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by goblin89 7y ago
> At the end of the day, legal structures are convenient fictions Exactly. Most countries have relations with Taiwan, and they only keep their stances ambiguous to not lose business with PRC. Fun example is Nauru, which accepted $130 mil
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by goblin89 7y ago
The argument that ROC may be considered part of PRC because PRC is an important business partner to me doesn’t seem to hold water. How is it different as opposed to, say, Russia and Ukraine? Mutual trade is big and one player may have more
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by goblin89 7y ago
> While one may argue such attacks can always be explained by ‘normal’ BGP behavior, these in particular suggest malicious intent, precisely because of their unusual transit characteristics – namely the lengthened routes and the abnormal
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by goblin89 7y ago
GP probably meant potential genetic traits or behaviors that could’ve evolved to reduce the damage from cosmic rays
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by goblin89 7y ago
I’m half-expecting any sterilization guide dealing with prions to be an empty page with huge “Dispose of and ensure it’s never ever used again”. The article by Consolidated Sterilizer Systems does reference an Oxford Journal’s opinion that
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by goblin89 7y ago
Symlinking configuration files is the approach behind GNU stow. I version my dotfiles in a repository, and on a new system it’s enough to simply run: cd ~ git clone <dotfiles repo> cd <dotfiles repo> stow <profile|v
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by goblin89 7y ago
The narrative that Hong Kong protests are primarily supported by poorer folks whom the economy failed in recent past goes counter to some recent reports—various Hong Kong accounting firms being requested to fire employees who express sympat
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by goblin89 7y ago
I would not precisely segregate the bias of HK protest reports by language—some Cantonese (though very rarely Mandarin) outlets report news with protester bias, and vice-versa, there are English takes that sympathize with the police and&#x2
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by goblin89 7y ago
I suggest that it’s pointless to compare entire countries, since stats would vary by region wildly (at least, in China). Here is a recent comparison by city: https://www.comparitech.com/vpn-privacy/the-worlds-most-surv.
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by goblin89 7y ago
In theory this situation is avoidable under the letter of Chinese property law (the government could decide that your use of property harms public interests and take it from you, though that would be a very extreme interpretation). In pract
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by goblin89 7y ago
In central areas of Hong Kong island locals who inherit stores at ground level sometimes never bother opening them at all, instead going to banks and using those properties as bargaining chips to get comfortable loans they’d basically live
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by goblin89 7y ago
I would almost completely ignore follower count, it’s more of a red flag than anything. Blue checkmarks are similarly useless. If you are enticed by the supposed reach, perhaps the quickest first pass at validation would be to review the na
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CIELUV is coming to d3-color(observablehq.com)
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by goblin89 7y ago
> What do you think is the trustworthiness of that source? Relative to Singapore about the same, assuming they used government-provided stats.
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by goblin89 7y ago
Slightly tangential, but it’s interesting that Hong Kong’s safety index is higher than one of Singapore, considering the apparently-stricter overall regulations in the latter city. They don’t seem to disclose the sources for safety & cr
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by goblin89 7y ago
To internalize something is to make it come naturally without reminding yourself about it every time. Practice, reading material on those topics (books like “The Design of Everyday Things”, “Notes on Graphic Design and Visual Communication”
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by goblin89 7y ago
Pieces like this might give an illusion that by following the listed rules you’ll achieve “intuitive UX” (sic). I believe they could be useful if you already have the first principles somewhat internalized, but otherwise are likely to be a
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by goblin89 7y ago
The old technique of threatening company’s business with mainland, unless it does what’s favorable for the political system. Easier to handle if you’re based in the US or elsewhere, but China’s closer here so the situation is challenging. I
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by goblin89 7y ago
Relayed where? The target audience of the protests are (1) local officials, and (2) fellow citizens who do not share the gravity of the situation. CCP will, of course, know of the protests with no need for any relay. The “HK students protes
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by goblin89 7y ago
I keep wishing the West stopped reporting on “successful” protests. What good does that do? Make mainland China more and more insecure about its image?
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by goblin89 7y ago
I’ll compare Fork with GitUp ( https://gitup.co ) on macOS. A big advantage of Fork is a better merging experience. Personally, I use GitUp in conjunction with CLI when I do rebases, which implies higher mental overhead. Overall,
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by goblin89 7y ago
Ah I see. I thought it was “pay X per month/week, work or no work, and some hours are included in X”. Then the longer the client delays, the bigger bill accumulates as a penalty for not paying on time. I guess it’s more of a “lost post
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by goblin89 7y ago
Being in the ongoing process of figuring out a billing arrangement that works for my tiny consulting business, I’m curious about the retainer agreement you mentioned. Does this mean you start billing a late customer lowered rate normally us
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by goblin89 7y ago
Fancy seeing your comment just as I’m listening to Shane Parrish interviewing you on his podcast (to others: The Trust Battery episode, recommended). Respect & keep up the good work!
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by goblin89 7y ago
While in general bypassing Wi-Fi restrictions is indeed dubious from legal standpoint, it’s most likely as safe on an airplane as anywhere else. If in-flight Wi-Fi provider’s AP was in any way part of aircraft control system network, I woul
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by goblin89 7y ago
Didn’t know about OGL, it does look suitable for this purpose. To (partially) answer myself, contrary to what I implied CC-BY does cover this base if (for example) the creator of the dataset accepts a note in product’s “About” documentation
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by goblin89 7y ago
I’ve been wondering how does Creative Commons apply in ‘big data’-ish use cases. Can a dataset distributed under CC BY-SA be analyzed, possibly used as part of training input for an ML model? What if a product is built on top of a model tha
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by goblin89 7y ago
I actually saw brenda come up a few times while researching readbeard’s suggestions, as you said the original seemed not super up-to-date. Thank you for mentioning your fork! Going to try in the next couple of days. Even if my experiments w
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by goblin89 7y ago
Thank you, had no idea about ProRender and haven’t thought of offloading the renders to EC2. Looks like using a spot P2 instance could be really cost-effective (if prices keep at reasonable levels), definitely worth trying first.
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by goblin89 7y ago
In release notes[0] for Cycles there are a lot of mentions of CUDA. Also many mentions of OpenCL, with the ominous note that it’s been “disabled on macOS platform”. I’m wondering how complex can animations be, with reasonable frame render t

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