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by iliketosleep 7y ago
I thought they keep track of "associated accounts" via IP address, browser cookies, fingerprinting and so on. There have been plenty of instances where innocent Google Acounts have been terminated due to a different account holder
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
It makes sense to me. Here's why: In China, surveillance is so pervasive that attempts to avoid it are typically a waste of time and may even arouse suspicion. Seperating US and Chinese life does not prevent surveillance, but it does
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
I like your idea about nationalization vs privatization of national security, but it appears that your example about the US could also be applied to China - replace the NSA with China's MSS, and Facebook with Wechat. However, large com
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
That actually would have been a great idea, in hindsight. I have seen far to many people who suffer from intense anxiety if they have no internet or device access, even if it's just for a few hours. It's like a form of addiction.
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
Very interesting thoughts. It does seem we're heading towards some kind of technological dystopia, but there is an increasing minority of people who are aware of it. I can see it leading to some kind of schism.
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
> automation and artifical intelligence Isn't this supposed to be good for us and make people's lives better? If that's not the case, then it's really something to be worried about.
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
All of these things are interlinked and the tradewar is absolutely part of it.
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
Of course espionage will continue and international rivals will resort to dirty tactics, this is a given. The only question is whose side you're on. I am surprised when US citizens or people of nations aligned with the US are critical
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
> Some officials feel that the sales violate the spirit of the law and undermine government efforts to pressure Huawei, while others are more supportive because it lightens the blow of the ban for American corporations. It clearly does v
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
The study you've referenced is invalid for this particular discussion (but it's an interesting read and thank you for posting it). The study is focused on memorizing words, with this limitation being clearly stated in the study: &
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
> Your notion of cognitive resources is most likely very different from your brain's. In this context, I disagree. If the act of writing is using most of my attention, I will miss large amounts of what is being said. > As I recal
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
You make some valid points, and physically writing may indeed be helpful to particular cohorts. But for people like myself, who are slow writers and poor multitaskers, the act of physically writing takes attention away from the act of liste
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
> Sounds like the actual learning secret is "don't take verbatim notes", and the only relevance of the laptop is that it makes it much easier to take verbatim notes. Yes, that's pretty much what it explains. The title
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
> Where does this negative view of people come from? Usually, trust is something which must be earned. When we don't have any information about a person, the default position is one of distrust (pending further information), as the
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
The laxness of infosec in government continues to astonish me. It's not like these types of attacks are new either. I can only assume that the people in charge of infosec in such situations are bureaucrats without much technical knowle
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
I understand your pain, but I want to ask: did you put much effort into marketing it after publishing? A lot of writers put 99% of their effort into writing, and by the time they've finished the book they're out of energy to pursu
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
Near the end of the article: These kinds of incidents make us wonder the real cost of Code and the more real cost of messing up Imagine having an app about there ticking away and making pretty decent revenue. Little do you know there&#x27
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
> Also, everyone in China still accepts cash but you generally need correct change. There's a growing minority of vendors that no longer accept cash (they have signs up saying so), but from what I've seen it's only in area
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
They should be able to whitelist transactions to that particular company on your account, rather than whitelisting transactions for an entire country. From my personal experience, the credit card anti-fraud measures are quite advanced and o
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
Yes, they most likely do have something to do with it. If Google is unable to ID you in some way (e.g. browser fingerprint, cookies, IP, etc) and determine you're a good Internet citizen, they'll assume that you could be a bot and
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
Perhaps if Australia pulled it off successfully without too much economic damage, this could be true. But from what I've heard, the states that adopted green policies suffered power shortages and soaring energy prices. Hopefully in the
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
Yes, if Australia stopped it's export of coal then it may very well make a difference. But as far as I'm aware, that wasn't even part of the debate as the economic impact would be too great.
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
I am curious about why you think climate change is an important issue in Australia. It's a relatively small country, without much of a manufacturing industry.
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
The topic of the article is interesting, as it highlights a particular trend in technology and raises a lot of stimulating questions. But upon reading the article itself, I find that it's very political in nature and uses emotive kind
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
I was surprised by this too. It's not the type of admission a Chinese business leader would typically make. If it gains any traction of social media, the comment will probably be deleted.
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
This reminds me once again that the weakest link in the privacy chain today is the mobile phone number, especially since governments in many countries have forced people to link their number to a real ID. It's essentially become a ID n
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
The author is correct in saying that China fired the first shots in the trade war with effectively shutting out major US companies with its protectionism, while China's expansion into the US went on unrestrained. If this process contin
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
What this means is that any element of surprise which may have occasionally caught out criminals will be lost. Instead, it will simply violate the privacy of normal citizens on a grand scale. If they were smart, they would use such powers s
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by iliketosleep 7y ago
I've been to Australia a few times and was also surprised at this sort of thing. The words "don't need to have suspicion of anything specific" is code for "we have reason to suspect you're hiding something, we
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by iliketosleep 8y ago
I've always assumed that the so-called "talent shortage" was an excuse to get cheap labor from abroad. They make job ads such that it's improbable that a local will meet the highly specific requirements, after which they

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