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by trasz 4y ago
Sure, but there’s a fundamental difference between Russia and China - about as big as between Burma and US.
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by trasz 4y ago
Most of your examples are the “three guys at academia” case.
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by trasz 4y ago
>If you're in mainland China and the authorities decide they need to confiscate your phone, you're already fscked. Funny how you specifically mention China, as if it worked differently in USA - the country where you can get fou
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by trasz 4y ago
Google, being US-based company, is legally obliged to provide all the data they have to three letter agencies, without any real oversight. They can’t refuse even if they wanted.
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by trasz 4y ago
Every newspaper and pretty much any other medium over the past century or so. That’s what editors used to do. Scaling is not the problem - profits scale with the number of users, the cost of moderation would too, in the worst case. The pr
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by trasz 4y ago
>A tool with 200,000 users and 500 contributors will quickly become better than something maintained by 3 people in academia. No, quite the opposite - in most cases a decade later that tool will be an abandoned pile of technological debt
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Russian Money in Silicon Valley(theatlantic.com)
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by trasz 4y ago
My main worry is, this can put Taiwan at risk. One of the incentives for China to avoid any kind of military conflict is that the price to pay for Chinese export-oriented economy would be prohibitive. Now they might be forced to pay that
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by trasz 4y ago
Except their risk is all fake - it is nothing compared to actual risks of ordinary people who don’t have golden parachutes or spare millions.
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by trasz 4y ago
I suspect it was definitely an issue, it’s just that most companies like Google don’t care about reliability, only availability, and it might just not show up in their stats.
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by trasz 4y ago
There’s also the realization they are wasting literally half of their lifetime doing stuff that’s mostly either evil or useless. Bit like those Lenin busts factory workers.
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by trasz 4y ago
In this case the systemic problem is precisely the belief that it’s somehow not your, nor your friends, fault. Being Americans you are directly profiting from it; destroying other regions of the world is a fundamental branch of American ec
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by trasz 4y ago
>geeks inside Google are much the same as geeks outside. They're just taking a paycheck. Nothing wrong in making world a worse place if you’re being paid for it, right?
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by trasz 4y ago
“referring to the fact that the goggles generate light that's visible from thousands of feet” Sounds like something that could be easily solved with a color filter, same way it works in red dot sights. Also, there’s surprisingly little
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by trasz 4y ago
>fake wealth (why work if the government is creating cash to pay me not to?) This is the basic tenet of capitalism - capital owners don’t need to work, the system is designed so they get more money simply by owning money.
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by trasz 4y ago
This _is_ the meaningful stuff. Engineers might have the urge, but most don’t have the opportunity, because they need to focus on the currently fashionable framework. A good rule of thumb regarding meaningful battles is to ignore everythin
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by trasz 4y ago
What you describe could be true for certain professionals (eg neurosurgeons), but not for most jobs.
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by trasz 4y ago
How’s that not fixed by immigration?
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by trasz 4y ago
Google’s parasite business model is not “the internet”; nothing bad in breaking it.
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by trasz 4y ago
This whole problem sounds similar to what was happening with MP3 support some 20 years ago, and as we now know it was all bullshit. And perpetrated by the same parties.
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by trasz 4y ago
There is no such thing as “scarce workers”. The problem is scarce salaries.
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by trasz 4y ago
>What if Westinghouse had just completely failed and ceased operations? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Nuclear_Power_Technolo...
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by trasz 4y ago
There are two ways to read that comment. One is like you say. The other - as “someone who doesn’t go out much”, this actually resonates, in a weird way: “the Unix way” resulted in user having a proper control and their environment being p
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by trasz 4y ago
>but it seems far less outrageous than it does when presented without those details And yet people tend to ignore those details when it fits anti-Chinese propaganda. >Mao’s crimes Do you know what happened to the Gang of Four? And of
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by trasz 4y ago
>the guidance of the Party Which, translated to western terms, is like guidance of the Department of Justice. >politicians from two competing parties Here the term “party” means something completely different from above. If you imagi
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by trasz 4y ago
Invasion on Afghanistan rendered 9/11 relatively insignificant, except as a trigger - a Franz Ferdinand kind of event. I suspect Marxist view of that is similar to their view on other cases of US destroying entire regions just to win t
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by trasz 4y ago
[citation needed] US, on the other hand, definitely doesn't - everyone from the top is chosen by politicians.
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by trasz 4y ago
>how many minutes will pass before you are arrested? What a perfectly timed question: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/14/world/asia/china-internet... . So, you probably won't get arrested, b
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by trasz 4y ago
>For instance, executive action is regularly challenged in the US, and successfully so. And? How's that different from China?
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by trasz 4y ago
>As the cost of living and inflation skyrocket in the UK ... more and more people realise that all this value doesn't magically vanish from their salaries; it's just getting legally stolen by capital owners. We've been th

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