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by hkai 7y ago
Maybe, but that's what's going to happen.
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Official FAQ on Gender Pronouns and Code of Conduct Changes(meta.stackexchange.com)
5 points by hkai 7y ago|0 comments
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by hkai 7y ago
Not really. Perhaps for people that could be true, but not for businesses. As a business, you absolutely don't have to declare your stand on the political issues in your country, let alone issues in some places half way across the worl
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by hkai 7y ago
I don't like using GitHub for politics.
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by hkai 7y ago
A modest proposal: what if companies advocated neither for left wing nor for right wing politics? They could, for example, produce a product instead.
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by hkai 7y ago
But that's a one time thing. When you're doing an OS upgrade, I guess you're expecting some extra work. Your also have to reinstall xcode, update other apps etc.
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by hkai 7y ago
Imagine if businesses and sports organizations didn't get into politics, no matter which side.
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by hkai 7y ago
On the other hand, it's also easy to give them the finger when you don't have billions at stake.
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by hkai 7y ago
True, but they also need to earn money. See last week's south park about exactly that.
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by hkai 7y ago
Something more prosaic, like removing the gay flag emoji in countries where it's frowned upon.
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by hkai 7y ago
To be fair, that's true elsewhere as well. They reflect the borders as they are officially recognized in the user's country.
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by hkai 7y ago
> My bathroom, a 3-by-6-foot “wet room” with a walk-in shower, is so small that it doesn’t have a sink, and I have to use the nearby kitchen sink First world problems.
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by hkai 7y ago
The thing is, the ban will stay in force long after the protests are over, so that participants of peaceful assemblies can be fired from their jobs or banned from China (if they're foreigners).
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by hkai 7y ago
The issue that I have with vegetarian food is that it is usually double to triple the price of a normal meal with meat. I get it, it's trendy. In India it's the opposite, vegetarian food costs less.
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by hkai 7y ago
Would you program robots to kill Nazis?
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by hkai 7y ago
The list of resigned mods is here: https://judaism.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5196
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At least 10 StackOverflow moderators resign over a mod fired for CoC discussion(judaism.meta.stackexchange.com)
10 points by hkai 7y ago|1 comments
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by hkai 7y ago
Don't search engine crawlers render React properly?
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by hkai 7y ago
I'd have a far less negative reaction to the article if it didn't attempt to blame "capitalism" in the title.
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by hkai 7y ago
When you talk about being brave, what are the consequences that the person is facing, except being famous and being praised by the media? Would that person be expelled from school or put into a jail?
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by hkai 7y ago
If you favor an idea that a private company should be compelled to provide a service for free, even if you don't share your data, would you also agree to the idea that a private company should be compelled to respect freedom of speech
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by hkai 7y ago
I'm not that sure, personally I've asked Uber drivers a few times to make a big detour to pick someone up, before continuing to my destination. Taking a detour doesn't really prove a driver's guilt, although it surely is
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by hkai 7y ago
Often policies don't matter as much as how you promote it. China and Singapore are two places that promote their policies in a way that makes people at home patriotic and many people overseas jealous. There was an article here on HN ab
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by hkai 7y ago
Asking for father's name is pretty much India's equivalent of Americans asking "what's your current salary", you use it to judge the person's situation.
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by hkai 7y ago
Just a clarification, 2000 euros is not anywhere close to normal rent in Hong Kong, I pay 900 euro for a place in Sai Ying pun. Also, buses don't take 1.5 hours unless you live in like Tai Mei Tuk.
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by hkai 7y ago
I'd prefer a car without an operating system.
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by hkai 7y ago
I feel it's similar to Russia, an insane regime but fantastic people and people generally seem to be smart and civilized, both in IT and outside of it.
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TikTok launches campaign asking people to pledge they will think before posting(waitasec.in)
1 points by hkai 7y ago|0 comments
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by hkai 7y ago
Listed companies will be instructed how they should behave. See Cathay in the recent news. Plus, ability to control the market at critical times.
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by hkai 7y ago
Yeah, that's not going to happen and the West doesn't really have leverage against China anymore. On the contrary, China has leverage against the West. Some countries like New Zealand are straight up heading to become a Chinese co

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