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by munmaek 7y ago
I don't buy it. Yes there's a growing hysteria of China, but that's due to their government. It's not against the people in general. (Yes, yes, there's always an example of someone being racist/xenophobic. My r
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by munmaek 7y ago
Even in that example, the US government would not make my family disappear. Please cite any reputable sources that you have to the contrary, because anything else is a spurious claim. I'm not going to argue over various conspiracy th
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by munmaek 7y ago
This is an apples to oranges comparison. The ticket raised on gitlab is specifically about Chinese and Russian nationals, but this would also apply to Australians (they can be compelled, legally, to build backdoors upon request of the gover
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by munmaek 7y ago
Why does this argument appear over and over? 1. I do not need to comprehensively understand a country's culture to know about security risks and totalitarian governments. In fact, both of my grandparents and parents lived in and fled f
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by munmaek 7y ago
> here's a pretty significant online mob who really want to split HK off of China There are significant online mobs dedicated to anything. That's not really a convincing argument. People who are advocating independence don&#x27
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by munmaek 7y ago
> must be kneecapped in the name of freedom and justice I think we can talk without hyperbole, no? >Americans want American hegemony, Sorry if that's what you think.
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by munmaek 7y ago
So because the US government isn’t perfect, US based companies and US citizens are not allowed to espouse opinions on policy? I can’t change what my government has done, and I can’t really change what it’s doing besides voting, but I can ha
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by munmaek 7y ago
...because of the PRC. This whole discussion is because of the PRC, and having ties to family members living under the PRC.
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by munmaek 7y ago
Are we? I’ve seen a reasonable discussion so far on policy and ethics. There will always be trolls. I never said anyone was completely superior. But in this specific case.. we are, because American citizens (and their families) don’t disapp
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by munmaek 7y ago
Who is being racist here? Criticizing a government apparatus isn’t racist. I don’t know why every single time a westerner criticizes the PRC, they act like we hate all Chinese people. Nobody here has a problem with Chinese people in gener
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by munmaek 7y ago
The same argument would apply if the person was white and had many relatives in China. Or real estate, or other leverage that can be used against them. You can’t ignore the fact that the PRC uses those things as leverage against people abro
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by munmaek 7y ago
As long as companies are operating faithfully within the law, they’re free to do that. And you’re free to criticize it and boycott it. Companies like Apple and others should be allowed to be concerned about theft of sensitive data just as m
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by munmaek 7y ago
Well, the US government wont make my family disappear if I don’t cooperate, for starters. I find it intellectually dishonest to compare the USA’s foreign policy with a dictatorship government that forces compliance through threats on local
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by munmaek 7y ago
Safari has been solid for me for the last several years. I very rarely run into a bug like you’ve mentioned.
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by munmaek 7y ago
As I've gotten older I've realized this. Generally I'm fine with 1-2 beers, but 3-4+ and I always wake up at ~5am with a foggy head. And usually an ache in my arms.
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by munmaek 7y ago
There is no alternative, because facebook isn't just "a protocol and some clients/servers". As long as it's -the- social network to be on, then it will always be just that. You can't compete with social culture
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by munmaek 7y ago
Those are quite obviously buttons. The difference is the design is flat versus the style in the post. Those are a thousand times better than "buttons" that are just underlined text.
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by munmaek 7y ago
Depends on the cafe. For the one that I always go to, I generally leave my laptop out.
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by munmaek 7y ago
A photo has more elements than just framing. It would be disorienting and customer-hostile to have your photos randomly change overnight. About 60-75% of the time I take photos, I share them soon after or within a few hours. Having to wait
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by munmaek 7y ago
CA had access to information they never should've had. Just like phone apps having access to a Contacts API that they never should have that kind of access to. Having a tightly managed API would be just fine.
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by munmaek 7y ago
I didn't mean to use italics here. Oops.
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by munmaek 7y ago
The sad reality is nobody wants to use a platform that their friends mostly aren't on. Nobody really uses facebook because it's just so amazing, but because almost all of their friends and family are using it. (and facebook groups
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by munmaek 7y ago
I've been working remotely for almost ~2 years now —amen for the coffeeshop. There's a really good one by my place that I've been going to for years. I very rarely go there and don't become productive. There's somet
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by munmaek 7y ago
Yeah I had a brain-fart earlier. I totally forgot about that. Typing hangeul is basically the same except there's no need to possibly choose different hanja/kanji. ...unless you press the hanja key after the glyph is typed but bef
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by munmaek 7y ago
A /s is necessary when dealing with the latin alphabet hegemony ;-)
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by munmaek 7y ago
I spend the vast majority of my day staring at my phone or my monitor. I work in tech. I don't use social media besides ~1-2m on instagram every other day. I consume media/news through the financial times, reddit, HN, and youtube.
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by munmaek 7y ago
> Also when users are entering emoji into a client application, they need a way to quickly filter and get to the emoji that they want -- that requires having a label in their native language, and putting emoji in Unicode doesn't fix
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by munmaek 7y ago
On debian 9/10 ibus works for the Korean IME (both Hangeul and Hanja input). Windows (10 at least) has native support for these IMEs; setting it up on Windows was much easier than on Linux (which doesn't even have a standard IME )
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by munmaek 7y ago
I don't think emoji is the worst of unicode. The major issue I find with it is there aren't limits to how many are added. Emoji are growing at a fantastical pace, much like a tumor, because "if X got added, why didn't Y?
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by munmaek 7y ago
"Just drop your language's writing system in favor of the latin alphabet!" "It's a hard problem (and doesn't affect me) so let's ignore it altogether!" Must be easy to make remarks like this when your

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