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by richbell 3y ago
> A Chinese company sells to Iran. America says they can't and asks (Tells) Canada to arrest Meng. This seems more than a little illogical. A Chinese company sells American hardware and software to Iran. They intentionally helped
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by richbell 3y ago
You're just making stuff up now. Also, your response has nothing to do with your original claim that it's unfair to arrest a non-American citizen for actions committed outside of US soil for something that is not illegal in their
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by richbell 3y ago
> But british hacking groups would never ever be arrested for doing the same thing. Sure they would. What makes you think otherwise?
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by richbell 3y ago
> Arresting a foreign national for activities not on our soil which are not illegal in their home country Russia has government-sanctioned hacking groups who operate outside of the US. If a member of one of those groups, known to law enf
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by richbell 3y ago
> Why is she subject to US export law? Chinese citizen on Canadian soil who was not personally exporting anything at that moment. Because she is accountable as a C-suite executive of Huawei, and she was traveling in a country that is clo
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by richbell 3y ago
> Would you be supporting their right to detain arbitrary American businessmen She was a C-suite executive of Huawei, not some random employee. > Would you be supporting their right to detain arbitrary American businessmen for doing b
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by richbell 3y ago
> I'm saying we did it to their people first, and then they responded tit-for-tat. This is being reductive and making a false equivalence. These scenarios are not comparable: 1. Arresting an executive of a company that intentionally
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by richbell 3y ago
> I suppose it was unwise of her to enter Canada, but again, you're ceding any moral high ground here. I'm not sure I understand your point about "moral high ground". Is the implication that US sanctions or arresting
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by richbell 3y ago
> Neither she nor the nation of China are party to sanctions on Iran. They have no obligations to follow American foreign policy. Huawei operates outside of China, therefore it's reasonable to expect them to comply with laws and sec
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by richbell 3y ago
> Why is it just accepted that Huawei executives can be detained by the west, though? The claim behind that at least appeared to have merit, so she — ostensibly — wasn't just detained because someone didn't like her. She also
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by richbell 3y ago
> Except in Canada where huawei's executive got the same treatment This is an extremely bad faith claim. Unless you're claiming the two Michaels detained by China (in retaliation) also got to live a lavish lifestyle in a mansio
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by richbell 3y ago
> the chinese government held canadian spies in return So they claimed; I don't think this was ever substantiated.
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by richbell 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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by richbell 3y ago
Kotlin also has a better standard library and collections.
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by richbell 3y ago
Can you provide some examples of content you felt was anti-China propaganda / brainwashing?
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by richbell 3y ago
That makes sense. The title character limit seems to be a cause of frequent confusion.
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by richbell 3y ago
The full headline is "...to evade regulators’ reach", which is much clearer.
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by richbell 3y ago
As per the article, the issue is that employees were using encrypted messaging apps for work purposes. This is strictly forbidden by regulations, or at least failing to preserve your communications is.
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by richbell 3y ago
I feel bad that no one seemed to get the joke. At the same time, that makes the whole thing funnier.
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by richbell 3y ago
My favorite example of this: https://old.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/kegalv/my...
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by richbell 3y ago
> The marginal value of money is much lower for them. Another way to look at it is that they're _more likely_ to be corrupt because they have an insatiable appetite to amass as much money as possible. They're "wired differ
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by richbell 3y ago
I'm curious, what do you use to navigate between applications if you hide the dock?
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by richbell 3y ago
An entertaining documentary on the subject is https://youtu.be/ett_8wLJ87U
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by richbell 3y ago
The dock is one of the most frustrating parts of macOS. Adding spaces is helpful, but I wish that it was possible to only show apps in the current screen/desktop.
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by richbell 3y ago
> Move fast and break things, especially the law. I prefer to say "innovating on the regulatory side". ;) https://youtu.be/Ysh9ILpvBpg?t=5m15s
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by richbell 3y ago
> Given what I know about Americans and our love of free speech and guns, I don't find the threats and abuse that Rick Byers claims to be receiving to be ironic at all. It's also not a new or uncommon reaction when people see s
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by richbell 3y ago
That's a distinction without a difference in my mind. Claiming that criminals are against the proposal is "poisoning the well", even if he's not accusing _all critics_ of being criminals. > my suspicion that there is
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by richbell 3y ago
People describing criticism as behavior that makes things "unsafe" is another common tactic. Your legitimate complaints aren't valid because I don't like your, or someone else's, tone.
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by richbell 3y ago
> these drugs have been in the market for 15 years, they’re not exactly untested. Ozempic was approved by the FDA in 2017, and in the past few years has taken off as a miracle weight-loss drug, which isn't its original purpose. Peop
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by richbell 3y ago
Sure, but there's difference between beginners and people who don't know anything and expect you to do everything for them. Tending to the latter is a recipe for burnout.

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