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No, it doesn't. Let's take an actual country rather than something vacuous like "The West". To start a company in the United States (for example), you do not need "an American business partner" controlled by the federal government of the United States. The fate of your company is not tied 100% to the approval or disapproval of that business partner's actions, which in the case of China are vigorously and actively policed. Whatever your political views, and in particular whatever you twit, or facebork, or say on camera, you will not be denied the right to do business in the United States of America. If you could get an editorial published in the Wall Street Journal suggesting that Western Capitalism is corrupt, Marx was the one true prophet, Emperor Norton was the legitimate sovereign ruler of the United States, and frankly you think the ideal government is a blend of Iran and North Korea (two countries which the United States does embargo), you might have to deal with some weird fallout from public reaction, but you'd still be in business. Furthermore the editor of the Wall Street Journal who published your editorial might suffer some backlash for the utterly weird thing they chose to publish, but they would not be fined or imprisoned or tortured or executed by any state-run apparatus (as they would in China).

Embargoes are the exception, not the rule, and they are not used as a means to enforce political speech. It'll be a cold day in hell before I try to defend the foreign policy tactics of the United States, but to pretend that a business embargo on a select few countries constitutes something on the order of the Chinese stranglehold on business in their country is just false.
> No, "free speech" does not mean you can say anything you want without facing consequences from people who hired you or your friends. Blizzard hired player to play in tournament, and they can fire him if they want. There is nothing illegal in Blizzard's actions.

The only ones that hold these sorts of views are the ones with nothing interesting to say.
It is illegal for a company to punish an employee for political demonstrations.
It has a lot to do with sending a message in relation to the trade war, with the tweet used as a pretext, IMO.
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What if it was violent, bigoted, or suicidal? Passwords are secret but they aren't necessarily private. If you wouldn't want to verbally verify it with your administrator you probably shouldn't use it.
It starts to feel webscale only with a K8S backend!
There's only one Chinese-majority team (which, oddly enough, also has the only Taiwanese player). In total it's probably less than a dozen players.
National Socialist German Workers' Party sure sounds like a political party to me.
You won't convince anyone of this until they start working heavily in a theorem prover. With constructive proofs you can introduce certain automation that is not possible otherwise; until then, when we are working on pen and paper, it is a limitation on your proof techniques.

But you are are aware of this already, I'm just writing it out.
It's good to see new voices. I often see the same names in my particular niche within open source.
Their economy is also massively indebted, they got hooked on debt to a degree many here would consider reckless. They've wasted a tremendous amount of money on useless construction, which may be one downfall of a planned economy.
Sure, but it's easier to stay motivated and effectice in whatever role you have when you have enough context. And some roles are too small for some people as they develop in their careers.
The president can say anything he wants and nobody will be fired or jailed for not standing. If China bans stuff they can jail people for doing watching stuff.
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This would be a great time for Apple to start allowing users to install apps manually.
First organization to ever reuse an orbital booster, instead of rebuilding it from scratch for each launch. Among many other things (commercial crew, raptor engine, etc)
That's actually a very good question. There are still places in the US you can buy unincorporated land. The taxes on those properties are none to so low it is nonexistent. To live on it ends up costing you more though. There is no electricity, no roads, no schools, no police, no fire protection, no water and no water treatment. Mail you'll need to pick up at the post office in the closest town. They don't deliver if they have no roads to drive on.

This setup works for a very small percentage of the population. If you want an access road to your property you'll need to purchase the right of way from neighbors. And you'll have to live with the fact that the land you bought might not ever sell. As a primary property it's going to be extremely hard to get financing for any improvements so most of these properties are relegated to a cabin in the woods, vacation home.
Thank you for your response.

With all due - I'd argue with the statement: "Computer Backup service is a backup, not an archive".

It's like saying that banking is a process of sending money to the bank but there is no guarantee that money will be there unless "customer is in good standing".

Computer backup is a process (backup) AND storage (archive). Without BOTH of these components in place the customers will be facing a big surprise down the road when their valuable data is not there.
Damore was not quieted though. He was punished, but not quieted, as a matter of fact the controversy surrounding his termination bolstered his audience even further, and from the get go, he was never restricted on what he could or could not say by anyone.
Is it really related though?
It's hard to imagine the US get into a conflict with Turkey, a member of NATO, to protect the Kurds, whose PKK is recognized as a terrorist organization by the US state department.

The whole thing makes no sense anyway. The west really need to leave the region and let them sort it out. The League of Nations has been disbanded for 7 decades now...
Creator here. As a developer, I used few online tools for collaboration on software localization, but I always had troubles when it comes to maintaining localized content for multiple versions of apps. As we all know, we sometimes start developing version 2.0 that won’t be released soon, beside already released version 1.2 that requires some maintenance and changes. I wanted to make such Translation Management System that does not block us.

So I build Localizely. You upload your localization file for main language, translate content to remaining languages and then download files for all those languages.
When you start developing a new version of your app, you just create a new branch in Localizely. You can compare what keys and translations are changed between branches and optionally merge those.

This is just a start what I want to achieve with Localizely ( https://localizely.com/ ) that is not on the market.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
We can focus more on making our apps better if localization does not create a bottleneck.
So it’s “virtue signaling” that a goal for a blog that you hope to turn into a book should be factually correct?
Tldr: we're not going to sever ties with ICE, because we recognize it could be used in projects that support policies we both agree and disagree with, such as human trafficking, child exploitation, terrorism and transnational crime, gang violence, money laundering, intellectual property theft, and cybercrime.
Completely immoral and wrong. Also along the same lines is "fake countdown clocks" and "fake inventory warning."
Good hopefully he can separate GNU from the FSF and get it under responsible stewardship.
How is donating $500k in response to making $200k from their sale a relevant response? Is this their way of bribing people to quiet down? Seems twisted.
Does anyone get a black screen when they first load the page and content appears after scrolling one pixel down?
In this hypothetical example are you walking over and saying good morning to each of your male coworkers as well?

The point is, treat your coworkers the same, regardless of gender.
Kind of funny that this is written by Google, responsible for some of the strangest UX decisions. Just look at Gmail. In the single email view there are 5 different toolbars, at different levels of hierarchy. Why is forward at one level, but archive at another? Why are there two sets of drop down menus? Maps is another disaster. Watching my relatively non-technical partner attempt to navigate Maps is quite eye-opening - different panes sliding in and out, Navigation, Places and Maps often conceptually colliding with each other leading to all sorts of confusion (unless you're very familiar with the Google suite of products).
Regarding point 1, when was the last time an American corporation was put in jail?
No, because:
1) Was not done through pressure from a government
2) Was not done to silence JD
3) Just because you have an opposing view does not mean you are being critical

But, you presented your case respectfully, so I don't think this should be downvoted.
I wonder if this will affect the Starcraft 2 Nation Wars tournament that's currently ongoing. China, Hong Kong, and "Chinese Taipei" (as Blizzard insists the team be called in the tournament) are all participants in the tournament, though the Chinese team just happened to recently eliminate the Hong Kong team, so it would have to be another country's team to pull an "I am Spartacus" in support of the banned player and Hong Kong.
Mine is shorter.
Do you think a union would hold any power, almost like an ‘accredited travel agent’? Sign up and show you won’t bend you initial ethics to suit China.
Sure, but at the same time there is a real bias towards established methods and research groups. It's hard to find traction as a newly established group doing original research - and "impact factors" are highly overrated since what ends up happening is the paper with most publicity and flash surrounding it is deemed more impactful. The fact that they went from almost zero representation at the international venues to such a high number should be indication that they are on the rise.

In addition, I think the sheer number of students and resources at their disposal will ensure China have a continuous pool of talent to draw from. The US has become increasingly hostile and competitive for ML researchers in terms of academic pressure, and returning to China has been incentivized for a while now.
Probably because most of us think that Turkey is going after the Kurds in Syria not because the Kurds tried to implement socialism, but because the existence of their separate space in Syria encourages the Kurds in Turkey to also want a separate, independent space (or state).
The President publicly and privately leaned on the NFL to punish him and anyone else who took a knee. https://outline.com/Z3fhtB I think what we already know about that is more worrying than the NFL hypothetically deciding on their own to blacklist him.
I was sorta with you at first, but that second paragraph is straight-up nonsense.
Wait. Are you saying in Oregon, if you built a house in 1910 for $3k, and you sold it in 1940, 1970, 1990, 2007, and 2019 -- it's still being assessed at the 1910 value? That can be right, can it?!

That would mean I could buy an old house for $800k, and pay like $30 in property tax a year? I don't believe it.
If they are worried about a song, it makes them look very weak indeed.
My boss is so kind and great. I'm almost bored though, my boss is so busy I dont have tasks delegated to me and there's very little pressure. How does a non self starter thrive with a busy boss?
Something tells me this will end with Apple in the middle. Can't think of a company more exposed to both China and the US.
Yes. And they also speak Cantonese.
The VC fund can sell in the DPO as well. A DPO is literally exactly the type of event that would allow a VC firm to generate a return on their fund without a new fundraising event.
Let them have their LAN party
Thanks! That's useful to know. It's a bit depressing that the website is STILL hard to understand even after I spent so much time on that. I am very bad at making things clear to the humans :-( I guess I will have to hire a professional UX guy after all.
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Yes, I'm generally very careful about this.
>I'm not so sure it's okay for him to do it on Blizzard's show/event.

>She's was arguably right to critize the Pope but was she right to do it from Saturday Night Live's Live broadcast?

>I also believe I want US businesses to all stick up for freedom of expression and not sell out to China.

Well this is what happens when our culture is so insistent on upholding capitalism as a virtue. When our best platforms for speaking up are businesses, it's only fair for us to use them like we would any other service that we're paying for (whether directly or through our taxes that fund their allowances, or through our suffering of their practices). Why do people only come to the defense of corporations when the "invisible hand of the market" is punching up?
I'd say I literally use pickaxe (-S) and the -G one a few times a week. Often to answer questions I hear around the office. If you are not familiar with it, I think its an amazing. Err... I guess...check it:

http://www.philandstuff.com/2014/02/09/git-pickaxe.html

Also I do allot of

git reset --soft HEAD;

(pick-hunks-with-GUI);

git stash -u -k;

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This is laughably false. The press in the United States is and remains free to publish (virtually) whatever it wants about federal, state, and local government. We're free even to suggest that the electoral college is a terrible way to implement democratic election of representatives, to suggest that the current voting system undermines the legitimacy of the government, to propose and debate alternatives in the open air, to stage protests at the capitol if we care to.

What in the heck are you talking about? No one is jumping ship on these values anytime soon.

The actions of corporations trying to make money in countries that don't share those values are subject to open criticism in the press and wherever one cares to air them. If you want to punish companies that seem to be undermining those values (such as Activision/Blizzard in this case), you remain free to do that.

The backlash against Blizzard is an example of that happening.
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And blizzard/China didn't "quiet" either, they just "punished".

Because apparently it's not quieting if you've punished someone for saying something.

and now let me go grab my eyeballs off the floor because they just rolled out of my head.
Get virtue signaling out of software communities.
I would argue that Blizzard is much less a hapless store clerk and more an addict whose supply is in jeopardy. They like Chinese money more than free speech, plain and simple. They could choose to get clean (stop taking Chinese money), and protect the public interest, but they choose not to.
What does it have to do with tech? Everyone has passwords, and they are used all the time.
I'm interested in your opinion. Sources?
You've made a bunch of moralistic hogwash arguments about matters of fact: I do indeed call that virtue signalling. In the real world of matter, physics and technology, that doesn't mean you win the argument. FWIIW, the spread of this sort of moosh headed moralistic thinking and the ensuing witch hunts is something I'd identify as an authentic technological regress, and one of the reasons it's harder to get anything useful done.

If you'd like to make a point of fact, I'm happy to debate it with you.
I think it's very interesting how, despite knowing nearly nothing about the situation, everyone here is quick to doubt the victim, and make up scenarios (for which there is zero evidence) where the harasser is the victim.
"We regret that our Mei character has been used to promote political opinions. She was always intended to be a neutral and fun character in a video game and not to be used for anyone's political agenda.

It's with a heavy heart that in order to ease tension and restore an healthy and stress-free environment for players from China and other countries we have decided to retire Mei from the rooster.

- Regards,
"
Is that number direct employee's or does that include MFG/Suppliers etc?

Either way, 4.8 million people + friends/family, being angry is not a small number. China's population is ~1.3 billion according to CIA world fact book. So it's certainly less than 1% of the population, but not insignificant.
I'm conflicted about this. I know I'd be pretty upset if an employer starting talking to me about a plaintext password that's supposed to be hashed. The problem is that they brute forced it and then sent it directly off to HR? Yes, as a sysadmin it's perfectly acceptable to be searching for weak passwords, but reading the plaintext yourself for fun then scurrying to HR is kinda a slimy thing to do. As an admin you have an obligation to your users to not be nosy, and if you find out something you shouldn't, keep it under your hat. Just because you have the ability to peek into the CFO's mailbox and see what everyone's salary is, doesn't mean you print out the spreadsheet and take it to your boss demanding a raise.

It's kinda like if you got in trouble for playing Farmville or whatever while sitting on the toilet at work, which they found out about by installing cameras in the stalls. Yes, I shouldn't have been doing that, but how you found out is also a huge issue and I'd feel pretty violated.

You should probably re-read the sudo warning:

We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:
#1) Respect the privacy of others.
#2) Think before you type.
#3) With great power comes great responsibility.
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I think self starting is much less a trait and much more a skill, the kind you learn by doing, starting at whatever skill level you are.

Maybe the first thing to do would be researching new ways you can contribute, typing up a brief summary, proposing them to your boss? A kind boss is likely to appreciate the thought anyway.
Windows Server (Standard and Datacenter editions) licenses include permissions to run unlimited windows containers on top of them. So you would only need to pay for the licenses of your hosts.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/product-licensing/...
the only freedom we value more than money is the freedom to make money.

Blizzard, the NBA, all of these organizations know this and will find a way to make it right that doesn't turn off the money.
this is a pretty enlightened opinion to have. I have a feeling virtue signaling changes meaning depending on who's doing the signaling.
Just ten thousands violations, you know just regular old mistakes on a massive scale. No mention of anyone getting fired.
I agree that this probably could have been phrased in a slightly less charged way, but the truth of the matter is that these companies have such a large market share that a small business can't really afford to ignore those platforms, as it gives them an opportunity to reach far more customers than they could under more general marketing approaches.

Whereas, larger companies may very well have the brand recognition to lean away from those platforms and comfortably absorb the lost potential business. It's that ability to survive that is being described as "privilege". Part of a pretty terrible linguistic shift around the idea of businesses as distinct individuals.

And as a final note, what you're zeroing in on is a quote from Rumman Chowdhury, so it's probably not Rose Eveleth's words (The Vox Reporter), though she did absolutely choose to include them.
In this case was there a contract between the player and Blizzard? Did this violate that contract?
Very good point, I had failed to make the connection.
Anecdotally, I think answering and immediately muting calls from unknown numbers is a deterrent to repeated calls. They're almost always robocalls that wait for someone to start talking before launching into their shpeal. Without any audio input, they sit and wait exactly 10 seconds before giving up... and my hunch is that they put that number into a "dead" pool and won't try again.
> “What already happened doesn’t really matter. You don’t need to know that history to build on what they made. In technology, all that matters is tomorrow.”

I think one of the advantages of engineers studying history is that you understand that while the technology we build has never been done before, nothing is inevitable about any of this, and there's no reason to think it should go on forever by itself. Societies have lost literacy (see eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Dark_Ages). There are books that have been lost forever. Technologies have been forgotten until they were rediscovered. And studying history also shows that while technology might change, human nature does not.
Why should corporations have to remain politically neutral? If a corporation can support a social justice cause without hurting its bottom line, that's good for both the corporation and the cause it is supporting.

I would also argue that corporations are subject to moral constraints, and sometimes, they should do the right thing--even if it hurts their bottom line.

Also forcing political neutrality hurts those who are oppressed. The dominant force will never need to protest or introduce politics into a surprising area because the dominant force has no need to protest. Only those who suffer need to protest and inconvenience the majority in order to make their plight known (see civil rights movement amongst other things).
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Saw this film as a child when it was coupled with the local symphony orchestra. From the opening sequence snowball fight to the final scenes, this was one of the most moving experiences of my life.
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The overarching sentiment here seems to be "western consumers are less valuable now that China is huge and has more money"
Oh damn, that'd be interesting. And since Blizzard is a California company (well, based here?) that might work....

(since such laws are a state thing, not a US thing)
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It's not like Apple would stop making and selling phones. And I doubt people wanting to buy a iPhone are the same as those wanting a phone from another brand.
I don't believe it. Because I immediately view it as marketing, I'm not bothered by it. I know not everyone thinks this way, however.

The only time those numbers would've possibly been real was my college's graduation, because there were few hotels and thousands of families coming into a relatively small area.
The real scandal here is that GitHub apparently calls their employees "Hubbers".
I am not a strong player, so I could be wrong, but my understanding is that 1. d4 d5 games tend to be more closed than 1. e4 e5 games, because it's less easy for the center pawns to get taken (because they are defended by the queens).

If any stronger player wants to comment, I'd be interested to know whether this is indeed the main reason 1. d4 d5 games tend to lead to more closed positions.
You approach your busy boss with what you just said and ask for more work or tasks or you work out a system to get more work or tasks.
A busy boss might really like having someone they can just toss work to. However, be warned, you might find yourself with tasks outside of what you usually do, but that is part of the adventure and challenge.
a movie started a democratic movement that ended in Tiananmen massacre so yeah.