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Mark Kern (ex-lead WoW dev, and dev for Starcraft/Warcraft/Diablo 2) posted a good analysis of Blizzard's statement on Blitzchung.

https://twitter.com/Grummz/status/1183215204525412352?ref_sr...
A few years ago I found an iPhone on the floor in central London. I was on my way to dinner with friends that were in town for a couple of hours, so I put it on the table and waited for something to pop up.

Eventually a message popped up with a full First Name and Surname, so I got my phone out, looked up the name and found the guy on twitter, I asked him about who he'd messaged saying I'd found this phone, I'd like to get it back to its owner.

Before he replies, the device starts ringing because FindMyiPhone had been activated.

A couple of minutes later this girl barges into the restaurant, grabs the phone from the table and starts shouting abuse at me and accusing me of stealing it.

I apologised and explained that I had been trying to get the phone back to her, but I'm also out at dinner with friends, and I'd found it practically in front of the restaurant, so I hadn't wondered off with it somewhere.

The last thing she shouted at me before leaving was "why didn't you just call one of the numbers in the phone then, or message someone?" at this point, my patience had ended with this idiot. "Because it's locked you dumb bitch" as she stormed out.

Anyway, this guy replied, turns out it's her cousin, he apologised for her attitude, and thanked me for my effort. I asked him to give her a promise, that if I come across lost property in London again, I'll just step over it and carry on, thanks to her.

I don't go out of my way anymore to return things I see on the floor.
> This is a crisis point for everyone who supports political free speech.

It’s a crisis created by the political movement to force every company to take a political stance on every issue, and to force companies to not associate with political out-group members. I’m sure it feels really good when you’re in the in-group, but quite obviously gets people really worked up when it doesn’t come down on their side.
Blind has a reputation for being skewed towards counter-culture (e.g. angry, anti-pc, anti company creeds). Is this actually supported by data? E.g. the same anonymous survey on Blind and elsewhere?
These are fairly contrived examples, but in all of them the requestor is making a pretty clear statement of their feelings and what they want, even at risk of being verbose.

The characteristic of true passive-aggressive responses is to avoid direct confrontation, to mask conflict. For example, maybe by making a "joke" ("How's that food of mine that you're eating?") or by saying that somethings okay but not really meaning it ("I totally don't mind that you're eating all my food") or various other techniques.
Blizzard stock hasn't suffered yet.

And I doubt the cancelled subscriptions and closed accounts will have a significant long term impact. Especially since they mitigated account deletions by only allowing manual deletion requests with a submitted id; due to very conveniently timed and curiously persistent technical difficulties...

These public outrage storms quickly subside and people go back to playing the games.

It's curios to me though how so many companies completely bend the knee to China, even though Chinese only have a small amount of stock or revenue percentage.

I guess the market potential is just too great. And of course for companies like Apple they are at the mercy of Chinese supply chains.
Where did the money come from?
Blizzard has not chosen to condemn, distance itself from or otherwise comment on that statement, despite it being made in their name. They are obviously aware it exists and how many people are outraged at it.

Therefore the only logical conclusion is that they endorse it.
> But now, apparently it's not election interference if Twitter itself applies special restrictions to the accounts of foreign politicians it doesn't like?

They're not applying restrictions to the accounts of politicians they _don't like_, they're applying restrictions to politicians that _break Twitter's sitewide rules_.

A politician doesn't want to get restricted? Follow the rules, like everyone else.
1% isn't that small a sample here, this is rather significant statistically.
> It is insane to think about, but AWS never kept track of those differences.

Integration with cloudtrail sort of lands on teams, they suddenly get told it's a priority for that quarter, they scramble around like mad, shove a fresh-out-of-college hire on it with little oversight, and you get what you get...
It does. Government announcements would still be available online if they were originally posted on a government website and their reposted content was removed from Twitter afterwards. It would be harder to make the case that Twitter is preventing citizens from viewing their governments' announcements if those announcements are also available on government websites, which I believe is the primary concern.
> The service is provided to every candidate

No, it isn't; that's the point of the hypothetical. We're talking about Twitter banning certain candidates. If they're not banning any candidates, then there's no issue and nothing to discuss here.
Would you be willing to tell me what you recommend a person say in that situation instead?

To me it does sound more passive-aggressive to circumlocute vs just directly ask. I guess specifically because it implies a "no" would be due to simple unwillingness, which in a sense is always implicit but sort of routes around that a person may have reasons beyond simple obstinate refusal to grant the request.

FWIW, in my limited Spanish language experience, requests at least with friends are often far more direct e.g. "dame el agua" (give me the water) vs. "could you give me the water?" in English. Took me a while to get used to, but made me consider the way we phrase requests in English, and the importance how one intonates speech.
No, they'd still have to offer it at that price (the same price) to all candidates equally - that's basically a way to avoid having to decide whether the offered price is fair or artificial; you can assert that an hour of ads for your cable network costs $0.01, but that's the amount you'll get not only for your favored candidate but also for the same ads for his opponent.
Right. We're all equal but some people are more equal than others. So it's OK they're above the rules for commoners.

Twitter is rationalizing their unequal treatment of people for the sake of their network traffic and $$$, but what's amazing is people are actually buying this.

I wonder how those same people would rationalize their opposition to other outrageous situations like universities saying "professors can say racist things in the university press and classroom because there is public interest in their words", "CEOs of big international corporations can do hate speech because there is world wide public interest", "it's OK for evil governments to stream threats and false narratives because there is public interest" etc.
This issue may be fixed in the future, but unfortunately still a reality. https://www.efd.admin.ch/efd/de/home/themen/steuern/steuern-...
I would be wary of spray cleaners.
I think non-violent communication is great when you actually have to ask someone to change something about the way they operate in the world.

If you want to improve your relationships though, make rule zero "minimize the extent to which you require other people in the world to change."
It is, just right now I am working for a customer where SOAP keeps being relevant as ever.

This might surprise you, but the world doesn’t revolve around your niche.

NET Core will be relevant for this kind of customers in about 5 years time, again we are still targeting 4.7.2 for bleeding edge customers.

By definition, customers using .Net Framework and SOAP are not bleeding edge. They wouldn’t have been bleeding edge 5 years ago. The industry was already moving toward REST.

Microsoft wants to win the hearts of FOSS developers that buy Macs as pretty UNIX for developing GNU/Linux software and are unhappy with the latest "Pro" offerings without having ever written a single line of Objective-C or Swift, that's all.

Are you really saying that all of Microsoft from the C# Program Manager up to the CEO is wrong for focusing more on mobile, services, and the web than Windows desktop because your niche is still focused on the desktop?

You do realize that most of the world’s only interaction with a “computer” is via the web and mobile don’t you?
I believe that a heavily survived society is doomed to insanity.

The constant pressure to look good, feel good, make sure information doesnt get out will become a massive mental crisis.

We can already see the edges of this with Facebook envy and other similar mental health issues on the rise.
I don't encounter this behavior unless there are 0 results for the quoted version.
As a former enthusiast, I know many people who used it frequently until the "psychic harm" caught up with them. I've had binges where I was doing it every week... sometimes more if I'm at a music festival. Same with mushrooms.

I'm not trying to demonize the drug, just saying that there are definitely people who can and do abuse it, and those people are a not-insignificant portion of users. Just go talk to any OG deadhead if you don't think people used LSD as a party drug.
So assume a spherical cow and immigration enforcement is "easy".

Don't let that get in the way of actually responding to the objection regarding tracking of the residents of the US. But tell us how you really feel.
Hah, I have a niece that will assert that I violate that "forbidden to annoy opponent" rule because I annoy her simply by existing.
The movie "The French Connection" was partially filmed around 86th Street in Brooklyn and featured an incredible car chase scene around the subway lines. Amazingly, the scene wasn't cleared by the city and there was a close call with at least one other car [1].

[0] https://youtu.be/IzEloJ5venk

[1] https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/entertainment/video...
> I’m still using an iPhone 6s which has gotten its last major iOS update after owning the device for 5 years.

Note that the iPhone 6s debuted in 2015. Also, we don’t yet know that support will be dropped with iOS 14.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_6S
And in large part that is due to our different approach to China. Opening up trade with China enabled its economy to reach the level it did today. In part [0] the minds thought trade would bring liberalization in China. But that didn’t happen, it’s quite a thing to walk back now but clearly it needs to happen. Unfortunately the politics of the US and EU are in absolute disarray so coordinating that is difficult to imagine.

([0] In another part forming relationships with China was also in part about putting a wedge between China and the USSR. Which may have been more productive but doesn’t explain the normal relationship since 1990.)
I have a hard time believing you would even be arrested, but I suppose I have no clue as to whether or not it's actually happening.
Maybe just "would you only eat the food that you buy?”

I'm not sure I agree it sounds passive aggressive. But couching everything with "would you be willing to" sounds odd.
How much "harm" would be done to society at large if twitter didn't exist?

How much "harm" would be done to society at large if all social media didn't exist? (including things like USENET)

How much "harm" would be done to society if the Internet didn't exist? (excluding things like email)

How much "harm" would be done to society if email didn't exist?

I never lived in a time without a telephone, but I did span the "international calls have to be pre-booked" time, and some of the 'no international subscriber trunk dialling' time.

I remember a time before all this stuff, distinctly/discretely. They don't get identical answers.
I read the book, and found it useful

I'd also recommend Feeling Good, by David Burns. It's about Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which is similar to Stoicism. It has a couple chapters on dealing with difficult people. There's an audio book
Thanks, didn't know that, I'd thought it was Blizzard China.
What I have yet to figure out is how so many of the other shareholders let it continue long after it was obvious. It gives serious questions to the assumption that shareholders provide any sort of input into the management of public companies.
Aaaaaand que Joe Rogan Experience: Jack Dorsey vol. III
I feel like airbag-era cars are time bombs, so I have to reluctantly pass on a lot of cars I otherwise would enjoy.

You can argue the risk comparison between an old airbag and no airbag, but the thing that sways me is, beyond a certain point, the manufacturer just doesn't care if it works or not. When 95% of the cars have been scrapped, nobody cares if it doesn't work right anymore.

I also consider that on an old car without an airbag, I still have a seatbelt that I will wear, and on an old car with an airbag, I still don't have modern crumple zones and reinforcements.

So I'm sticking with either relatively new vehicles or pre-airbag ones.
I completely agree. For a book that stresses the importance of non-judgmental understanding, the name makes it awfully hard to recommend to someone without coming across as being quite judgmental.
So what's the alternative? Just fuck over poor people? Idiotic credits for charter schools?

Maybe you deserved to be bullied for being a sniveling antisocial dweeb.
Anyone familiar enough with plan9 resource sharing to compare the two?
Blizzard stock suffering, or not, just has to do with what the public markets think the likely economic outcome of this is for Blizzard. So it seems that so far their shareholders think this will blow over, but there's nothing that makes them a perfect predictor of that.

If they keep cancelling events, if Blizzcon crashes and burns, if sales go way down, the stock will suffer.
The reason is because the state has an obligation to take reasonable efforts to ensure the basic human rights of all people within its jurisdiction are protected. That is, the state has a duty towards the children that is independent of the state's relationship with the parents.

There also is a fundamental reason to trust the state over a child's parents: the state has considerably more transparency and oversight over its actions than the parents do.
It's not a "direct ask". The "would you be willing to" hides the direct question behind weasel words and adds confusion. The additional phrase equivocates the person's initial point; now it is ambigious if the person asking about the food cares at all about the food itself, or is just curious about if the person would be willing.

The person could say "Yes" and then nothing will change, because this is not a "direct ask" to them in the first place.
> "Blind allows employees at companies to share their opinion anonymously, which means they can share their honest opinions without fear of judgment," as Kyum Kim puts it. Furthermore, Blind users can only join its Blizzard community if they create an account through their company e-mail.

Those two statements are at odds. Any large company (especially in a technical industry) is going to monitor internet usage and retain e-mail/internet logs, or at least have the capability to do so. Anyone with a technical background is going to understand that using their employer's infrastructure to verify is going to directly link their real/work identity with their Blind account. Even if you were to trust that Blind would not provide their information to 3rd parties you would still have to assume that the company could still easily find out who had answered questions (but maybe not how they answered). Depending on how the publicly reported results were skewed, and how many people responded, that could still very easily lead to someone being directly identified or at least flagged by their employer.
This is the correct interpretation of this issue.

All of a sudden, millions of people who are quite happy to be fence-sitters about all sorts of injustices across the world (Many of them in their own countries) have decided to draw the line on China and Hong Kong.

According to them, anyone who does not explicitly support pro-HK politics is an enemy, and must be punished accordingly. (Even if what they want is a no politics policy.)

This is, of course, the same sort of 'with us or against us' behaviour, that those same fence-sitters criticized when it came to other injustices...
It's difficult because they are both private companies. The Internet Research Agency is a private Russian company that was indicted by Mueller for election interference activities, among them paying people to tweet in support of some US politicians.

So what exactly are private companies allowed to do to support or undermine a foreign candidate? Apparently tweeting goes too far. But if you restrict a candidate's tweeting, is that okay?
> If you think Twitter is informative and actual news is all fake news

That's not what he said. He said he wants to see what people say directly, not filtered through anyone else. Then he can decide for himself what is informative and what is fake news. I feel the same way.
It was also handled with an emissions trading scheme to provide the economic incentive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_Rain_Program

But apparently applying this same successful free market solution to C02 will make us all communists like George Bush Senior...
I installed the Mercury parser plugin:

https://github.com/HenryQW/mercury_fulltext

The directions there are pretty clear. You've gotta set up the mercury parser API service (I used docker) and then enable the plugin for the feeds you want to apply it to.

Alternatively you could use the Readability plugin that ships with tt-rss, but I have no idea how effective it is as I never tried it.

Finally, you could stand up the RSS full text proxy:

https://github.com/Kombustor/rss-fulltext-proxy

That service standa between your RSS feed reader of choice and the RSS feed supplier and does the scraping and embedding.
Prisoners dilemma. Any individual corporation that stands up for human rights suffers the potential loss of market space to competitors and the likely revolt by shareholders, for which ~1/3 of American stocks are owned by foreign investors for whom there is no guarantee that they care about human rights either.

If American corporations banded together to stand up to China the way they claim to care so gosh darn much about LGBTQ+ rights, they could send a powerful signal that some values are higher than profits. But who wants to be first?
Just looking at the examples, these are "Sleazy salesman tips about how to get a person to say 'yes'".

Anybody who uses this kind of language needs to be shut down, and bluntly.
>but that is a pretty onerous requirement if you think you're not a security

But the SEC does, so tough luck?

>The Telegram token may increase in price but there's no profit sharing directly from Telegram

Sounds like a weasely attempt to skirt the rules. Look up the Howey test

>The leading case on the definition of an investment contract is the U.S. Supreme Court case, SEC v. W.J. Howey Co. Under the Howey test, an investment contract is “a contract, transaction or scheme whereby a person invests his money in a common enterprise[1] and is led to expect profits solely from the efforts of the promoter or a third party.”
Can't feel bad for companies since they started this with their targeted advertising campaigns in which they took sides in social and political issues to gain favor with certain customer demographics. Now that the precedent has been set, they're being pushed and pulled in every direction as a consequence. They're reaping what they sowed.
As the parent of a high school freshman boy, I've observed that his demand for sleep seems to have recently gone up, but so has his school work load. He's regularly up until 11pm doing homework as it is, and waking up tired at 7am the following day. If they simply shift his school start and end times 30 minutes later, I don't see much net benefit for him.
How do they know these weren't 499 shills claiming to be employees?
Wait, do you use AdBlock Plus AND uBlock Origin at the same time? That might be your problem - when I run uBlock Origin alone it blocks all those Google search ads.

AdBlock Plus has a program where they allow companies to buy spots on their ad whitelist, and I imagine that's interfering with uBlock Origin's more absolutist stance.
How do you respond when a character from your top grossing game is turned into a political meme? This is what Blizzard has been learning this week.

How do you handle potentially thousands of attendees, at your organization's biggest annual event, turning it into a platform for political protest agaisnt your biggest growing market?

There's three possible events:

BlizzCon is canceled. Extremely unlikely but possible.

Blizzard attempts to control the narrative during the con by policing the floors to extinguish any mention of china or Hong Kong. Stripping those who do of their con membership. Leading to more negative reactions from domestic users.

Blizzard does nothing. Thousands of videos and photos flood the web of blizzcon of what looks like a sanctioned public protests by the company. China responds by blocking all Blizzard products in their country.

This is a very awkward situation for blizzard, one they have ultimately created, no real way they will win.
I, and several friends, all have tickets. We're still deciding what form of protest will be most effective (too overt and the message gets quickly lost when security kicks you out).
Unbiased evidence is violent to some people. "Don't confront me with evidence, care about how I feel!"
It’s not a conflation; the point is that if Twitter _as a communication channel_ holds so much away that Russians can upvote or retweet things to manipulate our democracy, the _how in the world_ are we okay with a private company having the ability to directly and unaccountably manipulate that channel?
I see this assertion thrown around a lot, but is there any evidence of that or is it just one of those "obvious" things?
I'm from, and lived in, Bangladesh, which was also formative. At the time, we saw America as the future for Bangladesh too. The resurgence of Islamic fundamentalism as a competitor to Westernization (in its Anglo-American form) came as a total shock. At least to my family. For the same reason I find China's Belt and Road initiative deeply disquieting.
Hey guys, looking for feedback on the essential concept of the idea. I'd like to hear from real programmers whether they understand what DitaBase is and whether they think they would use, either now or in the future.

It's been difficult to explain DitaBase, and I still don't know if that's because its actually a terrible idea, and much too complicated. If it is a good idea, then I think sometimes good ideas look complicated like this until people figure out how best to explain them. You wouldn't have expected the internet, or say, object orientation, to be instantly and clearly obvious what it is when they were first being talked about, and that is how I see DitaBase.

Its basically that DitaBase is 4 essential concepts: schemas, validation scripts, conversion scripts, and public version control. If you take any single one out, then the really useful part, the dit file type, doesn't work. But it's also true that these concepts have never been applied in this way (that I have found), and so there isn't any default, easy language to call upon to explain DitaBase to people readily and easily.

The answer to the question "What is DitaBase?" feels like it has to be "1, 2, 3, 4" where I list out the essential components. Perhaps, its a "common language for data", or a "general data accuracy system", but those concepts sound totally meaningless by themselves.

I really would love to hear some feedback on how you understand the idea and whether my thinking on this is sound, or if I am totally off base, being caught up too close to the idea.