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At least they are not the same warmongerers as the USA. Their tactics to use the legit ways of business to gain more power is really smart compared to many western countries who just invade others with brute force, military and bombs.

China is a f*ed up country concerning human rights etc. but in the end we could really use a mix of the best ideas from both worlds.

I'm afraid the world will go on like it does because globalization forces us to work together. Either one will gain absolute power or we'll have this situation going on like forever probably.

P.S.: We have our own share of censorship etc. but we have the tendency to ignore that and point our fingers at countries like China for being "much worse".
> Designer doesn't hold a candle to Illustrator

Where does it fall short for you? Out of interest.
> How much useful stuff do you think a developer can fit in 20 seconds of speech

1. What did you do yesterday?

2. What are you doing today?

3. Any blockers?
Opposing communist takeover of a free society apparently violates the following:

> Engaging in any act that, in Blizzard’s sole discretion, brings you into public disrepute, offends a portion or group of the public, or otherwise damages Blizzard image
I'm pretty sure you're wrong. People are very good at pattern recognition. You don't need to understand the physics to check lots of combinations of inputs and deduce what this black box do.
Why is this link downvoted? If it's due to your views on piracy, torrents shouldn't be any worse that the pirate Facebook stream.
Do they have the capacity to hit targets in the continental US without winning naval supremacy?
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I play games on my Mac when I can play them on my PC (travelling is one reason for this). I try buy my games DRM free on GOG, and play them either on Mac or through Steam streaming (yes you can load non steam games). My Mac game library is essentially wiped out by this.

And yes, there's this Arcade, but I have no interest in playing for something which is locked down to one platform.
This is why whenever i think about buying software i check if they have a DRM-free version for Windows. 99% of the time this ensures i'll be able to use the software for years to come even if the company shuts down.
I don't understand what's the argument about here.

Commemorating war dead is a sensitive issue. FIFA has to take all situations across the world into account. It is sensible for them not to allow any display and to keep to it without exception even if the British think that they are special. No big deal, just keep football purely about sport.
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Yes, because beating someone for doing or thinking something is a proven way of making them stop doing or thinking that thing.

In reality, what will happen is swatters will get caught, tried and put into prison. As they should be. What you're proposing is anathema to civilization.
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That's a good question, and I don't think you'll find an especially convincing answer.

Polar orbits are "unstable" in a few senses, namely that even in an ideal setting orbital planes will precess around central masses that are lumpy rather than spherically symmetric; rotation of a lumpy central mass introduces further precessions. Nodal precession is pretty interesting, for example. One can concoct all sorts of odd orbital changes by perturbing the rotating central mass "under" a test object in stable orbit.

However, in the case of known solar system bodies, slowly shifting a satellite in near-polar orbit into a near-equatorial orbit conflicts with quite a lot of evidence; by the mid 1960s it was pretty safe to say that known inner moons maintain over very long timescales an almost constant orbital inclination with respect to the planet's equator, while outer moons maintain an almost constant orbital inclination with respect to the invariable plane of the solar system. Interesting exceptions are Triton and Earth's moon, both of which have significant inclinations to their planets. Precessions are primarily driven by the planet for the inner moons, and by the sun for the outer moons.

It's probably worth paying some close attention to Uranus and its known moons (and their formation and/or capture) when considering the various thoughts people have put into the thread. Most of the moons and rings have negligible inclination (i.e., they're coplanar with Uranus's equator), and Uranus's extreme axial tilt is intriguing. If the tilt is because of a giant collision, did the relevant moons and rings follow the planetary tilt? Or did they form in the highly-tilted equatorial plane (for some of the moons), or were they captured into the equatorial plane (for others) post-tilt?
> Planes emit more only because they travel further. Mile for mile they aren't that different these days.

May I point out that electric trains have zero emissions?
The whole thing is just a big straw man argument. Well, actually the piece is pretty incoherent and I found it hard to find a red thread through the musings on such diverse topics as WIMPs, pentaquarks and the functioning of drift chambers. But the core of it seems to be at she thinks that scientists are now sitting on massive piles of data, mine through it looking for any oddities and then jump on the chance to publish a discovery of a new physical phenomenon as soon as one is found.

I can't judge whether she is just ignorant or deliberately misleading (she claims to have worked in physics), but this is just not how experiments are done. You almost always start with a theoretical prediction by a new theory, and there is no lack of theories out there so it has to be a pretty good one that has plenty of justification to merit attention enough to invest the 10+ person-years of effort it typically takes to conduct a rigorous analysis of a chunk of data from a modern large scale scientific instrument. You carefully demonstrate in various side bands your ability to correctly model every background process and instrumental effect that could influence the measurement. After that, if the data very clearly favors the new prediction over the null hypothesis, you may publish the discovery in order to invite other scientists to confirm or refute it. This does not mean that you or your peers accept that the new theory is correct.

And this is all supposedly in support of the thesis that large experimental facilities are a waste of money, which is patently nonsensical. They have been estimated to pay for themselves in direct returns alone (training of students and researchers, spin-off applications to silicon sensors, cryo technology, vacuum technology, lasers, accelerators, computing, etc). And the long term importance of investments in fundamental research are incalculable. For perspective, remember that the electron was considered a "useless" discovery back in 1897.
So you think that it was fair that she was "exposed" in that piece?

What exactly was her role in and relevance to Cambridge Analytica scandal?

According to the article, she was an intern at SCL Election before 2013, in January 2013 she met with CEO and, the article absurdly claims that "she gave him the germ of an idea" by mentioning data and Palantir.

Oh, and she works at Uber now, which we all know is bad. Somehow.

It's absurd to suggest that what a former intern, even named Schmid, said in 2013 had any impact on what happened later.

SLC Group was founded in 1990, Palantir in 2003.

By 2013, SLC Group was involved in political lobbying and manipulation for over 20 years.

Cambridge Analytica was created in 2012, a year before the 2013 meeting.

The idea that CEO Cambridge Analytics didn't know about Palantir in 2013 or needed to be educated by a former intern about the importance of data is just laughable.

As far as I can tell the journalist opportunistically juiced up the story by twisting facts to fit a narrative of some sinister SV dominance and throwing a random person under the bus by trying to tie her to an international scandal.
The only problem is China is too big to care. Streisand effect only affects those people where a spotlight from a small percent of the internet heavily affects them
Sounds like you're describing the same thing. I've seen many comments defend China and try to turn attention towards actions done by the US.
I've been held in a Chinese detention center for 6 days before, when was the last time you were locked away without access to due process just for expressing an opinion?

I lived in China for several years, and I will never go back. I made a choice to move there to advance my career thinking I could tolerate living in a totalitarian state, and now that I have experienced it I will forever oppose it.
In theory. In practice you can only act like a bully like that when you are already on the side with much more power. Repeatedly swatting (or whatever, doesn't have to be swatting) people richer and more powerful than you will just get them to use their power to make the problem go away (maybe by leaning on politicians to lean on police to not respond so over the top to unsubstantiated calls or to create harsh punishments for the callers).

In a situation like this (i.e. small minority who care vs small group with power who don't) you need to either convince the people with the power (the CEOs and execs you initially referred to) to see your point of view or convince the apathetic masses to take your side. In either case you need to be persuasive or at the very least not acting in a manner that makes you hard to sympathize with (e.g. swatting people).

Now, if you were already in power (say for example, you were the government) then you could act like a bully and kick down people's door, shoot their dogs, etc. But do that will make the targets and people like them resent you and if you do it too much or to too powerful people/groups you will either find yourself voted out or lined up and shot (depending on the power transition mechanism of the government in question).

TL;DR affecting change is much more nuanced and complicated than just being a thorn in the side of the people you don't like.
That not communism, it's dicratorship
I don't think the navy can do anything about ICBMs, but even if, they can start by nuking the US navy.
Call them dwarf moons, until they have cleaned away the other moons
This is just asking for a variation of Streisand effect. Now everyone will comment about Hong Kong, whether they care about it or not. And Blizzard will relent eventually, after much gnashing of teeth.
Proprieatary software are shortcuts, but infrastructure requires open source. That's the only durable software out there.
Nice work, I once built a terminal UI for Vault. Did not get any attention at all. Works wonders for me:

https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/pull/6108
Historically very few swatters have been caught and convicted. Not unsurprising given how easy it is to conceal the source of a phone call on the internet.

E: throttled and can’t reply below

I don’t think you understand how swatting works, the only way you’re too high profile is if you live in the white house.
That entire plot and her in ep 8 was pointless. Obvious pandering
(2018), but still very relevant!
Twenty years ago games companies didn't employ psychologists and economists to ensure their game currencies and loot boxes were suitably addictive.

You were addicted to Civ or old school Defender arcades because it was too much fun (for a while), not because they had a team exploiting every weak point. Somewhere along the line (f2p with premium currencies, maybe monthly subscriptions) it switched to cutting your fix with some heroin to ensure it's addictive enough.

To me that's qualitatively different, and in need of regulation.
Not the OC, but I use uBlock, not pi-hole simply because:

- hardware, and I’m lazy (admittedly, that doesn’t really qualify as a good reason);

- I browse on mobile, at work, from cafés, etc.

I like the idea of having a device that handles my connection everywhere and my mobile and laptop are always “on wifi” with that device. I’d love to have a centralised solution to use the dodgy wifi connection at airports, for instance.
That may change if the victim is high-profile. I'm also doubting the probability of a successful swatting of a high-profile target.
Seems like an undue burden to place on a small business owner. Having to both defend in one lawsuit and sue another party when they likely aren't knowledgeable or willing to take the risk of either.
> breakdown of the current economic system

As the author themselves admits, this requires a very narrow band of Goldilocks catastrophe. Not catastrophic enough that you still have electricity, but catastrophic enough that all the plants on this list are destroyed or rendered unusable or embargoed from you? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricat...

How is that going to work exactly?

No, it's a fantasy disaster, like Day of the Triffids and all the other John Wyndham style "cozy catastrophe" novels.

Real catastrophe is slow and grinding. Think "decline and fall of the Roman Empire" - a multi-lifetime process. Or something like Venezuela, where crumbling power infrastructure took out their aluminium smelter. This causes it to freeze solid and is unrecoverable without rebuilding the crucibles.
Beeing blind does not give you the right to force to make there websites accessible for you.
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This wouldn't be as big of a problem with version pinning.
I've been asking myself the same question :) There's just something irresistibly tacky about cigarettes as a design element.
Same thing happened with Tridef. The company went under, didn't release a free version of the software, and now people who bought it legally have to resort to using a crack.
Let's be honest, we all know why they're banning South Park. It's because they showed Winnie the Pooh...

P.S. While this trending topic isn't directly related to technology, great to see the masses in tech taking a stance against censorship.
They said that by firing her.
USA population is close to 330m. I was reading that NBA has 500m "followers" (I will translate it to consumers). Assuming that only half the US population follows (consumes, pays) for NBA related products, then Chinese market is every NBA official's wet dream. Unless this becomes a binary choice (dictatorship Vs freedom) all the money making sharks (FIFA, NBA, etc) will pretend that they "were not aware of such events taking place in China/do not comment on internal affairs of other sovereign nations" as long as the money rolls in.

I was glad to see earlier on CNN a 'super' writing "NBA Commissioner: we are no apologizing..."

But the first 24h the reactions went from not existing to laughable. Good to see that freedom is more important than revenue.
Furthermore, the western market is more than happy to comply with the censorship.
You're really intent to get me on a technicality. Fine, I'll concede - somewhere out there, there is a blind person whose pride in life is finding the best auto insurance deals for his relatives. And somewhere out there, there is a blind person who buys random paintings online and hangs them on his walls just so he can have fun conversations about them over dinner with friends.

But by and large, blind people don't buy auto insurance because they don't drive and they don't buy paintings because they can't see them. Forcing these businesses to invest excessive efforts to serve 0.0001% of their potential target audience is idiotic.

And no, I'm not going to say what we sell because it's not important and this was clearly an extortion case.
The purpose of W3W not having nearby locations have similar words is because of transmission errors. They're pushing it in the UK at the moment having got several emergency services on board, and in that context if you say to, say, Norfolk Police call handlers that you're at bamboo cheese elephant and that shows up as somewhere in the middle of the Pacific they know they got a transmission error pretty much instantly and can ask for clarification. Although it'd be nice maybe to have soundalike tools in the search so it can say "hang on maybe they meant this place".

Two conflicting needs really - as it stands, W3W is incredibly good for simple transmission by voice, but it's awful for giving you clues to geographic proximity.
Not sure I completely agree, but good points nonetheless. Many thanks!
I struggle to imagine a situation that would be improved by adding MORE involvement by Trump.
Not for customers. What we developers call quality is usually readability and maintainability. But that doesn't affect customers one bit if the software solves the problem it is supposed to.

Of course it affects price and development speed which may in the long run sink the company in the marketplace, like what happend to e.g. QuarkXPress.
I initially read kkarakk's comment as a reverse of what I wrote, but even if we're talking the same, I personally believe that any and all accusations of whataboutism are just thought-terminating cliches and are invalid from the start.
> Why would anyone want to intern with a psychological warfare firm, I ask him. And he looks at me like I am mad. “It was like working for MI6. Only it’s MI6 for hire. It was very posh, very English, run by an old Etonian and you got to do some really cool things. Fly all over the world. You were working with the president of Kenya or Ghana or wherever. It’s not like election campaigns in the west. You got to do all sorts of crazy shit.” Why would anyone want to intern with a psychological warfare firm, I ask him. And he looks at me like I am mad. “It was like working for MI6. Only it’s MI6 for hire. It was very posh, very English, run by an old Etonian and you got to do some really cool things. Fly all over the world. You were working with the president of Kenya or Ghana or wherever. It’s not like election campaigns in the west. You got to do all sorts of crazy shit.”

>On that day in January 2013, Sophie met up with SCL’s chief executive, Alexander Nix, and gave him the germ of an idea. “She said, ‘You really need to get into data.’ She really drummed it home to Alexander. And she mentioned to him a firm that belonged to someone she knew about through her father.”
It's just a few variations on one base design used throughout the blogpost.
They did not have a video?
This is the first I'm hearing of this, in the blur of stories. No video?
"Let’s hope the incident with Morey and the Houston Rockets will teach other companies a lesson: The big Chinese market is open to the world, but those who challenge China’s core interests and hurt Chinese people’s feelings cannot make any profit from it."

So basically suck it up if you want our money.
I'm pretty sure the grandparent is wrong. You are allowed to have multiple sequences, for example one per store. Maybe even one per client.
Is there an "underground" in China of people criticising the government and supporting hong kong, tibet, etc? If yes, how many people?
You could but everybody uses version pinning in production, right?
Try iTunes or Google Play. The Nordic version of South Park Studios is always several months behind.
Versioned garbage, but yeah you could. It would just make a new version not work which isn't as harmful as taking away a package.
npm allows for installation of specific versions. So even if a dev publishes a new version that breaks you can select a previous version known to work. A good dev shouldn’t be updating willy-nilly to the latest version just because it’s the latest. They ought to spec a particular version and update after testing.
>A massive 5,000-year-old metropolis that housed some 6,000 residents

That's 1.2 ancient denizens per student. The size of the research is nearing the size of the ancient city.
R and the tidyverse are great at cleaning already nicely formatted tabular data. As someone else has already mentioned it quickly turns pretty ugly if you stray away from this.
shrug That's the legal system. I didn't make it.

A clause in supplier contract guaranteeing whatever - accessibility or all images being licensed covers you.
One of Alexander's better stories. However, I'd say it reeks of what I'd call Alexanderness:

-The idea that arguments and debates are the most important thing in the world and everyone should do it as much as possible (possibly due to his being terminally online). In real life if you say something other people find abhorrent they'll first go "that's wrong wtf", then if you insist "sure alright go off" then "please stop talking to me". Most people are not, in fact, in a perpetual crusade to prove opppnents wrong. That's because the real world isn't Twitter.

-The idea that both sides have a point and trying to rule out one side is anathema to a well-functioning society. In other words, why can't everyone just get along? Well guess what, sometimes one side is unambigiously right and the other unambiguously wrong. Some disagreements can't be resolved other than through power struggles, such as e.g. when one side's position implies the negation of the other side's rights, identity or existence. We can't have a rational, dispassionate debate about whether I should have rights. I can't argue for my existence, I want it.

-Equivocating all controversial statements as equally controversial. For instance, design decisions about a codebase vs. religion issues vs. presumably something even deeper ('so hateful and disgusting'). Some fights are worth having, some are not.
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"Human rights" = politics. Blizzard can choose what they broadcast using their streams. I'm sure if someone decided to wear a tshirt with a fasces in it you'd agree... but since this is on the other side of the spectrum of politics, you disagree. Honestly, very short-sighted.
Six Corporations control 90% of the media in America. They can make business decisions to censor whomever they want and they are global corporations doing lots of business in China.
Making art is about as productive as it gets. It's also the only thing that we still appreciate many years after the original was created.

Playing a game is pure consumption, drawing or making music is pure production.
Deadline is 28th of october. Did they decide to not refund affected users before the deadline or are they just not allowed to?
Very badly chosen name. GIO is already GLib's filesystem abstraction API: https://developer.gnome.org/gio/
> Screenshots simply show native interfaces

Yeah, but accompanied by code snippets they would make a lot of sense on a GUI library's landing page. Not to advertise the look of the widgets, but to advertise the ease or flexibility of the library.
We also had an ex consultant join recently and that wasn’t at all like you describe for us.
Stand ups are the modern mashup of two great comedian quotes:

Pascal's "I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter"

And Carlin's "Have you noticed that their stuff is shit and your shit is stuff?"
> the British think that they are special

lol. You are aware that just about the entire developed world, and a fair proportion of the rest mark the same day, right? It's called Veteran's Day in the US, also on November 11th.

Not marking it would be the political statement.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. I've wasted too much time on HN arguing with people who simply don't believe China isn't as bad as portrayed, and believe everything that comes up here or on other sites is nothing but anti-Chinese propaganda.

There are plenty of people who are so jaded that they're unwilling to condemn China for all the immoral things they do, much less economic or political behaviours that aren't overtly immoral, but do have clear negative impact on the Western sphere of influence and economic status.

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.