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by hkai 6y ago
I'm not a fan of open office either, but then what's the point of having an office if employees are isolated and it's the same as working from home anyway.
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by hkai 6y ago
Imagine the hate Google will get if they charged $50 for support. People will say it's a 1 month earnings in some countries.
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by hkai 6y ago
Why would you even consider using a Chinese phone? We wouldn't use a North Korean phone, so why do we treat China differently?
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by hkai 6y ago
I find myself disagreeing with your agreement because of the examples of symbols that are clearly not text. One of them, BROKEN CIRCLE WITH NORTHWEST ARROW, could actually be used for the external link symbol if it were mirrored!
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by hkai 6y ago
You are right! And it also doesn't follow that one should discard a piece of information just because it comes from some dude's blog. I'm also very frustrated about people sharing horrible lies and fakes from blogs or Faceboo
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by hkai 6y ago
I've read the whole thing and I have these comments: - I think the part about the freedoms is unnecessary because I feel the vast majority of the pro-lockdown people do not share your enthusiasm for freedom and public discourse. While
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by hkai 6y ago
That can change very quickly once the fearmongering on the news stops reaching you. Here in Hong Kong, people who were obsessively sterilizing everything and were scared to go outside 2 weeks ago are now taking off their masks and going to
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by hkai 6y ago
That seems to be classical ad hominem. For example, I also don't have medical education, yet I am entitled to analyze information and insist that homeopathy, Chinese medicine and chlorine necklaces absolutely do not help against the vi
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by hkai 6y ago
That seems to be a point frequently cited in the media, but it seems quite random to compare Sweden to two selected countries, and it makes it look like you are trying to twist facts to prove a point. Besides, the circumstances of the death
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by hkai 6y ago
Isn't that great to sound robotic? The issue is that many people seem to take code review comments extremely personally and get very upset and defensive. Meanwhile, we rarely get upset at automated eslint warnings, compiler errors or i
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by hkai 6y ago
That study studied 20 people.
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by hkai 6y ago
Perhaps locking up young people at home due to a disease with a 0.05% death rate for people below 60 was not a great idea after all.
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by hkai 6y ago
Is this desirable?
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by hkai 6y ago
While people in developing countries will be suffering shortly because of lack of protein and malnutrition, I'm sure many in the West will celebrate this as a great step towards veganism.
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by hkai 6y ago
Beware of comparing deaths to last year though, I'd rather take a 5 year average
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by hkai 6y ago
The health crisis doesn't "end" by itself. I'm sure most people would rather get back to work than stay at home and receive free money. Let them do that.
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by hkai 6y ago
That 1-2% number seems to be an extreme exaggeration, mostly peddled by the media. From research it seems to be at 0.66% or so. That's without taking into account that less than half of the population will get infected. And if you&#x27
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by hkai 6y ago
> how do you think that will affect the economy? I've heard that argument before but people never clarify how it will affect the economy. Can you clarify? Personally I don't know how deaths of 80-year old people (on average, li
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by hkai 6y ago
While I agree with you, the demand for harsh, business-killing lockdowns seems to be driven by the media rather than politicians - they regularly post scary articles saying that even young people will get disabled for life if they get the v
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by hkai 6y ago
It probably didn't happen but i like the story anyway.
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by hkai 6y ago
I think Hong Kong is mostly lucky given that people here still go to hotpot dinners, completely ignore the "no groups of more than 4 people" ban and think that getting on a crowded bus in a mask protects them from catching the vir
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by hkai 6y ago
Somehow rich elites are fertile grounds for socialist message no less than the discontented starving people.
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by hkai 6y ago
Free money is never enough. People in Russia stole copper wires not because they were starving but to get money for drinks and entertainment.
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by hkai 6y ago
We totally did the same in Russia! People would also risk their lives dismantling live cables and would often die in the process. Sad reminder about the value of life under communism.
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by hkai 6y ago
Aha! So perhaps we shouldn't have shut down the economy and financially ruined millions of people, not to mention the hundreds of millions of people on the brink of starvation in developing countries. Perhaps we just like sharing image
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by hkai 7y ago
A quick Google search shows that the 2008 crisis caused 500k extra deaths due to cancer alone due to lack of funds to treat it. That really shows you the scale. Also some studies from Africa showed that economic downturns reliably predict w
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by hkai 7y ago
Does it mean you have to distribute it to employees? It seems to me that even if Disney earns 100 times that, their employees should not get more than the market rate.
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by hkai 7y ago
Or perhaps Google just doesn't like China.
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by hkai 7y ago
I stopped reading after the words "surveillance capitalism".
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by hkai 7y ago
Perhaps we should rather invest in changing governments that enable systems that oppress girls in those countries.

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