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by paradite 9y ago
I believe downvotes should be reserved for comments that are not substantial, not comments you disagree with. I am disappointed to see this, but I am not surprised. It is hardly "legal" to take a different stand here on this parti
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by paradite 9y ago
Is this project still in active development? The release version has not reached 1.0 but there were only a few commits in the past months: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/mediagoblin.git/log/
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by paradite 9y ago
China's response (English): http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-05/24/c_136311925.htm
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by paradite 9y ago
Similarly, if you use Western standards to measure economic metrics of China, everything looks weird. China is still pretty much a planned economy, where the government is in control of major state-owned corporations. I wouldn't worry
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by paradite 9y ago
There was a huge discussion of scrollytelling (company creating propitiatory interactives with Pageflow) accusing Al-Jazeera of using their code: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12524998 https://www.scrollyt
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by paradite 9y ago
http://pageflow.io/en/ example of final product: http://multimedia.dw.com/the-mysterious-mass-die-off-of-saig...
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by paradite 9y ago
(OP of parent thread here) Okay. I understand your points. Actually I have posted the reasons for such considerations before on my blog: https://paradite.com/2016/02/18/stay-independent-problems-wi...
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by paradite 9y ago
Now I will have to seriously consider getting off the Google ecosystem now. Deactivating facebook was okay, but Google might be tricky considering many of website accounts use Google authentication.
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by paradite 9y ago
I understand that margin of wining and chance of winning are two different goals for optimization, but I would expect them to positively correlated, i.e. if you are winning more, then you have higher chance of winning.
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by paradite 9y ago
On the topic of Google Lens, I don't really understand the hype around it. People are talking about how it is able scan a bar code of SSID and password to connect to router. Isn't that ancient technology? And for other uses like o
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by paradite 9y ago
Yesterday's discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14374533
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by paradite 9y ago
Interestingly with censorship being such a sensitive topic in China, it's hard to find statistics on VPN usage rate. I will just say that I'm a Chinese citizen who visits China regularly every year. My impressions can't be to
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by paradite 9y ago
According to my observations now here in China, your stats are wrong. Edit: Just to substantiate, many people I spoke to vaguely know what they would see if they get unfiltered internet, so there's not really much motivation to bypass
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by paradite 9y ago
I agree with everything you said but I failed to see how that is a problem (from the perspective of the GFW). Again what you said is exactly the intended effect of GFW.
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by paradite 9y ago
So basically you are arguing that censorship is still effective in the sense that it serves as a deterrence and the base for other forms of tracking. And that would certainly harm freedom of speech in certain ways. So you are still supporti
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by paradite 9y ago
Right. So we can say that Chinese government has bad intentions. But based on your description, surely Chinese people do enjoy freedom of speech and access to the information, since such censorship efforts are doomed to fail? Why is that I
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by paradite 9y ago
Well it prevents 99% of the people who don't know how or don't bother setting up VPN from accessing prohibited content, that's the intended effect. So I would say it's working well.
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by paradite 9y ago
Interesting. So on one side people are bashing the the level of censorship by the government and how people are unable to exercise certain rights. On the other side the same people are laughing at its ineffectiveness and how trivial it is t
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by paradite 9y ago
It's working exactly as intended. You need a VPN to access certain websites, some keywords are censored properly. How is that an example of not working? So what do you exactly mean by not working?
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by paradite 9y ago
I'm curious as to which "Chinese example" do you have in mind that doesn't work? Edit to reply to your wifi issue: you need to use that one website to login to access the "full" internet.
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by paradite 9y ago
Writing import statements actually slowed down my angular 2 development by a lot. I was trying to break down functions into tiny components and composite them together and ended up with lots of components in separate files. Modularity is go
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by paradite 9y ago
With PWA by default, does it mean react app will be mobile friendly by default and react native is no longer needed to build mobile apps?
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by paradite 9y ago
It's pretty easy to implement drag and drop on web apps, in fact there are specific JS DOM APIs and various libraries to handle that.
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by paradite 9y ago
It's much easier to recover from lock out (without losing data) than decrypting the file.
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by paradite 9y ago
> Figure 14 Bank of China ATMs That's not an ATM, it's a machine to top up petrol card.
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by paradite 9y ago
Your comment until the "nationalism" part is actually pretty on point, similar to some Chinese people's view on this matter. However, the rest went off pretty quickly.
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by paradite 9y ago
As a native Chinese speaker, I just want to point out that this paragraph: > An article by Xinhua, the state news agency, called Mr. Xu a “crazy guy,” saying that the fight had caused people to question whether Chinese martial arts were
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by paradite 9y ago
Nice. I have been wanting the due date feature for a long time on workflowy. There seems to be no development for workflowy beyond what was available a few years ago.
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by paradite 9y ago
I understand your sarcasm but I believe you have misunderstood my point. I'm not talking about secret operations, but rather some transparent guidelines or laws issued by the government (legislative branch in the case of US? I'm n
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by paradite 9y ago
Well it really depends on how you define the "appropriate scope of moderation". If you think controversial topics related to politics should not be subjected to moderation, then of course government censorship is not good.

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