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> Chinese political censorship is much, much older

Since 20th century, isn’t it? Or are there any historical sources confirming that political censorship across provinces of China under Qing dynasty was comparable to the one currently under CCP?
I see what you mean, but even then I find it to be untrue. Blizzard didn't react here because they were hurting China's feelings, but because they have a strong business relationship with the Party in China via Tencent.
authoritarian state is a tautology
“A question which does not get asked in physics circles is: ‘do impossible to measure things objectively exist?’”

The reason that the question isn’t asked in physics circles is because the question is a philosophical question not a physics question.
Meanwhile in America you are liable for insulting vegetables

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_libel_laws

Point is, every country has exceptions, and indexing on irrelevant edge cases isn’t especially useful. America is pretty darn good at free speech. But so is, say, Canada.
They own South Park outright because when it first aired people thought it would flop so they got 100% of the rights to the show.

Hell they even had the episode where they said “shit” uncensored and kept a counter for every time they said it.

If there’s any show that really can do whatever it wants, it’s South Park.
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This looks like there’s an assumption that there’s a lot of space in the Bay Area to grow in terms of houses which isn’t necessarily a correct premise. The Bay Area does have a lot of housing, there are always new developments being made around the area, and it is actually crowded. I don’t think an artificial scarcity is involved.
I interpreted it as in relation to Blizzard.
I'd be wary of any such statistics, and trying to draw any conclusion about the current status of a country from that.

For one, the total timeframe of the Nobel Prize is more than a hundred years, and even for individual prizes the time between contribution and award is usually decades. That's a lot of time for possible change in a country.

On top of that, there had been repeated criticism (that has been in part acknowledged by the Swedish Academy) that the Nobel Prize is too eurocentric, so the statistics will obviously be skewed.
Are you under the impression that South Park censored their own show in China? I can assure you that no-one would claim that China is a private company.
Yeah, mid-20th century. Admittedly "long time" was pretty vague!

My point is that their process is not really being influenced by the so-called "cancel culture" of the last few years.
Ask HN: How to make bench time useful in a software house?
I work at a small software house (~50 people). We're looking for a way to get people who are on the bench (i.e. without a commercial project) something meaningful to do. Our goals are: #1 to help them develop their tech skills, #2 to have the company benefit somehow so this time isn't wasted.

Our main constraint is that sales are highly volatile and people often get engaged in a commercial project before they can finish whatever they have started. Typically, and what is also happening in similar companies we are aware of, people begin an internal project, but a week or two later a new deal is won and most of the team is sucked into commercial work. The project never gets finished, new folk has trouble getting involved, etc.

For this reason we are looking for something that can bring value continuously on a time scale of days to months, but we are open to any ideas.

What would be a reasonable engagement / task / project to work on in this time?
What about dollar stores? Those often have a reasonable selection of groceries.
If you're a cryptocurrency expert you really should look into joining TopTal: https://www.toptal.com/#hire-just-bright-hackers-now - they're really looking for them a lot.

Once you're in as a crypto expert you can apply for any type of remote job, not just crypto. I've been applying to Elixir jobs for example, because I really like that stack and wanted to grow in it while I came in as an iOS developer. Just make sure you list all of your other skills as well in your resumé (and don't lie about it, please).

Disclaimer: the link has a kickback for me. Just go to toptal.com without all of the hashtag stuff if you don't like that idea. I have been working for years for them and the amount of work, the immediate trust you get from clients and the reduction of headaches (just every two weeks a payment without billing and begging) makes it worth it.
I wish local instances of SaaS were more common. As a consumer it doesn't fill me with glee that a company used cutting edge APIs and integrations that are hosted all over the place. It fills me with concern about their stability and I have to entirely forget about data security. Who knows where it ends up these days. Both physically and in administrative terms, on globally distributed servers and regarding which companies or countries have access to it.
Different forms and examples of government exhibit relatively different levels of authoritarianism. Communist governments are invariably more authoritarian than liberal democracies.
Not quite the true experience. It should first start with writing the program on a standard coding form (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FortranCodingForm.pn...), after which it is sent to the keypunch department. When the deck and card listing come back the next day, the programmer would proofread the listing and use a Type 029 to replace misspunched cards and insert/delete to correct bugs found in re-reading. This was somewhat laborious, since most programmers did not type well, and unlike the simulation, the 029 did not have a backspace key. JCL or other control language cards as needed by the operating system would have to be punched to define memory needed, tape drives, disk drives, department chargeback accounts, etc. And the output would come back after a few hours on 132 column greenbar fanfold.
macOS has had a reliable low-latency audio API for years, when on Windows you had to resort to third party hacks like ASIO.

For years it has also had things like Audio Midi Setup, which lets you set up aggregate virtual audio interfaces from physical ones, dealing with latency compensation etc.
Or MIDI over Bluetooth. All of that out the box. It just feels it's been designed with pro audio in mind, compared to Windows.
In the Herbert Dune, civilization collapsed because of smart machines. So after renaissance they are completely banned for the future use.
The EU is already discussing how to implement a 'carbon border tax' [1].

I believe other political entities have also looked at such import levies on goods coming from external domains where pollution taxes are lower or non existent.

With pollution of the atmosphere there is also a case for making the atmosphere itself a legal person that is 'damaged' by pollution and paid redress. Personally I'm interested in this kind of idea but it's probably extending the scope of this particular discussion too far.

[1] https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-mulls-a-carbon-border...
Yes because death and lung cancer are super kitsch.
As I remember it, the park manager decided to create these zones (And I don't remember reading about a gag order so he could not talk to the press, but rather reading an interview with him, though I can't find it at short notice now). And it's important to note that the park manager is more a lone social worker than anyone really in authority here. And from this point, the solutions does not seem unreasonable. He can't himself get rid of the drug dealers but tried to contain them, that despite them being there the park could be used by other people. Of course that does not solve the problem overall and the city of Berlin surely does so many things wrong, it is reasonable to conclude they could do better here as well, but the story itself seems to get quite blown out of proportion.
This should be a new Godwin's law.
Nice summary, this is great advice.

Out of curiosity what size businesses do you target?
LOL OK. If anything this kind of frivolous, nonsensical argument you're proffering here undermines the rights of the LGBTQ community, allowing conservatives to easily dismiss their actual meaningful concerns as liberal hogwash.

So, please, keep setting back the cause of minorities and those discriminated against by making pronouns the hill on which to die on.

Way to fight for the oppressed! If we had 10,000x of you maybe all rights for the discriminated would be repealed, no?
[in case it's unclear, my phone corrected "judgement" to "job she" above; it was meant to be ...", but the judgement set out very clearly..."]
Now, if you only had a way to actually get your fair share of those billions...
The moment in time you pick for London does not change the picture. Victorian London still didn't have a million souls.

Rome's 1M population is a disputed number. Cities of tens of million inhabitants are all post-industrial and none work solely on mass transit. The car is an essential piece of the equation.

Car-less cities are an interesting thought experiment, but none has gone past the implementation barrier. That part of the equation should go into the though experiment.
My daily usage:

- input and message streams validation.

- data generation for testing.

- spec is the best data structures documentation!

- sequential data structures parsing and transform

More magic, but based on everything mentioned: dev-time macro input and destructuring sanitizing and error report.
You would at least need:

- A constant agrictultural surplus being able to support a city of this size.

- A political system with some form of taxation and probably a kind of military and/or police.

- A construction and manufacturing industry.

This is all really basic stuff for a modern society, but we only got here, because we built on giants.
>> The USA as the only nation in the world with true free speech protections.

> Is this accurate? Legally, I understand that free speech is protected in the US constitution. I'm sure it's not the only country in the world with free speech laws, but I don't know how the specifics compare.

There is at least a very good case to be made that the US has by far the strongest free speech guarantee. Commonwealth countries and the UK have nothing as strong as the first amendment. Canada’s free speech commitment is derisory in law because of the notwithstanding clause, the UK has the Official Secrets Act and Australia doesn’t have a right to free speech in its constitution.

I will pass over European countries with their Holocaust denial laws, bans on swastikas and the ECHR deciding that saying Mohamed was a paedophile as obviously having very weak commitments to free speech.

Maybe not the only country with true free speech protections but certainly it has the strongest.
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You do not get to upgrade by definition. Play with your Hackintosh and leave the hate speech for somewhere else.
Nah, if he did, it would tear SSC, HN and God knows what else apart.
More like a MOO. MUDs tend to have built-in questing, character classes and progression etc., Whereas MOOs are text based 'life' simulations, where the users can assume any identity they like and interact with each other in free text (or via macros) based on the loose themes of the MOO.
>but do have clear negative impact on the Western sphere of influence and economic status.

And this is such a problem that you think the US should take actions to try and overthrow their government? Even considering how terribly most US regime changes damage a country, and the horrible civil wars that have accompanied the previous Chinese collapses?

>As bad as the US is, I don't want a country run by such an authoritarian, ruthless government like the CCP to take over the position as the world's superpower

I'm not thrilled at the prospect of a Chinese super power either. However, I also view the US as a rather terrible superpower, and unlike in China I have some amount of agency to change that.
That one is just factually incorrect and a good correction. He was not a cofounder in ebay.

He just sold Paypal to them about 7 years after ebay was founded.
He realises that being a landlord is immoral. Nothing wrong with that.

Read Mao's "On Contradiction".
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Most of the developers emailing their users in panic are not in this situation though.

They're writing audio plugins using the AU or VST APIs. They don't ever touch hardware or even deal with realtime constraints directly : they just fill buffers as far as they can and pass them on to the host DAW application, which together with audio interface drivers + the OS deal with the hard stuff.
Don't be so hard on yourself. Kudos for taking a chance. I know many successful people, but the happiest are those that found something they were passionate about and learned to excel at it, rather than chasing what they though would make them rich/famous. I've also seen many sacrifice relationships and experiences in their pursuit, such that I would never trade places with them.
SO had the choice to 1) not remove someone for a violation that hadn't actually happened, and 2) give her a warning rather than surprise her with a firing, and 3) follow their own procedures for removing a moderator. And many other choices besides.

Heck, they could even have had a discussion with her.
South Park were the sellouts that paved the way for all of this.... but around 8 years ago they decided that money was more important than their principles... And here we are.

> money was more important than their principles

BTW that's really been the core principle. The US citizens lost their game of chicken with the govt.
Also English in particular has a tendency to shorter nouns (often deriving from its Germanic roots) for simple, everyday words, plus more formal or precise synonyms derived from French or Latin which are longer. So there's a correlation between length and whether you have the 'plain' word or the 'formal, precise, intellectual' one. But that doesn't carry over to other languages inherently -- for instance in Japanese the 'plain' word is usually derived from old Japanese which is more multisyllabic, whereas the 'formal' word is the usually two-syllable Chinese loanword.
Thanks for making me look that up!
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> AMC is fully owned by Chinese.

AMC was majority-owned by China’s Dalian Wanda, but they scaled back from 60% to 38% about a year ago.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amc-dalian-wanda-silver-l...
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I don't think there are any decent alternatives to replace TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt. There are some once you narrow the scope, like being fine with linux-only etc. With the same scope as VeraCrypt there's nothing better.

Additionally TrueCrypt has been out there and well known for a long time. It even had a pretty decent audit done. Even with its flaws this is a strong foundation to build on. Any brand new undertaking is pretty much guaranteed to have more flaws. Thus we should definitely focus on improving VeraCrypt. It would also be easier to do an audit on just the changes from TrueCrypt to VeraCrypt as opposed to a whole new program.
Yes.

Let's be angry about it, let's protest peacefully, let's demand answers, let's demand their return.

But let's not use the kidnappings as an excuse for violence and destruction.
Not OP. But actors and companies calling for boycott of Georgia for unjust abortion laws are not voicing similar boycotts of China over HK, uyghurs, etc. I try to avoid whataboutism, but it’s hard not to notice how boycotting Georgia has a pretty negligible impact to bottom lines, but boycotting China (or even saying things like “freedom for HK”) results in being cut out of China for films.

I think the reason we don’t see lots of actors talking about HK is that it could mean that if they are in a future film it will be harder to market in China. Producers know this. Actors know producers know this.
That might really depend on their experience. "Consultant" is a wide term. They can work for the Big 4 companies around people like them, or one-man-army helping small businesses with stubborn clients. What might be successful for them by having to push those clients might not be a best fit for a team. Doesn't mean they won't fit, but both the team and the ex-consultant need to know the context.
He did not do this and it's intellectually dishonest to claim that he did.
You lied about easily verifiable fact like what is stated in constitution of a country available for everyone to read. It is telling that you are constantly dodging that issue. If you make such a lie and don't acknowledge it you have no business making even more claims until the issue is addressed.
Have you looked to see all AWS offers? If you just want VM hosting, their are plenty of cheaper offerings - including from AWS - Lightsail.
> how made fun of China was in past South Park episodes

Well, stereotypes of Chinese aren't eloquent enough to piss off the CCP. As a mainlander, Band in China is a spot-on satire about China under Xi's ruling (apart from the background music), and every threat to the legitimacy of the authority would be quenched while making fun of Chinese ppl is by no means harmful.
I don't know how to feel about the protests anymore, but I don't blame companies for trying to not get involved.

I think in tough situations, self-preservation tends to take priority over ideals, so I am not surprised to see a business demonstrate double standards or inconsistencies when they're pulled into a situation that could threaten their well being.

Many people make up a company and one person's actions should not put everyone else under threat because that individual's beliefs is not representative of everyone else working there.

The actions of the competitor could have threatened many people's jobs, families, and lives so you can't blame blizzard for doing what they did.

The underlying problem is the Chinese government and how they black list businesses for not following their draconian policies to do business within the country.

Mentioning a solution like having businesses collectively boycott China just doesn't seem well thought. You can't just walk away from half of your market over personal beliefs, and another company within China would jump for joy at the chance to grab that lost market share.

The point I'm making is I think we should focus on the cause for all of this which is the Chinese gov rather than blaming someone or a company who has a gun pointed at them for acting in their own best interest rather than what is right. We're not the ones being threatened so it's really easy to call people cowards.
I can understand Schmidt as a father, but can not approve his lack of integrity.

The Internet can clearly railroad anybody regardless of their social standing.

Few US federal for example have to keep running away from kids from an Internet forum called 4chan, despite having 24/7 government bodyguards. The only thing they had to do was to post their home address and names of schools their children were attending, along negative coverage of their court decisions.

Nevertheless, take a look at much more hated "power families." You don't see them ruining journalists, even under much more drivel charged coverage.
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Well, it's memetic warfare fiction, but I don't feel it's that far off the mark. The other day I've been in a discussion where some of the people disagreeing with me were - in my eyes - failing at reading comprehension, seemingly unable to parse the simple English statements of the source material that somehow became quoted by both sides of the argument. I left that discussion with worrying feeling that those others, most of them smart techies, couldn't possibly be that dumb, so there must be something else going on. I find this story uncanny because within its universe, it hints at what that "something else" is.

(Oh, and my opinion of SSC went up a bit.)
I feel the list of useful for commands should be much shorter:

git add/rm/commit/status/push
git branch/checkout/merge/rebase
git tag/push --tag

Anything else should be handled by policies. If you get bad PR, reject it instead of trying to fix it using some complex sequence of git commands.
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He works for H&M manipulating elections? Aren't they a clothes label?

Is requesting a driver some sort of moral failing now?

Do you think that all people who publish books should not have agents, or is it something about William Morris in particular?

The diff linked in another post here shows pretty clearly that the article was changed, and everybody who wants to sell a book wants publicity (even whistleblowers). I don't understand where your hostility is coming from.
You have to give some credit to Viacom, the media company, for allowing the show to air. Viacom owns Comedy Central, MTV, Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks, and CBS among other media properties. They certainly have business interests in China.
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They have some sort of partnership arrangement, but it really is a surprise to me to find out that a partnership like that has had the censorious effects we've seen here. It's hard to imagine that this would have played out the same way for a partnership with a firm based in e.g. Russia or UK or Brazil. [EDIT: Or even a firm from those nations that owned 5% of Blizzard.] I guess I'm saying that I didn't "see this coming". I suppose that you and thread parent did, but it still seems notable to me.
It's precisely because they are monopolies that they can be forced to accept a wide range of students. Otherwise there will be schools which pick the best/easily taught students, and leave the others behind.

Those who fared worse in the current system may fare far worse in an all-private system.

1. In the current charter school system, privatization often does mean deregulation. So while I can imagine it, I assert that it's a dream.

2. If we pick wrong measures - and standardized tests are wrong measures - then we end up trying to improve the wrong thing. Eg, we end up with two weeks dedicated to test prep, instead of teaching; we end up dropping art, music, and foreign language classes in order to focus only on those topics which are tested.

The regional gerrymandering is in part so that the local communities get to decide what the right measures are. Mileage absolutely varies from person to person .. people and communities vary too.

It's not like we didn't have a decent sense of what a good education meant back in the 1970s, before high-stakes testing.

3. Again, how do private schools get to decide which students to accept? Can they make policies which end up rejecting most poor people? If the private school education costs $10,000 and the state's check is for $5,000 then poor students aren't going to afford it. While the parents of middle class students can, subsidized by the state.

Which means poor people won't have access to the same quality education as everyone else.
> offends a portion or group of the public

Surely their own actions just offended "a portion or group of the public".
They can't nuke the subs, who's primary purpose is to ensure retaliation, which hopefully the fear of keeps countries from launching nukes.