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by 07d046 8y ago
I saw this thread on Twitter that talks about what might happen if China tries to take over Taiwan soon: https://twitter.com/adam_ni/status/1033179777220276224 > A physical blockade in some form could be couple
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by 07d046 8y ago
This is an important and well written article, but it would say something about Hacker News if it got more traction here than any of the articles about Weinstein.
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by 07d046 8y ago
There's been a lot of discussion recently about Chinese influence or interference in Australia, and much of that is through Chinese people living in Australia. For example, Chau Chak Wing is a Chinese-Australian billionaire with ties t
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by 07d046 8y ago
Yeah, the perpetual state of war and the drone strikes that coincide with that that America has gotten itself into is concerning. Still, I would strongly argue that there is a world of difference between the sins of America and China about
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by 07d046 8y ago
This whataboutism is not helpful. Unless you think the boy was deliberately targeted to be killed, surely you can understand that being killed in a drone strike targeting another is very different to being deliberately shot to death.
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It's a popular argument that "Asian values" legitimise China's approach. But it appears to be wrong: > Findings from our multinational survey suggest no obvious relationship between Asian values and support for freedo
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by 07d046 8y ago
Technically, this wouldn't be treason according to the US definition, because treason is only possible in the context of a declared enemy of the USA (i.e., war). Also, there is a judicial process in the USA, not a summary execution. Al
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by 07d046 8y ago
From an earlier NYT piece: > According to three of the officials, one was shot in front of his colleagues in the courtyard of a government building — a message to others who might have been working for the C.I.A. https://www.n
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by 07d046 8y ago
Absolutely. And this isn't a hypothetical. > Yet even for those who have escaped China, surveillance and intimidation have followed. As part of a massive campaign to monitor and intimidate its ethnic minorities no matter where they
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by 07d046 8y ago
I'm happy to see more headlines about this, because this doesn't seem to be getting the attention it deserves. Here is one account from a camp: > “Xi Jinping is great! The Communist Party is great! I deserve punishment for not
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by 07d046 8y ago
https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000024864-An... I'm guessing segments just use the elevation data of the activity that they were created from, hence why they can be wildly wrong.
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by 07d046 8y ago
Strava does this
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Because it's collaborating with the Chinese government to oppress the people.
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The interesting part, other than fitting into the "Chinese IP theft" narrative, is that: > [He] removed electronic files with company trade secrets involving its turbine technologies and hid data files in a digital photograph o
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by 07d046 8y ago
I wonder if Google employees will be as outraged about this as they reportedly were about Project Maven...
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> Society has to avoid McCarthyism (a 'reds under the bed' panic). This is what China wants and it plays directly into the propaganda. They want false accusations and race based panic. True. On the one hand, there needs to be m
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by 07d046 8y ago
I doubt China would let thousands of Chinese organise a protest in China either...
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> Has to be kind of disheartening My impression is that most Chinese students wouldn't have a problem doing this. "Civil rights" aren't really a thing in Chinese thinking, and the "patriotic education" in Ch
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> Occasionally, Chinese intelligence activities in San Francisco burst into plain view. Consider the story—and it is an incredible one, also told here for the first time—of the 2008 Olympic Torch Run. > ... > Most brazenly, said fo
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by 07d046 8y ago
For the young whippersnappers, "anonymous coward" comes from Slashdot, where it was the name for anonymous posters.
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You can have a very low view of the Chinese Communist Party while being many things that Trump isn't, like a fierce advocate for liberal democracy and human rights and the rule of law.
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I've just started reading Silent Invasian: China's Influence in Australia, which made headlines around the world last year when its original publisher decided not to publish it out of fear of what the Chinese Communist Party and i
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by 07d046 8y ago
This law calls for companies like Google and Facebook to store data in Vietnam for Vietnamese people. Presumably the Vietnamese government would then have free access to it. Would I be right in thinking that Facebook and Google wouldn'
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Vietnam’s new cyber security law draws concern for restricting free speech(techcrunch.com)
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And then there's Chrome, where you can start typing something in the URL bar, and it comes up with some results immediately, but in the milliseconds before you select a result it changes to something "better" so you go to the
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> China is getting more free speech That's just not true. The West hoped that would be the case when Xi took charge, but it's gone in the opposite direction since then. How many chat apps can you use where the CCP isn't li
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by 07d046 8y ago
I've been using first party isolation for the last year or so, and I can't think of anything it's broken.
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I used Firefox's containers for about a day, and then I discovered the privacy.firstparty.isolate option (in about:config), which effectively gives every site its own container with no user effort. That, combined with Cookie AutoDelete
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Ask HN: Are there reasons not to use a feature request system like UserVoice?
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GeForce Partner Program Impacts Consumer Choice(hardocp.com)
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