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You're right that I had a high snark:information ratio, there. Effort post incoming.

Here's a cite that goes into detail on the specific claims you've probably read about sterilization practices (partway through): https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/18/us-media-reports-chinese-...

TL:DR; -- Historically, minorities were allowed to have way more kids on paper and the limits were rarely enforced in fact. Since ~2018 there's equality, via raising Han Chinese limits and applying even enforcement, so it's a change and there's some upset about it, but it's the removal of favoritism rather than the imposition of discriminatory measures. It got to even.

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As far as who I trust. DC natsec think tanks are absolutely at the bottom of that list on ANY topic, they are guaranteed to be entangled with the military-industrial complex. I trust our actual military more than I do those think tanks. (And the one you chose turns out to be funded by... gulenists??? I did not expect that, frickin wild -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairfax_University_of_America)

On THIS topic -- the hard evidence points towards internment and mandatory patriot camp, which are bad, but no genocide, slavery or any of those other crazy accusations thrown about. This is.. not great but also exactly what the Chinese government says they're doing. They put out press releases saying, "yeah, it's mandatory job training and harmony camp". Western media are the ones throwing unsubstantiated claims around.

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Here's one from your BBC guy, John Sudworth: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/nz0g306v8c/china-tainted-co...

They ACTUALLY INCLUDE a Chinese newspaper page that they're selectively and deceptively quoting from. As an image, though, so you can't copy/paste it into Google Translate. The source that THAT THEY ARE USING is a story about a state-run "gig economy for cotton picking" program where people with small farms can work on bigger farms during their downtime, one guy is super stoked that he made 5k RMB ($800) in a month (quite a lot for the third world). They pull ominous-sounding quotes about 'organization' out of this story out of context while implying forced labor, right in front of your face, just banking on you not being able to read Chinese. If you read carefully, there's never even a hard accusation, let alone any evidence. Just lots of innuendo.

So who should I trust? I don't know if or why Sudworth was run out of town, but his track record shows a lot of bias and disregard for the truth. Maybe some zealous local party members made him feel unwelcome, maybe he was pressured by higher-placed people in the party, or maybe he's just making a play for an easy headline. I don't know.
Or for tiktok to start a competing video streaming site. Sure, if you go against the CCP, your video will be deleted and your account nuked, but you can still post those on YouTube. For everything else, tttube won't care who it offends in the US.
You still can have fun, but first drink verification can.
The reality is, no one drinking hand sanitizer out of dispensers at the hospital is going to live long enough to see any real change in cancer risk due to 2ppm benzene in the hand sanitizer though are they?
> "All your talk about scams is just completely outside the topic"

Only if you completely ignore all the things I've been writing. The appstore has restrictions. Those are useful. They are a layer of defense in depth, user protection.

> "By the way, in terms of security, the iPhone isn't even the most secure platform right now, you still have tons of private apis, privacy issues and ways to snoop data back, that's exactly why companies ask you to install their app instead of directly going to their website because on the web they can't do any of that..."

Then Apple should close those gaps. "It has flaws" is not a reason to turn it into a wide-open free-for-all, that would be worse, not better.

> "You don't own your device because Apple can decide to remove everything from it remotely"

That's like saying you don't own a TV because the TV station can stop broadcasting and then the device is useless. You can throw it in the trash without telling anyone, and nobody will care. You can sell it. You can smash it with a hammer. You own it. What the software and online service licenses are, is a different matter. That you can see a processor inside it and wish it could run Linux and wish Apple had built it differently, is irrelevant to whether you own it.
I don't really see YouTube as an alternative to books. Where video shines is in shorter instructional practical stuff. Sure, if I want to understand the underlying mechanism of something then I'll read-up on it but usually I don't need that kind of knowledge. I just want to watch someone do the task I'm about to do.

For anything IT related I usually dislike video guides as they're so slow to get to the point. But that's because I work in IT and don't need to be told that messing around with a disk partition could cause problems with my computer. With non-IT tasks I'm happy to be treated as a moron because I don't have anywhere near as much experience.

When you say "Use an awful lot less data" - is that still an issue most of the time? That's depressing.
Timing analysis in health care is amazing. There is plenty of documentation that hour and day of week affects physician intervention in births. Women who are in labor during normal work hours are much more likely to have medical interventions like cesarean section. On a weekend, the rate of these is far less. Basically it depends a lot on whether your attending doctors need to leave at 5pm on a Friday because they have theater tickets.
Archive link: https://archive.is/e4x8l
You can turn a lot of it off, I had to do that for this and MS Edge recently. Or you can just us Vim.
> It is clearly more economically efficient to treat malignant cancers earlier.

This is not necessarily the case, because additional screening has costs - both direct costs of running the screening, but also hidden costs like costs associated with false positives (which represent the vast majority of cancer diagnoses). For example, we realized recently that for many years we had been too aggressively encouraging women to get breast cancer screenings, and it ended up not being socially optimal due to the high cost and false positive rate.
Silence the dangerous minority. Brilliant.
I am actually paying to get rid of advertisements, not to get rid of useful features. This will just get me to stick with my channel subscriptions, as the recommendations are already often better and better scams.
I have to say it's human nature. When asking for a favor, you always feel more comfortable if the other guy had a nice chat with you yesterday.

There are always things cannot be easily rationalized via formal processes.
Well maybe we should ban gold mining instead of bitcoin mining. It uses more energy and anyone who can understand the source code understands that Bitcoin does gold’s job, only 10x better.
That's an interesting idea. I'm working on an alternative discussion site and have wondered why the Gov doesn't do more to foster competition rather than hold pointless hearings with the same 3 people over and over again.
The way companies are run today is built around the church of stockholder value, above every other concern. (Which sucks, but you can’t argue with reality)

Companies have no moral compass, and we should never expect the to behave in any moral way, unless someone thinks it’ll create more stockholder value than acting immorally.

I can’t help but feel that all this hand wringing about what Apple (or any other large company) should or should not be doing is a waste of time. Time that would be better spent trying to build consensus around what principles we as a society care about, and wish to project into the world. Then we should just write laws and regulation to make it happen, and to force the hands of companies.

Anything else strikes me as futile and pointless. A distraction from achieving real meaningful change.
I was going to ask why Americans don't privatize their military but looking at the proliferation of mercenary company like Blackwater taking over military operations in Afghanistan/Syria/Yemen, maybe Americans are slowly starting to put money where their mouth is.
A right to vote has to be provided. Right to an attorney is something that might haveto to be provided. Right to a jury by one's peers has to be provided. Right to appeal has to be provided. Even protests generally require permits, which have to be provided. You have the right to be treated equally based on your gender or race, which, if it is provided to one, has to be provided to all.

There are many rights which create the burden of work not only for the government but also for things like public businesses.
> I cannot comprehend why anyone would be against health care for all?

Then you probably shouldn't voice an opinion on the issue. If a lot of people disagree with you can't come up with a coherent explanation for why, then you almost certainly don't understand the problem space.

> Can someone help explain to me what the oppositions point of view is?

Government-run healthcare is not socially optimal.

Edit: The people downvoting me are salty because they realize that they can't form a coherent argument for an opposing opinion. Guess what - I already know all of your talking points. I would engage with you on them, but this shitty website won't let me post more than like 5 times an hour.
>I cannot comprehend why anyone would be against health care for all?

Because people keep coming up with schemes that involve things that are deal-breakers to various groups of people.

Then you add up all the various groups and suddenly there's a significant majority/minority that will vote against universal healthcare.

It doesn't help that voting for a politician is basically a blank check to do whatever for the course of the term. Many people are for universal healthcare but vote against it because they expect the politicians to botch it.
I feel like the "max 14 days per year" put the slam down on 2 days home / 3 days office everyone said would happen.
Editorialized headline much?
Yes, but you did raise. Now ask yourself if you would have raised this round without YC backing and the same product.

Time will tell if you will succeed, best of luck to you and your team.

But keep in mind that raising money is not success in itself.
> We're advocates of ethical data collection, and all reports are collected with clear user consent. Maintainers can also comply with GDPR requests for access and deletion with a single API call each.

I really hope you win this product category. It would be a shame to have another company with less respect for user data to "move fast and break things".

I've found that I write tighter, cleaner, and generally better code when it's internal and proprietary compared to open source. The reason is that if something raises an exception internally it's OK because there's a notification and the exception gets fixed. But the risk of an exception being raised on someone else's computer that I never see causes overly defensive code: omitting assertions, swallowing overly general exception classes, ignoring encoding errors, etc. Coding defensively gives robust code, but coding too defensively creates irrational, cargo-culting code that silences errors instead of raising them.

So I think there's a lot of value for users and developers to share more granular error reports.
Universal health care would help everybody including black people so there is a big contingent of American racists who will be against it on that basis alone, even if it's clearly cutting off their own noses.
> 3. Really bad work-life balance in general.

I think this is very subjective. When I carpooled to an office my personal life lost commute time and arriving early or leaving late to coordinate with rides or buses. Gained an extra 8h a week when I went remote.
It generally boils down to people wanting to have elite health care, not the pedestrian health care everyone else gets.

It's difficult for the American voter to even get accurate information. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/08/06/health-ins...
When you earn money in 1800 and use it in 2021 then a baker in 1800 failed to get your money and his time was wasted. He could have used that time to bake bread but you didn't buy bread. Now that it is 2021 you are asking the baker to bake twice as much bread for your sake even though you did nothing to help the baker run his business. In fact, you did the opposite. Turns out there are less bakers in the future and your money becomes worthless anyway.

>This Keynesian argument comes from a nihilistic disregard for social structures, the environment, and future generations. Look him up. “In the long run, we’ll all be dead” - Keynes

Is this supposed to be a joke? How are old people becoming rich through no work, no productive investment whatsoever supposed to help future generations? Future generations receive greater incomes than their previous generations thanks to inflation. With deflation they receive lower incomes than their previous generations.

When you own deflationary money and you do nothing with it you basically create a claim to future work in the past. By working at a simple 1800s job you have created a claim to the labor of someone working a software job even though you took no part in enabling that job to exist in the first place. Same with the bread baker robot. By holding onto the currency you never created an economic environment that enabled such an investment to be made. You just held onto the currency and once someone was foolish enough to build the robot you obtained a claim to its productivity.
Imagine if it was a terrible platform, and there was a bigger, cheaper, more sideloadable competitor you could easily use instead. Why would you spend so much time trying to get the courts to force Apple to let you into the ecosystem without following their rules? Why wouldn't you simply use the platform that already does all the things you say you want?
I mean, I can rewrite the whole thing without any of those words and the message would be the same.

The church does not give women equal power or rights within its ranks.

The church views two consenting adults who love each other as sinners simply because they can not bear children, given that they are of the same sex.

Such an organization has no place in my life and, based on the gallup poll in the article, I am clearly not alone here.

Have a good day, Phil.
As someone who has done it for over a decade, in software, it's totally doable providing your org has all the infrastructure and has a culture that successful business requires treating their employees like humans who need to socialize, communicate, and slack off a bit like they would in a physical office. Usually online work turns into a push to maximizing efficiency and minimizing time you'd normally be "wasting" at an office. People then hate it, informal socialization doesn't happen, and hidden business processes that live in those informal social interactions that keep things moving don't happen.

They can happen online, the most difficult part of building trust with others to create positive cohesive relationships.
> The bill of rights includes the right to an attorney.

You can't just show up whenever and get an attorney. You only get an attorney when the government is prosecuting you.
Reading through these comments, it sounds like most people assume these will be used as some sort of enemy targeting overlay for soldiers on the frontline. Is there any reporting to back this?

My understanding was that HoloLens had found usefulness in enterprise settings for applications like machine/vehicle maintenance, quality assurance, repairs, etc. Why would that not be the case here?
It is pretty unlikely microbes are going to be building up resistance to the microbial equivalent of getting doused in gasoline and set on fire.

It dissolves the lipid shell and denatures key proteins in the shell. This is not subtle.

In the evolutionary influence perspective for a microbe, it also still isn’t particularly common. Triclosan and the other problematic chemicals are much more targeted and more problematic from a resistance perspective because of it.
Mutation rate for SARS-COV2 is about half of mutation rate of influenza viruses, so it still mutates pretty fast compared to DNA viruses or bacteria.
The question wasn’t should we, it’s how much should we spend.
The typical googler is a 20 or 30-something that has close to zero life interest outside work. I would not expect them to want to stay remote as their social life revolves around Google.

Sadly, from what I have seen most people with a good work life balance want to stay remote while people with few other life interests want absolutely go back to work.

I predict that in a couple years this will be part of the culture of each company. You will chose a company based on your desire to become close friends with your colleagues or live a great life outside the office.
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Massive companies don't do subtle well. Social manipulation is hard because it can't be obvious; certainly not as transparent as what Amazon has been doing. Even before this leak it was painfully obvious which Twitter accounts were shilling on Amazon's dime.

An effective campaign would probably more closely resemble what Russia has been doing for the last 6+ years.
"a maximum of 14 days remote per year"

-- WHAT? They need to apply for that?
Frog skin cells turned themselves into living machines
That's the joke....
We all have hobbies, relationships etc and there is no doubt all those things have improved so much. Not having our long Texas commutes has been great. People with kids love the extra time esp for those that are college bound. I am loving the time with my family and other hobby projects.

To give you some background, we are an IT shop for an Energy co. so there is a big chunk of our people who have to be at work, physically just because of the nature of the work. As others have alluded, we weren't set up with remote in mind.

I would love to hear how being 100% you've built a network, bonds etc with your colleagues. We have a bunch of new people who dont have the rapport with us or finding it difficult to connect ( a few lunches or coffees, or hang out in the common area could help build )

I should also mentioned the 3 off / 2 in office is something of a peace offering to the non IT part of the business. Most of us know we can be fully remote.
Maybe that depends on how much Americans want their parents to live longer and healthier lives or not.
“... what if we waged peace as fiercely as we are prepared to wage war?” Bill McDonough (2002) < https://mcdonough.com/writings/waging-peace-intelligent-desi...>

If the US spent a fraction of what it spends literally lighting money on fire with missiles and bombs, I’d bet we’d see a big decline in non-geostrategic hostilities or non-rogue actors (i.e., except for China, Russia, or the Saddam Hussein’s of the world). Terrorist movements arguably win support because of the lack of good government and economic opportunities of the populations they purport to rule.

The worry then becomes how the money is spent, which companies win the contracts (e.g., Buy American provisions), and perceptions of vassal states, but historically, it has been a successful strategy and is similar to what China is doing with its Belt and Road Initiative.

If armed insurgency means the loss of a decent percentage of GDP thru wealth transfer, then it’d lessen some of the incentives and reasons for armed conflicts. It’d also be important to make sure funds are distributed equitably with a country and not under the World Bank model.
For what percentage of videos? 0.0001%? Seems like they're tossing out the baby with the bathwater, punishing everyone using YouTube in order to protect a very small number from criticism.
SSA keeps track of all of this - at Age 65, males can expect to live another 17.8 years and women can expect to live another 20.5:

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html

(Probably more if ghouls would stop trying to deny them care and compassion because they're old)
I read the "paranoia about cleanliness" bit as suggesting both.
> There's nothing like "gotta go, chat tomorrow" stuff.

Everyone in my team does literally just that on Slack. If I can say something, I can type something. If I can close my laptop in the office, I can close my laptop at home just the same. Or close Slack. Or just sign out of the company's workspace.
Don’t make this about race. It doesn’t help the debate. It makes it worse.
People really need to learm the difference between negative and positive rights.
Yes, and one of the big reasons is that the US doesn't spend as much money on welfare (incl. medical welfare) as European nations.
Who is “they”?

You appear to have lept to some very extreme conclusions without anything resembling supporting data.
Which in the US means waiting for Medicare. Doesn't it? For most Americans there is no part of retirement and growing old that doesn't revolve around access to Medicare.
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Assuming this is your site from your username, just wanted to let you know there are styling issues with the sidebar text and the content text intermixing:

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The revolving door and growing ties between Google and segments of government strongly suggests a constant flow of information and the creation of incentives in a way that create a common understanding across both. Meaning, you might not need to "tell" anyone to do anything in particular. Your ties create common interest and once two groups, here relatively fluid groups with fuzzy boundaries, share a common interest, no explicit coordination is necessary.
Heck, it's not even good enough for 1 day at home per week. It's basically only useful for cases where you need to stay home because of a sick kid or someone is coming over for house repair/maintenance.
DEDA is for anonymizing post scanning as far as I can tell, so it still relies on whoever you're providing the documents to knowing they need to do it.
>I cannot comprehend why anyone would be against health care for all?

Nobody is against health care for all. Everyone wants that, people disagree on the optimal way to achieve that goal.

It's like saying "I don't understand why anyone would be against housing for all?" while you're advocating for confiscating all private property and having everyone live in state-run housing. Which is fine, and maybe a good way to achieve that goal. But isn't the only way to do that.
That can be seen as just part of the burden of charging you with a crime: the state needs to provide you with a judge, jury, and counsel.

Amd it's not the greatest example of rights-in-action if you ask me. Often such counsel is overloaded and just tries to negotiate a plea deal rather than provide a robust defense.
Archive link: https://archive.is/xGwR8
Both sides would say that they are the ones supporting the nation's health and supporting people having access to healthcare. The reasons why typically have to do with the average quality of care and the cost--the same things you want to improve--however, while you advocate for removing the private market to improve health, they advocate for removing the government skew on the market to improve it.

A lot of ink has been spilled over it, on both sides.
But have a look at other countries, e.g. Scandinavia, UK. Public healthcare doesn't need to be bad. And it doesn't exclude the possibility of private healthcare.