chinesempire

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by chinesempire 6y ago
It's probably even worse than being insular I don't blame the people of US, but their cultural system, I do. Those who criticize or just reports things that don't work in the States are immediately flagged as anti American, i
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by chinesempire 6y ago
If people die young they don't get to live enough to become old
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by chinesempire 6y ago
It's pretty easy to say when your stats are 10 times worse than a similar developed country and look more like a developing country where warlords are in charge Or, in US police is at war Which is equally bad EDIT: to give more context
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by chinesempire 6y ago
> Your opinion of "what works" is not universally shared by everyone. Earth orbiting around the Sun wasn't either. See the problem is not if you are a professional or not, but if the tool is. If I do the laundry and the wa
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by chinesempire 6y ago
I really doubt they are, I'm an average programmer My laptop is a working tool for professionals, if I use it as a dumb typewriter I don't really need modern generation CPUs, a Pentium 2 would be enough Ram is a more pressing issu
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by chinesempire 6y ago
Counterpoint: imagine finishing the job in half the time using two times the same battery power I would make that trade, I would work less hours and spend half a day, everyday, off Anyway My matebook 13 does 15 hours of normal workload on b
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by chinesempire 6y ago
I'm starting think I'm in an episode of Twilight Zone: we are in an alternative world where people suffer from severe cognitive dissonance and can't argue properly Real work referred to computers means heavy load The origin
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by chinesempire 6y ago
But they don't It's a myth
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by chinesempire 6y ago
It really does not There are tools that work and tools for professionals, tools work, professional tools are for people that do it as a daily job and their job depends on them
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by chinesempire 6y ago
> computer from the last decade will do just fine as long as it has 8-16 GB of RAM. That was my point as well, if you aren't working on anything that requires power you don't need a "working machine" But if you do, th
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by chinesempire 6y ago
I think that's the point: a new chip with mobile like performance does not qualify as a working machine For what is worth when I do code review I could do it from my phone if only the mobile Gitlab interface was a bit better. The i5 Ma
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by chinesempire 6y ago
To be fair my laptop at work has 8 cores and 64gb of ram and it's already 3 years old I'm gonna change it soon not because it's not good anymore, but because some of the hardware has become too slow for the things are necessa
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by chinesempire 6y ago
Here on HN real work is not something an i5 can handle And if an i5 can handle your workload, then the A13 won't make a difference either in price or performance (because you already don't care about performance) it only matters t
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by chinesempire 6y ago
> Since we're talking about making modifications to the words we're using in English We are actually not. Master and slave will continue to exist in English. Besides, your numbers are completely wrong, India and Nigerian have E
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by chinesempire 6y ago
> terms such as blackmail Isn't it weird that people that don't know words etymology want to decide what they mean for the rest of us? > 1550s, "tribute paid to men allied with criminals as protection against pillage,
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by chinesempire 6y ago
That's not true. In UK for example anti slavery movements are born during the civil war as well. But chattel slavery was already abolished for a period in the 12th century, before the Norman occupation that reinstated it. US abolished
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by chinesempire 6y ago
Do you think Leopold the II slaves in Congo were considered human beings? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocities_in_the_Congo_Free... Do you think slaves in Japan were treated equally? https://en.m.wikip
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by chinesempire 6y ago
The problem with this definitions is not that they are wrong, they aren't, the problem is consequences. DDR was much smaller than US and his program was more limited than any actual one, given the advancements in technology of the past
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by chinesempire 6y ago
What about brain/arm?
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by chinesempire 6y ago
I doubt that something happened under Putin's control is commanded without asking Putin first.
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by chinesempire 6y ago
Snowden flew to Russia He chose to go there Would it be ironic to move to a city where police is brutal, knowing very well it is, by accepting an invite from the major of the city and then tweeting about police brutality in other parts of t
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by chinesempire 6y ago
Years of articles from major outlets all over the world and researchers that wrote about it Even Wikipedia acknowledges it > Russia has supported both the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen on several
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by chinesempire 6y ago
Putin is financing both sides to extend Russian influence over the territory He's not actively involved in the war, he's sitting on it
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by chinesempire 6y ago
If they are keen to sentence people to lifetime jail for spreading the covid, imagine what they will do to someone who reveals the identity of their operatives and their location
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by chinesempire 6y ago
Isn't it ironic to post about freedom of press from the country where press is not free and journalists are killed? Iceland and Switzerland are free countries as well and refuse extradition to US
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by chinesempire 6y ago
Autistics are not neurotipical The Rust COC is so vague that anything can be flagged as "non welcome" Nobody said racist or sexist and I don't understand were it's coming from If they don't want sexism or racism, th
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by chinesempire 6y ago
> unveiled a domestic and international surveillance and spying program which is unparalleled in all of history China
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by chinesempire 6y ago
You can always apply blur on the noise afterwards. It took me less than a minute to do this with Gimp (and I'm very bad at Gimp). It's a simple median blur over a random noise. https://i.imgur.com/f81JIRP.png
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by chinesempire 6y ago
Have you ever really tried one for yourself? East Berlin used to be second World, but many of my American friends moved there because they were tired sick of being harassed by their own country brutality and would never go back. Even many A
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by chinesempire 6y ago
wouldn't it be easier and more secure to put a noise filled rectangle over the faces?

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