a little nudge from the government.
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HKers are protesting because (for historical and economical reasons) they have been blessed by an incredible fortune, a fortune that's shaming away.

We could talk about reasons and sides, but that's misleading and unproductive. The sad reality is that China is a "Unitary one-party socialist republic", a bad euphemism for an undemocratic country ruled by a single dictatorial party.

There's a lot of misinformation surrounding the violence of protesters, but let's not forget that these officers are protecting the interests of a regime.
You argue that sovereign states should not be allowed to regulate what gets put into food? Should our FDA have no regulation authority over food?

We certainly should have free trade for fungible goods and services. Anything we permit to be made and sold internally we should permit to be imported. But we should have the power to regulate hormones, antibiotics, and pesticides in food and we should respect the decisions of other countries to regulate what they permit in their food.
> Hong Kong, at least on paper, is ruled by a governing entity elected by Hong Kong people

Except it's not, top leadership is elected by a small council of business owners and other high ranking members of society, the people they are allowed to vote for are selected by Beijing and anyone they don't like is vetoed out.
Is there a reason to not just take all those drugs at once?

Wouldn't that give the best results?
They could be provocateurs, and sadly there’s no way to verify this for now. My point is, to judge things fair and square you gotta hear from both sides:D
Meanwhile in Berlin, concerns that excessive urban beekeeping might be putting too much competetive pressure on wild bee species made minor national news. (probably not so much because the situation is actually dramatic but more because the story is both surprising and confirming of "clueless Berlin hipster sustainability" stereotypes)

Did not find a good source in English, just a German article: https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/kritik-an-bienenkaesten-a...
and a terrible translation thereof:
https://www.archysport.com/2019/05/criticism-of-bee-boxes-on...
I'm sure you've worked plenty of time thinking about this already so I feel dumb trying to supplement that at all, but I'd assume you're probably repressing some level of emotion just because the physical expression of anxiety isn't so much a learned behavior coming from your prefrontal cortex but more like a low level hind brain thing you have just by being human. Between survival instincts and social instincts we have very physically based "emotions" and playing the odds here, I'd wager you and others that comment, having similar experiences, that you developed this coping mechanism at a young age.
Apologies if I'm reading too much into a simple comment saying you're misunderstood at times.
You can see their propaganda here https://reddit.com/r/sino This is pro-China propaganda sub-reddit. For example if you write something that they don't like then they are going to ban you for life. Very interesting, it is like from Soviet Union or North Korea.
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I'm an admin of both Slack and Teams. Almost all of this is due to how his org configured Teams. While there's some valid complaints, a lot of this comes down to IT not understanding the needs of their users or simply not caring about the needs of their users because of some stupid opaque management decisions. You can mute chats same as on Slack. You can be forced to autojoin same as in Slack. I have regular meetings with customers in Teams. While Slack is absolutely still better at what it does most of his horrible experience comes down to crappy settings by his IT. The mobile device integration is truly abysmal though. Hoping in apps requires you to install those apps as well to do simple things like project management. The whole point of hooking in an app is to not have to go directly to said app. We haven't had a problem with notifications either. Most of what's possible in locking down Teams is possible to do it Slack it's just not default.
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I don't think men were picky enough to care if woman had those traits or not.
Personally, I find it the case that when somebody makes something their job rather than their hobby, they'll slowly begin on a journey of losing interest. You can take out your anger on a job and leave it at work on the way out of the door - your hobby/project? That lingers with you at home. Maybe OSS is best on the side.
Am not following SCMP closely so better not comment on their editorial independence rashly... However, this may give you some additional perspective: https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/11/13/i-will-no-longer-write...
>It's built on Electron and still no native Linux client

Remember this next time their PR team tries to pull another round of "Microsoft has totally changed you guys, we swear! The new Microsoft loves Linux"
I have a consulting business centered around my OS project. Project itself does not make much, but related things (support, consulting, opportunities, contacts) are good. It was a good way to leave cubicle and get remote job, once my daughter was born.
Assuming your idea had merit, the use of fossil fuels to airlift vegetables is a smart move ecologically?
Yeah, and the compiler will also report errors if different modules use different versions of the same package.

- module A uses v1 and uses trait v1.A
- module B uses v2 and uses trait v2.A
- will be reported as "A does not implement trait A"

It's actually quite discomforting for newcomers.
Which I find to be irrational.

Stamford Raffles "took" Singapore from the Malay sultanate in the 1820s. In 1963, we finally got it back, but let them go barely two years later due to ingrained cultural differences that manifested during the meantime.

With the rise of so many capable cities on the mainland, perhaps pursuit of unification is just not worth the trouble anymore.
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I guess I don't understand - the mead for the honey has to come from somewhere. So there must be flowers near the nests - a lot of them.

So one must also create meadows.

If they are on polluted ground (common in cities), probably the mead and thus the honey will also contain poisons.
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100 years ago life was pretty different. It was assumed mom would be home with kids, possibly grandparents, etc. Then we decided it was OK for women (including moms) to work. Then we restricted housing supply pushing most couples to be dual-earners (see The Two Income Trap). Then we found out working full time and raising a 6 day old is impossible. So we said "OK you can go watch your kid a tiny bit and not get fired". And here we are.

As for child benefit (the cash) I see why it grates tbh, but I think it's meant to help avoid kids being in abject poverty. Whether it works, well, I dunno.

I agree that we can't grow indefinitely, though.
And you can federate the two slack instances as well as a separate firewall without having to create multiple accounts for the same users to access multiple instances.
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That "standard" is an abomination. What's next, we 'll upload our SSL certs to google so they can masquerade more efficiently? IETF should not back standards introduced by and benefiting only google.

> Prerendering does not have any security issues.

Currently. Are you saying it is impossible that someone will hide a hack in an amp page that steals data or sth without the user ever visiting that amp page?

> AMP guarantees that all resources in preload are served by the AMP cache,

What about privacy? are user data sent through google's servers?

> Javascript based analytics works fine, with support for all major vendors and custom setups.

How do those analytics handle prerendering?
It's also quite the investment while (at least in some countries) there are plans to lower or remove the payments for delivering power back to the net.
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Unity of China as a concept is far older than 1912.