Chaebixi

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by Chaebixi 8y ago
> Please no. Branding through UX is bad UX. I agree. > Simple, ..., transferrable, easy to understand UX is good UX. I disagree. I think the first part of OP raised some good points. The copy everyone's copying and that everyon
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by Chaebixi 8y ago
> I think it's always strange that the media frames this as "threatening" to shift power. > ...on the other hand I do not fear other countries of the world overtaking us. What if those counties are authoritarian and exp
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by Chaebixi 8y ago
> Why hasn't US achieved the level of digital payment smoothness that China has been able to? Because it already achieved that "level of digital payment smoothness" with credit cards? > I think we need to be careful abo
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by Chaebixi 8y ago
I'm kinda getting tired of how the word "AI" is getting thrown around so much nowadays. It's used to refer to chatbots or analysis programs in a way that evokes an intelligent strong-AI. I'm looking forward to the
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by Chaebixi 8y ago
> China's tech VCs and established corporations (referring to the likes of Alibaba/Tencent) are challenging (and to a certain extent dethroning) Silicon Valley "monopoly" when it comes to investing in innovation/
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by Chaebixi 8y ago
> The state doesn't have to have a monopoly on violence; as the use of private military contractors has proven. I don't think you know what the "[state] monopoly on violence" means. It does not mean all people auth
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> I know next-to-nothing about Chinese, but it seems to me that if a language can be spoken, it can be represented with a phonetic alphabet. You might be interested in this: http://www.zompist.com/yingzi/yingzi.htm
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> Even inside the US, Spanish is growing faster than ever. But is it getting established or just temporarily flaring up due to immigration? All of the 2nd generation Spanish-speaking immigrants I know use English primarily. American Eng
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
>> The idea was that so long as we retained the right to bear arms we would be able to keep tyranny in check. > How's that working out for you? ...Trump... Trump is not a tyrant, even though he'd probably like to be one i
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> If the sensible restrictions worked, nobody would be talking about heavy restrictions or bans. I'm not so sure, since it really depends on how you define success. I'd wager strict gun control advocates would define it as som
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> but I'd be incredibly surprised if you ended up with total ban and confiscation. Haven't some heavy gun control regimes in the US ended up as de-facto total bans? IIRC, one city "allowed" legal gun ownership (or ma
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> Except when sensible restrictions on gun buying are propsed [sic], that same lobby loses their mind and immediately opposes it. My understanding is that they don't think the sensible restrictions will stay sensible, but rather the
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> Lawyers wished to create a 'walled garden' for their knowledge and methods. Doctors do the same and the churches also did it. These people charge fees for access to this knowledge and do not want easy access to the general pu
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
Twitter has propaganda = No? Isn't it propaganda bot central? Whats the source of the data on this site?
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> I think ethical guidelines by definition are not enforced per se. They're just that, guidelines. However, as mentioned by GP there are boards of ethics at universities and medical/engineering organizations and such that might
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> I've been thinking more and more recently of deleting my facebook profile. > But I'm scared for multiple reasons: I went through that a similar thought process. I decided to keep my profile active, but unlike everything a
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> The hope is that Facebook will not have two different data handling strategies for EU and non-EU users and we'll see some sort of regulatory encroachment from the EU to the rest of the world. But obviously GDPR endangers so many o
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> I just find it disgusting that, as a company, they feel they have the right to act in such a way. Facebook's culture has a pretension that their internal policies is something like the law itself: https://talkingpointsm
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
I may be totally wrong, but isn't there some pressure in the other direction because of the prototype turnaround times with overseas manufacturing? I've read articles about people claiming they were able to iterate much faster us
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
That's just repeating the SO dogma, which I think is suspect in most cases. > Answers that just recommend a 3rd party library optimize for solving the immediate problem an answerer is having asap but they don't work very well a
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
Whenever I ask a SO question, I have to brace myself to spend the next several hours defending my question and correcting misunderstandings that I'd already anticipated and addressed in the question . It's exhausting.
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> Sesame Credit is run by Alibaba, a private company, and there's no way China wants them to have that much power. That's true, but I see no reason for the government system to take a more moderate approach. I don't really
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
They have some corporation-run social credit pilot projects that apparently look at purchases and social media activity. No doubt the government-run program will get that data as well.
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
It's pure whataboutism that only serves to totally distract attention away from this newly-designed Chinese policy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism > Whataboutism (also known as whataboutery) is a va
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
Slavery and involuntary servitude aren't the same thing. This is clearly shown by the fact that the state can't sell your person as chattel to someone else when you're sentenced to prison or community service.
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
Note: this topic is a horrible derail from the OP. >> Does the United States actually practice slavery in the prison system in any fashion? >Yes, and it is precisely the reason the US is one of the few eligible countries not to h
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> There were rumors in May 2017 that some airports in China started to reject passports for Chinese citizens per some new internal regulations, so that is probably what was initially reported. That explains it, that's about the time
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
It certainly feels like that, but I doubt this is the direct result of modern propaganda teams. What I think is more likely is the propagandists were so successful decades ago that their whataboutist memes got so integrated into the Americ
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
>> Does the United States actually practice slavery in the prison system in any fashion? > Yes, and there are plenty of articles about it. For example: Let's look up the definition of "slave": > a person who is th
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> This is patently not true. There are plenty of Chinese in the previous generation that gave up their hukou/ID card as required when they gained permanent residency in another country Do you have a cite for this? I know you lose P

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