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by askmike 7y ago
That might have been an excuse in 1999, but I'm not sure it's still a valid excuse in 2019. This is why you should use utf8.
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by askmike 7y ago
It's not for everyone I talk to he doesn't really value privacy that much (but still dislikes Chrome for some reason).
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by askmike 7y ago
User hostile as well I think. I think the expectation that you can just type something in the address bar and have it search the internet is quite normal.
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by askmike 7y ago
> What privacy has the average Joe user gained by switching to Firefox? None. They’re still using Google Search and (most likely) other Google products. I don't agree with this part. Though the bigger point is that not using Google
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by askmike 7y ago
> What I am saying is that democracy is better than no democracy, and no amount of doublespeak or whatabbautism is going to change that reality. It's not reality, it's just your opinion (and those of most people living in democ
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by askmike 7y ago
> I think freedom of speech and press helps to bring abuses to daylight and rule of law is essential in reining them in. I agree that they can be important, but they don't always solve many problems. Sometimes they even create probl
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by askmike 7y ago
You mean they can't enter the "educational centers" in Xinjiang? Do you think they can easily enter the "detention centers" in Texas? > I'd also argue that the role of the UN Human Rights Council (whose rece
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by askmike 7y ago
How did the 6 year old migrant kids choose to go to the US, to be separated from their parents and put into solitary confinement? > The west can always be more welcoming and there are ugly moments; but there is a vast reserve of people w
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by askmike 7y ago
Apologies, I got many replies at the same time (a minute after I posted my initial message). My point was against: > Also given that China has to actively prevent the Uyghur from leaving, while the West has to prevent immigrants from ent
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by askmike 7y ago
On topic: He wants a different political system (democratic) and his arguments are that the current one did many bad things. My point is that changing the political system doesn't change the bad things he's talking about. As we ca
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by askmike 7y ago
I think that more people should understand that shitty people do shitty things. And they when they do they should be held accountable. We get a lot closer to fixing them. I'm just highlighting endless bikeshedding, imo human right viol
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by askmike 7y ago
> That’s the type of media blackout which I understand is currently imposed on Xinjiang. I personally think the UN human rights council is at least as important, as the international media's role in fixing human rights problems is d
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by askmike 7y ago
I very much agree, this is what we should focus on (and the article does mention it).
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by askmike 7y ago
> however they have access to legal due process and their rights are guaranteed in law. There certainly have been abuses and violations, but these have frequently been reported in the medial and successfully challenged in courts of law.
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by askmike 7y ago
I don't agree, that's part of an "us vs them" debate. I am saying that I don't think China's bad things have anything to do with them not being democratic. As we can see similar things happening in democratic c
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by askmike 7y ago
I just did a quick google search on the matter, and according to the top link[1] this is not possible in practise for people in "detention facilities" to leave them. [1]: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/immi
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by askmike 7y ago
See my other comments, I shouldn't have picked immigrants as an example. There are many other example minority groups. > Also given that China has to actively prevent the Uyghur from leaving, while the West has to prevent immigrants
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by askmike 7y ago
> In almost every case the law and public opinion has stopped or prevented the worst mistreatment. The Australian detention centres are winding down, the separation of children from their families ordered by Trump was successfully challe
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by askmike 7y ago
> Western countries may not always live up to ideals with the pressures of migration, but it is disingenous to compare immigrants to a resident minority That's just one example that popped into my head. I can pick another example if
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by askmike 7y ago
I agree that the things described are very bad. But I do want to point that many western democratic governments do things that might be just as bad (are the Uyghur Muslims treated worse than immigrants in many western places like US /
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by askmike 7y ago
Just wondering but: > I work for a US company that routinely has to deal with cyber attacks by Iranian professionals, probably government sponsored. The full article is about services blocking IPs from Iran (and how it's effecting h
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by askmike 7y ago
I started reading with that article but it doesn't really seem to answer the questions it's claiming to answer. It's talking about how Bitcoin et al. have a shared consensus that's updated once every 10 minutes, and how
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by askmike 7y ago
> I do not know of a single use case for consumer facing crypto currencies that is compelling to me. Try buying something you are not allowed to buy. Personally I use it a lot while traveling abroad.
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by askmike 7y ago
Good point. I was wrong in generalizing it into "IT people". Nevertheless the amount of people who get the pros of decentralization is too small.
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by askmike 7y ago
Having done different projects both in the public and private blockchain space, I believe the majority of the confusion comes from almost no one actually understanding the point of something like Bitcoin. While it's clear for IT people
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by askmike 7y ago
That's not what anyone in the space calls centralized. It's actually called "decentralized" by everyone because the way this consensus is kept and changed happens decentralized (to some degree). Right now it seems: If yo
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by askmike 7y ago
It won't be decentralized, it's more like Paypal than crypto coins.
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by askmike 7y ago
You mean like Paypal? It might be a great project, it just has very little to do with actual cryptocurrencies. It's great to be excited about it, the issue many people in this thread have the project being called a cryptocurrency.
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by askmike 7y ago
That only works if everyone in the world agrees to the same blacklist, else it's just an opinion of a few people.
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by askmike 7y ago
So who guards the blacklist? A central authority like that goes against the whole point of Bitcoin, might as well use Paypal at that point. A blacklist like you suggest has been tried and shot down many times, for example: https:/&#x2

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