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> Is it a racial comment when the leader of a country uses that exact quote to describe how they will deal with anyone who threatens the harmony of China, including the situations that the grandparent was referring to?

It is, when your message is an explicit commented on "I think that's the Chinese way of thing:[...]". Please understand that Xi does not speak for all Chinese (hence the protest and conflict) and having an idiom about crushing bones says next to nothing about how a culture or race is.

There are plenty of idioms in English about idiots. Does that say anything about English speakers? I highly doubt it.

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Pardon my words. I said it too hastily and don't mean to accuse you. I am born in China and have lived 10 years there. I disagree with some of the actions of the current Chinese government but I am also frustrated with people commenting on things without spending enough time to self educate.

The link that you have attached seem to be mostly anti-government and (IMO) provides a very limited view on a very complex problem.
I cancelled my Prime membership too. I realized that as long as I live in a city where everything is nearby, I don't need Prime that much.

For everything else, there is Walmart NextDay service.
It's not even really about stopping your friend, although I'm sure they'd like to do that too. They want to prevent there from being a zero effort "download button". That's the only advantage of DRM (same with DVD/digital delivery). Even the act of having to insert a DVD, or hit play and manually record is enough to stop people.

If they went entirely DRMless, you'd just be able to copy the content to a thumb drive, and share with friends. Instead, you have to mess around with other software (or in your friends case hardware), that does sometimes "breaks", or is otherwise inconvenient.

It's the same as DRMless games; people absolutely go crazy making copies (even back in floppy disk days). As much as the pirate community likes to pretend they're in it for moral reasons, some of the DRMless games by smaller developers became the most pirated games out there.

It is a very minor deterrent, for people that are too lazy. That's one area where streaming has prevailed over pirating. People can be extremely lazy, and having a convient streaming platform with decent content, is enough for some people not to bother.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21312609. Normally we merge comments into the earlier submission, which would be this one. But that one has significant new information. Since it's the same basic story, the comments should all be together.
> This isn't simply about having fewer staff

I've always wondered about this. In IT now instead of having 5 system operators one has 10 "cloud consultants" and nobody knows what they are doing. I've been through a couple of "migrations to the cloud" now and I've never seen a reduction in IT staff or the cost of running IT operations.

About the wrong decisioning part, if you chose the wrong "cloud" for your business the cost to change can be enormous.

The primary motivation for management is from what I've seen so far the ability to point to someone else if shit hits the fan, not cost reduction and all that other stuff.
I've never judged a candidate poorly for asking penetrating questions about the team they are joining.

I don't think you should be afraid to ask those questions yourself.
Oh certainly. Maybe Codd and Todd for papers, Date for books?

Somewhat related, this interview with Date on the relational model:

https://www.red-gate.com/simple-talk/opinion/opinion-pieces/...
> no longer under NDA

Do NDAs expire? AFAIK you sign an NDA and you’re bound to respect that forever. Unless the knowledge becomes publicly available.
I'm really waiting for a service like yours to "make it" - We've tried things like Guru, which I think is similar in theme (small, time sensitive bits that need to be updated/maintained), but sharing the maintenance across the company meant nobody prioritized it.

Bytebase looks super straight forward and minimalist, I wish you the best of luck in improving this space!
> Blizzard has support tickets but like almost all companies the people answering the tickets are totally disconnected from the people making the decisions and filing a ticket won't do anything more than get a empty "we're sorry" response

I know this, which is why any message you send to these people should be polite and empathize with their situation.

But I disagree that those people are "totally disconnected" from the decision makers. They are in fact weakly connected, and likely need to report up metrics and summaries to the decision makers. The goal is to 1) get them to report up boycott messages (e.g. we're seeing a spike in support tickets protesting the sanctions of the pro-HK player at the tournament) and 2) cost them some money by bogging down their support operations.
From my experience this is definitely true. Also our financial system is incredibly forgiving when it comes to unethical behavior.

For example, if you take a massive loan and then it doesn't work out, you can just declare bankrupcy, then you just wait a few years and you can start again. You can change country, then you get a clean credit history and you can try again.

You could borrow some money from the bank, bet it all on a coin toss; if you win, you can retire, if you lose, you just need to wait a few years then try again. If you do it enough times, it's very likely that you will win and retire within your lifetime.

The real losers of our society are all the honest, hard working people who are not prepared to gamble with other people's money. This is what loans are; loans expand the money supply - So when someone makes a reckless bet and they go bankrupt, it's as if everyone else was paying for that person.

Then we're surprised why the greediest and most reckless people win...

The system is not fair. Rich people already know this but it doesn't matter because they are not the ones who keep the engines of capitalism turning. So long as the majority of people believe that the system is fair, the engine will keep on running and becoming progressively less fair.

Rich people don't care about what is fair or ethical, they will do anything and say anything to get more money. Regular people are different. For example, most regular people would probably vote against a referendum to seize and nationalize all corporations with a market cap of above $1 billion... Even though such nationalization would almost certainly benefit them personally. Rich people, on the other hand, don't need any kind of justification or moral argument in order to take someone else's money; if they can do it, they will do it; simple as that. If all regular people had the mindset of rich people, we would be living in anarchy; there would be no government, only mafias and we would be killing each other over resources (of which there would be very little since we'd be spending most of our time and energy scheming and killing each other instead of creating value).

But the reality is that the rich have managed to create a society in which most people can be reared, prodded and milked like cattle under an obviously false pretext that they are the ones creating all the value.
So, this is a reverse vaccin?
Personally, I'm on a tight Things.app <-> Bear.app loop; professionally, it varies. For keeping professional stuff up to speed I'm on a Things.app ingestion -> Asana loop that throws off artifacts to a google drive and various git repository markdown files, which might be writing new documents or keeping existing documents up to date.
many companies depend on those new customers to hit their growth targets

They will never be your customers. You think they will, so you hand over your IP to a local partner, and then they don’t need you anymore and take those customers themselves. I am surprised any Western company still falls for this ruse.
> This argument may be true but it isn't very useful

It's useful to some in the sense of justifying the taking and redistribution of the outcomes from whatever mix of luck, skill, and labor went into the creation of wealth.
Well, to be fair they stopped being "communist" a long time ago. But yes, you are conrrect: By "China" I didn't mean the whole of China acts that way. It's their current government.
I think he means the European second state, the one after the church-backed monarch state, i.e. nation state. (I also think his use of the nth-state analogy is slightly is confusing).

I think he is referring to the media establishment's (i.e. TV news) monopoly over fact checking. and it's unsurprising because of course they would like to keep that same power they had before the internet
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Not trying to pick your response out in particular,but when we talk about growing up in a rich family, what type of rich family are we talking about? It feels like a lot of time with topics like this, we're using Bill Gates as the example of being rich. Isn't that a little off the mark? I had a bunch of friends from "rich" families growing up through high school. Most are lazy pieces of shit that haven't gotten anywhere close to achieving what their parents have. There are a few exceptions, but it is definitely below 50%. I see this all the time at work. Want to guess who the laziest employees are? The people who didn't have a job till after graduating college and came from families that didn't have much of a want for money. They stagnate. The kids who grew up struggling have largely continued to out work the others and their career progress has showed as much. The same goes for people I know who have inherited enough money to where inheritance tax comes in. When we talk about inheritance, are we talking about someone like this, or one of the few legitimate dynasties that still exist? If the former, a large percent will burn through their money within a short amount of time. There is a reason that generational wealth typically doesn't last that many generations. Again, if we're talking about someone like the Rothschild, then yeah, it is a bit different.
The more you have to deal with systemd, the more you hate it. I wrote maybe two dozens of unit files at this point and can't take seriously any praise of systemd anymore, I immediately assume such people don't actually do anything with it beyond starting and stopping services.
It is. But I wonder if, when people say "CS", they really mean "Software Engineering". Of people who get a CS degree, I'd guess that 95% of them are going to work as Software Engineers rather than as Computer Scientists.

So: Yes, it's more an engineering book. Is that what michalu actually wanted, but didn't know to ask for by the right name?
The hatred has little to do with functionality.

Say you live in a city, and you have multiple options of transportation: walk, bike, scooter, tuk-tuk, bus. None of them are the most ideal, but you have variety, choices. They're all simple enough for anyone to learn how to use them quickly, and you can even hop from one to the other. But you think, I'd kind of like to be able to move around faster.

The city also isn't running perfectly. There are part-time job shortages, traffic jams, the education system is haphazardly put together. The city wants a way to solve its problems too.

Now say a consulting company comes in and convinces the city they should abandon the other options and adopt a new transit system. This system is fully automated, faster, cheaper. Not only that, but it also solves the job crisis, eliminates traffic jams, organizes the education system. Nobody who uses the transportation system will notice that they are using new transportation, because they're going to put out cardboard cutouts of the old transportation systems, so in theory, everyone should just be able to use it as-is. So the mayor, having heard the pitch, signs a contract: The company owns the city's transportation for life.

Only it's not as perfect as the consulting company claimed. Those cardboard transportation shims will move you around, but you can't choose your seat, you can't talk to anyone else, you have to use pre-approved payment methods and pre-approved routes. Sometimes your route will break down, and there's nobody on board to tell you what to do. Sometimes you get to the wrong destination, but you can't walk home anymore, so you have to just sit there until you figure it out. Sometimes it never shows up. You think, I just want to get around town; why is this so complicated?

You have no choice or control. You didn't vote for this, and you can't vote to change it. You could move to another city, but that is way too involved for most people, so they will hope for the best, deal with whatever pains there are, and learn how to navigate this new, more complex world, because somebody gave a good sales pitch to the mayor. And you think to yourself, "Didn't I move to this city to have more choices?"
The issue with your first suggestion is the whole idea of signing into your Nest account is that you are away from home, therefore your IP would be different. Not saying they can't do it, but accessing your device from a different IP is kind of the point.
Corporations are allowed to exist by the public (via the representatives of their collective will, i.e. government) under the belief that doing so will, overall, result in a net benefit to the public. Making a profit or increasing shareholder value are secondary considerations. They can be motivations for why a corporation exists, but don't have to be (there are plenty of non-profit corporations). They are not the sole raison d'être for the artificial constructs we call corporations.
I know, but these flags have to be set by provider of container, not user (provider of VPN). And they might require changes in kernel.
Cheap shovels and expensive ladders.
This isn’t a very helpful response I must say. This is the kind of “you’re doing it wrong” sort of reply which has given the Elm community a bad reputation.

If you want to respond, try to have a more empathetic approach to addressing a newer users concerns than “of course it does ... not really ... the opposite ... most definitely not the case”.

If new users cannot understand how to do things correctly in the language, that’s a problem. Note that new users does not mean they are new programmers, simply new to your language or way of doing things.
I really don't get how people can trust US companies who have privacy as one of their main selling points. You are aware US/UK companies by definition cannot be private regardless what they say themselves.

If you want privacy use EU companies. If you don't want to use EU companies use Google since contrary to DDG they are heavily controlled by law. If you like the bangs of DDG use a native app like Albert or Alfred which is way more accessible anyway.
I think it's pretty typical for schools like CMU. Look at their post graduation survey: https://www.cmu.edu/career/documents/2018_one_pagers/scs/1-P...

Out of 170 graduates, 27 went to facebook, 21 went to google, 13 went to microsoft, 6 went to amazon, 2 went to apple, etc. That's basically half the class including a lot of people from the bottom half of the class (the best people I knew usually didn't choose FAAMG and their outcomes were a crapshoot).
I normally don’t mind YouTube ads all that much, and I don’t see them on desktop browsers anyway.

However, I was bombarded with ads for NordVPN and their crap made me so angry it pretty much sold me a paid YouTube membership.

Hard to relax with some totally not weird ASMR when my blood pressure is through the roof because some chirpy ad agency dude wants to show me how much a VPN is like an umbrella or whatever.
Maybe this article helps
https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/cdn/glossary/internet-ex...
I think I watched a few episodes of that with my father-in-law and all I remember is that several of the contestants spent the first 8 hours or so building shelter (and if I recall correctly is was summer, so freezing was not an issue) and only then started to think about finding food. If they had any trouble at all finding food (which basically everyone did), then pretty soon they were too weak to continue searching for food because all of the physical activity had caused them to burn far too many calories for their meager food intake.

The people who had a lot of experience hunting and fishing tended to know how long it would take them to find food and went about it with much more urgency.

I do remember bad luck striking as well for sure, but it seemed like strategy was at least as big of a factor as luck for many of the contestants.

I agree that no matter how hard your will, you can't make it past certain things, but a lot of contestants hamstrung themselves right off the bat by badly underestimating how many calories they would need or not accurately predicting which sorts of problems would instantly end their bid.
Can come very handy for developers, specially for presentations or during training sessions. It would be great if it supports runtime engines/interpreters to support code execution for different languages. like Jupyter but with extended set of languages (e.g. javascript, perl, ruby...)
Commingling (in this context) doesn't necessarily mean that the products are literally sitting in the same bin as the same product from another seller. Each seller's items could be kept in separate bins if put in the same warehouse. Then when one of that product is ordered, the picker is told to go to a specific bin to get it. Amazon would then still know which seller's product they sold you.

The actual advantage of commingling comes from the fact that amazon doesn't have to distribute every sellers items across the US. They can just send you one from the closest warehouse.
But at a large company, how likely is it that a team is going to have their own AWS account AND have free rein over it? You'll still have all of the friction for compliance and security. And turf battles.

It's like using package managers like Maven and npm. Sure, they make going to market much faster for small organizations. But at companies that have strict security procedures, downloading unvetted stuff from the internets and putting it into production does not fly. You'll have internal repos that work with your package manager tools, but nothing gets into those repos without at least a cursory review.
It has no basis in reality. You can buy a 10Gbps transit circuit for $1500/month. That's $0.00046296296 per gigabyte.
> The internet is addicted to outrage.

FTFY
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You absolutely get to choose not to roll the dice, by staying at home, by not starting that company, by not pursuing that guy/girl, by not interviewing with that company, by generally refusing to put yourself out there and see what happens.
> There is a lack of leadership and community building in this project. ... All issues on Github, all posts on Elm Discourse get no response.

This is completely the opposite in my experience. There is a massively strong hierarchy of leadership, core development and active users. All willing to help at all times. There are quirks, sure - but it is by far the most accepting language community I've been a part of. The Discourse has been a fountain of information: have never had an unanswered query before, and don't see many of them around at all.
It is copy of snippet linked from 8ch.net: https://web.archive.org/web/20180504001844/https://8ch.net/b...
From the original problem statement[0]? Yeah I think so, Runit solves all of those issues.

[0]: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html
Any flex on the chassis is too subtle for me to be noticeable, certainly something one gets used to very quickly.

It would be nice to have a larger battery, but I'm content with my 10-13 hours of battery life.

The keyboard is the best laptop keyboard I've used in recent memory. Way better than the Dell XPS 15 or the current Macbook lineup with their butterfly keys. I'd say it's comparable to the 2015 Macbook Pro keys.

Yes the speakers suck being on the bottom of the laptop, and the trackpad doesn't compete with Apple's (though neither does any other non-Apple machine).
I know it’s not a popular opinion in today’s environment, but I tend to agree with you… I struggled with social interactions when I was younger, so I worked on getting better at social interactions. I don’t know if I have Asperger’s or ADD, I just know that talking to people makes me uncomfortable and I always feel like I’m doing it “wrong”, but I’ve figured out enough patterns and templates to apply to enough situations that I can fool them into thinking I’m doing it the way other people do. Now, I’m willing to concede that it’s possible that there’s another level of “uncomfortable around people” that I can’t even comprehend (although I also wonder if I and OP are actually “normal” and everybody else goes through this, we just complain about it more). It’s hard for me to believe, but there are lots of things that are hard for me to believe that are nonetheless true. But even if it is, it’s beside the point. I also concede that there may well be people who, due to genetic unluckiness, are doomed to be overweight no matter what they do. They still can’t work as airline stewardesses because weight matter on an airplane, just as some baseline level of social interactions matter in an office environment. If there really are people who are genuinely unable to comprehend the difference between rudeness and politeness, they’re few enough that it’s not fair to everybody else to have to compensate for them.
Exactly, the sun is mostly higher energy (approaching ionizing) terahertz radiation.

The concern with 5G seems to revolve around the uses of higher frequency millimeter wave radiation compared to 3G/4G which has shown no repeatable damaging results at normal power levels.

If higher frequency = bad, which is actually true, comparing 5G the sun is not dishonest IMO. I am trying to give some perspective to show how it seems odd to worry about extremely low power cellular radiation while giving little thought to the extremely powerful nuclear radiator in the sky.

Dosage matters, cellular frequency will cook you given enough power, so will visible light. The power levels we are talking about do not generate enough heat to damage our tissue, so if they do harm it would need to be through some other unknown process. Should we keep looking for possible other processes, yes of course. However I would be much more concerned about the much more powerful visible range artificial radiators around us every day, like the monitor I am staring at right now emitting a 100 times the radiation of my cellphone right at my face all day long.
On ‘Island’ in Russian Arctic, Arrival of Fast Internet Shakes Political Calm
I'm not buying this. China still looks up to Western culture and brands in many ways and any subversive messaging is simply considered part of the entertainment. Limiting access to these would send a clear message that "the way you're doing things just isn't right".

The e-terrorism that they've carried out using the "Great Cannon" should be internationally understood as a criminal act and get them cut off from the internet, too. That might eventually convey the message that the way they're running a country simply isn't acceptable in 2019.

Many Chinese still use VPNs to access Western media and plenty of movies, TV shows and games are hosted internally on the national network. Blizzard games require a persistent connection to the company's servers to play, so if access to these were revoked a rather thought provoking message would be sent.

Whether Blizzard or the CCP themselves enact that ban, I don't think it particularly matters.
AWS has external auditors verify their policies, procedures, and actual methods meet a wide variety of compliance requirements from many different agencies. The level of access those auditors and other verification methods have to AWS is not none but very significant.

https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/programs/