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Some context that I think might help the discussion. Here's the clip in question:

https://twitter.com/InvenGlobal/status/1180954142396710912

Blitzchung is wearing a tear gas mask and laughingly says "reclaim Hong Kong, revolution of our time [光復香港 時代革命]" in Mandarin.

This slogan (which is also translated 'Liberate Hong Kong' or 'restore Hong Kong') is ubiquitous in the protests; you can read more about its meaning here: https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3021518...

Blitzchung also issued this statement:

"As you know there are serious protests in my country now. My call on stream was just another form of participation of the protest that I wish to grab more attention. I put so much effort in that social movement in the past few months, that I sometimes couldn't focus on preparing my Grandmaster match. I know what my action on stream means. It could cause me lot of trouble, even my personal safety in real life. But I think it's my duty to say something about the issue."

Source of the statement: https://www.invenglobal.com/articles/9242/hong-kong-player-b...
I'm not seeing much mention of Net Neutrality or what this means in the grand scheme of open & free web vs Gov't control of it.

Any thoughts?
Is that what you wanted?
Are you actually making an "tyranny of the minority" argument against disabled people? :O

This is one of those basic human rights things. Especially if the service your site is offering is important or one of a kind. And especially as more and more things become accessible only through the internet.
I'm very surprised that I see Outbrain ads when I visit cnn.com. Google have a decade of of my email history, my search queries, my Android location, my YouTube history, etc, etc. Yet apparently Outbrain's advertising is so effective that they can offer more money to CNN to place ads. What is going on?
That's what I'm saying. Pronouns (of all types, not just gender) should convey the speakers perception and intent, so there's nothing to keep track of. Think of vous/tu or thou/you. If you have kids, it's the difference between saying to your spouse "our kid drew all by himself" and "your kid drew on the wall".
The pronoun selection conveys meaning perceived by the speaker, and not always the literal categorical noun substitution. But it's for the speaker to decide.
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As clickbaity as the ads are, the actual technology used to show them is much better than most ad networks.

Last I looked into outbrain, the ads were simply a picture and some text. These linked to the advertised site. All images and scripts were hosted by outbrain themselves so there was no third party scripts running or other dubious content that could be inserted.

So in terms of security, outbrains ads were doing a lot better than, say, Google's ad network. Of course what is being advertised is more dubious but that's always been an issue with clicking random ads.
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Make no mistake, China knows South Park doesn't give a fuck about this.

This is about sending a very clear message to everybody else. You can be as big and well known and South Park, yet be cancelled in one second.
Retribution against the kneelers was met with a ton of protest if I recall correctly. So it's a great example of why, yes, we should protest this too.
Those aren't orthogonal statements. Both can be true.
Anyone who publishes software under GPL or MIT is continuing the movement. Those licenses are timeless in their wording.
Most community forums are not businesses.

And if you're a business, just use forum software that has accessibility in mind.
Citation needed. I don't know the sports world, but I know in my bubble, those "weasel words" are something that only SJWs would approve of. If this sort of thing existed in sports contracts in the pre-SJW era, that is an interesting point that to my mind fractures tomp's narrative... but it seems unlikely to me and so far you've simply asserted it without evidence.

I note that the exact phrase "offends a portion or group of the public" has only ever been used in Blizzard's rules as far as I can tell (you can use a date-filtered Google search to confirm; prior to today there are only a handful of results, all Blizzard-related). So at the very least, they didn't lift it verbatim from sports contracts. If there used to be equivalent language in sports contracts a decade ago, I'd like to see it.
Is anyone else working full time and getting a degree part time? I’m a year away from my masters and it’s just been grueling, especially given that the government sees no difference in terms of taxes whether my tuition is paid directly by my employer or if they just gave me a $20,000 check every year and I ran it straight to the bursar on my own accord, so I’ve been screwed for money and time for it seems like as long as I can remember.

I really want to do side projects (I’m getting a degree in machine learning and google colab is free) but I have a job to go to, classwork to do, tests to study for, groceries to shop for and dinner to cook because I can’t afford instacart or delivery...and then I read posts like this about the joys of side projects. It’s really depressing.
That's why it's only fair we as users uphold the same rules by immediately severing any ties, present and future, with Blizzard. The rules are perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
There will be plenty of time for rest when you're taking the dirt nap. Claim every hour of the day until then.
Seems like a pretty dystopian outlook: "might as well be addicted to something less harmful than gambling/drugs/sex"?

If we could inhibit the exploitation of addictive characteristics for profit, that would be good.

(Cue slippery slope arguments!)
They've made it crushingly, erode-absolutely-all-of-their-good-will-and-prestige-as-a-developer-despite-monopolizing-your-childhood-imagination easy.

Natural late-stage corporate life cycle, I guess. :,c But they'll keep making EZ $$$ as long as store whales keep buying mounts and pets. :D Tell them to boycott.
Do that if you want to, but I worry that people feel like they should be doing this because that is what "everyone else is doing" or that you need to because otherwise you wont get a job without revenue-generating side projects etc.

We're setting expectations for and normalising something which is not normal IMHO.

By all means do side projects if you want, but don't feel compelled.
Thanks for sharing, but I feel like it's more like 99.999%. The essential commands for development are really a lot less than this. Maybe it's a list for release managers / sys admins?

Committing, pushing, handling local branches, updating, merging, rebasing, cherry-picking, squashing and stashing is almost all that everyone uses, and several of those not even on a daily basis.
This is a chilling, very well written story!
"They are a private company" is quite literally always the argument for why Facebook, Twitter, Google, Cloudflare etc should be able to ban anyone, any time for any arbitrary reason.

I get why people are upset at Blizzard's behavior, but the outcry looks a bit fake. It looks more like there's a lot of anger because it hit somebody they agree with. Had the player said something supporting China, and Blizzard banned him, there would be congratulatory comments and "their game, their rules" arguments.
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Maybe corporate comedy. There will always be a joke in dark places. You can find books written from the jokes told by those in the Nazi concentration camps.
Oooooh girl you did NOT just go there.
From what I read the casters prompted and encouraged him to say it, hence why they were so quick to drop down out of frame. This is just what I have read, as I do not speak the language.
Alright, I have many thoughts on this.

In summary, this article says:
"I like side projects! I have done a bunch of them, and here are the reasons why you should do them too:

1. You can make money

2. They're a gateway drug to entrepreneurship

3. You can learn new skills, including business skills

4. They look good on a resume/when networking

5. You can learn about yourself

6. Work with friends/make new ones”

I don’t think there is anything _wrong_ with this article, but I think it misses the mark a bit.

In my experience there are 3 reasons to work on a side project:

1. Learning- picking up a specific skill you didn’t have before.

2. Experience- doing more programming in total (making you more experienced).

3. Fun- sometimes programming is a fun thing to do!

I think if you don’t really hit at least one of those, you shouldn’t be doing side projects. On some days I take the even stronger position that unless you are trying to make a career change or you really find programming fun, you should not be doing side projects.

Making money can be part of it, but as the author says it can't really be the driving force of a side project. If making money is your goal, I would argue that that isn't a side project, it's a small business and should be treated as such.

It’s also worth thinking about what value you get out of which parts of side projects. You can hit all those goals without actually finishing and releasing your project. I see a lot of devs not bother starting projects when they hit all 3 reasons, because they don’t want to polish their project into a full product.

I don’t want to go off too much here, I blog at length about side projects at https://weeklyproject.club , and I wrote an article recently about this phenomenon at https://weeklyproject.club/articles/finish/
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The people that I see react most negatively to the suggestion of having a "side project" are those that either don't enjoy programming or don't have time to outside of work.

That being said, I think the main point that most people fail to get across about "side projects" is that they don't have to be programming. I play music with a band in the area and would very much consider that to be a side project.

It would be a much healthier exercise if we focused the narrative on doing anything you enjoy outside of work.
I think it’s a bit different. In this case you’re economically punishing the responsible party - not trying to raise awareness (make a scene).

I can silently stop playing Hearthstone and the effect would be felt. I’m not wasting other people’s time or breaking a contract.

In regards to the kneeling specifically, my impression was it was free publicity to the players. Honestly, looked like they were taking advantage of the situation, a way to get free press for themselves. I know I wasn’t the only person who felt this. That’s likely part of the reason they were canned.
Your comment led me to look up the origin of the name "Lyme disease":

Lyme disease gets its name from a small coastal town in Connecticut called Lyme. In 1975, a woman brought an unusual cluster of pediatric arthritis cases to the attention of Yale researchers. In 1977, the Yale researchers identified and named the clusters “Lyme arthritis." In 1979, the name was changed to "Lyme disease," when additional symptoms such as neurological problems and severe fatigue were linked to the disease. In 1982 the cause of the disease was discovered by Dr. Willy Burgdorfer. Dr. Burgdorfer published a paper on the infectious agent of Lyme disease and earned the right to have his name placed on the Lyme disease spirochete now known as Borrelia burgdorferi.

Source: https://www.dhss.delaware.gov/dhss/dph/epi/lyme.html
1/2 of the way in and the premise in the title still hasn't been explained. Not going to stick around for the next 1/2.
We could call it a Supreme Court
I assume Blizzard were under pressure from China, as why else would they do this. So if this assumption is true they were cornered in they had to 'offend' someone and felt China has a longer memory than the rest of their market + China would likely ban their games whereas how many ROW people will do this?

From a pure business decision it seems to make sense as the lesser of 2 evils.
The two are not mutually exclusive.

WCAG 2.0 Accessibility compliance is within reach of anyone following the most basic of best practices in web development these days.

There are many powerful free tools for developers to use to test and validate their work as they go, and there is a ton of literature and thought leadership out there for anyone to find and learn from.

OP may be referring to retroactively making websites accessible, since it can be a lot of work to fix something that wasn't built with accessibility in mind from the start.

Just like adding a sunroof option to a new car is much cheaper than adding a sunroof to a car that didn't come with one in the first place. ;-)
I've noticed a strong negative reaction from some people who have kids. There's a weird kind of expectation from some that because they don't have time to work on side projects (which is fair; kids suck up time like nothing else), that others who don't have kids and do have the time shouldn't be able to derive any kind of professional advantage over them from it.
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BitLocker is great, especially as it can also take advantage of a TPM to protect against evil maid attacks .

In contrast, VeraCrypt developers did not seem to understand what a TPM is when I tried to discuss the topic with them.
South Park agreed!: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/nov/11/south-p...
You can draw something of a parallel between the British action before the Opium Wars and the current drug issues, though the British government were definitely involved and opium was a black market item.

Calling it a Reverse Opium War is ridiculous though, as China hasn't invaded, forced unequal treaties, or made the US cede Long Island.
Free speech was once valued in USA. In that context this wouldn't have happened. Now that freedom of speech is no longer valued, this sort of thing can happen.

Now I state for the record that I know these are the censorious actions of a private firm, not those of the USA federal government. It is of course possible to value speech outside a strict 1A framework. In previous decades, many Americans did so value free speech.
It's a sad situation with HK and we should not accept it.

But I can't help but feel that a sports competition may not be the right place for political activism. Especially seeing as the rules states it won't be accepted.

If Blizzard did not suspend him they would jeopardize all of their rules, and I hope they would have done the same if he was shouting something pro-China.
You accurately describe the dynamic of self-censorship, but miss the point that China gets to set the threshold of what is "uncontroversial" by choosing how strongly to react in cases like this.

Either way you end up embroiled in politics; the only difference is whether you let a foreign country dictate your behavior, or make your own decisions.
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A tangent: I also think that rest & recovery should be about just that. Too often I see articles extolling the importance of R&R to make you a better, refreshed, worker. I see popular books like Digital Minimalism urging us to get away from our phones and newsfeeds but it all amounts to some grand productivity hack. Disconnect, relax, refresh yourself so that you can hit the ground running on monday and outperform others.

R&R can be almost anything, but don't make it look like work and certainly don't do it because you think it'll make you a better capitalist.
I am sorry, but I dont believe that casually raising an issue here or there will actually change anything. My experience is that it either gets ignored, or you outright receive an aswer that explains to you that your needs are not important.

Example 1: Reddit is on GitHub. At the time when I was still using Reddit, I was pretty pissed with its lack of helpful accessibility. So I went on GitHub, and wrote a PR which would wrap individual articles on a page in a so-called "region" so that the screen reader could easily jump to the next article. The PR was ignored for several months. After a while, I simply closed it out of frustration.

Example 2: When I read about Bitwarden on HN, I tried it. As I am an iPhone user, the iOS app was interesting, so I installed and tested it. No surprise, almonst no button was labeled correctly, or labeled at all. So I opened an issue on GitHub. The answer I got was: "Yes, we know we are not accessible, but we are planning a rewrite anyway, so we will not change anything in the existing code". Thanks for nothing. We are not talking about rocket science here, just adding a text label to a handful of buttons.
But yes, thanks, I got the message. Nobody really cares about people with disabilities.
Boycotts usually don't achieve anything (historically most boycotts have had no effect whatsoever), so it's hardly going to be a good solution in the short term. Legal action (if possible, but I doubt so since a private corporation can basically do what they want according to their rules) would be better. The best would be to simply throw a continuous torrent of tweets, videos and articles to ridicule Blizzard and Hearthstone and its parent company as long as possible. Public shaming tends to bring more valid results.
Note: that would be in Brazilian Portuguese.
"REE-oh TIN-toh" is not that far off from Portuguese from Portugal.
I am from China. I'm happy and proud to live in China. I feel sorry for those (who thinks) being suppressed by CCP, all in this thread. I respect any ideas people expressing anywhere. It's nothing right or wrong in politics. They're basically games for adults.
Not teenagers.
Teenagers are always being used in these games. They just feel like heroes when they find they can play these games like adults (I believe they pretend being like adults in their day-to-day life). If they win in a quarrel, they feel a sense of accomplishment and self satisfaction. It's just black or white in their worlds. They don't tolerate other voices. (However teenagers do help at some moments. So they are being trained and used all the time in the history.)
IMO these are called mature:
* hear from different voices, do not trust one single voice
* think by own brains, not others
* seeking reasons from both side of one thing, like yin-yang
* all information is suspicious unless you see and feel it by yourself
* love C/C++
I am in the last year of my master degree and I have been working for 7 years. The pressure from both work and studies have left deep scars in my body and soul.
Google sold out to China how?
League of Legends is made by Riot, who is owned by Tencent, a Chinese conglomerate.
>> What are the advantages of "multi-threading" other than for performance?

> Taking advantage of all your cores.

Uh, is there any reason you'd want to "take advantage of all your cores" other than performance?

The question/proposal/dialog we started from, don't forget, was:

1. Redis is already as performant as I want, it's not even close to being a bottleneck, so I have no need for multi-threading, and this is a _very very common_ case, as redis is performant enough for a lot.

2. There are other advantages of multi-threading than performance. (Ie, other reasons you'd want it despite 1).

You seem to just be going around in circles. If 1, why would you care about "taking advantage of all your cores"?
Do you understand that US blessing was what made PRC's UN seat possible? China wasn't that popular even with 3rd world countries back then.

Reversing that now, when Chinese money are going all around the globe now will not work.
Thanks. I heard about Kuka having problems and wondered if that applies to other now-Chinese companies as well.
Microsoft is so big on backwards compatibility they keep trying releasing new products locked to Store UWP software.
> P.S. Is it a reasonable heuristic to assume a reader with no visual formatting in their comments might have a good chance of being blind?

As far as I can recall, most of the blind folks on HN don't post big walls of text. Maybe younger blind people who grew up with text-to-speech and never learned braille are more likely to do that. To me, that would be a good reason for screen readers to deliberately pause for a bit between paragraphs.
>And because Blizzard is a private company

But they are not a private company. Blizzard is a component of Activision Blizzard, Inc., a publicly-held corporation traded under ATVI on the Nasdaq.

This is actually part of the problem. If they were still privately held, we would much more likely be sitting on an imminent 2020 Diablo/Starcraft/etc PC title release, rather than mobile game rehashes, 'classic' relaunches of decades old products, etc. Privately held companies seem to be the only companies with consolidation of power and control required to stand against ridiculous "profit in every market at any cost" trends.

Just take a look at Valve Software for a comparison of the private vs public effect on a company with a large creative aspect. I realize they haven't put out anything new in ages, but at the same time, has Valve really compromised on any of the core values they've built over the last decade or so? As far as I am aware, the Steam store is about as open and censorship-free as you can get in this era of entertainment.
Selling stuff requires complying with lots of laws that take time, money and effort to comply with.

I don't know why you keep referring to "edge cases" and "outliers". The two actual examples that the OP has given do not meet this description.
I really think with a proper full time job working long hours its unrealistic to spend much time on any side project. Its much healthier to try to spend time with friends and family, or hobbies. If you have young children there is little chance.

What everyone should strive for is the side project at work. Making new tools, monitoring systems, refactoring some library, user friendly applications, experimenting with new languages. Google is famous for the 20% project, but most people can get away with spending a few hours a week on whatever they want while working. If you deliver something useful its also a good way of getting recognition.
Perhaps amongst many, there is little sympathy for people addicted to gambling or indeed drugs, however the government still regulates these areas.

This is because government understands while there is obviously variation between people, the key drivers for these things are not innate, rather social. ie opportunity, environment.

This is highlighted by other addiction patterns - painkillers, tobacco, even caffeine - these are not limited to a small group of 'losers'.
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There weren't good arguments though, it was a rehash of the same 'debate' forty years prior on whether people of different races should be allowed to get married.
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It's called trade. US americans send $ to China for cheap goods and manufacturing, Now, Chinese have $ to spend in the US.

Not really scary. It's better for superpowers to have intertwined economies, rather than be isolated. Less incentives for conquest and war.