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by pimmen 7y ago
The extradition treaty subjecting people to some mainland laws is a step in that direction.
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by pimmen 7y ago
The protest was about the prospect of losing those rights, starting with being subject to mainland laws through extradition. The protest has then expanded to being against the CCP undermining ”one country, two systems” in general, an exampl
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by pimmen 7y ago
A better anaology would be if the US implemented extreme Sharia law, how cavalier would people who don't want to live like that be? Hong Kong didn't choose the CCP who didn't even exist yet when the lease was signed. They sur
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by pimmen 7y ago
Kent State happened almost 50 years ago, and for the recent years people are outraged when protestors get shot to death by US police. There's even movements dedicated to fighting the fact that some groups of people get shot more often
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by pimmen 7y ago
That's why I never recommend people to go into PhD programs for career advancement. I have a colleague who works 50% as an NLP PhD student and 50% in my data science team. To really get that PhD done you have to live and breathe for th
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by pimmen 7y ago
That artificial trachea transplant is well known in Sweden since the lead of the project who carries the bulk of the blame for the research fraud, Dr. Paolo Macchiarini, used the Karolinska Institute as his base and the scandal resulted in
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by pimmen 7y ago
I wonder how often public library keyboards are cleaned, or the ones in university computer labs. When I was in college pulling all nighters in the computer lab I regularly saw the lab being cleaned, but I can't remember ever seeing th
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by pimmen 7y ago
Second volunteering. I moved to a completely different city with no friends and I felt purpose and community the moment I started doing volunteer work, everything a lonely person could ask for!
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by pimmen 7y ago
In Sweden we have a history of a very strict rent control (which will probably be scrapped for newly built homes, because of current politics) while also handing a lot of power to the local governments to regulate housing. There are a lot
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by pimmen 7y ago
SPARQL is not as easy to read. I can show SQL or Cypher to some of my product managers who have experience with Excel, and they actually sort of get it. That’s not the case with SPARQL.
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by pimmen 7y ago
Yeah, that’s what I basically meant since they are supposed to represent the owners. I’ll fix the post.
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by pimmen 7y ago
> Equifax cannot afford to pay $125 to each member of the potential class. That’s not the victims’ problem. Even if Equifax has to be completely liquidated to cover the compensation, the government should fight to make an example of such
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by pimmen 7y ago
If not a lot of people are run through Equifax, their customers are going to ask themselves why they’re paying them. That could at the very least give the customers leverage to negotiate the rates down, which would also hurt Equifax’s reven
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by pimmen 7y ago
Maybe not jail time but I would really want the board to be personally responsible for what they did. Or, if they can argue that they made sure their corporation had a good security culture, the executives who broke the company regulations
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by pimmen 7y ago
Yeah, I agree with that. Basically we want to use a and b as incentives for them to take every measure available not to fail like this ever again. And as incentives for everyone else in the business.
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by pimmen 7y ago
They made the conscious decision to monetize personal data belonging to more than a hundred million people. That means they should take every measure available to make sure something that sensitive is not released. If this was the US Airfor
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by pimmen 7y ago
I don't think it works. I'm Swedish and knew about Australia's history, but since China still has a kidnapped Swede in custody right now for publishing a book in Hong Kong, I'm more afraid of China than Australia.
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by pimmen 7y ago
So if they learnt their lesson, why do they block information about it?
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by pimmen 7y ago
So that’s why the CCP blocked all versions of Wikipedia in conjunction with the 30 year anniversary? Because they didn’t want to bother people with shame? In Germany people have a completely different perspective on the Holocaust. It was ho
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by pimmen 7y ago
> Tiananmen is the exception in the history of Chinese protests Is the Hundred Flowers Campaign also an exception? And the millions of people who were killed during the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution? Or the millions of peopl
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by pimmen 7y ago
Would you accept a Special Council investigation leading to indictments and sentences, or a joint investigation by the US intelligence community, as a good enough source?
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by pimmen 7y ago
Dynamic systems are hard, but it is important that people are at least aware of them. For example, market balances. They will probably not last either, habits and technology and become catalysts for change in the market. This I think people
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by pimmen 7y ago
That sounds really awful. I wish you well and hope you keep your head up. You never know if it could turn around.
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by pimmen 7y ago
A union protects the workers from exploitation. Their work is just as much proactive as it is reactive. I mean, just imagine an investor asking a company if their workers are so bad that they need an HR department.
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by pimmen 7y ago
Same thing in Sweden. The unions are super strong here, which is one of the reasons there is no legal minimum wage in Sweden. It's not perceived as necessary by the public, political parties or the unions. The unions have more than eno
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by pimmen 7y ago
Yeah, I can imagine being from the mainland in Hong Kong while the people are actively protesting mainland influence feels uncomfortable. I live on the other side of the world and can't begin to understand that aspect of the protests.
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by pimmen 7y ago
I have a colleague from China and she's on the side of the protesters after having lived in Sweden for many years. She's Christian though so her family has some stories of being oppressed, especially during the Cultural Revolution
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by pimmen 7y ago
It depends, where is this hypothetical person living? I live in the middle of a city, the store close to me serves the thousands of people living in my square kilometer. Because of scale, the truck that transports new goods to the store has
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by pimmen 7y ago
The oppressed minorities in China have to use VPNs, and China has shown repeatedly that they do not limit cyber attacks to their own territories. In Sweden a very small, local newspaper argued that Taiwan should be recognized as a proper co
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by pimmen 7y ago
The Art of War by Sun Tzu. It might be a bit of a cliche but it really is profound and is actually more useful than I first thought. Especially "show strength at your weakest, show weakness at your strongest" is something that I&#

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