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I think Blizzard is certainly catching a lot of the consumer rage that could be directed at a lot of international companies. In the same week as Blizzards censorship, the NBA and Nike has their own protest censorship and both Google and Apple removed the Hong Kong protest apps as well as the Taiwanese emoji flags. Nike and Apple both lead more progressive PR campaigns than Blizzard but they have catches less heat over the issue.

I’m a little split on this. I don’t like what Blizzard did and I think it was definitely influenced by China. So I’m kind of glad this is an issue for them. At the same time my national government helped Censor maps on behalf of China to make sure we were able to get Pandas in one of our Zoos. The censorship was very nicely handled, the issue was showing Taiwan and China as two countries on a map showing panda habitants, and instead of making them one country they simply zoomed in enough for Taiwan not to be part of the map. So no lie on behalf of Chin, but still censorship...

And there are just so many things related to China that are worse than Blizzard. I know this is whataboutism and I know you can boycott more things than one, but I just can’t help feeling silly boycotting Blizzard while I’m using an iPhone.

I do hope this controversy sparks some legislative action, but it’s probably a really tricky area.
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> Climate science is not settled.

No science really ever is.

The problem you run into, though, is that people who don't understand science confuse "we're continuing to refine our knowledge" with "we were completely and totally incorrect".

Discovering clouds play more of a role than expected is useful information, but it's a far cry from shaking the consensus on climate change as a whole.
I'm giving my opinion. Please understand some people think differently than you and that's fine.

>why so many projects can't even be fucked to flesh out a README

Not relevant.

>manpages are more hassle than just googling "how to unzip with tar"

Not relevant.

>Why should I need to do any more work than read a compiler error when I accidentally write "import Webgl" instead of "import WebGL"?

Still not relevant, since that wasn't the example given (correcting typos like this is indeed a very helpful compiler error; gcc does it for like a year or two now).

>RTFM bravado mindset

I really don't think telling people to learn a language instead of typing random things in hope that the compiler corrects them is being a hacker-neckbeard who tells you to rtfm. The example given in TFA is literally: "if you don't know how to import things yet, instead of reading the introduction, googling "elm import", or literally just taking 2 minutes to figure it out, just type what you would do in some other language, and the compiler will gently tell you how to import a module in Elm", or in other words "type random stuff until it works". Should the compiler also correct the user if they write `#import <set.h>`? Or `open Set`? Or `from Set import `? Again, in my opinion* this is neither relevant nor desirable.
I couldn't get a visa to work in the USA even if I wanted one. My right to work in Europe is about to be taken away and replaced with... something. I don't know what other countries I can work in but there'd be visa requirements for most of them.

I could change country if I tried really hard but it isn't straightforward. And I'm an very experienced frontend dev. Other people would find it harder.
In my book "credited appropriately" reads like, put the site down till you have done your homework!
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I think ultimately a lot of the systemd hate is just fear of change and not wanting to give up an init system they are famiiliar with.
It's not entirely random chance. You can increase the probabilities of being rich by exposing yourself to convexity. https://www.edge.org/conversation/nassim_nicholas_taleb-unde...
Just so we’re clear, they are applying these “rules” at the behest of an authoritarian, antidemocratic government.

Nobody is making anything up.
If you have Javascript disabled, it is a heck of a lot easier to identify you because you're one of the very few who disabled Javascript.
>They follow the laws of countries they operate in.

No comrade asulnatao. Since this is your first ever post with your account, they're an American company imposing Chinese censorship upon Americans and other nations. That's a hard no go. They follow whatever law they need to in their established foreign entities. But none of that spills out to anywhere else.
Google needs to do incident response on this. And get law enforcement involved.
Yes that is true. Despite this, I think this is the way executives sees it. For example, without logistics, no physical products would reach customers. Despite this, logistics is traditionally a cost center.
Based on nothing scientific, I chalk up the increase in cancer to contaminants in our water, whether it's well or city water, and the introduction of petrochemicals/plastics.
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Good way to deploy your own personal vpn on DigitalOcean, google cloud, or any cloud server of your choice really. Took me 5 minutes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21313902
I may be completely missing something, but I was under the impression that floating ice has zero impact on sea levels - a unique characteristic of water. Ice floating in water in a cup already at the top won’t overflow when it melts.
It seems like only land-supported ice sheets would have any impact at all anyway. Where were they getting the 6 foot rise in the first place? The violent water displacement when the cliff falls?
Wait, did the goalposts actually move at all? The original post said:

> There are a lot of people with degrees FROM credible institutions, but very little in terms of currently being researchers in the field AT credible institutions.

You responded literally saying that the institutions are credible:

> Is Harvard Medical School an institution you recognize and trust? Columbia? Monash? McGill?

That wasn't the original objection; they even said in their objection that the institutions are credible. I don't understand how the goalposts moved.
> Blizzard is in the right here

I don't believe this, because their knee-jerk reaction to one party doing this was to fine them for $10,000 and ban them from competition for one year, but to another party (with an objectively worse message from Blizzard's point of view) it was "keep going, you're fine." Oh, and the tweet on the official Hearthstone account to reassure the Chinese government and citizens that they will continue to protect Chinese interests.

Fixing it after the fact doesn't change that their initial reaction was fucked up. Even the "fixed" penalty is completely out of proportion with the offense (when compared to other sporting groups that have similar rules).

> Why can't they be allowed to do so?

My personal opionin: Because they are based out of the US, and the US supports free speech enough to bake it into many of our laws. So long as Blizzard takes advantage of US resources to run their business in China, they should espouse many of the same morals as the the US.

> If you are really upset about what's happening in Hong Kong, why don't you boycott, I don't know, all of China?

Why can't someone justifiably do both? Blizzard is supporting China's policies for the opportunity to take advantage of China's mobile market, and Blizzard's support is one (of many) reasons that the US will not use the amount of force necessary to enact changes against China.

> But that would take too much effort for most airmchair activists.

Ad hominim attacks aside, doing things like talking about the protests in Hong Kong, and encouraging companies with ties to China to allow this free speech is doing something.
Right. Once you figure out there are more columns in the life-ledger than cash, decisions change. To the bafflement of folks that haven't figured it out yet.
... and request sizes, relative times, and time of day. It would be foolish to not assume that the complete history of your sessions can be inferred from how this data clusters, everything but the actual text of your messages.

Of course the people that find this problem worthwhile to solve then go on to work for or found surveillance companies, rather than publishing proof of concepts to security lists.

We also already know the type of molds the surveillance companies are trying to fit us in, from their own marketing materials (eg https://www.experianintact.com/content/uk/documents/productS...). Do you really think there isn't enough metadata being leaked to bucket people into these categories?

And yeah, IP proxying is a hack. But it's seemingly the best we can do to mitigate the utterly broken HTTPS/JS protocol stack.

There are other straightforward advantages too, like having location targeting miss the mark which breaks up the coherency of their manipulation. I've got zero intrinsic interest in local/news events for elsewhere.
Yup. Our civilization already pulls a bait-and-switch on children by teaching them (us) that work is about the contribution to society, and not making money while incidentally providing some value; the investor mindset of treating companies as first-class objects to pump up and pass around is making things even worse. I for one, when I go to work, don't give a damn about resale value to investors. I'm there to build maximally useful products to the customers that use them.
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Come on scientific evidence means nothing (that was sarcasm). Issues here in the US are you have one political team saying it doesn't happen and you have another telling people the world will end in 12 years. You have a ton of news outlets click-bating whatever gets them their Benjamin's, and you have the average (and some above average) people who will not understand most scientific papers. And everyone else working their angle.

So who do you believe? You are at the mercy of the "unbiased" opinions of news.

It seems like it should be a black and white issue, but it is not. Especially to the people by whom changing their lifestyles to help stop emissions would consume money they don't have.

One would imagine that even a person not believing would come to the conclusion that there is research that indicates global warming and even if they believe mankind was not causing it, stopping our emissions would still be a good idea.
I wanted to delete my SC2 account then realize that boycotting a free to play game makes little sense.

Instead I changed my name for "FreedomForHK". I saw another player with a similar name on Asian servers (FreeHongKong). Received several praises for the name, even got someone give me a free victory because of it. Did not receive a single criticism.

Blizzard totally alienated its player base with this decision.
Bias in research is real, and now there's a list of things that make you crazy, including:

- Evidence that cell phones might not be the best thing for you

- Evidence that a vaccine might harm some people

- Evidence that some medical convention is wrong

All of these are things that we absolutely need to know if true, but even good evidence towards these points is dismissed as noise because there's a pseudoscience culture surrounding them.

It's really frustrating to see both social and scientific progress hampered by idiots acting as such.
Just to be a devils advocate, but neither do springs. But springs are specifically banned in professional running shoes.
The people in charge aren't uncomfortable with the system that put them in charge. Colour me surprised.
I've pondered this before, but I don't see much advantage in having my traffic which currently comes from many IP addresses as I roam about the world, many of them shared and constantly changing, all come from one IP address that is absolutely only me.

Plus browsing the web from a hosting provider is a worse web; you'll get more sites rejecting you or putting you through bad CAPTCHAs all the time because the same service you can rent a server from, so can all the spammers and scrapers and other bad actors, so you're pretty likely to end up in an IP space with bad reputation.

If anyone can argue me out of this position, go nuts. I want this to work and do something useful, I just can't convince myself it does even with that bias.
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It's not about the incident happening, it's about the response. If you know there are criminals on your network you should work to remove them.
The fact that they are cancelling these events is proof that you are wrong... Blizzard, a company, is reacting to statements made in English not dollars.

In fact, I'd argue that they basically never react to statements made in dollars, one person can only control a small number of dollars by speaking in dollars, and can control a surprisingly large number of dollars by speaking in English.
I’m friends with housing activists in LA who work on these issues. There was a similar thing with Google Maps cars conveniently showing up right after violent camp dispersals in my old neighborhood.

Here’s an article about it from back in 2015:

https://pando.com/2015/06/22/we-got-geeks/
IOW, a more predictable experience than buying FBA.
And here I thought reputation, value exchange, and being a good corporate citizen were what made a company worthwhile and respectable.

Thanks for showing your position on the side of "money first people second, if at all".
And that you only get a 20 seconds message once you won a tournament.
That's good, but I'm talking about lying outside of deceptive advertising. There's plenty of lying going on in sales&marketing that doesn't reach the level of being illegal. Puffery comes to mind.
Somewhat unrelated, how long did it take you to figure out how to cancel your Prime membership? For me it took considerable effort, to the point where it started to be funny.
EMF radiation can induce a current in any condutor. Try putting a piece of tin foil in a microwave.

It's far from limited to DNA, but it's not hard to imagine why people care more about DNA than other conductive molecules.
I don't know. That's why I'm asking.
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It never fails that an Elm lang post on Hacker News will always have a comment about Elm the mail client.
We do not use Notion where I work, but if I were doing something today I'm not sure why I'd pick anything else.

Primary reasons: Pages are easily created, can easily create templates for pages (reduce friction, increase consistency), easily shared among many people, and their "databases" feature which makes structuring all those pages much easier.

e.g. Have team meetings? Create a meetings database and change the default "new page" template to one with all the required areas to cover. Add some fields in the database for the date, who is in the meeting, where it took place, or whatever else is relevant.

If you keep projects in Notion you can link between databases and to other pages within the same database to provide links to relevant projects. Looking up all meetings referring to a project is as easy as filtering for all meetings with that page.
That's a good point. Have to risk debt at that point.
Like the Ship of Theseus, I don't think Blizzard is the same company you grew up with any longer.
X-rays are not alpha radiation. Alpha radiation is composed of alpha particles, aka helium nuclei. X-rays are EM radiation.
While not realistic in most ways, I enjoyed the 2d trees in A Valley Without Wind, very colorful and they change some with the day/night cycle. Also, you could "shrink" trees (and other objects) into your inventory and bring them back to your base to decorate.

A couple of screenshots:

https://www.gamingnexus.com/Images/Article/rlcxpg3498/12.jpg

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/images/12/may/valley5.jpg/R...
You've "come around" to that position? Are you suggesting that the baseline isn't that position?

No one is suggesting Blizzard is irredeemable, it's just very unlikely, given Blizzard's past behavior, that they're going to take the necessary steps to fix this.

Honestly, what the heck are you even talking about? You sound like someone who is actively trying to misrepresent the situation...
Agreed. I'm just mostly in opposition of the concept that IMs turn conversations into addiction. It's the other uses of smartphones that are the problem.
I value WoW more than I value human rights.
A couple things just off the top of my head ...

* Detect that a login occurred from an unrecognized IP and email the account holder to tip them off.

* More stringent password requirements and a check against public leaked database registries to alert the user that the password they're using has been leaked.

But it seems like the bigger frustration is not that they did not prevent it, but that when it occurred it was difficult to raise the issue, and the response was tremendously inadequate.
This is often repeated, but I wonder if it's completely true. I'd completely understand if it was harder, and more expensive, to find such a control group, but it surprises me that it would be "impossible".

I can think of a few people I know that are much less exposed to 2/3/4g radiation, by living in the forest and not having a phone on them all the time. Isn't a control group that has been exposed to significantly less radiation still useful ?
I deleted my account on their service over this, and I know so did others. There was more spoken than just English.
>sadly we live in a society that caters to the lowest common denominator rather than demanding and rewarding excellence

You can't demand and reward excellence with car driving, because by assuming that people are all highly competent, you'll end up with lots of fatal crashes because of all the people who aren't competent. You can only assume car drivers are competent in societies where there's plenty of options for people who don't or can't drive, and America made the decision to not be such a society, so everyone has to be able to drive, even if they're an idiot.
Just to be clear, they have no rule about not talking about politics. Just a general "don't say anything that we determine offended someone" rule.
Fair enough. But it's appealing in a non-workout situation.
If we're not afraid of change, Let's change away from systemd.
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Not really.

When I was a teenager we hosted at our home kids running from Rwanda , my mom was working in an hospital that cured them, doing the best possible for kids (kids!) with arms or legs amputated or a big part of their skull chopped off with a machete.

You're assuming Gates had probably more chances when the chances weren't there to begin with.
What ionizing radiation are you referring to? I'd hope you are not bathing in ionizing radiation everyday...
Amazon has hundreds of millions of customers, the majority of which have experiences like yours (and mine). If you approach the Amazon marketplace with a modicum of common sense you'll generally be OK. And even when things go wrong, Amazon will (in my experience) bend over backwards to make it up to you.

I'm not saying they are perfect or even a good company overall. Just that scenarios like this generally fall below the noise floor and yet still get lots of press.
I know nothing about Joel M. Moskowitz either, but, as noted elsewhere, ACSH is not a reputable source [0].

[0] https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Council_on_Sc...
The problem is when "It just works" doesnt, it's an undebuggable, un-understandable, documentationless kluge with binary logs.

I had it silently take over my DNS . I even have the 'official' way check-boxed to not override DNS settings in Network Manager. Does so anyway. I even removed the symlink from /etc/resolv.conf and made it root:root . SystemD changed it next reboot.
Look, I'm at work. I agree that it needs to be updated, and will do it as soon as I have time.
"I've read stories that people are able to take things out of cars if they're left unlocked."

Okay, got it...
It's pretty simple: nobody wants to be the kook who won't use cell phones, so it's a contest to see who can be the most aggressively normal.

Maybe they're killing us, but damned if I'll be that guy.
It opens an exploit chain, in a normal circumstance you are correct. In a malicious circumstance, it is always feasible irrespective of the likelihood.
Word certainly has a number of powerful features, but every time I use it, I find it is really hard to have your document look consistent.

In LaTeX (or Markdown, or some other markup), it is pretty easy to enforce common style: font name, font size, indentation, space around figures, and so on.

In Word, not so much -- one bad copy-paste, and your document has a few words in unusual font, or "11.8" pt characters, or "1.17" line spacing. This is especially bad if you are working together, and some of your collaborators are using non-English language -- you see a mix of "Heading 1" and "Titre 1", each configured separately.

I am pretty happy that now that I am not longer in academia, I don't need to deal with either Word or LaTeX -- it's all Markdown, JIRA's markup or, in the extreme cases, Google Docs. Still, if I had to produce a fancy looking document today, I'd probably go for LaTeX with a GUI like Lyx -- good discoverability, and pretty clean .tex files on output.
>Let's be realistic, what are the chances of success for a person who stays at home watch movies vs. someone who go out talk with people get involved in all sorts of activities + prepare the homework for those social events.

Probability of success depends what environment you are in. A person with poor uneducated and possibly negligent parents living in a slum with no network has a very different probability of "success" than a person with well educated, well connected, and rich parents.

Even they are able to see that perhaps instead of a minute chance of success on par with winning the lottery, perhaps they ought to spend the present enjoying a movie. Many times, not being around the right people and environment leaves you in the dark about opportunities in the first place. I'm not saying that one should despair and sit at home watching movies, but it can be rational to feel that way. We need to do better as a society to even out the odds.
>That doesn't seem true, France for example

He meant jurisdictions in America. Local governments here are infamous for shortening yellow lights. The companies that make automated cameras even have it in their contracts that the cities must do this.
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