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by ardy42 6y ago
> My current setup is a laptop with Windows 10 as a host and an Ubuntu VM for work, and while it was nice avoiding the common Linux laptop issues, I really do consider migrating to a Linux only setup because of how awful and unpredictabl
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> It used to be that engineering/design led the company. Now it's marketing and legal. Isn't that what people make fun or Oracle for?
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> So aren't you really attacking democracy here and actually agreeing with me? So what is your position anyway, at least vis-à-vis Westerners and China? >> You're confusing righteousness with self-righteousness and a ki
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> The virus has come and gone in most of the world and vaccines are still at the stage of being paused because of serious reactions. Huh? The virus has not "gone," except perhaps in places that implemented actual lockdowns (no
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> As opposed to countries that wiped out indigenous and stole their lands, enslaved people based on race, killed protestors, experimented on people without knowledge or consent, dropped nukes on civilians, etc? > ...I guess you haven&
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by ardy42 6y ago
> The US movie industry already censors itself from anything that can remotely offend China. I wonder how that could be changed. Could the US just pass a law banning exports of movies to China or banning cooperation with their censorshi
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I'm not likely to go to Hong Kong, so I don't need to worry too much about setting foot there and having to face consequences. But you'd still have to worry a little bit -- if you're flying in the region your plane
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by ardy42 6y ago
> But one would also expect death rates to be higher initially due to our ignorance of the disease, so front-loading could be risky. Yeah, the front loading strategy pretty much presumes that there will be no effective treatment or it wi
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> Perhaps the small libraries of historic figures has more to do with the availability of books than it does their minimalism. The article also appears to be conflating the number of books owned (or more precisely, being depicted as ow
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> The trouble is that opens another attack vector. This story[1] (previously discussed on HN[2]) comes to the opposite conclusion. > Who is right? Is there a consensus in the security community? There might not be one best answer. Th
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by ardy42 6y ago
> If China is really doing this stuff, show me hard evidence. What exactly is "hard evidence" to you? The point of evidence is to get at the truth, and standards that are either too low or too high both fail to achieve that.
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by ardy42 6y ago
Is this anti-vaxx in general, or specific concerns about a coronavirus vaccine? Because there's a world of difference between repeating a debunked claim about vaccines causing autism or the idea that all vaccines are unsafe and saying
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by ardy42 6y ago
> The video has a few problems: there's no indication of where in china this is; Someone actually figured out the exact train station and approximate date of when the video was shot. He even showed his work, if you want to check it
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by ardy42 6y ago
> It behooves the accusers to provide solid evidence, not the audience. Is that supposed to be response to this? >> But if that's not good enough, please organize an independent investigation team to go to Xinjiang and find o
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> Any evidence less handwavy than that would be a good start. There are leaked Chinese government documents: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/ch... https:/&#x2
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by ardy42 6y ago
> with internal top leadership conflict Source? My understanding is Xi has pretty effectively consolidated power, and such internal struggles would be pretty opaque to everyone who doesn't have access to a well-connected CCP member
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> It sounds like the laptop was paid for, but potentially with stolen credit cards? Is that the same as the laptop being considered stolen property? I'm not a lawyer, but that's my logic. The situation definitely wasn't o
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> How did you gather so much information from a shipping label? Google. The name was pretty unique, and I found his wedding website (IIRC). Street view showed the address was pretty clearly a (large) apartment building. Now that I thin
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by ardy42 6y ago
>> eg. it’s still basically impossible to name a file CON on Windows 10 because of backwards compatibility. > echo "cough" > \\?\C:\temp\COM I think he's referring to CO N not CO M : https://en.wikiped
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by ardy42 6y ago
> The purpose is not to win the minds of Chinese citizens. There’s little that can be done to counter a lifetime of propaganda, even more so when its citizens obtain most of their information from heavily censored platforms controlled by
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>> You are seeing them in their first moments outside of the complete control of the Chinese Communist Party. Deprogramming takes time. > You've got to be kidding me. Why can't they have a genuine opinion of their own? Yo
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Did you even watch the video? They aren’t talking about supporting CCP, they’re examining what’s wrong with some of the protest movement’s attitude. There is literally zero CCP-sourced material in what they say. I watched a bit, but it
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Here are some Hong Kong'ers with a different perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk-m6FDMYg0 So? In 7.5 million people, you can find examples of pretty much any opinion you can think of. I can find vide
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by ardy42 6y ago
> "We support you, we just hate your government. So we'll forcefully liberate you, even if you didn't ask for liberation." You do recall there's a pretty high-profile movement of Chinese citizens, some of whom we
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by ardy42 6y ago
> But sounds like they're trying to scale up credit card fraud using the layers as buffer Yes, and also discourage law enforcement. AFAIK, $800 is a relatively small potatoes theft. New York is across state lines, and I reported i
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by ardy42 6y ago
> and I believe taxation is theft Money, taxes, and the crime of theft are all creatures of the law. Taxes aren't theft because that would be a literal contradiction. Taxes are just part of the rules about how money operates. I sh
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I have a choice of jobs, including working for myself. I have no choice in paying taxes. You totally do have choice to not pay your taxes, just like you have a choice to not pay your rent or mortgage or renege on other kinds of private
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by ardy42 6y ago
> According to Citizens' Advice, if an item is addressed to you, there has been no previous contact with the company, and it arrives out of the blue, then you can keep it. You might not want to, through. I an was almost-victim of a
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> What's the point of having inclusion guidelines if you can just change them willy nilly to suit your own agenda? You said it yourself: they're guide lines. I'm glad there are humans in the loop to exercise judgement wh
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> I'd really like to be able to disconnect my car from the internet. Someone needs to create a database of 1) what cars contain LTE modems and 2) how to modify the car to disable/compromise them (e.g. how to unplug or block the

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