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Forget softpower, Hong Kong protests are an existential crisis for the CCP and Xi in particular.

Xi Jinping will not survive HK. Every day that the protest goes on demonstrates the impotence of the CCP.

Even with the great firewall, people are reading that large protests are occurring by "terrorists".

China will need to murder thousands and will destroy 20 years are economic growth, if the choice is between losing control of a major city or committing mass murder.

Xi looks invulnerable at the moment but he is hated and feared withing the CCP due to his lifetime appointment. No one is forgetting that he looks weak globally and the Chinese Grand Strategy (One Belt One Road) is also failing.

There is no good ending, either China commits mass murder or major CCP leaders are arrested or shot.
To say that humans are social by nature and require communities, is not extremist - it's simply science.

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

"Humans uniquely use such systems of symbolic communication as language and art to express themselves and exchange ideas, and also organize themselves into purposeful groups. Humans create complex social structures composed of many cooperating and competing groups, from families and kinship networks to political states."

To say that all human communities will have politics, is not extremist - it's simply language:

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

"Politics is a set of activities associated with the governance of a country or an area. It involves making decisions that apply to members of a group."

Politics, as in the process of group decision-making, is part of what it means to be human.

You could even say that you and I are engaging in a political discussion right now ;).
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Tried it a bit and directly get problems with the wrists. I would consult someone about the economics. I love the idea of typing without looking on the screen but I can't hold my hand in that position longer than a minute without getting pain.
If they license to one distribution utility, and not the other, then they are in violation by trying to vertically integrate. (The legal term would be "cartel".)

It's like American Sugar. It's not only when you have your own stores, it's also illegal if you only sell to certain stores. Basically, American Sugar had to sell to all stores without discrimination. Anything short of that means that you are still in the business of distribution. So in Netflix terms, it means that whatever deal that, say, Hulu or Amazon Prime gets, Netflix would get too. Or else Disney is colluding with Hulu to skirt their restriction on being a distributor.

For businesses like Netflix, plans like Warren's are music to their ears. I bet creating all that content is a huge part of their costs. Now they can dump all of that, and acquire content at the same terms as all their competitors.
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I really tried to use Google Docs for a few years until I felt overwhelmed by the privacy considerations of putting my entire life "in" Google.

I know it just works, I even know no-one is really mining the database to see what time my vets appointments are. But I couldn't shake the nagging doubt of giving one internet company "all my stuff".
That's an urban legend. We get nutrients and minerals from the food we eat.
Dammit! Why can I never keep the syntax straight?!
Maybe, but if it were purely an issue of cost I probably wouldn't be looking within Manhattan proper. I'm sure travel convenience has at least played some factor in their decision to live where they are.
And if that was safe enough for the cost of installing seatbelts on a car to be more than the marginal safety benefit, I would want that to happen. What's the point of having seatbelts in a car that never crashes, after all?

And if the cars still do crash occasionally, I would expect the manufacturers to leave the seatbelts in for as long as that made sense.

Similarly, what if someone invents an airbag system that works significantly better than current setups, but requires that the user not be wearing a seatbelt because that leads to acceleration in the wrong direction? Should we have to wait for the government to update their standards, or should companies be allowed to improve things immediately?

This is all an incentives problem, and so the idea is to make the incentives align. If the manufacturer is penalized for your death by an amount equal to your value of your life, the incentives are aligned. If the manufacturer just has to make it have a seat belt and airbags, they'll make the flashiest system they can advertise regardless of how it works in the real world. We have independent testing to attempt to validate those claims, but the incentive structure is still all wrong.
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You mean AdWords I suspect...

AdWords vs AdSense https://www.google.com/search?q=adwords+vs+adsense&ie=UTF-8
It would affect Safeway, Kroger, HEB, Publix, CostCo, WalMart, SuperTarget... which is a list of grocery stores that covers most of the US.
Did it? AdSense and AdWords are nearly as old as Google itself according to Wikipedia.
This is an example of the noncentral fallacy. It's quite easy to do this for other situations.

Was Martin Luther King a criminal? A criminal is someone who breaks the law, and King knowingly broke a law against peacefully protesting against segregation, so yes.

Is it sexist to only hire women for a lingerie ad? Discrimination on the basis of sex is sexist, so yes.

Is it murder for a doctor to euthanize someone who wishes to die, even if it's not allowed in their area? Murder is the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another, so yes.

But for all these things, if you just describe them as "criminals", "sexists", and "murderers", you're saying "we agree x is bad, y is an example of x, so y is bad", even if the reason x is bad doesn't really apply to y.
Yeah this was my point. IMO they would have never made it to the point of becoming a viral success without their prolific Craigslist spamming operation. Every virus needs a patient 0.
Sorry, I was referring to Warren's planned wealth tax, which is unconstitutional under the 16th Amendment. I support antitrust laws, and they have done a lot of good for America.

https://taxfoundation.org/warren-wealth-tax-constitutionalit...
You overestimate the public's opinion of large tech companies, and forget that Trump ran to the left of the rest of the Republican primary candidates, not to the right of them.

The only voters that are going to move from voting Democrat to voting Trump over the breakup of big tech are people who work in big tech.
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No, I don't get those rashes ever. I may have as a kid but I certainly don't remember it.

Maybe I should throw in the towel and accept the "you're depressed" argument. 14 years of dealing with 40-60% ... I'm reaching a give up point. Diet, sleep, exercise, all on point for the last 5 years. No improvements.
First, this is false: "Remember, the Soviet Union never successfully developed an ASBM (anti-ship ballistic missile) and no country in the West has one" and is clearly fog of war propaganda.

Second, DF26 is all over the South China Sea. You think they'd be deploying them if they didn't have confidence in their efficacy?
This situation isn't just hypothetical. In the 1940s the grocery chain A&P was the largest retailer of any sort in the US and there was a real concern that they were anti-competitive because they owned a number of food processing plants in addition to their stores. The Federal government brought suit but didn't succeed in breaking up A&P. Ultimately, of course, A&P didn't succeed in monopolizing groceries, and even went bankrupt a decade or so ago, but they were the WalMart of their time.
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Walmart doesn't have a physical marketplace. A marketplace implies multiple sellers, and Walmart is the only seller at their B&M locations.
If you're actually working from home as opposed to a co-working space, home office expenses are usually easily offset by commuting expenses, lunches, even clothes that you incur by going into an office.

I mostly work from home and incremental work-related expenses are pretty small. Maybe I buy some computer gear I wouldn't have if I worked at home less. But the expenses are pretty much trivial relative to commuting.
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I understand your original point now. Thanks for clarifying.

One aspect of American media that you are ignoring is the fact that it's often biased, often politically biased... but it is not controlled by the government. And it is not monolithic.

The biased western media has brought down presidents and many other powerful, connected people (most recently Jeffrey Epstein). They revealed the secret, illegal actions of the NSA. Etc. All of these journalists were biased in some way or another... but they were all biased in different ways. A lot of the truth eventually gets out.

Now you could make the argument that all of Western media is biased against the PRC, but that's going to be a very tough argument to make. Who are they all loyal to, to cause them to uniformly be biased against the PRC? We know it's not loyalty to the United States because of the usa-hostile reporting I reference above. It takes ultra conspiratorial thinking to arrive at the conclusion that all of Western media is biased against the PRC.

So you seem to be pulling a bait-and-switch. You seem to want to conclude <Western media is uniformly biased against the Chinese government>... But you argument is the very weak <no Western media entity is free from bias>. The conclusion doesn't follow.

I hope I haven't misconstrued your argument. Cheers!
It's a numbers game. Neurotypicals outnumber people on the spectrum, so their values become the norm.

I really think ASD people are a minority because they struggle with socializing, which mating is a very important kind of. This pattern has been set in stone for so long people think it's some sort of truth about how society works. But as others have pointed out, poor social skills can simply be incongruent social skills.

Those you term "political operators" could also be classified as neuro-atypical with cluster B personality disorders. By and large they do run things so maybe their "superpower" exceeds that of the scrupulous "aspie".

I think things are changing though, very slowly. There's a big universe outside of human societies. Everything is not a social convention. There is an objective reality, and over the very long run I think truth-telling is the best strategy because lies and ignorance are always exposed.

I believe those who are scrupulous and honest will have their day in the end.
Now that, is odd. Any theory I come up with for it, sounds unlikely. The fact that there are more than one incidents involved makes it even odder.
A lot this depends on what they mean by marketplace. Amazon (and Walmart I think) don't just buy and sell stuff. They also let you sell stuff through them.

Target on the other hand have an online store but you are always buying from Target.

So if the law considers "online marketplace" from "online store" then it doesn't apply to Target.
OK, Cool - I did not know who ActBlue was. I know there is a link to them, but it might be worth surfacing some info about them on your page to avoid similar initial reactions.
> Statistics I uncovered were deeply disturbing — fewer than 16 percent of adults diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder were employed full-time, for example.

Autism has changed its definition though. Adults with autism are often diagnosed under the old criteria and are extreme, often barely verbal. Now that Asperger's (and a couple of other milder types) are rolled into autism (stuff that older people didn't bother diagnosing - functional people didn't need diagnoses back before every kid with a diagnosed got funded) you'd expect better outcomes because it's not just the extreme non-functional ones getting diagnosed.
if it targeted and punished specific entities

Ummm... that's exactly what I said. In response to

"The line is not 'you are not allowed to ever do this' but 'this particular instance is hurting competition'."

I replied

"I don't think they can specifically address a single entity like that: the laws have to be applicable across the board"
>The big boss said "a 15 minute fact-to-face is better than a multi-day email chain".

If only we had some sort of technology that allowed us to be able to get ahem FaceTime ahem while remote.

What a wondrous world that could be!
> contrary to the public narrative the percent of the population that approves of immigration is at its highest levels

I'm not sure how that's relevant.

I can agree perhaps it's not as obvious to those who spend less time on the internet or in different circles, but here's some examples I've seen of internet radicalization:

- Person sharing an image on Facebook that states it is your patriotic duty to shoot the Clintons on sight (shared after the Epstein suicide, not in 2016)

- A Facebook group about train memes and urbanism became viral, and now every week there's an anti landlord thread where people repeatedly share images of guillotines and make jokes about how Mao was right to murder landlords

- /r/the_donald is a perfect example. In the early debates before the primary began it was a very lighthearted subreddit mostly making fun of Jeb Bush. By the time Trump won the nomination it became a vile and conspiratorial cesspool.

-subreddits associated with following WikiLeaks and such that essentially became broadcast channels for various conspiracy theories (deep state, Clintons, that sort of thing)

- The top comments on just about any popular politicians Twitter will just be the opposing group accusing the politician of being corrupt, incompetent, etc etc

- open comments sections on news articles. Need I say more?

- Facebook comments sections on news articles shared by mainstream news. Need I say more?

- The YouTube recommended video death spiral. I've seen a relative go from looking up and watching videos of sermons + Bible discussion, to watching and sharing "here's proof the rapture is happening in 2019", to sharing QAnon conspiracies, in a matter of months. It's fucking depressing seeing that happen to somebody you care about.

To me these are all radicalization. They don't all result in Mass violence (maybe none of them do), but it pushes people's opinions very effectively outside of what's mainstream and otherwise "acceptable" in society, hence why I call it radicalization.
These kinds of reductionist arguments don't hold much water in the real world. Using arguments like this you can justify ransomware--after all ransomware is just CPU instructions running on a computer. That is what computers do is run instructions. Therefore, it is totally okay if the instructions happen to encrypt the entire contents of a disk and prevent the user from accessing it until they pay money.

Here in meatspace, we have this notion of ownership and property rights. DRM is a mechanism to protect those rights. They may not be perfect, and they might not always make much business sense but that is their intent.
Managers meet - that's what they do. They can be profoundly out of touch with what engineers do. Thus, stupid statements like that one.
No, the polarization (and attendant culture war) has been going on longer than social media as we know it have existed. It doesn't help, but it's just not the big factor it's assumed to be either - an assumption driven by social media companies' desire to trade engagement for ad $. The people who are doing most to drive social polarization are the least likely to be motivated by social proof. Consider that 8ch and its ilk have no social scoring mechanism but produce some of the most radical extremists.
No commercials? I have Prime Video, and every single episode starts with a commercial spamming some Amazon Original show.

One major gripe I have about these services is the non-transparent way they "disappear" shows or seasons from their collection. At one point all 17 seasons of L&O: SVU were available on Prime (in Canada), but now only Seasons 1-6 are available.

The dropdown still lists all the seasons w/ full episode details, but once you select the season, it says "No longer available".

It's obvious their goal is to phase out "third-party" programming in favour of store brand stuff. At a point, it's honestly just better to buy the DVD/Blu-rays of the shows you enjoy and put them on a Plex server.
Being poor and computer illiterate.

No space for books and no software for cracking DRM.
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No, it would not. Consumers are price sensitive for food, and profit margins are not the same across different types of substitute goods.

It's precisely how Dollar Trees and Dollar Generals have been pushing out grocery stores in the US right now, by not offering fresh produce, meat, or other traditional loss items. Planet Money even has a podcast on it: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/26/717665452/epis...

Imagine the grocery store in your area carrying only frozen and canned meat and produce, because that is what it would push.
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are you making a claim about tax incidence or who literally pays the tax?
BBC TV drama "The Mountain and the Molehill" (1988) at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nANoCftnK0
Slack has nothing in common with forums except that they named that feature "threads." It's only to pull a chat convo aside in a chat app.
> Why not break up other industries

Are you actually asking this question, or is it like when Trump says that he won't pass gun restrictions because the real problem is mental health, but also won't raise the budget for mental health?

I think it's easier to make the (internet) tech case because they tend towards pure rent-seeking models rather than production or innovation. Warren isn't proposing breaking up hardware companies, car companies, or companies that make consumer appliances; "tech" is a shorthand for internet rent-seekers.
You own your computer, yes. But you don't always own the data on it. Ownership of something is a legal and social construct, not a technical one.

PS: I think most DRM works against the businesses that attempt to implement it. But it isn't malware. It is a data protection layer.
> Microsoft "owned" the browser market with Internet Explorer not that long ago

And monopoly regulation put an end to that and allowed Netscape to come in and make it a competition.
I've seen there are plenty of comments that disagree with that statement. I agree, though.

I love working remotely. I've been working remotely for a bit less than a year now. I had some few months break at the beginning of this year where I was working on my own product, but I was still at home.

Why do I love it? Well, my wife is staying at home with me and we get to spend so much more time together. I think over that period of time we've got closer together. We can chat during the day, eat meals together and stuff like that, it's super cool.

More reasons? If I can work asynchronously (not being dependent on the rest of my team) I can schedule my day according to my needs. Need a one hour walk outside? Well, why not:) Even though it's not my company I'm working for I kind feel like I am the boss. I don't have people staring at my screen, I don't have people talking next to me, I can go to a shop and prepare a nice breakfast if I want to. It's really good.

I do agree that it gets a bit boring without a chitchat with colleagues. But I try to compensate for it by meeting with my friends and family regularly.
you are. you should actually be getting paid much more. Just because you are getting paid more than everyone else doesn't mean that you still aren't getting underpaid.

That is the scarcity mindset. Instead, engineers should be getting million+ salaries instead of the measly 150k+.
Could reducing polarization reduce profits?
As someone reading along:

> Meaning: If you find yourself struggling to get along with those geeky developers, you don't have great social skills either.

Identifying their poor social skills does not give away their own. Being unable to get along with them does.

Essentially I read this as "if you have good social skills, you can diagnose what's going wrong in the current setting and if the other person is unlikely to change their actions, you can adjust your social interactions to fix the communication issue".

In this case, that means not freaking out when a subordinate says no and calmly asking "Why not?", which would then lead to this information and an opportunity to explain that X is more important, and everyone moves on happily with their day. The manager's failure to go through that highlights the issues in their own social skills.
do you understand that POS tagging or dependency/constictuency parsing are angular tasks needed by much of the others.

I'm not sure. I rarely have to do that explicitly in my head. Perhaps a model should learn to infer/guess them implicitly, from context, just like I do.

what exactly is more important?

In my opinion, having a world model (for common sense) and situational awareness (e.g. through sensor fusion, or from prior conversational history, or using some externally supplied conditioning) would be far more important.

GPT-2 does not generate meaningful sentences or only by accident

You think adding POS tags would help it generate meaningful sentences?