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It's extremely difficult to get unbiased information on China. However, there are some good sources.

If you have the money, Sinocism[0] is a great newsletter that collects the top (mostly political) stories of the day. Some other good (free) Substacks are Chinarrative[1], which publishes translated human interest stories, and Chinese Journal Review[2], which translates abstracts of a selection of academic papers.

If you would like a local insight into more young/liberal perspectives, Sixth Tone[3] is fairly interesting. Be aware that this is a state-owned media source, so it has an interest in presenting China as progressive in ways that outside of middle class communities in top tier cities it usually isn't. Just because it's state-owned doesn't mean it's not informative, though! China Media Project[4] is perhaps a useful accompanying source to try understand exactly how the state media is biased.

Of the western media, New York Times probably does the best reporting on China (they even have a Chinese language version), but like all western media they struggle to get access. Inside China, Caixin is probably the best newspaper, but unfortunately it is pay-walled.

From left wing perspective I can also recommend Made In China Journal[5].

[0] https://sinocism.com/

[1] https://chinarrative.substack.com/

[2] https://chinesejournalreview.substack.com/

[3] http://www.sixthtone.com/

[4] https://chinamediaproject.org/

[5] https://madeinchinajournal.com/
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> Have you heard of the Mueller Report? There's been extensive fact-checking on this, and Trump obstructed the investigation.

I have, of course. My claim is just that Russia "stealing" the election might be non-"contextual" if what's been shown is that Russia ran extensive misinformation campaigns, since the election was still ultimately decided by people voting, no evidence of extensive fraud, etc. , etc.

Of course, perhaps it is still a "steal" simply because of the effect of that interference/influence campaign. And similarly, perhaps the 1994 crime bill had an influence on future downstream state actions around incarceration. There's a discussion to be had about the topic. Neither "fact-check"-ing seems non-ideological to me.
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How is the saw? I went the expensive route and got an electric Stihl. It’s a monster.

I find the proper use of the saw to be more important that with a petrol saw as it isn’t immediately clear if it’s on or not. Others in the area are immediately aware when there is an idling chainsaw, but not so much with an electric one.
That's why you also have protected intersections.

This is how they do it in the Netherlands, world leader in safe biking for everyone.
They don't seem to be shy about criticizing big tech at all.
Apparently he had a word with God, who said it was OK now.
Don’t try defending it with whataboutism...
The European Commission just launched a public BugBounty program for Matrix
What's your point? I think the line is drawn when people are put at risk of life or liberty or have died/suffered. At that point, warning then excising those users and groups, reporting them to authorities (if crimes have been committed) is what's needed. And it needs to be timely.

As I understand it Facebook, if it did anything at all, did id months/years after the fact, essentially doing CYA not anything meaningful.
It is hard to separate the fact that they are distancing themselves from a fascist, white-supremacist platform that was instrumental in a near-overthrow of the US government. And even if you think that's okay, this wasn't insurrection in response to oppression, it was an insurrection to overthrow an uncontested democratic result. I guess Parler is so radioactive that Amazon would rather be sued than continue to business with them. Further, there are reports Amazon gave them weeks of warnings and were ignored. AWS has rules.
That resulted in delays, not incorrect codes.
Twitter thinks censoring tweets will stop a revolution?
All we need is something like sci-hub for repair manuals...
>I don't know if people trying to argue that twitter is just as bad as Parler are doing it out of ignorance of the issues or just bad faith.

The thing is, Trump never ever called for riots. You have to read between the lines and ignore his history of being anti-riots and go for a bad faith interreption to even consider him having called for what happened.

Flipside,

How many celebrities were calling for the death of the maga hat kit? They got away with it.

Iranian's Khamanei has outright called for jews to be exterminated. Various other middle eastern leaders have called for gays to be killed. They are outright double standards.

Regardless, it was very clear Trump was to be banned. At the end of the day it's very interesting how all these tech companies came together to ban not trump but vast array of their supporters. So far the known count for Twitter is >200,000 trump supporters.

At all 200,000 inciting violence? Does the USA really have that many people looking to overthrow the government?

>They're being dropped by AWS, Apple, Google etc because they allow, even encourages its users to conspire to commit violence and assassinate public officials.

So the entire platform is to be removed because of some content. More specifically, if someone wants to destroy a platform, they need only have bots spam comments and therefore the platform goes offline?

>The main reasons its users went to Parler in the first place is because they weren't allowed to do that on twitter and reddit.

No, that's not accurate at all. there were millions of users on parler. Many of which weren't even american nor care what was going on.

This is at best a rationalization for shutting down the platform.
I'd probably switch to (and get friends to switch to) Signal if it supported Android Tablets and had a web app (like web.whatsapp.com). Those items might seem minor but having to always have my phone next to me, even when I'm browsing on my tablet, is inconvenient. Same goes for not being able to login easily to a semi-trusted device via the web (e.g. my work laptop - I don't want to install the desktop client, but I trust it enough to login to a web app, possibly in an incognito window).
> If trolls, jackasses, and idiots (by each users independent definition) get automatically segregated into groups where they see only each-others posts, and out-groups just never see their posts: problem solved.

The events of Jan 6 show that leaves a rather huge problem unsolved.
There is evidence that Parler is a russian operation looking to disrupt American Democracy...

https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1327271037847867395?s=20
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What's interesting here is it's not really "the left" trying to shut it down: it's more like "People who believe in the civic religion of the United States" vs people who do not.

A ruthlessly self-interested left would benefit tremendously from the successful assassination of Vice President Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi. It would be a galvanizing event that would ultimately turn most of the country against the Republican party. It would likely clear the way for younger, left-leaning Democratic leaders (AOC, Cori Bush), and it would eliminate a major contender for the 2024 presidential race. Biden would enter power with the same level of political capital as George W. Bush after 9/11.
SCOTUS Justice Robert Jackson:

"If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act."

Also Robert Jackson:

"The choice is not between order and liberty. It is between liberty with order and anarchy without either. There is danger that, if the court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact."
Well last time I got angry down votes for saying this. But you are really renting if apple can lock you out.

My non technical wife managed to lock herself out of her device and icloud with no recourse as I didn't preserve the reciept.

So now we have a device but it is just an unusable brick.
So are we the owner or renter?
It's not unreasonable, but I think it's incomplete. We may be headed towards a world in which private companies exert a great deal of control over what an individual can say. Not only by controlling communication platforms, but also by withholding employment from people who say certain things.

I don't want to join the argument about whether that's good or bad, but I think it's a huge mistake to simply say "It's consistent with the 1st amendment, therefore it's OK." If we're going to let private corporations use their market power to police individual speech, we need to have a real debate about what that means.
I'd switch to signal over telegram if it had a web client :(
Unless you're WAY outside the political mainstream, you aren't pigeonholed into platforms like this. And if you are that far outside the political mainstream, holding thoughts and beliefs like "six million wasn't enough" then how much sympathy am I supposed to have?
Not sure if someone in the party saw something wanted and created the groundwork to yank it. Or if this is genuinely punitive.

Either way, a standard if frequently-forgotten message to innovators in such regimes.
>Who is praising the CCP's economic rise?

A majority of Americans until relatively recently? China was seen favorably by most Americans until the last decade. An economic world power that we should strengthen relations with if polls are to be believed.

For example:

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/10/06/unfavorable-vi...
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I missed anyone on MSN(BC) saying his election was illegitimate. There were questions about it, for sure. There was the essentially incontrovertible fact that he won in the EC without winning the popular vote, which is an unfortunate feature of our system. That does lend a certain sense of "illegitimacy" but not in the sense of something illegal having happened, more a sense of "moral legitimacy". A few weeks after his election, the overwhelming majority of progressives accepted that Trump was the officially elected president of the USA. We didn't like it, but we accepted it.

The issues regarding Russian interference were not centered on collusion, but on ... well, interference (which some believe went so far as to include actual collusion).

Mueller's report and the Senate report did find conclusively that the Russians did interfere, and did so with the goal of getting Trump elected. Mueller said that they did not find evidence of active collaboration between the campaign and the Russians ... here's the current Wikipedia summary:

>did not find sufficient evidence that the campaign "coordinated or conspired with the Russian government in its election-interference activities". Investigators ultimately had an incomplete picture of what happened due to communications that were encrypted, deleted, or not saved and due to testimony that was false, incomplete, or declined. However, the report states that Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election was illegal and occurred "in sweeping and systematic fashion" but was welcomed by the Trump campaign as it expected to benefit from such efforts

Again, I recall essentially nobody in any position of power (certainly not elected Senators) saying the Trump's election was illegitimate. People did say that his election was aided by Russian interference (Mueller and the Senate investigation state this clearly), and that it was/is unfortunate to have a president elected without winning the popular vote.
I’m planning to build a velomobile (and trailer) and live out of it for at least a year. One of the things I’ve been mulling over is computers, as I’d like to build or buy a new computer at some point in the not-too-distant future to replace my current dying laptop. How much power does your Mini-ITX machine use when idling? And have you tried to optimise it down?

I’ve been thinking of things like the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, shutting down most of the cores when I want to conserve power in addition to severely underclocking it a lot of the time, but so that at times when power is more readily available or if I’m compiling lots of stuff, I can go all out.

I see figures for the last few generations of desktop processors of the whole machine using something like 50W when idling.

Meanwhile, I see a laptop with a 49Wh battery and an AMD Ryzen 5 4500U advertising ten hour battery life for a web browsing workload—which means that it’s averaging 5W for the computer and screen, when doing even a little bit more than idling.

So then I think, these desktop computers can’t actually be idling at that much power, right? That’s over a kilowatt hour per day if left on full time! Or at least, there must be some way of instructing them to use far less power, like a laptop would? (It’s a long time since I’ve dealt with a desktop computer to the level of knowing about power consumption.)

I’d love the power of a top-end desktop processor and to pair it with a carefully chosen and placed screen, but if that means an extra 50W or more of drain while it’s on, I might need to go with a laptop to make it through the winter.

(Many DC–ATX power supplies wouldn’t deliver enough power, but I believe https://www.mini-box.com/M4-ATX, rated at 250W (300W peak), should be just barely sufficient for a typical machine with any of AMD’s 105W CPUs, like the 5950X, and a 60–75W GPU like the AMD Radeon RX 560 (as powerful as you get before requiring an external power connector, which I haven’t spotted a DC power supply supporting, though I haven’t looked too hard), at full load. But slightly reducing the envelope of the CPU or GPU would probably be a good idea.)

Perhaps I should ask Metabox for details about https://metabox.com.au/store/Prime-Ai-Range (from the Clevo ODM) and what power it uses when idling. I’ve never seen a 230W AC adapter before!
>> misunderstandings about how the Chinese systems functions

> It functions like a dictatorship functions. The dictatorship of the party.

This is exactly the kind of reductive thinking that is getting the West into trouble.

There is no dictatorship system. At most, it points to a non-democratic system. But that term covers an incredibly wide variety of regimes, from 1920s Portugal to Latin American Cold War authoritarian regimes to the USSR to Maoist China to contemporary China, and all of them are very different creatures. The differences between these are much wider than the differences between democratic systems (e.g. US vs Israel vs India), which are already very wide.
A religion is similar to politics only in that they are both beliefs. Your argument is essentially that any belief could/should be protected. I don't think you mean that, so I urge you to try to come up with a more coherent formulation.

I would start by exploring the differences between what it means to hold a religious belief vs a political one. Maybe start by comparing how each of the above has changed, or the associations thereof with their respective ideals over, say, the last 1000 years. Maybe then proceed to identify from where a religious belief manifests vs a political belief. Finally, you could look towards the kinds of answers of which each respective belief offers explanatory power (i.e. What kinds of questions does religion answer vs politics?). We could probably even take this a step further and look at the history of each as well no? Political leanings have existed at least as long as religious beliefs. At one time these were likely the same! So what is it about the history of politics and religion that has lead us to the the kinds of separation we have reached today?

I have confidence you can come up with many kinds of differences. Good luck!
I truly am struggling to extract any coherent meaning from that comment. Democrats, controlling just the House – when Repulicans are running the federal gov't with the Senate and the presidency – have instituted this event? Some big capitalists maybe? Putin? The Jews?
Sounds like hyperbole to me. Again we can flip this to "twitter is a left wing extremist platform" quite easily by finding the right tweet snapshots and pointing to prior events. And nobody knows the exact algos or moderation mechanisms for any of the platforms, the screenshots you linked say essentially nothing even with whoever that person is narrating. Im not saying hes wrong, but I'm certainly not taking it at face value. On other platforms there are similar reward systems. Blue check-marks for instance, and shadow banning is obviously a thing.
The city won't approve the electrical hookup to the building I purchased. I've had 2 different commercial contractors try to pull permits and both of them were denied. Not denied in writing, but convinced not to file the required application. I was actually assaulted by a zoning officer while sitting in their office trying to fill out an application they didn't want me to submit.
You can't compare a group that kills thousands of people with a group that has it's own ideas. You could claim it is a dangerous one but you'll find many other accepted groups that would fall under the same category given the right perspective.

Freedom of speech is not about hearing the ideas you like but the ones you dislike.
There are several.

A key thing to look for is whether or not the charity is focused on relocation. The conditions they were in while I was there were horrendous. The largest camp I visited was over 600k people.

I was working with a few organizations, but from what I saw islamic relief was the most effective at getting people out. I believe most of the relocated refugees through that org wound up in aceh, indonesia.

It's a humanitarian disaster that has been largely forgotten, I shudder to think what covid has done to their efforts.
Uhhm... I'm wondering how you reach the conclusion that the police don't trawl social media looking for things. This is precisely what they're doing. Maybe keep up with current events!

It's a gold-mine for every law-enforcement service on the planet, for good or ill. They drop to their knees every night, and thank God for Twitter, Facebook, Parler, etc.

And, you might be partially right -- it'll only work for rounding up the really dumb ones. All the smart ones are already on Signal, Telegram, ...

But, seriously. This has got to end.

Throwing a kid into juvenile detention because they yell at their friend "I'm gonna kill you!" in the middle of a game or make a gun shape with their hand at school has got to hold different weight than someone posting an instructional video on beheading. But, no, you have kids kicked out of school because someone saw a toy gun on a Zoom call...

The real problem for police is that they have 5% of the population being called "Racist" or "Terrorist" or "Nazi". Not 0.001%. They can't possible track down any real risks.

However, a social network using K-means Clustering easily isolates the "everyone other than me is a racist" crowd, from the "we're normally quiet and tolerant, but holy smokes this guy has really lost the plot" crowd.

The police could use that kind of help.
Despite my ex-roommate's well-intentioned defense, I was probably sober for most of it. It was also a decade ago and I'm somewhat wiser now. As mentioned elsewhere, I learned a lot about making such bold claims to the Choir of Ultimate Pedants. But it was something I had fun with, and I think the world needs more of that. :)
Ignoring the article since it has almost no information in it.

I don't view the company is overall evil. I view it as a boring megacorp. One that makes news cycles because of internal activism.

The smaller companies I've worked at were more evil in terms of bad mismanagement, sexism, and misleading marketing. You probably haven't heard of them and no one spoke out against it.

I am curious what jobs other software devs have where they feel they are transforming the world into a better place. I've never felt that at work, and work is not where I find purpose
“The only thing that keeps leaders in check is the knowledge the population can rise up against them. By eliminating the Bowman’s Wolves ability to string you up by your own intestines, you’ve removed them from a very important part of the political process.”

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This is scary. Thank you for posting things - I've reshared it to as many places as I can.
Anecdote: my credit union[1] went beyond caution and threatened to close down my account if I interacted with a crypto exchange. From a secured message in June 2017:

>>A transaction has posted to your account involving CoinBase.com (Bitcoin)[2]. Please be advised that in an effort to protect your credit union and all our members, A+FCU does not allow transactions involving CoinBase or any virtual currency. If you attempt to conduct any future transactions involving virtual currency, your account may be subject to closure.

>>Some of the reasons A+FCU has chosen to refuse virtual currency transactions are:
- Virtual currencies have a higher risk for fraud.
-Virtual currencies have no consumer protections.
-Virtual currencies are not backed by a government or central bank.
-Virtual currencies are targets for hackers, who have been able to breach sophisticated security systems in order to steal funds.
-Virtual currencies can cost you more to use than credit cards or even regular cash once you take exchange rate issues into consideration.

>>For more information regarding virtual currency, please refer to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) website at cfpb.gov or the National Credit Union Association (NCUA) website at ncua.gov.

>>If you have any questions regarding this matter, please contact us.

[1] A+ Federal Credit Union, yes, their official name has a plus symbol in it

[2] I never ended up using Coinbase, for unrelated reasons.
Not mad at all, just describing what it is a common occurrence with these type of tools, you (well, not you) can take the criticism in the right way and change things to gain more users(which I suppose is the goal here) or you can get defensive and artificially place extra beliefs on the other person to assuage your discomfort. Life is always about choices.
Comparing Signal features with Whatsapp I have two thoughts:

1. I noticed that Whatsapp allows me to add someone to a call (sort of like upgrading a phone call to a group call). I couldn't find a way to do that with Signal - although Signal supports group calls (that is, calling an entire group at once).

It's a minor feature, but I discovered that I rely upon it quite often.

2. Last year, I attempted to switch from iOS to Android - and I discovered that there isn't a clean way to move my whatsapp messages over. On iOS, whatsapp creates a backup on iCloud, there isn't any way to recover that on Android.

I aborted the attempt to switch to Android only because losing my whatsapp chat history was unacceptable.

Signal currently seems to be just as bad. However, if signal can implement a reasonable way to create backups and recover them across devices and operating systems, it will seal the deal and convince me to permanently delete whatsapp from all my devices.
Whether it is by drone strike your using you to make an example, the nobel peace prize winner will murder you somehow.
The end result will probably be two separate frameworks distanced from each other where each side is free to babble away in their echo chambers as much as they want.
The judge is not bound by a plea agreement in federal court.
Same here. The web client is extremely convenient.