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by k_sze 7y ago
There's no mention of permanent blindness in your 2nd link. And what's wrong with firing tear gas and rubber bullets during "normal operating hours"? There was probably no legitimate non-protesting traveller in the Kwa
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by k_sze 7y ago
> And the only reason I could come up is that there are a few people who would miss me. Nothing in my life really provides meaning. My job provides meaning to the world, but me. Do you ever wish that nobody would miss you? Or wish to pla
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by k_sze 7y ago
Exactly. It’s a tongue-in-cheek that basically says that you need to circumvent censorship when you want to talk about censorship. By the way, I’m not a linguist and I just completely made up that usage of “atonal homophone”. Could an actua
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by k_sze 7y ago
Since nobody has pointed it out yet, harmony = 和諧, which is a euphemism for censorship in China. And then there is 和諧 = 河蟹, which is an atonal homophonic euphemism for the euphemism.
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by k_sze 7y ago
Nope, not Hong Kong. HK hasn’t had death penalty for anything for a loooong time.
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by k_sze 7y ago
In the eyes of the law, the intent matters much more than whether you can actually use the “weapon” effectively, especially if it can be demonstrated that somebody with enough skill/experience (not necessarily the person being found
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by k_sze 7y ago
Just because they are on Taobao doesn't mean they are not against the law. From my own observations, law enforcement in Mainland China is mostly reactive when it comes to product safely. They don't enforce a law unless something b
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by k_sze 7y ago
Can somebody re-explain the last part about nohup propagation to descendant processes? I don’t quite get what the implications are. The author also doesn’t seem to talk about their solution for it in the context.
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by k_sze 7y ago
Maybe being a member of the input group allows you to spy on other users? Just maybe. I don’t know Linux well enough.
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by k_sze 7y ago
Just me or something isn't quite right about the numbers? Intuitively, shouldn't the survival rates of the white and black kings add up to exactly 100% in each type of game, even given the rules and interpretations that the author
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by k_sze 7y ago
What's very good? The book or the review? grin
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by k_sze 7y ago
Wolves are actually... different in terms of intelligence. IIRC, there's study about how wolves tend not to rely on human help regardless of how long the wolves have lived with humans. They just ... don't get it. They can't t
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by k_sze 7y ago
> FWIW, any Americans looking to (try to) help may write their Congress representatives to support the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act. Please don't. We don't need more concrete excuses for the central government to cl
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by k_sze 7y ago
Native Chinese Hong Konger here. I don't like Junius Ho myself, but I think the LA Times translation of that quote is incorrect. 生路 and 死路 in Chinese don't literally mean "path of being alive" and "path of being dea
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by k_sze 7y ago
Except it would be more subtle. Google would not be telling you who to vote for because they already have an idea who you'll be voting for, based on machine learning results. If they think you would vote for someone disadvantageous to
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by k_sze 7y ago
What if Google used all the data they collected and used machine learning to show the voting reminder only to users who align ideologically with Google? That’s a big what-if, of course. I’m not even sure if it would be violation of any pr
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by k_sze 7y ago
I wonder if open source browser projects can have a license that prohibits forking for the purpose of mass (state) surveillance.
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by k_sze 7y ago
And I often mix up Hackernoon and Hackaday.
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by k_sze 7y ago
What if the federal and/or state government offered, to tax return software makers, a small part of the proceeds for every successful tax return, on the condition that the software remains free of charge to the users and does not share
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by k_sze 7y ago
Now we just need to wait for it to make your computer freeze over. Ba dum tss!
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by k_sze 7y ago
The skeptical part of me says none of this actually happened and that the article is just a piece of publicity stunt. The other part thinks the author is too careless/not paranoid enough: he just guaranteed himself a spot on a watchlis
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by k_sze 7y ago
Which makes me curious, what did the Anglo-Saxons use as the word for “color”, before the onset of French influence?
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by k_sze 7y ago
What counts as "personal" though? I think it's safe to say that your Facebook profile is definitely not personal, neither is your Twitter feed. How about Medium? Or a blog on Blogspot? Geocities (or Neocities) should be ok, r
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by k_sze 7y ago
There was a recent article about planting the wrong kind of trees in Ireland [1]. What do we know about Ecosia’s tree-planting partners? It would be great to have more oversight over the tree-planting, maybe even let users have “voting” po
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by k_sze 7y ago
Ah. I didn't know that USB mass storage is also SCSI. Is TRIM/UNMAP part of the SCSI Transparent Command Set, which depends on the SCSI Peripheral Device Type reported (by the USB-SATA bridge?) in response to INQUIRY? What exactly
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by k_sze 7y ago
I forgot to advocate for the spiders, again, except the really nasty ones. E.g. during damp seasons, I catch and deploy jumping spiders into my daughter’s room as a method of biological control against book lice. In my opinion, if you have
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by k_sze 7y ago
1. Spiders are not insects. In fact, from my experience, a lot of proper insecticides don't do squat to spiders. The toxicity pathways are simply different between insects and spiders, I guess. 2. I actually like ants, unless you&#x2
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by k_sze 7y ago
I wonder if Pi 4 supports UASP (USB Attached SCSI Protocol). This may need everything from the VLI VL805-06 USB controller to the firmware to the driver to support it. A preliminary DDG search suggests that the controller probably supports
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by k_sze 7y ago
An alternative is Wekan ( https://wekan.github.io/ ), which I use for my personal life. You can install it as a Snap package on a lot of Linux distros.
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by k_sze 7y ago
I would argue that you’re not really supposed to write code on a whiteboard, especially not long enough chunks that you would hate editing. If you must write code on a whiteboard, try keeping it to pseudo-code, the details of which you can

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