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by hkmaxpro 5y ago
The hackers targeted Iranian groups too. Makes you wonder who China’s real allies are. https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2021/08/unc215-...
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Want to help us make the Web ready for Firefox 100?(reddit.com)
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Medical crowdfunding has become essential in India, but it’s leaving many behind(restofworld.org)
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by hkmaxpro 5y ago
Has anyone clicked the link to the so-called “leaked documents” [0]? I clicked the first few links. Those with “freenet.space” domain return 404. And many others (though not all) are just self-references. Even assuming its sources are corre
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Resignations at Scientific Journal over Ethically Fraught China Genetics Papers(theintercept.com)
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https://archive.is/os1We
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Spyware features found in Chinese state benefits app(therecord.media)
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by hkmaxpro 5y ago
It’s explicitly mentioned in their official document on population growth. See my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27957141
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by hkmaxpro 5y ago
It’s explicitly mentioned in their official document on population growth. See my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27957141
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by hkmaxpro 5y ago
It’s mentioned in another document. See my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27957141
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by hkmaxpro 5y ago
In their official document on population growth [0], their policies include “将学生参加课外培训频次、费用等情况纳入教育督导体系。平衡家庭和学校教育负担，严格规范校外培训”. (We will monitor the frequencies and fees of extracurricular tutoring for students. In order to balance the educat
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Loongson 3A5000 Benchmarks for These New Chinese CPUs Built on the LoongArch ISA(phoronix.com)
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Germany Is About to Block One of the Biggest Porn Sites(wired.com)
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by hkmaxpro 5y ago
Many Chinese nationals were trafficked or otherwise forced to work in Southeast Asia and elsewhere [0]. They had their passports confiscated by the Chinese companies they worked for. It was also occasionally reported in the media [1][2][3].
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by hkmaxpro 5y ago
LunarVim: A Neovim config made with sane defaults https://github.com/ChristianChiarulli/LunarVim LunarVim will be like Spacemacs/Doom Emacs/SpaceVim, but for neovim. A distribution of useful neovim packages w
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by hkmaxpro 5y ago
Can you define “dubious” and “crossing a redline” (so that they need to be shut) according to HK laws? Without a precise definition we cannot have a fruitful discussion.
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by hkmaxpro 5y ago
Du Bois wasn’t banned from travel because of FARA. It was another law, the McCarran-Walter Act [1], that was passed by the Congress (so not due to the sole executive power or FARA as you claimed). It’s incorrect to blame the travel ban on F
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by hkmaxpro 5y ago
Nobody cared because everybody knew news/media organizations won’t dissolve easily by the FARA, contrary to your claim (“they could completely financially deprive the organization”). Because of the first amendment (that you completely
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by hkmaxpro 5y ago
> I would say the Hong Kong courts are now rather agreeable to the CCP for various political reasons, but "tightly controlled" is quite a baseless sensationalist remark. If the HK courts give an unfavorable verdict, the CCP ca
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by hkmaxpro 5y ago
Really? None of the prominent cases (during cold war or not) has forced any company out of business [0]. Some companies/individuals were required to register, and a few were fined, but nothing as drastic as you claimed. (“they could co
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by hkmaxpro 5y ago
I thought you were arguing how HK’s NSL is similar to US’s FARA, in the case of Apple Daily’s closure. [0] 11 hours ago you argued in another thread [1] as if you knew a lot about Apple Daily and HK law. But apparently not so anymore. [0]
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> when the law is there black on white [citation needed] Many people still don’t know the exact reason why Apple Daily was charged a few days ago under the NSL. https://theinitium.com/article/20210618-opinion-hk-what
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by hkmaxpro 5y ago
> so yes it can force immediate closure without prior judiciary approval Has any company in the past decade been forced out of business by FARA before trial? Any case from among this list? https://www.justice.gov/nsd-fara
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by hkmaxpro 5y ago
HK has a NSL court tightly controlled by the CCP. Not comparable to the US legal system. And NSL has immediate seizure of all assets, forcing Apple Daily to close immediately. Anything like that in the US?
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by hkmaxpro 5y ago
Honest question: Can you point me to the law about foreign agents (that RT is subject to)? I want to read more about it. Update: I found it https://www.justice.gov/nsd-fara/legal-authority But FARA is for from the Nati
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Baltimore May Soon Ban Facial Recognition for Everyone but Cops(wired.com)
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Microsoft says Bing’s ‘Tank Man’ censorship was a human error https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/4/22519418/microsoft-bing-ch...
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The Wu and Zhao paper [0] you cited is based on this paper [1] by Zhou et al, whose conclusions were questioned by this preprint [2]. In fact, the paper [3] cited in the top comment has the following response to the Wu and Zhao paper you ci
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by hkmaxpro 5y ago
Related article from the Financial Times [1], its archive link [2], and HN thread [3] [1] https://www.ft.com/content/7e98795f-159b-4455-903e-6e21c345d... [2] https://archive.is/xGwR8 [3] https:/&
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Fortran is suddenly hot again. But its future is still far from certain(zdnet.com)
24 points by hkmaxpro 5y ago|9 comments

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