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by abc-xyz 8y ago
As someone who's had the misfortune of living next to poorly trained dogs, I really hope your neighbours won't be able to hear their barking.
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
I lived in China for many years when I was younger and more naive, most of my friends were/are from Tsinghua/Peking/etc, and I actually do understand Chinese. Just because you don't see it happen with your own eyes then
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
The world is anti-China, you know, with putting millions of innocent muslims in concentration camps, harvesting organs, building a surveillance state and whatnot. Once the social credit score is fully rolled out then it should be trivial to
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
While Apple isn't as bad as the others, they're still morally bankrupt (e.g. supporting censorship, removing VPNs from the Chinese store, giving governments access to messages, email and other private stuff stored in the cloud). I
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
I'd love a list of companies paying game developers $80-200k.
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
The articles will always be available through websites like outline, so you'd be much better off encouraging these publishers to stop violating users privacy, stop making horrible sites that autoplay videos, automatically load new page
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
How is he promoting tracking? The outline link has 3 cookies (0 third-party) and make 5 requests (the bad ones being Google Analytics and Doubleclick). Whereas the original article has 68 cookies (44 third party) and make 261 requests (whic
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
The desire for privacy is universally shared by people across all countries. Sadly not everyone understands how technology works and how online privacy violations affect them, their loved ones and strangers. Not to mention when you're
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
It's an absolutely terrifying idea with little benefits and some of the scariest drawbacks imaginable. You decrease crime rate by improving quality of life, by providing good education and healthcare to all citizens. You don't do
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
It's not WhatsApp's responsibility to prevent these crimes, and the only way for them to do so would be to violate the privacy of all their users. That's a very bad trade-off, which would no doubt also result in other types o
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
I don't mind the downvotes, I just wanted to encourage the author (since I know he'd be reading it) and everybody else who are fighting for people's privacy. I realize this kind of encouragement is usually more welcome at Sho
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
You're doing God's work.. literally saving lives. I hope history books will acknowledge your work and achievements.
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
Yes, because their entire business model is built around email marketing, and despite not using MailChimp then they're as far as I know the biggest player. Give me a couple of hours and then I can guarantee 99.999999% durability for al
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
Because I assume they use Google/Amazon cloud services which are designed for 99.99999999% durability, just as I assume they often make backups (it's not like it would be expensive for them to backup mailing lists every hour or so
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
Because not everyone using a mailing list service is technically capable of doing this, or understands why it's even necessary? I never used MailChimp but if I did then I would assume that the mailing lists I built with their service w
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
I hope everyone already using or considering using MailChimp reads this. Denying access to your mailing list even if you violated their terms is insane. Banning accounts with no warning is already bad enough - ideally they'd just disab
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
Assuming the author is truthful, then I'd say Mailchimps actions are a lot more questionable. Shutting the account down without a warning? Making it impossible for him to see his mailing list even if the ban was deserved? I don't
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
I'd say it's a misguided comparison since Microsoft and Librem have very different goals. I'm sure Microsoft would've no problem making profitable phones, but if their goal is to obtain as many users as possible, as fast
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
Fine, the Neo-Nazi already has a pistol but you want to sell him an AK-47. Sure, it'll be used to murder innocent people, but there's nothing to indicate he would have kill more with your gun than the gun he already has. Google is
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
No they're not. The big players are, but that doesn't include all. For instance, my websites are available to Chinese users and have no tracking whatsoever. The government can see they visited the website, but not necessarily what
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
What has Apple done through their "participation", besides providing the government with billions and supporting their technological advancement?
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
It most definitely would make the people more oppressed. Even if we ignore the fact that the searches would be directly tied to a person, as well as the fact that there are nobody better than Google when it comes to tracking users on mass-s
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
It really shouldn't be a dilemma unless you're morally bankrupt. Would you sell a gun to a Neo-Nazi that you knew intended to use it to murder innocent people? After all if you refused (and continued to do nothing to stop him) the
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
I'd love to see you try (and when you speak against it actually highlight how it would be used to send muslims to concentration camps, put anyone who dared to do harmless searches, such as Tiananmen Massacre at risk, etc.). Best case s
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
Surprised no one seems to have addressed the real purpose of the "social" punishment for "scientific misconduct", which is to punish those who dare to mention or research topics that the government doesn't like, suc
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
I shamefully lived in China for a long period, and almost every Chinese person I've talked to was either misinformed or oblivious to the kind of negative news you see discussed on HN. You can learn a lot, both negative and positive, ab
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
Whenever you post something negative towards China then your post usually end up at -2 ~ -5 before slowly climbing up again. I personally don't care about karma but I do care about text becoming less readable, so it's unfortunate
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
It's not like China is the only country capable of building iPhones and other goods. Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, etc all seem like good alternatives until the goods can be manufactured in democratic countries with the help of robots. Wo
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
How is it a willful misunderstanding? The only way not to view your statements in a terrible light would be to take everything you said out of context. Your stupidity is astounding.
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by abc-xyz 8y ago
More like once someone has proven to be untrustworthy and evil a million times, not to mention threatened to retaliate, then it's okay to stop giving them the benefit of the doubt, especially when the timing is so suspecious to say the

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