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> What is really interesting about this is how completely and utterly poorly Blizzard anticipated this very obvious possibility and thus is so poorly handling every single aspect of this.

I kind of doubt that. With potential billions on the line, losing a few protesting players and face isn't anything to worry about. They have plenty of people hooked playing their games so they don't have much face to lose.
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Effort is effort -- I'm not saying billionaires did nothing to achieve their wealth. I'm saying that mythologizing them according to some sort of reverse-anachronistic fetish of rugged individualism/pioneering/entrepreneurship is fallacious. Effort to attract investors is a key to opening doors but don't pretend that the people who have the money you're asking for didn't do you a massive favor.
40% of respondents to the survey.
I'm not so sure. I think Trump's hot air about suggesting companies leave China is something.
Things are moving pretty fast. Silver came out on the side of free speech, as far as I can see, just a few hours before the fan was ejected for yelling "Free Hong Kong". It's possible that the Philadelphia officials thought they were following the league's lead even if the NBA's official stance had changed.
Ditto but I remember reading that they were uncertain if it was even effective. Anyone know if this is proven in other circumstances? It seems to make sense intuitively.
Well, China has done nothing here though. This is the NBA and Blizzard acting to prevent what I like to call the "Weibo Outrage Machine" from revving too high. (Not that it worked, because in the NBA's case, the machine was red lining. In Blizzard's case, there was nary a peep though, so that one is a bit puzzling?) For any who were unaware, the "Weibo Outrage Machine" is pretty much exactly what it sounds like, think Reddit, HN, or Twitter. Only in Mandarin, and with consensus opinions essentially 100% opposed to consensus opinions in the West on these issues.

I'm afraid we may have entered an era where outrage machines in China effectively dictate market access. Senators, Prime Ministers, Premier's, and Presidents will be powerless to stop it. (Well, short of shutting the outrage machines down.)
James Damore was fired by internal pressure inside Google, not pressure from the US government.

The US Sanctions and Embargos based on lawful use of economical policies as set forth by constitutional powers granted to the Executive Branch.

US Legislative and Executive branches attempts to censor free speech would almost certainly be challenged in court, as the right to free speech, and peacably assemble is one of the founding principles of the US.
I think that's on the part of the submitter to HN, rather than the publisher.

The article itself carries headline: Turkey-Syria border: All the latest updates

And contains text: The move came after the United States announced it was withdrawing its troops from the region
Yes. To employ people is to invest in them.

This rhetoric is not uncommon in business.

You have spent/are spending money so that eventually it comes back as more money. What else is "investment"?
Where are the usual geniuses that feel obligated to explain to us that this doesn't violate the First Amendment, with the subtle implication that we therefore shouldn't care about it?
And how many people had freedom of speech in 1750.

Ha and try offending the emperor of China to his face in that era (or now) and let me how long you keep your head for.
>But they MUST. That’s the issue.

Then what is the right answer? HK independence?

>There is no such thing as remaining neutral.

Of course there is! What does it mean to NOT remain neutral? What position should a corporation take and which controversial topics? How about the IOC? Or FIFA? Or some charity? Or the EU? I don't see European nations, for example, taking any steps to challenge China. I don't see the public boycotting Chinese goods. Why would you expect a video game company to do so?

Do you honestly want a video game company to take a position on every single controversial topic .... of which there are thousands? Or only on the ones that you find particularly important?

>What could they do? Ban the player to make China happy?

No. 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.
This is almost every company ever to be fair.
oh, today i learned there are opening moves called the "Open Game" and the "Closed Game" and there are also "open" and "closed" games in chess.
I think it is called the benefit of hindsight. Everyone is smart after it happens but in reality, nobody anticipated that.
I'm in academic book publishing, and our books have a lot of charts and diagrams that are challenging to display on certain readers that have poor SVG support. Also, tables can easily be larger than the readers can comfortably handle, and certain readers (yeah, looking at you, Kindle) suck at it.

You'd think there would not be such a great difficulty in this, since epubs are constructed out of the same basic tech stack as web pages.

I think the fundamental problem is that Amazon, Apple, etc., don't have much incentive to support texts beyond the most commercial genres.
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the kernel itself is able to do it with `make localmodconfig`. you'll need a rebuild if you buy a new usb toy though...
If he got fired for it, it was probably bad.

And you shouldn't be flirting at work.
Many times, it's also because of the conditions the managers are in due to the business cycle the business is in.

When business is good, and projected increases in various metrics are being met, everyone is fine. Then once the metrics start falling short of projections, changes start happening from the top down to meet the metrics, which usually involves cutting costs. This is when life starts becoming worse for employees. Then, if the business survives, projections start being met again due to being more conservative with projections or the business environment improves. As long as the metrics are being met, all the bosses are happy, and life gets better. Then the projections go too far again, and rinse, repeat.
You're painting with a broad brush. China has a great firewall, Streisand did not. China can block its own citizens from reading about this, but Blizzard and the NBA can not. So, I'd say the Streisand effect relies on certain internet freedoms that some countries may not provide. It's not overrated here but in China it definitely is.
After reading the thread, your comment doesn't follow the content at all. You're talking about the Hearthstone incident while the Twitter thread is discussion is about investment in US companies by China.

> I have watched China slowly take over as the dominant investing force in gaming and movies over the years. It’s a shame US companies never believed as strongly as China and Asia in investing in games, but this allowed China to have unprecedented influence over our media.

> Chinese game companies have grown huge not just because of market size, but because the government subsidizes them. They get free land, free offices, and huge infusions of cash. This cash was and is used to do expand and buy up stakes in US gaming companies.

> I’ve seen firsthand the corruption of Chinese gaming companies, and I was removed from a company I founded (after Blizzard) for refusing to take a 2 million dollar kickback bribe to take an investment from China. This is the first time I’ve ever spoken pubically about it.

> Chinese companies tried to ruin my career with planted press stories. Money is often paid for favorable press in China and some of that money flows here to the US as well. Unfortunately, money talks. China has succeeded in infiltrating all levels of tech, gaming and more.
Seen it referenced a few times, some digging around will get you there. Also an angel investor spoke at my university about how they invest, and mentioned returns of 23%/24% annualized if I recall - but this was asterisked with "your portfolio of companies must be greater then 20 - any less and you risk losing everything". And, your money is essentially "locked" for 5-10 years (can only get your cash when there is a liquidity event - if one happens at all)

Found this: http://www.industryventures.com/2017/02/07/the-venture-capit...
And:
http://www.angelblog.net/Venture_Capital_Funds_How_the_Math_...

But given there are many different flavors, sizes, vectors etc of VCs, and given many keep their numbers hush, hush - I wouldn't even know where to look for any kind of "official" numbers on it.
Well, they said "very flat", not "entirely flat". I'm willing to bet that his/her company does have some supervisory or managerial roles, but very few, with most employees on the same "level", per se.
A HK crack down would be flash point which would force the hand of many countries. European nations such as Germany have been trying to avoid taking sides in order to preserve market access. Thus far the CCP have succeeded in gradually degrading free societies ability to speak ill of them. A HK crack down would force all who believe in liberal values to grow a spine.
How about the president of the United States demanding that pro sports players be fired for not standing for the anthem?
Is any hedge-fund trying to index private equity? Some of the unicorns, for example, probably merit(ted) being ranked among the fortune 500, but are not part of the S&P 500 index. It would be interesting to see index investing make it's way into private equity.
The poster was asked to give an example of free speech being quieted, and gave an example of exactly that.
Even Google Maps shows speed traps now.
Players were, and still are, prevented from kneeling during the Anthem.

EDIT: It seems like official NFL policy has varied drastically over the past few years. But even if its not necessarily by official policy, you can bet that players are intimidated by the calls of the sitting US President to fire them if they kneel out of line.
This internal letter was leaked last night on Twitter, via Fight for the Future. It seems putting it on the official GitHub blog is a response to that leak: https://twitter.com/evan_greer/status/1181745056698572802
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I've been enjoying Stefan Zweig lately. I suppose Zweig figured he could show, not tell by writing scene where the first person narrator meets someone in the lobby of an expensive hotel, who then relates the bulk of the story. In short, Zweig shows someone telling a story ;)

Zweig's style to me is almost like a friend retelling a movie or long novel, but to a very high level of detail and with excellent recall for relevant descriptions and quotes, when needed. Sometimes he sets this up through brief shell of a traveling narrator meeting the subject of the story (who then provides the main narration), sometimes he dispenses with this and just relates the story.

This technique is used here and there - now that I think of it, "interview with a vampire" works this way. This sort of writing can be very effective. At times, I have to wonder if it isn't a way to break through writer's block or free yourself from the difficulty of writing fiction - you, as a writer, place yourself in the position of a stranger meeting an interesting person, and then you imagine the story being narrated to you. You could keep the shell, or discard it and just keep the inner story as first person narrative.
Well, yeah, if it's not standard operating procedure I'd hope they'd refuse.

Now, it should be supported, but I don't want the folks on the front lines guessing (or figuring out on their own) what sorts of mathematical games are safe. Erring on the side of caution is the right approach for CSRs.
40% seems unusual, right?

Does Canada have unusually bad bosses?

Or is it that Canadians feel secure enough in their ability to find new jobs, that they don't hesitate to leave a bad one?

Could be somewhere in the middle, but my guess is that the truth lies closer to the second option.
This is just a remarkable line of thought. What you're really saying here is that the actions of a company are justifiable solely based upon whether or not the company is acting in its own best (financial) interest. Just... wow.

>China, a country with a population 3-4x larger than the US evidently believes that support for Hong Kong protestors crosses that line

The Chinese government, you mean, which happens to fall squarely into the "oppressive authoritarian" bucket as regimes go. Let's not pretend that the CPC is an honest representation of the people.

It's not only about "pleasing the US customer base", it's about integrity. Not every situation is some abstract hypothetical; it's pretty clear what's going on here, and I don't think any reasonable person would conclude that kowtowing to the Chinese im the pursuit of profit is a good thing.
In the UK, when exchanges moved to digital, they deliberately kept the old behaviour because some people relied on it (eg, hanging up their main phone, then walking to another room and picking up the call on an extension phone), with a timeout of a few minutes.

In 2014 they reduced the timeout to 10 seconds to make this fraud harder to pull off.

https://www.openreach.co.uk/orpg/home/updates/briefings/down...
Those people who can circumvent the GFoC, already knows that their leader is pulling down the whole country.
The manager and team I'm joining, as well as general team/company culture have a massive affect on whether or not I accept a position. Company matters of course but I've also joined potentially problematic companies because I felt good about the team and not regretted the decision.
I was disappointed to find out that the ex-WOW developer in the title was Mark Kern. Sometimes the messenger can undermine the message. Reading his Twitter thread seemed like he is rewriting history. He took The9's money after spending the VC money (Benchmark, Sierra) he had raised originally and not being even close to releasing the game. I'm not sure who he refused a bribe from later (or maybe he meant that he refused to give a bribe to someone?), but he brought The9 to begin with.
Ask HN: How do you feel about sense of urgency on hotels bookings websites?
Sense of urgency, scarcity are all part of dark patterns used by the likes of Hotels.com, Expedia, Booking, etc to give us the rush to book a hotel as soon as we see those “only 1 room left” kind of messages.

Does that sales practice bother you?
So I googled and saw that there's 4.8 Million apple employees in China? More than i expected when I started the Google search.

With that said, is that enough for China to care at all? a little? a lot? Meaning, I wouldn't be surprised if China would forgo plenty of jobs from Western companies as their economy matures. Especially if China fully boycotted Apple, I doubt many other US Companies would respond at all

Many of those companies are showing themselves to be spineless right now
I'm mixed on this. I'm 100% for Chung “Blitzchung” Ng Wai to express his support for Hong Kong. I'm not so sure it's okay for him to do it on Blizzard's show/event.

27 years ago Sinead O'Connor ripped up a picture of the Pope on Saturday Night Live when it was broadcast live. She's was arguably right to critize the Pope but was she right to do it from Saturday Night Live's Live broadcast? IIRC because of that incident SNL added a 5 or 10 second delay so they'd have time to cut if something similar happened again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin%C3%A9ad_O%27Connor#Saturda...

Anyway, I'm support of the HK protestors and having written that in public now I wonder if I'm banned from China. I also believe I want US businesses to all stick up for freedom of expression and not sell out to China. I'm just saying in the context of using the Blizzard event I'm not so ready to condemn Blizzard's initial response. In the new context of what's happened since then though I hope they change their direction.

IIRC Sinead O'Connor was pretty much universally condemned even though if I understand correctly she was right.
>They could have not banned the player.

But that was the right decision. The player politicized their neutral platform. The NBA fined players that wouldn't stand for the anthem for the same reason.
Yeah, you've gotta hand it to them, they really commit to the long-term hollowing out of the economy and the wringing of money from poor stones: none of this short-term loot 'em and flip 'em mentality for BH!

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/minorities...
Indeed. Let’s talk about modern IKEA and it’s modern tax avoidance methods: https://medium.com/@jurgeng/ikeas-tax-scheme-a-corporate-str... and an extremely poor quality of their products. They are made from paper and breaks already during assembly.
some things are knowable beforehand.
Hold on, let me go test it.
I never noticed this, heh. Indeed If those two files were made into a protocol that is automatic, user-transparent, and active at the BIOS layer then it's a pretty good portmanteau on both semantic and conceptual levels.

Amiga systems did not have any meaningful user-facing configuration settings at the hardware level; bus-level peripherals following the Zorro II/III spec Just Worked (tm).
Are you boycotting Chinese made products? What are you doing to 'support American values'? And which values? 2nd Amendment rights?
Near the end he talks about mathematicians with published papers that say "you shouldn't believe any of my papers, they're just telling stories" and don't care if their theories are wrong. Wow
3 in 5 Canadians continue to work with bad bosses.
I think there does seem to be a drive toward "progress" in various ways over a long time span, but as they say in investing: nothing goes straight up and nothing goes straight down.
> The best solution for China would be to instruct Blizzard to release a version of Overwatch that didn't have this character, and if you want my prediction that's what they're going to do.

Which would amount to ordering a foreign company to remove Chinese representation from a game. (Mei is Chinese, and is the only such character in Overwatch.) So that looks pretty bad, too.
My side projects were usually the biggest positives when I went for interviews. Nobody is going to ask you how much money they made because it's not important for software engineering jobs - you've shown you can use your own initiative and finish projects by yourself. Not sure what you're nervous about.
That article is jumping to a heck of a lot of conclusions with no real basis.
Okay, but they only did that because browsers put tools like CSS/JS in their hands to let them.

I think it was a bad choice on the browsers' part. It's a totally abdication of the browser's responsibility to render things nicely and configurably for the user. Worse, javascript is bundled malware: you're letting websites execute arbitrary code on the user's machine.

Tracking, terrible website accessibility, and various dark patterns are a direct result of this. Instead of forcing websites to conform to a document format and giving users control over how that document behaves and is rendered, browsers given those powers to websites, and unsurprisingly, this has resulted in user-hostile behaviors. And it's not all peachy for websites either: websites can do a lot more with CSS/JS, but websites also have to do a lot more.

One of my side projects is a web browser which accepts various document types (i.e. image, slide show, article, login form) and renders them. Style/behavior is configurable by the user when possible, but the site serving the document has no control over styling/behavior--they only get to serve up documents which conform to the semantics of the document type. I doubt this will ever take off, but it's been an interesting and fun project so far.
Blizzard has been on a downward spiral for years. They still have awesome teams releasing and maintaining awesome games, (thank you for custom colors in SC Remastered!), but by and large their direction has been towards EA and away from their true fans.
I have a good boss. I know I do, not just think it. Did you phrase your question with the implication that many who think they have a good boss actually don't? or am I reading too much into your word choice
He also helped make RAM at MIT Lincoln labs .
Basically, there are about 2000 working hours in a year, so multiply the hourly rate to 2000. :)
Me too -- studied Materials Science while Dr. Whittingham was department co-chair circa 2005. I never worked with him but it's a happy surprise to see him and Binghamton in the news.
>It's the same with the NFL and the kneeling players getting pressure from the President

The NFL doesn't care about Trump. The NFL fined kneeling players because it pissed off half their fanbase and viewership numbers went down.
The "primary" indicator was length of ring finger relative to index finger, as in - https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/06/talk-hand-scientists... - at the time, this was considered cutting edge...I understand it has been mostly discredited now.

You have also misunderstood slightly. It wasn't stuff like scars, or things correlated to wealth (or race...much good that would do in Northern Ireland or the Basque...I take it you don't know much about terrorism). It was purely body measurements iirc.
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Except everyone assembles phones in China. A dip for Apple is Huawei's gain, and they're entirely based in China.
that's got to be one of the funniest things i've read in a long time.
I refuse to engage with your ridiculous virtue signalling. You can do that somewhere else with someone who will be impressed.

Nobody is denying smart phones have had a large impact on the world. I do deny they are anywhere near in importance to, say, the invention of the computer, space flight, the atom bomb or antibiotics. There is absolutely no comparison.

It's like comparing the invention of a specific kind of internal combustion engine to ... the invention of the heat engine in the first place. The harnessing of heat into mechanical energy was a cataclysmic event for humanity. It made possible industrial civilization. The invention, say, of the diesel engine was an improvement which also had consequences. It's not really comparable to "heat engines" though!
Spotify are masters at hiding information.

The only way to actually see full track names or artist lists is to wait for it to scroll by in the 'currently playing' view - you can't see the full name of the song before you play it.

There's no way to see label or release year.
There's no way to see a readable version of the cover art.

I could go on.