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by xdennis 4y ago
> how Chinese people aren't smart enough to invent their own stuff You hear the same here about the EU and tech companies. You take it personally when it's about your own people.
902.
by xdennis 4y ago
> Your country does all these things. You're simply not being serious. In the US you can commemorate any massacre that happened in the US. In Hong Kong you're no longer allowed to commemorate the Tiananmen massacre.
903.
by xdennis 4y ago
Mušk is a real place in Slovenia and a real word in Lithuanian. If anything you should ban "Musk".
904.
by xdennis 4y ago
Computer systems should conform to people, not the other way around. If you're terrible at detecting malicious sites, the answer isn't to force English on everyone, it's to write better systems.
905.
by xdennis 4y ago
That is such a narrow minded idea. There are 7 billion people who don't speak English. People should be able to write in their own language and use their own names.
906.
by xdennis 4y ago
If the change is to limit the character set to English then this is not a step in the right direction. What do they mean by special characters? The example they give is "¥ouⓉube(emoticon)". That doesn't include characters wit
907.
by xdennis 4y ago
So then we should be able to use the term "real vegan cheese", but not an unqualified "vegan cheese".
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by xdennis 4y ago
You're conflating metaphors with obfuscation. For example, coconut milk is named so simply because it's a white liquid. It's not trying to be a replacement for milk, or trying to confuse people, it's just a metaphor. But
909.
by xdennis 4y ago
> The problem is, consumers aren't actually confused. Nonsense! I was tricked. They: * make the products look like real sausages and cheese * sell them in the same packages * label them in large letters as the real thing * write &qu
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by xdennis 4y ago
That would be completely fair, assuming the reverse is true as well. That is, being able to sell real cheese as "vegan cheese" to trick vegans into eating it. I was tricked into buying vegan sausages. They don't deserve prote
911.
by xdennis 4y ago
Considering that the ATF has incancerated over 1000 people over fake crimes[1], they should. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_fictional_sting_operations
912.
by xdennis 4y ago
> Is there a fairly applied rule here, or is sinophobia driving this? Don't hide behind sinophobia to defend China's communism. This has nothing to do with ethnicity. China is using its laws to effectively ban competition from
913.
by xdennis 4y ago
The regulations include being completely subservient to the state. The US could make something similar to eliminate Chinese companies in terms of democracy vs dictatorship: pass a law saying that social media websites can only operate if th
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by xdennis 4y ago
It's quite the opposite. Reciprocity hurts more with physical goods. In a trade war, if a country bans export X in retaliation, the citizens of the country also hurt because they have to pay more to buy from other sources. But with a s
915.
by xdennis 4y ago
> China has been as friendly to the west as it can be while still protecting its own cultural and economic interests. I'm not implying you're doing it, but whenever I hear people defend China, they always use the word "cul
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by xdennis 4y ago
The EU is partially reining in the abuses of those companies (and more should be done), but this shouldn't be equated to TikTok and what China is doing. FAANGs aren't state-controlled and Europeans do have access to the American m
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by xdennis 4y ago
> I don’t see any similarity between the scandals beyond the surface level one person generating a lot of content on Wikipedia that was later reversed. That's the similarity. It's like saying you don't see any similarity b
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by xdennis 4y ago
If you're wondering how that ended, they passed a bill to keep the names private. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/illinois-house-approves-bil... One thing I dislike about the news is that every article drops you
919.
by xdennis 4y ago
Yes. It looks like this: export type ValidWords<T extends string> = T extends "" ? "valid" : T extends `the${infer Rest}` | `of${infer Rest}` | `and${infer Rest}` | ...
920.
by xdennis 4y ago
> If the story isn't super direct and generic, it won't work in translation Foreign movies are generally much less formulaic than American ones. It doesn't make sense to say that good American movies are not translatable.
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by xdennis 4y ago
> It's worth noting out bigger movies often need to target non English speaking audiences. > So any complex dialogue or nuance is off the table. What a bad take! Do you seriously think complex thoughts can only be expressed in En
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by xdennis 4y ago
Wuhan is quite far from where most bats life in China. It's like having a tornado research facility in New York.
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by xdennis 4y ago
> The lab leak hypothesis was also pretty tightly coupled with the bioweapon/intentional release theory which is part of why it received so much push back. No it wasn't. The media often takes the most extreme case in order to d
924.
by xdennis 4y ago
Yes, the argument is bad, but he's right. The 9th amendment says some rights aren't mentioned. But abortion couldn't be one of those rights because abortion was banned in some states.
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by xdennis 4y ago
> assault rifle They've been banned since 1986, since "assault rifles" are full auto. Presumably you mean "assault weapon" which is fuzzy media-talk for scary weapon.
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by xdennis 4y ago
> Abortion also has a deep historical precedent. It has, but not as a right. The Hippocratic oath specifically bans it: > Similarly I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. — Hippocratic Oath (AD 275, or earlier)
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by xdennis 4y ago
This is just scaremongering for funding. Nobody is trying to ban interracial marriage. Roe v Wade was controversial since it was decided. It was never settled precedent. People have tried to overturn it from the start.
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by xdennis 4y ago
> Equal protection under the law would be my first pick for constitutional protection of abortion. There are very few life threatening things that the law compels men to do. Yet the law can compel a women to carry a fetus to term against
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by xdennis 4y ago
> The problem is pro-life hardliners [...] No. Most people agree that abortion is acceptable early on (e.g. < 12 weeks). It's hardliners on both sides who are doing the most fighting because they either think that it's okay
930.
by xdennis 4y ago
Stop spamming this.

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