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Yes, and a lot of commenters are falling into the scissor, metaphorically, arguing that your analogy to the Dreyfuss case is wrong because, damn it, Dreyfuss was {innocent, guilty}.

I think that's in part because, if you're societally oppressed, you're less buffered, so you become understandably hyper-vigilant about what might be used against you. E.g a if you're rich, you may not like a certain tax law change passed out of the Senate committee, but you still have chances to reduce its impact by lobbying for the full Senate vote, the House vote, Presidential veto, IRS implementing regulations, and how your tax attorney goes to bat for you. If you're poor and dependent on certain subsidies which the Senate committee has voted to eliminate, you have fewer points of leverage between you and doom (and "doom" is much worse for you.)

All that said, I think the interesting thing about a scissor statement is that it generates tunnel vision in both sides at the same time that it's generating great passion in both sides. Losing = death, death is imminent, so this is the hill you've got to die on.

But losing is generally not death and complete losing is generally a few more steps away, even if you're on the "oppressed" side I sketched out above.

Consider the Kavanaugh confirmation. I was against it (disclaimer: I'm not personally the target of what he's likely to cause through his votes, so...). But his confirmation is not the last word - a battle not the war. Other Justices will be nominated. Legislation could increase the number of court seats. Grassroots efforts through the states can make Federal decisions less important. He might even be impeached.

And there may be positive consequences in the long term. The spectacle of the hearings may have strengthened long term support for "my side".

If you've fallen into the scissor, you see it as the war, and with no possibility of good consequences to losing.

You also -- just as in the story -- see the other side as a monolith. That works against perceiving their humanity, and it works against good negotiation tactics. Some Senators voted for Kavanaugh enthusiastically; everything about him was good. Some Senators held their noses and voted for him, because they feared their base or like some of Kavanaugh's positions. Some pro-K Senators may even have collected significant IOUs which may become handy later. Not seeing those possibilities leads to myopic strategy.

(And please please please don't fall into the scissor re the Kavanaugh fight if you respond to this comment.)
Here's a better search link: top stories this month mentioning HK: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=tr...

This one is the top story, but "Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong", "Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store", "Protester shot in chest by live police round during Hong Kong protests", and others all got substantial attention.
"There is" is more accurate.

"There is a separate whitelist here (as link)" would probably be clearest.
Salary is not the end-all, be-all for everyone. Some people will gladly exchange a significant amount of salary to work somewhere that has a good and healthy culture, whose end-product aligns with their own moral, ethical, or other principles, and/or just provides them some other kind of intangible benefit.

For the record, however, a lot of lousy paying companies also don't share their salaries here, so I don't quite know what actual point you're making because your conclusion does not follow from your assertion, which itself is also false.
> Wouldn't it destroy Foxconn and only defer revenue a bit for Apple?

They might not even have to do that... from what I understand, they are working with Foxconn to move some production out of China. Both companies can benefit from spreading some of the political risk around.
The term "open source" was afaik invented by the people who would form the "open source consortium".

If you're not going by their definition, I think you're just wrong.
If the most qualified candidate bombed the interview, they wouldn’t get an offer this time, but probably would in the next interview when their performance reverts to their average level of competence.
> Every large organization has firewalled

The primary purpose of this is to enforce security for connections. Not every large organization employs content filtering, and those that do mostly only enforce a minimal standard of what is acceptable for work.
> Blind defense of this narrow and immature notion of free speech from Blizzard would have people up on stage shouting racial slurs.

What narrow and immature notion of free speech? What the player said or what I have said?

Of course a consistent and humane stance on ethics and human right abuses would address the real issue. I do not believe for one second that its own employee's believe in the stance Blizzard has taken.
Will some not care? Of course, it is their right to not care.

Is it feasible to think Blizzard has done risk analysis on the outcome of these events depending on which stance they've taken?
What would they lose by taking a negative stance on the matter (which they have done)?
They've currently created a situation where players of their games, whom aren't even located anywhere close to China have decided to step down from any blizzard game.
What would they gain by taking a positive stance on the matter?
Say the Chinese were to cut them off entirely, revenue loss of 25-30, perhaps 35%?

I understand the decision from a management perspective, I truely do.
I do not understand the decision from a neutral, humane perspective.
Blizzard entertainment does not have roots in China
Blizzard entertainment's main focus is entertainment, fictional entertainment. Can u imagine a game, based on a pseudo-reality where free speech is non-existent? I for one can't..

I'm not sure where I'm going with my reply, I just wanted to write out these few sentences.
Right, that's why I mentioned that it's less the case today, but that freedom of movement is always at risk of being cancelled much more easily than a country leaving the EU. There has already been a referendum that passed that would have done so. Also, non-Swiss Europeans can be expelled for certain criminal convictions and (as you mentioned) need to be able to support themselves financially which aren't generally the case between EU states except in extreme circumstances.
> And then there is Apple: the company is deeply exposed to China both in terms of sales and especially when it comes to manufacturing. The reality is that, particularly when it comes to the latter, Apple doesn’t have anywhere else to go.

For what it's worth, I know of multiple Chinese companies that are themselves moving manufacturing overseas, primarily to South East Asia. I'm not convinced that the multinationals have nowhere else to go.
ra-di-cal equality. not ra-ci-al equality.
Sure, but directly though - unless there are other events I'm unaware of.

I thought Thiel bankrolled Hulk Hogan in his sex tape lawsuit against Gawker (IIRC HH didn't have much money after his divorce)
I think of "Show, don't tell." as a mnemonic name, comparable to the mnemonic names for instructions in assembler language.

Obviously LDA loads the accumulator, but does it also clear the carry bit? You cannot divine from the name. You have to be familiar the details of the instruction from the manual.

Similarly, can you ever "tell"? You go to the "Show, don't tell." chapter in the "learn to write novels" book, and re-read the section "Sometimes you have to tell.".

You cannot work it out from the three word phrase. It is not just that it is too short. The internal structure is merely mnemonic. "show" doesn't mean "show". "tell" doesn't mean "tell". They are just reminders of the more subtle concepts explained in the chapter.
This is really good insight. But wouldn’t China craft their own ”enemy” by deliberating breaking trade deals and such?
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What's wrong with GIMP? Are there special abilities and features in Photoshop GIMP does not have?
There is a coding challenge at the beginning. You're given a sample problem to solve and then your problem is analyzed.

I know this because I've applied to Automattic before and got that far. :-D
I think Western memory about the Opium Wars is a lot weaker than China's. They have a moral defense against any accusation of economic imperialism. Indeed, communism would have never taken hold if the British hadn't done such devastating harm.
Tencent has about a 5% stake iirc. They also have small interests in Activision-Blizzard and a big chunk of Epic. I have no idea what 5% of a company buys them.
As far as I know China has done little to threaten it's status as the world's manufacturer, anyone can build there. It is access to their internal markets that they've used as leverage. For example Google is not allowed to sell their products to their internal markets but they are allowed to manufacture their devices there without problems.
Except in many cases they are legally required to maximize profits, regardless of ethics, so long as their actions are strictly legal.
There's a nice little compilation [1] about free speech exceptions in the United States. It may be very helpful for climbing down high horses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...
>Then we have to boycott Hearthstone

Honestly never even heard of it so that's pretty easy then.
It also stands for Software Reverse Engineering. An example is Ghidra [1]

[1] https://ghidra-sre.org
I didn't mean "kids these days" to be taken exactly literally. I'm not at all sure in which decade digital cash registers became overwhelmingly common.
There’s a lot wrapped up in that statement about being extremely Type A. Like responding to emails after hours within 5 minutes. Maybe you don’t think that’s difficult, but it certainly means sacrificing a lot of your home life in a way that a lot of jobs don’t involve.

And yeah, you clearly haven’t been keeping up with dev pay scales at big companies if you think it tops out at 150k. I knew people at $300k total comp a few years out of school, and senior engineers can make far more.
Yes, it is dangerous. It's also an increasing trend in a few Western countries where vocal disagreement or criticism is labelled as treasonous or "they want to destroy our country". It's a really short walk from there to a truly awful society.
The problem with this is that context matters. I think we'd probably agree that the most conservative requirement for somebody to discharge a weapon is when he has a reasonable reason to believe his life, or the life of another person, is in danger. So what were the contexts of the shootings? Were they arbitrary, unjustified? Or did the officers have some reasonable justification in fearing for their lives or the lives of others?

Fortunately, unlike in times past, we don't need to rely on hearsay or propaganda. Everybody has their camera out and we can see what's happening, at least most of the time. This [1] is the video of the first shooting. And this [2] is the video of the second and, to my knowledge, final shooting. Do you feel the officers acted disproportionately, abusively, or in an otherwise inappropriate fashion?

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN4MvOrPotk

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHKbe5mAoNo

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For those concerned the videos are mostly safe-for-life in what is depicted, even if it is somewhat unsettling.
It is time to stand up for the people of Hong Kong without apology
Stop apologising to this brutal regime you cowards!
Bethpage NY has issues with the groundwater near the old Grumman facility.

I would venture to bet there are probably dozens of such sites across the country.
That's fine, but if you read about the experience which a lot of people share online, it's usually quite positive and not at all what you would expect from other, bigger and more established brick-and-mortar shops. I applied, went through part of the process, but eventually didn't get the job. However, I found every part of the process respectful and they explicitly invited me to apply again in the future, and I have every sense that it was sincere.
Judging by the comments on this article, that is not the case.
2nd-gen Indian in Austin here: many folks in my generation are highly critical of Modi and the BJP, but just as many if not more are casual supporters. I honestly do find the more informed they are about Modi's policies, the less likely they are to support him.

My parents' generation on the other hand range from moderate supporters, who have "some qualms" about e.g. Kashmir/Assam, to fervent supporters of his nationalist identity and agenda.
> For Win32 pretty much anything can be made to work with Windows' own compatibility settings

I have never had something not work and then work after running in compatibility mode.

When I've (had to use Windows and) had reason to try it, I've tried every OS in the list and ended up thinking it's just a dummy wrapper that doesn't do anything included to make you feel better about Windows but think the program really is a lost cause after all.
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This is such a ridiculous framing, so in your opinion by this logic, if Xi was democratically elected by a free and fair election, and then proceeded to ban memes via a legislative branch that would be perfectly fine? I think what the UK is doing is equally shameful. This kind of "its ok when the west does it" type of narrative is why when I talk to Chinese students about censorship issues they can consistently point to Western censorship of topics with smugness.

"Oh but those things we ban here are anti-PC, so we are offended by them", sounds eerily similar to, "Oh but those things we ban here are anti-CCP, so we are offended by them".
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It would be interesting to look back at how this is playing out from the vantage of 10 or 15 years.

I could see an attitude like:

- Sure, people do dumb things on social media especially when they're in college etc. No one cares.

I could also see:

- Those fools. Who is so stupid as to associate their real identity with social media accounts? (Of course, since you can't keep other people from posting, it's a little hard to see this happening.)
You’re not up to speed on that term if you think it has anything to do with people’s right to complain. And it has nothing to do with Cosby or football, at all. And there we go with that silly “punching down” term again.
I would be surprised if Google didn't know a given customer was disabled and serve up accessible results. Whether that is something an engineer deliberately coded or whether it was an algorithm that learned that a given cluster of users exhibits a strong preference for accessible sites.

For the SEO motivation to succeed, I think search engines would have to regress (by definition of "search engine" and its goals) to serve accessible results to users who don't need it. I'm not opposed to this as a solution, but it requires some interesting decisions: do governments stipulate how much of the search score for a given page is based on accessibility? Presumably it's a bad thing for governments to stipulate _how search engines work_. On the other hand, we could see search engines do this voluntarily; that would be cool and might just work because the search engine space isn't especially competitive, but if it ever becomes competitive, I don't think a gentleman's agreement to artificially boost accessible sites (at the expense of serving up the content that is genuinely most likely to satisfy a non-disabled person's query) is going to hold.

Note the distinction between accessibility and mobile--mobile was market-driven: lots and lots of Google users (as a percentage of total users and absolutely) search via mobile--it behooves Google to improve their search experience by boosting mobile-friendly results, and it therefore behooves sites to optimize accordingly. We're talking about boosting accessibility beyond its market value--I think this is good and right, but I wouldn't expect to solve the problem the same way as for mobile.
SRE has a lot of different meanings, even in the science & technology world [1]. (I'll refrain from claiming that such is "common knowledge".)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRE
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The other side exists. They have their opinion. I deny them the right to censor me, though.

> Or maybe it's you who needs to expand your mind, show a bit of empathy and try to understand the other side?

If the other side was doing the same, sure. The other side is actively denying my side the right to speak, though. I give zero empathy to their actions.

> Keep arrogant and ignorant at your own peril. But I guess it's easier to close your mind and feel better by pretending it's wrong, than to try to know the rest of the world?

You don't find it arrogant for China to try to prevent the rest of the world from saying that they support Hong Kong? You don't find it ignorant for China to try to keep information from the west out of China via the Great Firewall? You don't find that "closing your mind"?

China has no right to appeal for us to show those values, when China so clearly has no interest in them itself. (Yes, we should support the values that we claim. China has no right to demand that we do, though.)
What a ridiculous comparison. The rule he broke here was literally "don't offend any portion of the public." The rule you're referring to is much more justifiable.

If the rules are ridiculous, then the reaction to them should be to dismantle the rules and disavow the rule-makers.
"Earth Day" was an event that happened only every decade up until 1990 when it became an annual event. This concept that what we do has a direct impact on the environment has only been a mainstream idea since the mid-1990s. Outside of super liberal areas like California, things didn't really kick off until Al Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth came out in 2006. By the standards of the day, just digging the ditch and covering it afterwards was considered forward-thinking in most rural locales.
I don't think South Park angered the CCP only with Winnie the Pooh. Southpark can be seen as subversive to authoritarian regimes, the catchy jokes may make the people think outside the reestablished mold.
> Apple doesn’t have anywhere else to go.

Apple doesn’t have anywhere to go is a comment on the consumer market, not manufacturing. They are heavily dependent on revenue from China.
See, one thing I don’t get is when people get into their anti Russian mode (which Russia deserves), we don’t get all this pearl clutching and people feel free to say what’s bad, but oh no, China, be mindful not to be harsh...
It’s remarkable how irresponsible people will be if they’re allowed.
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I applied to a few jobs at United Healthcare and they sent me HireVue interview invitations. Wasn't sure what HireVue was so I looked it up and was completely appalled that this sort of AI hiring technology is actually being used already.

Of course they frame it as a benefit to you (interview whenever and wherever you want!) but we all know their real motivation...
I think this illustrates why it's relatively rare to find someone who has a high degree of technical aptitude but also a great communicator.

In Feynman's words, "If you can’t explain something in simple terms, you don’t understand it"
Large businesses often have rules around single sourcing of anything. They don't want that single source to cause them problems if something happens to it. For example, even if they buy 90% of their servers from HPE they may still get 10% from Dell to have multiple suppliers.

It would be wise for many organizations to take that idea and apply it to countries of origin for their things. That way instability in a region doesn't threaten things back home.

This doesn't help things like the NBA whose revenue model is based on bodies and eyeballs. But, it can help some industries break control... as long as they have goals other than to gain all the money.
Me too. I enjoyed it, but I can live without it.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21190952.
> That may be true of manufacturing now, but will it be true 5 years from now?

Not even a wildest guess can tell now. As for Vietnam, it's the closes substitute.

Demographically, Vietnam is incomparably better off than China. On the level of technical capability it's late nineties China. The few manufacturers venture there only for abundant skilled workforce. Big players like Foxconn and Samsung can build entire cities housing a big part of the supply chain inside, but I don't see even Samsung being that committed at the moment. Samsung's plant in Vietnam imports all components, assemblies and etc, from outside, including Samsung parts factories in China.

A lot of young bright Vietnamese are travelling for work to... China — something unimaginable even 10 years ago. In SZ, there is a serious talk going on about China importing foreign workforce by millions — again, something unthinkable 10 years ago.

The biggest appeal of China as a manufacturing destination now is its domestic industry, not Foxconn and Flextronics megaplants.

To get manufacturing appeal, Vietnam will need at foremost develop its domestic manufacturing — and that's easier said than done, in comparison to just inviting Foxconn and have them do everything for you.

To the point above, there is quite a twist now: more and more Chinese manufacturing SMEs are migrating to Vietnam, along with their customers. Even though, they outright loose cost wise, they believe that Vietnam is a better bet on demographics, and immediate gain from "trade war refugees'" clients is big enough for now.
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I'd agree, the concept of 'universal rights' is useful in the sense you are basically saying 'hey pretty much everyone agrees with this, nothing to see here'. A useful rhetorical tool.

However as you point out - using 'sanctity' type special status cut's both ways - what pretty much every other country sees as sensible action - control of lethal weapons - is blocked in the US, partly by, by pointless debates on 'rights'.

> If you surrender the concept of natural rights, you lose all of your negotiating power, as citizens.

True power comes from collective action - the Baron's ganged up on the king to force the Magna Carta - it wasn't the power of the philosophical argument - that's a cover to allow face saving ( though, of course, face saving is essential to non-violent progress ).
World superpowers and associated people should not take tweets so seriously. People read too much meaning and emotion into throwaway comments.
FWIW, we try to be open about those processes just for that reason:

https://automattic.com/work-with-us/how-we-hire-developers/
>Thus by the American conception of things every human has the right to free speech, that China takes that away from it's citizens thus not make American's privileged - it makes China bad and its citizens oppressed for having their rights removed.

A priori, in a natural state, there is no "right of free speech". It was fought for, built, implemented, and maintained. We are privileged if we are born in a country with solid institutions which grant you this right. That's all there is to the initial comment, I don't see why such a fuss.
Sounds like we’ve found a wealthy Venezuelan. Madurai has the support of the working class, which means he has the support of the country.
Is that machinery actually real in any way? Just because you write something on a database somewhere doesn't give it any sort of special legal status, which is why people register for corporations in specific jurisdictions, so those jurisdictions treat their organization differently than something informal.
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