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by woooooo 3y ago
Do we get calls to outlaw Nestlé every time it's campaign season? Hershey would love it. Hating Nestlé is niche. Hating the Russians is partisan. Hating the Chinese is mainstream consensus. Consider how confident you are in the slav
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by woooooo 3y ago
Anything Chinese in the news gets pulled into the current zeitgeist of anti-China fear. If that's also useful for undercutting competition or scoring some other political/economic points, you can pretty much count on it.
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by woooooo 3y ago
Because politics. Doesn't change the simple facts of this case.
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by woooooo 3y ago
It's cut and dried industrial espionage. Yes, we do it too, but this guy was caught red handed.
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by woooooo 3y ago
Andrew Jackson was more prominent, sounds similar, and probably gave a drunk address at some point. It's an understandable mistake.
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by woooooo 3y ago
The Israelis are the ones setting those parameters and creating the conditions, though. It's not a "gotcha" to point out that journalists are also affected along with the other noncombatants.
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by woooooo 3y ago
Johnson, not Jackson, different Andrew with different reasons to dislike.
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by woooooo 3y ago
"Information superhighway" has stuck around for 30 years as the perfect specimen of cringe. If it were less bad, we'd have forgotten it.
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by woooooo 3y ago
That's fair as long as we're consistent, personally I always prick my ears at "terrorism" after seeing it politicized for most of my adult life.
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by woooooo 3y ago
That's leaning pretty hard on the technicality of who has the UN chair, with the detail that it's effectively us (NATO) vetoing their recognition. Not that I'm cool with the cable cuts, but "rogue state" would be mo
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by woooooo 3y ago
Anyone else find the article footnotes to be really.. moralizing? It's like the author had to keep injecting that they are a non-sociopathic, responsible member of society with good thoughts as opposed to the interviewee.
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by woooooo 3y ago
The article itself already brought that comparison, it's a pro-western outfit dumping on what they consider our adversary. We could ask why articles like this have multiplied in recent years and that's interesting, but people here
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by woooooo 3y ago
It's not a conspiracy, it's a culture. People who don't adhere get filtered out or learn to be quiet, and then you wind up with free, uncoerced and honest decisions that all cut a particular way.
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by woooooo 3y ago
You'd have to isolate the political bias changes from all of the other changes, including loudly antagonizing advertisers.
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by woooooo 3y ago
You're right, I skimmed and realized my error when I came back to it. My fault.
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by woooooo 3y ago
I don't think you can paint MBA-ification as a leftist phenomenon.
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by woooooo 3y ago
As a consumer, of course you buy what's cheaper and that's not a moral failing. Policy makers on the other hand should consider externalities, and optimize for making them less bad, or at least not make them worse.
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by woooooo 3y ago
It doesn't work as well rhetorically as having all 3 virtues be typically thought of as flaws.
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by woooooo 3y ago
"DEI with Chinese characteristics" is hilarious, downvotes are probably just reflexive anti-politics.
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by woooooo 3y ago
It's like being "tough on crime", nuanced takes can't compete with slogans.
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by woooooo 3y ago
5???? Please tell us more. Did 6 line commits get rejected? How did anything get done?
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by woooooo 3y ago
It was "settled" in that we're all agreed it's obviously incredibly stupid but not worth fighting over and getting called racist. The good news is that "master vs mainline" was so embarrassing that even the peo
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by woooooo 3y ago
"Mostly consistent" is not good enough for many applications. The thing most people pick in practice is CA, single master with hopefully a replicated backup.
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by woooooo 3y ago
In the same provocative vein, is nonce reuse that big of a deal without an associated cleartext leak of some kind? Or is it more like reducing cracking time from thousands of years to hundreds of years? Not that I'm saying people sh
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by woooooo 3y ago
Copyright isn't only trivially definable, it's uncontroversial. Let's say you decided to police "disinformation" about the current Israel/Gaza conflict. In about 5 seconds you'll be inundated with propaga
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by woooooo 3y ago
The medium is the message.
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by woooooo 3y ago
Musk's tweets aren't working conditions.
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by woooooo 3y ago
I'm assuming it's satire, but just in case, there's a whole body of economics built around recognizing market participant irrationality and trying to cope with it given Econ 101 assumptions.
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by woooooo 3y ago
It's about trends substituting for actual empathy. Accessibility for sight impaired is hot in tech the last couple years, so parent poster had to work it in to be "inclusive" despite knowing for a fact that zero blind people
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by woooooo 3y ago
Any time your reasoning is "because they are bad guys with black hats", you're probably not going anywhere enlightening. Apparently the sites were established inland for security reasons in the 1970s. One could call that par

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