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Taiwan is next on the list after HK, maybe Vietnam too, and they have militaries. Whatever happens in Hong Kong, everything after that is uphill for China.
And your statement misses a ton of context as well...
It's a little more complicated than that. The maximum assessed value can only go up 3% a year. (There's sometimes other taxes that end up on top, assuming the 3% isn't reached). The only time it can be re-calculated is if you do a fairly large renovation - which lad led to contractors figuring out how to make sure renovations don't trigger it.

If you go to Zillow, find some older homes then look at the tax history you'll be amazed.
My direct manager is very good but above him things are increasingly dysfunctional and detached from reality so in the end it’s slowly becoming pretty bad working here.
Band practice isn't equivalent to music work. It would be more like being on tour, and coming home to play some more. Which I doubt musicians do. Most I've heard find touring pretty taxing.

From my musician friends too, I seldom see them ever spending more than 8 hours a day doing music. As music work isn't really 9 to 5 style.

Here we're talking having done an 8 to 10 hour day programming, Monday through Friday, and then spending even more once home and on weekends.

Now, I happen to be, maybe as you are, someone who is passionate about CS. So I do actually do it as a hobby and as work. I just don't believe everyone should, and I don't want to make it the norm that you have too, because if that was the case, my doing it as a hobby for myself would now become me doing it cause I have too for employability.

It's also not my only hobby, I found that when it was, it did in fact slowly overwork my mind. I'd slowly start sleeping later, waking earlier, having issues falling asleep because I'd always be thinking about my problems. A few hours before bed, switching to a non thinking hobby has been really nice for me.

I agree with you about the stigma though. I think if anything, I'd like to encourage non-programmers to pick up programming as a hobby. It's a great creative outlet, and the computer is a tool. It can be very rewarding and so much fun. Plus, for many, it could translate into a better career for them.

As a programmer though, I think it's just up to you, but definitely you shouldn't have too.

Just my opinion.
nah, we'll just do it all again.
The "hit piece" was written by Stallman himself.
One senior government official said: “We gave up our superiority in making telecoms equipment decades ago, and now we are realising that this might not have been the best choice for national security reasons. Almost every department and agency is desperately looking right now for ways to get back into this game.” Ouch
And Symmetra would probably be on the side of the authorities despite not being in Talon. "The true enemy of humanity is disorder" is her tagline after all.
The main point rings true, similar to how people often take for granted things predicted by economics. But nothing the "invisible hand" does happens by itself. Opportunities don't get taken advantage of until someone does the work, and their decisions matter.

Still, there is an evolution-like filtering process partially determining which companies succeed and which ones fail, and ignoring the effect of a company's environment (customers, suppliers, competitors, and regulators) on a product's success is missing something essential.
This brings back memories of a common exploit w/tftp, such that you could download an unshodowed /etc/passwd file from a remote machine, decrypt it, log into that remote system, collect new hosts from /etc/hosts, then rinse and repeat. Hash rate were pretty slow back then, but the fact that people used passwds straight out of dictionaries helped, so I'm told...
I feel Activation should be held legally accountable for this decision. Perhaps, if they want to support the CCP, they should not be allowed to do business here in America.
> Those people who can circumvent the GFoC, already knows that their leader is pulling down the whole country.

CCP is what is industrializing the country. There's not a single person in the West who is not a recent immigrant that lived in a pre-industrial society. In this case Chinese population supports CCP because between supporting some rich special people in HK protesting something and not going back to working the fields with bare hands, HK protesters lose.

West is ought to understand it.
I don't disagree that they should be compensated. It is not the only moving part, however, and those should be priced in as well.
There has not been military action in a long time but it is obviously not over.

If it was over we wouldn't be having this discussion.

It's like Germany and Vietnam before, Korea today.

I would also note that Taiwan had a KMT President no later than 2015 and he was very much "anti-independence". In fact when asked about it he very aptly answered that the Republic of China was indepedent since its founding in 1912.
Uh, okay. Now explain all the other software requesting permissions:

- Acorn

- HazelHelper

- Plex Media Server

- Keyboard Maestro

- Parallels Access

- Bartender 3

- Arq Agent

- Nextcloud

- Tweetbot

- 1Password

- Spark

- Drafts

- OmniFocus

- Dash

- Bear

- iCloud

If you have dozens of apps asking for permission, then you need to have a better system of displaying those requests than one off popups/notifications.

This is not on the user. Don't victim blame. This is what any other person upgrading would see, maybe not to the same extent but I'm not sure it'd be that far off.
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> suggesting that Western Capitalism is corrupt, Marx was the one true prophet ... but you'd still be in business.

I wonder how that would have gone at the height of McCarthyism.
I wasn't reading the cracked passwords for fun, I was verifying the output. And it was well known that we cracked the passwords, and he had already gotten the first warning that it was cracked, so he knew we knew it.

That's why I didn't feel bad taking it to HR. I already had a sense that he was doing bad stuff, and the password just solidified it for me.
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How is that relevant? How would anyone have access to such data when our recorded history on such matters might not even go back a hundred years. More importantly, up until, say, 100 years ago, human mobility around the world (and even locally) was very limited and slow. Think what it took in 1919 to go from, say, China to Patagonia or from Alaska to Los Angeles. Today it is a matter of hours and it happens in large volumes every day, everywhere in the world.

Here's what we know:

- Evolution is real (stating the obvious just in case there is a question)

- Natural selection survives organism that are able to deal with the environment within which they have to exist

- Antibiotic abuse is rampant (again, stating the obvious)

- Such abuse provides the mechanism though which evolution will be able to create the aforementioned super-bug

- Once that individual emerges our defenses will be ineffective

- The world is massively connected, which means that super-bugs can travel from population to population like never in history

- Stopping super-bugs will require such measures as stopping society as we know it from functioning (no travel, local or international) and maybe even having no choice but to quarantine and allow a population (of humans) to die in the interest of stopping transmission. If a bug has a 75% kill rate and we don't have a cure, do you allow anyone from the affected group to be in contact with anyone else?

So, yeah, is it possible? Sure. Probable? I guess. I am not sure there's a deterministic function one can use to predict the outcome of evolution, even at bacterial levels. My guess is it could take a thousand years or it could happen next Monday. I don't know.
Kind of but not really as there is no correct blueprint or end result in mind as there can be beneficial mutations. Its kind of like the philosophy of a tree in the forest falling making a sound when no one is around to experience sound type thing as it comes down to a human perception at that point of what correct is supposed to be but I do understand what you mean as there are clearly bad errors that happen resulting in terrible birth defects etc that clearly are not good outcomes for the organism resulting in immediate or painful death.
Interesting that iOS has had bottom navigation all along and Apple gets criticized for never changing things. Meanwhile Google adopts it after ditching their own terrible UX design and gets lauded for innovation.
However the case may be though, it's clear that the actors here are the "Weibo Outrage Machine", the NBA, and Blizzard. Which should be more concerning than Chinese government censorship. These outrage machines are are proving themselves at once more powerful than governments and less controllable.
So how do you explain the 35% risk reduction for people who just live with a dog, not owners? Owners had a smaller risk reduction.
Sorry, I mean, "I am interested in also reading your sources. Do you have any links that come to mind?"
He had already been warned the week before that his password had been cracked, and it was well known that we were cracking passwords.
Seems like the attempt to fix this (donating $500k) isn't going to work. So they've lost that money from the donation, I wonder how more they'll lose from people dropping them over this and from employees quitting. Seems like that $200k isn't worth it, I wonder why they don't just drop ICE or say they won't allow them to renew in the future.
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> Yes, the US was funding the movements to overthrow Assad.

Meaning the US paid the fighters to move away from China.

The US doesn't control what those fighters do after that war is over (obviously, considering how often such fighters end up fighting the US itself); if they go back to China, that's not something the US is responsible for.

Now if you're actually alleging the US is paying Islamic fighters to go to China, that's a new claim and you should provide some evidence.
Norwegian here. Searched for "Golang", which yielded a whooping 4 results. "Go" gave me 8, but of those only two were the main language, the rest lumped it in the nice to know category.

Python on the other hand yielded almost 200.
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What happens if that escrowed key becomes compromised?
Correct, the first warning was automated and the password was not revealed.
The most non-obvious thing I've seen in modern software is the hamburger menu. Now that I'm used to it it's OK, but for a long time I didn't realize that the hamburger icon would bring up a menu and there's a lot I missed.
Ok, so fine, free speech predates the Constitution. Consider my reference to the Constitution an example, rather than the definition.

My argument is still that you are not performing speech in the sense meant by "Free Speech" when you utilize telecommunication services.

Free speech and compelling third parties with telecommunications infrastructure to carry any of your speech unaltered are separate concepts.

I am particularly interested in how you can, if possible, link the two without using egalitarian arguments if possible.

Most people defend free speech irrespective of the economic status of the speaker so I'm hoping you or someone can come up with something that is also similarly non-dependent on economic status.
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I have seen many password policies that says that you never should disclose your password. I have never seen a password policy say that it must not be naughty. As for violent or suicidal, I am less sure. I guess I would reason like a doctor, who has a patient's privacy to consider, but when certain lines are crossed he can contact the police if he think there is risk of crime.
So two things:

1. I believe icecat is going to update pretty soon to version 68 to track with the latest esr, so perhaps in a week or so please check the main channel for an icecat version that should work with most, if not all, up to date extensions.

2. If I do get Firefox built and packaged then I’ll be more than happy to add it to the nonguix channel. Though I’m strongly considering just creating an unofficial icecat that keeps up with the latest version of Firefox like icecat on windows does. We’ll see what happens after these tears dry.

Icecat is really just a set of scripts to strip out branding from Firefox and packages it with gnu shit, though the gnuzilla project provides the esr version for convenience.
I hope so. I just don't see how relations wouldn't be slowly normalized again within a year. I've seen very few lasting measures for bad actors. Even Russia, which was responsible for the downing of MH17 killing 193 Dutch citizens, is a major trading partner of the Netherlands.
Does it necessarily bend toward justice?

Or does it just bend towards the survivability and spreadability of ideas and organisms?

What if a resilient society is also one which is really good at making its members feel alienated and desperate so that they'll join the legions? That society would be able to use that army to dominate the bodies of the Thracians and use Thracian slaves to build resilient physical structures which moved water and wheat to feed the desperate members of the society.

For a deeper exploration of this, I recommend the essay https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
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> Remember when everybody wanted to write Ruby?

There is an absolutely mind-boggling amount of Ruby jobs in the US.
It would be interesting what wpukd happen if people on NBA games started wearing FreeHK shirts. Would they be ejected during game? That would really mean that china effectively censors US citizens.

Also what would happen if crowd pulled HK support en masse, escort out everyone?
Yes, it was passed by legal and everyone else. The first warning was automated and the password wasn't revealed. It was only on the second pass once you had ample warning.

But to be fair, I wouldn't do that today. I would just shut off the account on the second pass.
I laughed here. Thank you kind human!
Please allow me to direct your attention to this small event in Chinese history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution

If looking weak to Westerners was ever on CCP's priority list, it couldn't have been anywhere high.
The chances that actions by those who would boycott Microsoft or Github over ICE would inflict financial pain or negative PR worthy of changing business practices is so close to zero, we can round down for the sake of argument to zero. They are a trillion dollar company.
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Someone else should probably try it. Then again, NBA tickets are expensive... maybe something to try in the fourth quarter?
Well, good. An FSF without Stallman doesn't seem very relevant anymore, but GNU is still very important.
Right but everything I said and everything you said about Erdogan’s motivations can be true at the same time.

Look: in rojava you have Kurds, yazidis, Arabs, all living together without conflict. In turkey you have the suppression of the Kurdish language and ongoing ethnic strife. The two motivations go together.
I'd say it's significant because those are the people "awake". Most of the population are poor country-side folks who couldn't revolt in any meaningful way.
And misleading
There isn't a magical threshold where things flip from "harmful" to "not harmful" and it doesn't matter how far above the harmful line you are. Reducing your exposure to lead by 50% annually will have big positive health impacts even if it's still too high.
So, I don't think it's as big a leap as it may seem. Bear with me a moment:

Modern communication between individuals relies on the internet. Even the government has acknowledged this, insisting that all of their services are available online.

All spaces for communication on the internet (including elements as low as DNS and hosting) rely on private companies.

Private companies can and do take censorious actions based on values that, at best, are layered upon the values of the country that the company operates in. However, at worst, the company's values need not have any relation to those of the countries they operate in.

Thus, the individual's freedom to express their thoughts relies on their thoughts not being censored by private companies. If one of the many companies that you depend upon for communication decides to not let you express that thought, you are unable to express that thought.

Of course, this applies to the internet and not government-owned meat-space, but government-managed meat-space is not where this communication is occurring. Particularly around the incident in Hong Kong.
Richie Rich is also pro-corporatism.
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Agree, it's a bit like being at school and having the teacher who wanted you to call him by his first name instead of Mr Whatever.

It's a bit David Brent/Michael Scott, probably quite well meaning but a bit off.
It's a thing, but it's done at a small scale. And prices of lithium have started to climb to the point that it is looking attractive.

And there's a simple solution, here: have companies (including foreign, via tariffs) pay for the fully burdened cost of the environmental damage they're inflicting. That'll end virtually all fossil fuel usage and enable recycling and/or exclusively low-impact mining techniques.
If the karma system doesn't punish users that upvote submissions that eventually get flagged, it really should. Stuff like this is making the front page every few minutes. There's no way this belongs here.
There is a wave of these exact scams in Russia right now.
So the solution is to persist while making a mistake?

>We invaded Iraq.
>We let chaos reign there
>we made it worse

... so "we must stay"? Pardon me but this makes absolutely no sense.
> Ban the player not to make China happy but because he brought politics into a neutral sporting event. The same thing that NFL and NBA did with players kneeling during the anthem because it pissed off half their fanbase.

In both those cases, though, that's still taking an action that supports one side and affronts the other. "Staying out of politics" could arguably lead to making s short statement "the NFL takes no league-wide position on players kneeling during the anthem" and taking no action. And: "As a company, Blizzard takes no position on politics and the viewpoints players express are their own," followed by taking no action.

And, of course, there's an argument to be made that even doing that is effectively "taking a side," right? Because your (lack of) action still implicitly supports one side and affronts the other. Maybe letting players kneel during the anthem does piss off half your fan base, but explicitly banning them from kneeling pisses off the other half of your fan base.

As much as Rush lyrics may be the last refuge of scoundrels, there's a lot of truth in "if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."
Still has to be reviewed by apple before submitting to Beta Testers.
I found out when I visited Japan last year that (some? all?) shinto temples are run as kind of private family business, handed down from father to son. Coming from a background in a christian country with an established religion this surprised me.
I'd love to hear from folks experienced in the telecom/networking sector. From what I gathered as a total outsider:

Telco equipment is not always profitable for big companies, but China initiated a big state-sponsored push to dominate the industry decades ago, plus their state banks give out excessively easy loans to bring in large customers

Altiostar somehow does something with virtualizing telco equipment, which allows purchasers to pick & choose which pieces integrate together to form a whole system. Huawei (and presumably Ericcson & Nokia) offer a whole system off-the-shelf

Economic models drawn up decades ago by University of Chicago-types that say that developed countries should outsource manufacturing and focus on our comparative advantage are dangerously naive about national security/geopolitical considerations
Divestment. Non-invesment. Making Mei meme to get Overwatch banned in China. Okay yeah, the last one is probably the best.
>Nasty tribalism in that part of the world is holding everyone there back.

Hasn't that same "tribalism" always existed? Isn't this the same people of the World who both carried and advanced math and engineering while the West fell into the fuedalism?

All these so-called tribes seemed alright under single rule of the Ottoman Empire, and wasn't that broken up by the West who then began carving out new countries often splitting these tribes?
Yeah, surely there is some continuum, from some boring federal museum to tax rates to Guantanamo.

My main point wasn't to argue which weight this particular topic should be given.

Rather, I'm curious whether employees in countries with non-functioning governments are more likely to try to influence policy through their job?

From a European perspective it seems like this may be the case.
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The Ebbinghaus Forgetting Cirve is a thing. Ultimately logarithmic.

It's generally cast as personal/individual, but applies to groups, organisations, and cultures as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgetting_curve
In the end Sinead O'Connor was totally right so maybe that should count for something.
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Glad to see this. I don't want GNU to be rebranded into a mediocre open source project from radical free software symbols, and only someone who bites his fingers after scratching toes like Tux has the least possibility to appease corporations with those sugar-coated pills named "open source".
There's a joke about a guy who gets stopped at a paramilitary roadblock in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, and claims to be an atheist. The thugs respond: "Yes, but are you a Catholic atheist or a Protestant atheist?"

In many societies and for many people, religion is not just a set of "things you believe", but is deeply connected with cultural and/or ethnic identity. The best example in the US might be Jews, which are either a race, culture, ethnicity, religion, or some combination of all of the above. But the same principle can be true for other groups as well.
It's almost as though we need a president interested in some kind of trade...conflict with China. If only we had one of those.
The part of the contract they say was violated was that you cannot do anything Blizzard deems to have offended someone or bring you into public disrepute.

So, yeah, I'm pretty sure he violated that. And Blizzard's response has too. It's really just a catch-all trivial to violate provision.
Gatestone is a conservative think tank with a history of inaccurate reporting and pushing an anti-Muslim bias, so I wouldn't be surprised.
Yes. They got rid of RMS based on slander and libel.

They are no long relevant to Free Software.
Honest question - how would you actually go about doing this?

The phenomenon you're describing is definitely true to some extent. Look at when in their lifecycle companies went public prior to 2008 compared to now: far more of the value created is now captured by private capital. This is why, ironically, PE is the largest source of alpha to vehicles like pension funds - they can't capture the same kind of yield in public markets anymore and have mandates about the
types of investment they can make.

Figuring out a better way to democratize access to the potential yield that used to be available in public markets would be excellent, but I'm not sure how to do it without pretty massive side effects.