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by gbog 12y ago
> [China] an unfathomable degree of control over their citizens You obviously haven't been there. I think Chinese gov have the same level of control over its citizens as France: very erratic, sometime works well, some people try to
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by gbog 12y ago
I'm working in a 100% Chinese high-tech company, and asked my colleagues: they think it is just a test (that was my first impression too).
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by gbog 12y ago
Houellebecq: ~~~ De jeunes bourgeoises circulent entre les rayonnages du Monoprix, élégantes et sexuelles comme des oies. Il y a probablement des hommes, aussi; je m'en fiche pas mal. On a beau ne plus imaginer de
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by gbog 12y ago
Story? There's no story in poetry! But yes, this is still Baudelaire's poem, I would have recognized it (I know well the French version).
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by gbog 12y ago
> How do you define "morality"? As we are all adults here and know where to find definitions of words, I suppose you want to ask "on what principles do you ground your morality?" and then "on what things do you g
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by gbog 12y ago
> these bills under consideration truly will hurt jobs, growth and the economic vibrancy I hate discriminations, especially those made for so-called religious reasons, but I also hate lies, even those made for "good reasons", a
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by gbog 12y ago
China and Chinese have been accused of all sort things. From ten years spent there I can tell you accusing their gov to be stupid is really dumb. Attacking github is the most useless attack they could invent. Therefore it's not them. O
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by gbog 12y ago
Well if it isn't proven it's them, just let's not assume guilty, right?
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by gbog 12y ago
Thanks, so if I understand well, every js gotten from baidu cdn from outside China has a malicious code attacking github. Weird. It could be some test gone wrong, but I still don't buy Chinese gov attacking purposely and openly github
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by gbog 12y ago
Hi, foreigner working in Chinese high tech company here. I wonder a bit, on which ground is this attack attributed to Chinese gov? It looks a bit unlikely to me. China has some cyber military but they are more likely to be pragmatic and cho
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by gbog 12y ago
Well, no. I think this example show that the best interface is no graphical interface. If the key of my car were some physical button or combination on my phone it would be better than real keys. Real keys are better than an app because I c
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by gbog 12y ago
The video play "mpv" is also almost a wrapper around ffmpeg, it seems.
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by gbog 12y ago
Why don't you read GNU manual with `man` in a terminal? (Genuine question)
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by gbog 12y ago
Well, I'm reading the Histoire de la Revolution Francaise (Michelet) right now, and something very stunning is that everyone, even the most faithful revolutionnaries, was still "royalist" in 1790. They all had "thought a
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by gbog 12y ago
Yes. Having kids is the simplest and most natural way to get this sentiment of usefulness and achievement that is much harder to get from a daily job. RMS and other creators get this from their creations, but it is not given to everyone to
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by gbog 12y ago
Some of RMS opinions are extreme, because they take to an unbearable point some consequence of some ideology. For example refusing to have kids is extreme, most people cannot afford psychologically to not have kids. But RMS opinions about F
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by gbog 12y ago
I was exploring this area recently, in a more specific way: I'd like to try to implement a DJ bot. But I am not sure machine learning is the best way: I would need to have a very big set of mix playlists by professional DJ to train a m
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by gbog 12y ago
If women are wearing hijabs, it looks like society consider all males as wild beasts unable to restrain their pulsions. If women in the workplace, on ads, everywhere, are all looking like (or trying to look like) 16yo half-naked barbies, it
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by gbog 12y ago
Looks weird to me that a swimsuit poster on my desk is not ok but deep hypnotizing cleavage and ten meters radius feminine perfume is.
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by gbog 12y ago
This article is quite interesting, and I hope to let my kids have this kind of environment. I'd like to underline here that this kind of parenting is very different from the one shown in a recent post about some 11yo kids watching Alie
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by gbog 12y ago
Well, you see in China you have both ends: some kids are still letting their mother do their laundry at 30. But at the same time some 7yo kids play day long by themselve in the alleys of Beijing, and their parents may not have a precise ide
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by gbog 12y ago
Modern sport is an invention by British noblemen. Greek olympic games were very different: a preparation for war, a preconfrontation. See the difference between say criquet or polo and weight lifting or javelot.
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by gbog 12y ago
I do not buy this argument. The world is not like sports. For example, the real world is not fair. Sports for the masses is a very recent invention (less than 100 yo). Before that, we had warrior training, and a few outdoor games. The world
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by gbog 12y ago
Ok, if slumber parties are late night parites then my point need to change a bit: - Getting 11yo kids to officially stay up as late as possible is a weird idea. They will stay up late anyway but why make it official? - Many games are suitab
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by gbog 12y ago
Well, I used this story as a general example. I guess many kids have similar birthday parties everywhere in the U.S. And if kids watch screens (movie and video games) when they are together, I can safely guess they do it even more when they
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by gbog 12y ago
Ok. Maybe they can. But maybe they shouldn't. What good is it bringing to kids to see this? Are you better after watching a mediocre and violent entertainment movie? Good movies make you better. I don't think there is any good rea
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by gbog 12y ago
I don't know what slumber party means but it seems completely crazy to have a bunch of kids together and play video games, eat pizza, watch horror movies. Do you want spoiled fat bored and boring kids? Because that's how you get
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by gbog 12y ago
Yes, but with sms you're not easily sending your current location, for example. Here in China sms is being replaced by wechat, which can also be very fast, but has more power.
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by gbog 12y ago
Quite the opposite. Once you have engraved in your brain the shape of these characters they become the very representative shapes of the things they draw. It is not a matter of resemblance, just as most caricatures do not resemble the model
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by gbog 12y ago
Sometime not being allowed to conveniently do something is good for the brain and the body. Here in China YouTube is not convenient and going to MacDonald is not either. And tv is shit. Do we do not have connected the tv at home, eat white

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