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A strong tie between Hunter Biden, James Biden and China is not a news. It was before the laptop become a thing. Read some CNN news on 2019 and 2018, when the water is not that hot. CNN still pose some doubt on Hunter Biden's stance and potential corruption.

For example, Hunter Biden has invested a China company called Face++, which later to be a core technology to surveillance on Uygur.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/business/cefc-biden-china...

Patrick Ho, a former Hong Kong official being charged for corruption in US, being accuse of bribing Africa leader for allowing China's Energy company to exploit natural resource in Africa, which is part of the One Belt and One Road grand plan in China. Basically a form of colonialism from China.

The interesting part is right here. When Patrick Ho is on charged, who he called for a help? It is Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden's business partner in China is Ye Jianming, who is the boss of Patrick Ho. Ye Jianming is now "disappeared" or under investigation in CCP because Patrick Ho's arrested and Ye Jianming's operation has failed.

You can seach the keyword here. Those story are in CNN, New York Times etc.

It is pretty strange for the mainstream media to completely ignore the story when they have the same doubt on two years ago.

Tha laptop? It could be a cover-up for a whist-blower. The information could be true or fake. But even without the laptop, there are many evidence that Hunter Biden using his father's name involving in many corruption. And no one asked a question about his father's involvement on that? In fact, Joe Biden has seen Hunter Biden's China customer during the diplomatic visit to China.

If the mainstream media cannot be trusted, then it would be the best catalyst for conspiracy theory. In fact, the bias in the media has strengthened the polarization in the country even more.
Except I dont have to start with GraphQL. I can add the complexity when I need it instead of starting with complexity. Yes I finally got _one_ of the features of GraphQL, but I didn't have to swallow graphql or require everyone else to. They don't have to use the field specifier and it still looks very simple. In contrast to GraphQL.
Wow I just need to comment to be part of this historically large thread!
Why?

The concession plan is clear, and everyone knows the vice president of whoever wins. I don't see the problem.
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How about for the xoauth imap connection stuff gmail requires?
> Is there really any common ground?

Politics is all about uncommon ground. People hardly ever can have one, as the word suggests the tragedy of commons follows quickly upon reaching it. Mutually beneficial status qua don't last as somebody always want to get more of the benefit than others, and exploit the situation.

People are not born equal, tribes are not equal, nations are not made equal. There are always the weaker, and stronger.

Politics is how you get along, and live another day with all above concerned. How somebody weak can live along somebody strong, without having the later kill him simply because he can. Same way, how a strong one can live with peace of mind knowing that if he lets the weak leave, they may well live to grow big, and surpass him in the future.

Life is an endless play of king of the hill.
Get a raspberry pi and setup pihole with wireguard and dnscrypt-proxy. Get a hostname and basically tunnel your DNS requests to that pihole.

Use Firefox and signal instead of say chrome. Disable the assistant and be aware of the privacy controls of your google account.

Looking at the DNS requests made so far, it doesn't seem that much worse than an ipad or iphone.

I think it depends on what you are also keeping private from who.
It's truly scary watching how viral the conspiracies in this election go in minutes on Twitter/FB. One side wants to find "fraud" so any clip someone posts out of context becomes proof and spreads like wildfire.
There's no such thing as a free lunch. You can't just wish free healthcare into being. Nothing of value is free.
US military now eavesdrops on its own citizens using similar methods (and more)
Or they were decided and weren't forthright about it.
Most of the legend of Nadella seems to be how much better he is than his predecessor. Has Nadella been paid significantly more than Balmer was paid? If not, this is a poor argument in support of the excess pay.
And he would be 85 by the end of a second term, in theory. Not incredibly reassuring numbers.
If this is their policy, how can we trust that Apple won't then move to censoring websites in the browser? Or even taking control of DNS?
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How can you make sure they are serving you if he doesn't hold press conferences for hundreds of days?
I'm guessing the original binary would be under 1Mb probably around 220 Kb, but i don't know.

Which makes this 10 to 50 times larger. Still, better than Electron by 10 times, 10 Mb versus over 100. But not as full featured, well tested, well supported or popular.
I get the strong impression that Blue Origin is an immensely screwed up place. Very high turnover with most management/production people from Big Aerospace. It's the antithesis of SpaceX or Rocket Lab. I'd be shocked if they orbited _anything_ in the next few years, especially a large new booster that hasn't been seen outside of press releases.
Trump is as much a product of the divisiveness as a cause. People initially took a shine to him because he was a "fighter". They saw a conflict already and wanted a fully willing combatant as a surrogate.
This is very positive. What is the prayer?
On the contrary, this type of "both side-ism" is exactly what sabotages honest discussion. The sides are not anywhere near equal in their willingness to use violence to achieve their means.

One side has leftists rioting in the streets and looting storefronts. The other side has conservatives plowing their cars through liberal protestors at full speed and murdering them.

One side has leftists setting police cars on fire. The other side has conservatives plotting to kidnap and/or murder mayors and governors.

One side has leftists throwing milkshakes at so-called "independent journalists". The other side has political candidates bodyslamming real journalists.
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interesting how the title here omit that it's about Microsoft's game streaming services. Because in that case it could be that Apple is specially going after a concurrent rather than just being annoying
The bipartisan Senate report pretty much confirmed that Russia orchestrated a campaign to benefit Trump.

At the very least that is the basis for a fair accusation, and of course the eventual impeachment for further improprieties which was bipartisan.
Kadokawa’s manga pre-publishing app, comic days (japanese only):
https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/%E3%82%B3%E3%83%9F%E3%83%83%E3...

For those interested there is the equivalent for Jump comics and a few others (Pixiv etc.), those must also be available as web only subscriptions.
One candidate supports separating children from their families for certain groups of illegal immigrants, kept those children in cages for some time, and has since lost track of around 500 of them; not reuiniting them with their families. This has all been extensively documented.

And approximately seventy million people have voted for that candidate.

Okay, so with all of that in mind, please provide the nuance you want to talk about. I’m very interested in this nuance that you claim will move us away from “crazy extremist”.
Biden got out to around $4-$5 during election night. I wouldn’t put much weight in the betting when it appeared to fail to account for the expected composition of postal votes. Trump should have been at best a slight favorite before the effect of the postals started showing in the counts.
I’m curious, is anyone doing active development with Perl? All the Perl I’ve seen has been in legacy systems.
Sure, I don't disagree with you on that point at all - but for every 1 of those there are 10 (100? 1000? more?) who aren't like that but who, given what was effectively a binary choice, voted the same way that they did.

The die-hard (blind) fanatics on either end of the spectrum don't make a big enough group to win an election, but the assumption that they are representative of everyone in that group is incorrect and - maybe more important - counterproductive.
I think this was around July 2017. Most prominent symptoms were severe brain fog and lack of attention (to the point where I could not perform basic tasks like reading multiple sentences), problems with balance, and loss of appetite. Secondary problems included irregular heartbeat, wildly varying sensations of body temperature (without necessarily having a fever), sensitivity to light and sound, and several others. Onset was very fast (a couple days) and recovery was very slow (gradual improvement for 6+ weeks). I can’t say for certain if I ever bounced back 100% mentally, but I think I’m probably pretty close. It was definitely one of the worst things I’ve been through.
I can also tell you that many people in the middle east are sad to see Trump leave. His strong stance on Iran and some of the new alliances and shakeups in the region regarding Israel, though possibly done through some brute force, have certainly changed the status quo, possibly for the better.

Just yesterday Trump administration sanctioned Gibran Bassil, a corrupt Lebanese politician who is very close with Hezbollah. I hope Biden has the same sense to chase these guys down...
Probably because we already had an influenza vaccine which was developed in the 1940s. We have never had an approved vaccine for a corona virus. Thankfully there has been a lot of work on SARS and new vaccine technology for Ebola and Zika etc that could be applied to SARS-CoV-2 so we didn’t have to start from nothing this time.
No, it's because audiophiles know you can't apply digital compression and still retain musical accuracy. The initial bluetooth specs didn't have enough bandwidth for uncompressed audio, so they mandated a non-standard compression.
I empathize more with your right-leaning friends. The extremes of the right (racists, nazis, white supremacists, etc) are kept very much in check by taboo. The extremes of the left (socialism, communism, collectivism, and the new Woke cult) are not.

Anecdotally, I not only do not work with any of the former, but can't imagine a workplace that would suffer them. At the same time, I work with multiple people that are proud, self-proclaimed members of the latter group.
I don't think it's biased either. That's why I didn't say they should do it to be unbiased, but to look unbiased.

People are really not taking the loss of faith of 70M Americans as seriously as they aught to.
> The one area that Intel has managed to maintain superiority is quality.

There are lots deliverables, and thus lots of things that can have superior quality I guess. But my recent experience has been the reverse of yours. Intel's early WiFi modules on a CPU board were so bad I was forced to buy a go down the suck it and see path, but a whole pile of them from various manufacturers on EBay, build a room of 60 machines so I could test failure point of the bloody things. Intel at about 10 clients or so, I didn't find the fail point of Atheros and it was 1/4 the price. Then there was the i915 which hardly worked for a year after laptops were being sold with it, followed by a seeming unending series of bugs from the Manage Engine, follow by Apple cancelling heir Macbook refresh because of Intel bugs. Then I had the misfortune of using Intels T265. To name but one bug, it you would not re-initialise it's USB bus (say after a CPU reset). Intels response is "won't fix, suggest you splice in a relay USB power line".

You must be looking at a difference sort of quality to me. Right now, Intel is terrible. In the mean time I've had the pleasure of using a few 10's of AMD GX-420CA MPU's, and they are just working after 5 years, zero failures.
If that were true, there would not be such huge political fights over judges. As it stands, conservative judges tend to vote one way, liberal judges tend to vote another.
May I ask if you didn't have enough experience how/why were you allowed to make such decisions? Is this common in some companies that anyone can make fundamental decisions regardless of number of years in service or experience with the technology?
Yeah, I got the sense that this was just the default box-filling diagnosis they defaulted to when they ran out of obvious stuff to check for (strokes, gross swelling, bacteria in CSF, etc.)
It goes both ways, if you don't consider that one side has a leader calling out his people to be vigilant and prepared and in fact two men father and son have been arrested yesterday in Philadelphia armed of ar-15 with hundreds of rounds, the other has leaders thanking the volunteers of all sides and talking about reuniting American people
Ask HN: How do you think the Biden Administration will impact Big Tech?
It is used for a lot more.

Want to integrate Windows Explorer in your application? COM.

Custom property pages in Windows Explorer? COM.

Custom folder view ala zip folder? COM.

Want Windows Explorer to be able to extract metadata from your custom file format, or Windows Search to search it? COM.

Want to play or manipulate video using the installed codecs? COM.

Want users to be able to drag an attachment from Outlook and drop it into your custom application? COM.

Just some examples. COM is a bit clunky, but it's a great enabler on the desktop.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/shell/intro

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/properties/pr...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/directshow/di...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/shell/dragdro...
No, it's the concept of "sides" that sabotages honest discussion. It's just extremists who are very loud and amplified by others. They do not represent the majority in the middle.

There is no group with better humans. It's a failure of context, nuance and understanding if you think so.
It’s possible that many Republicans did cross the aisle, just like many Democrats (such as myself) did so as well.
Please don't assume that 'one side' has the unilateral moral authority to 'make things better and less divided'.

This implication directly contradicts the part about 'unity'.

'One side' having the run of the system will absolutely lead to greater divisions.

Trump is gone, I think most reasonable people will take solace in that. Now that he is gone, having regular checks and balances is a 'good thing'. Having the 'other side' with a narrow, 1 vote majority in the Senate is probably a really reasonable check on power, as Senators often break ranks with the party so there's plenty of room for a 'really good bit of legislation' to get through if the Dems want to push for it.
they don't need to feed them anything. A phone in China without access to Wechat is metal junk. It's actually WeChat which has the dominant position on that front.
Well it might help upward pressure (though I'm skeptical) because for every $1k more a year in median income, a CEO can pay themselves an addition $99,000 without running afoul of this law.
My experience talking to the other side during this administration is that they are completely unable and often unwilling to consider any argument or information that conflicts with their views. How do you debate with people who don't care about facts or reason?

Your comment about "facts or reason" is sort of odd given your post gives no details concerning what you consider these to be. I mean, I could fill in some but it seems like without you giving a clue as to what you're referring to, people can only shout for you or against you.
> Sanders wouldn't have had a chance to get in, but even if he did he would just polarise things even further.

According to this Fox News poll[1], much of Bernie Sanders' platform would resonate with voters more so than Biden's platform.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/YxxnynP
You are right regarding Sony. I thought the Primesense Carmine was ToF, but it was only a miniaturization of their SL. There weren't many high quality comments when I posted, so I filled in what I could remember from years ago. It's nice to see some current industry knowledge!
> "people voluntarily interacting"
A referendum falls under that description too

So if half the country votes to levy extra taxes on people of a certain race for example, that is "voluntary"?
As a registered democrat, I too am ashamed at the last four years of slander.
Trump was attempting to fix the broken H1-B Visa system, raising the wages that one must earn which is only a start.

H1-B Visa, by law, is only for those jobs where there are no Americans to fill the role, eg. theoretical physicist PhD with masters in data science.

But firms and hospitals use this to get foreigners at cheaper wages to supplant Americans from their jobs from programmers to doctors (MDs).

Biden, Schumer, Harris, all wish to make the job market and wages worse for American STEM workers/doctors (MDs).

During the 2016 primaries, when Disney CEO Bob Iger replaced about 200 American STEM workers with H1-B Visa abuse replacements, it was Trump and Sanders who complained vociferously about the illegal use of H1-B, which the Obama DOJ did nothing about, perhaps because Clinton received a $100,000 donation from the same Bob Iger for the Hilary Victory Fund.

Trump recently fired the CEO of the federal TVA for attempting to replace 200 American STEM workers H1-B Visa abuse foreigners and then made an exec order to prohibit any federal agency from doing so.

Biden, Schumer want to increase the number of H1-B Visas (Schumer wants to triple them). VP (and former Sen Harris) was Democratic sponsor of senate bill S.386 which seeks to double the number of Indians who get green cards.

The moves of Trump helps Americans.
The moves of Biden, Schumer, Harris harms Americans.

Those are the facts, irrefutable, as have been presented above.
So, ask yourself, do I want an American President that give in to donors like Bob Iger and brings more foreigners into the country or do I want someone like Trump, who cannot be bribed and does what is best for Americans and not foreigners.
The issue with your assertion is that it doesn't account for all the times the polls are right. See most mid-term elections.

I think we have to seriously consider that Trump just breaks things that otherwise would be working within reason.
Biden was running as a centrist?! That's news to me.
There was a bomb threat in Philly yesterday. His speech is dangerous and he should be shut down if it is inciting similar violence and factually false (which it is.) There are armed protestors in Airzona outside of poll counting places:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-protests-ari...

That is dangerous and is not protected by the first amendment.
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One of the audio backends is a pipe output. There's not much left to do to achieve that goal.
The top H1-B employers are outsourcing onshoring consulting companies who bring foreign employees to the US and typically underpay them. These companies then farm these people out at their actual value.

This policy is put in place specifically to ensure that when a foreign worker is brought to the US that they are paid what they are worth and that they are not used to undercut American labor.
California forces anybody buying health insurance to pay for abortion, and pay have to pay a tax if you don't buy health insurance. If they aren't advocating for it, why are they trying to force me to pay for it?
The distribution of wealth in the first place is a MUCH greater deprivation of liberty than any redistribution of wealth is.

I didn't ask to be born into a world where all of the resources had already been claimed, and asking me to accept it is as much of a pointed gun.
I don't see any practical difference between not being free to live life on your terms because of a government restriction or because of poverty.

The whole purpose of society is that people work together for the common good. When resources are not distributed such that that happens then I don't see anything wrong with redistributing them.
This might not be for you, and not for me either.

But it's for the 13 y/o me that was figuring out how to use alcohol 120% to burn the latest games or fix my computer from all the viruses I got downloading movies and music at that time from p2p.

And if it wasn't for that pursuit that led to many other skills and opportunities, I know a lot of us wouldn't be in the financial situations we are in right now.
A couple weeks before the 2016 election Michael Moore (who I’m typically not big a fan of) had one of the best reads on why Trump would and ultimately did win that election.
I've been politically homeless for a while now but still registered Republican as is almost all of my family. Moore's points directly map to my conversations with them better than any other explanation I've seen on the Internet.:

https://youtu.be/vMm5HfxNXY4

I think it's important to keep in mind that Trump winning the primaries in 2016 was essentially a repudiation of the entire Republican incumbency by a good portion of their base.
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> Is the legal system really so inflexible that it can’t prohibit this using general statements?

> Yes.

That's not correct, although it doesn't seem like it to everyone because there is so much abuse. Intent matters. Lots of cases have been brought against abuses to circumvent existing laws, which have been successfully litigated.
> I don't know a single developer who doesn't passionately hate Jira

Well, as long as the perf aren't too bad (which seems to depends on the number of concurrent users), I don't mind Jira and neither the rest of my team, it's a tool that more or less does its job in bug and task tracking. Though we were to customize our workflow/fields to do what we want.
> we need to go back to the idea that software can be like building a building where there are basic building blocks that can be purchased from many vendors and let each vendor decide how to improve the blocks and let the architects and engineers decide what blocks to use

Isn't that just libraries and APIs? There's friction when interfaces aren't standardized, but it's certainly a good deal of the way there.
> We're actually all rooting for the same things here.

It's not helping anything to pretend this is true. For example, consider the spectrum of reactions you witness among your peers, not to mention on social media, the next time there's a high profile killing of an unarmed person of color by police officers. I don't think woo, it's great that we all want the same things is the feeling you're going to get.
All this talk about "sides" is not helpful.

What I will say is that there are those are reflective of their viewpoint, will question and review their choices, and change their mind about things in light of new information...

And then there are those who are not and won't; those who act out of tradition and pride, those who believe in conspiracy theories, those who let themselves be played like marionettes with simple trigger topics, etc.

There is a difference; but it's not left or right, conservative or liberal, it's reflective or not reflective.
Let’s face it. It has never been about fairness. Only profit maximization.
There is no longer a core of fiscally conservative but socially liberal citizens, that just does not exist.

I also reject the premise of your first point. It doesn’t matter what the current within-country standard for left and right are, that’s useless semantics. All that matters is outcomes in peoples’ lives.

A personal right to own assault rifles or limit federal funds for abortion (even if only for fiscal or states’ rights reasons) is emphatically far right in the sense of overall outcomes for lives, it does not matter what within-country label someone might want to call it by.