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But he used it as justification to "give Rolling Stone a little bit of slack on this one.".
It's interesting how criticizing trash publications like the rolling stone with facts and truth gets your comment flagged. Makes one wonder...
Did Chinese government ever acknowledge it's internet censorship?
Yes?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall
While banning TikTok is not fair to me, saying Google isn't banned in China is lying.
No. You are lying or you are dense. Google operated in china til 2010 or so. It tried to foment a color revolution in china like google did throughout north africa, middle east, ukraine, etc. So china instituted more stringent laws to reign in google. Google chose to leave china because the laws would prevent them from spying and destabilizing china.
So you could call it "banned" if you like, but it isn't "banning" in the same sense as tiktok being banned.
I mean... we did put nearly all the horses out of a job. Ditto oxen and other beasts of burden.
Don't forget farmers. Most americans were farmers in the early 1900s. Today it's about 1%.
Sure, jobs were eventually created for the unemployed farmers but "robots taking all the jobs" was a cataclysmic event in the early 1900s. You could argue it was the driving force for much of the 20th century. WW1 was primarily a result of european and american societies having excess population to "thin out". The excess population was also a reason for the anti-immigration movement that dominated the first half of the 1900s.
"Robots taking our jobs" isn't the end of the world. But it can be very painful.
Google isn't banned. Google simple chose to leave china because they refuse to follow chinese laws because google is a state controlled corporation.
Repeating the same lies doesn't magically turn it into a truth.
The difference between google and tiktok is that tiktok follows all the laws and yet still is getting banned.
Why? You want to host a blog in the afterlife? All kidding aside, why not just hand over your internet assets to a trusted family member who will handle everything when you are gone?
which doesn’t really make sense to me when I consider the weakness of the currency
When there is war, financial crisis, etc, money seeks the safest harbor. The safest harbor in the world today is the US. Rising interest rates, war in ukraine, competition with china, etc means that the world is buying treasuries. Demand for dollars goes up, demand for most other currencies goes down.
If there is a significant crisis in the world and the dollar doesn't gain in strength, then we'll know a paradigm shift has occurred.
There's a theory in economics called "sticky wages". Salaries don't decline due to layoffs or temporary economic downturns.
Neither Database Systems, Concurrent Programming nor Network Programming are foundational knowledge for CS. They are good knowledge to have for a specialized programming job, but not foundational computer science.
It's like asking why someone with a degree in theoretical physics cannot fix my car.
The real question is why so many people with CS degrees don't know what CS is really about.
The UK government banned tiktok on government phones a few days ago.
https://apnews.com/article/uk-tiktok-government-ban-470538b4...
The BBC is british state propaganda. So of course they have to ban tiktok too.
I don't want to reduce what you've said, but the fact is that Taiwan grew rich because of US support that helped integrate it into the global economy, and that wouldn't have come without its opposition to the mainland.
Taiwan didn't get rich because of the US. Taiwan got rich because of mainland china. The rise of Hong kong, taiwan, singapore and even to some degree south korea all resulted from the opening of china in the late 60s and 70s. The chinese elites' decision to open up trade with the world is what resulted in the rise of the asian tigers.
Similarly, China wouldn't have grown rich had it not been a pawn against USSR.
Had nothing to do with the USSR. China was never a pawn for or against the USSR or US or anyone else. China got rich for the same reason saudi arabia got rich or any other nation got rich. China decided to utilize their greatest resource ( a billion relatively cheap labor ) after the USSR fell.
People underestimate the power of the Anglo-Empire which the British passed over to the Americans, one they continue to run to this day, without so much as a squeak from the mainstream.
Who underestimates it? The entire world order is understood to be an american world order by everyone on earth.
Given that the West is banking on India to do their bidding, I doubt anyone will halt China's growth
Barring ww3, I doubt china's growth can be slowed. We shall have to wait and see.
Zero toxicity and probably several magnitudes more meaningful conversations with people from all around the world.
In other words, you've built yourself a tiny echo chamber. The only way you have "zero toxicity" is that the group is exceedingly small or you force group-think.
(3) I once saw a post from a German IT mag (heise, I think from November 2022) that claimed that they have more traffic through Mastodon than through any other Social Media thingy.
That's not a good thing. It means that the german IT mag has no readers.
It isn't about Russians or Russia. But the root cause of the crimes committed in Ukraine.
NATO imperialism? I don't think the ICC is going after anyone in NATO.
Now he faces arrest on any soil where ICC has juristiction, no matter where they come from or currently reside.
That's funny. Putin wouldn't even face arrest in the netherlands. How many nukes do you think the netherlands is willing to suffer to arrest putin?
=> 123 countries or so, not Russia.
Countries that are not party to ICC - US, Russia, China, India, Turkey, Indonesia, etc...
The oldest democracy. The largest demographic democracy. The largest geographic democracy. The largest islamic democracy. Are not party to the ICC. It's almost like the ICC is the enemy of democracy. Hopefully the great democracies of the world put an end to the ICC.
It's not just a matter of our subjective experience of time, it's a matter of the laws of thermodynamics and entropy. Time moves in one direction is another way of saying entropy always increases. If time could move in the opposite direction, then entropy decreases which breaks our understanding of physics.
Does it not drive print and cable news consumption too? CNN and Fox news are as negative as you can get and the masses flock to them.
No, it has jurisdiction over crimes on Ukrainian territory, regardless of the actors.
That's not how it works. Russia isn't party to the ICC. Lets see which is more likely. Russia arrests the members of ICC or the ICC arresting putin.
No, because Britian is an ICC party
And yet, in all the wars and murders of millions of children, not a single prosecution of a brit.
The ICC being in the hague is like the trial of harvey weinstein being held in his house with him as the judge. It makes a mockery of justice by making the criminals the judges. But that's what the ICC is. A mockery of justice.
I'm weighing the need for my (possible future) children to spend time in a 3rd world country with germs & allergens for a little bit
Or go outside with the kid. Visit a farm, park, whatever.
Proper manuals have examples of use
This is what microsoft did well with powershell's help system. They have examples. Tons of them.
Why man pages do not is beyond me when most of the time, an example or two is all we need. I bet most people go to the man pages and then google for examples because the man pages weren't helpful.
Why stop a 0? If we can have negative interest rates, why not negative employment? Make employees pay you to work for them.
When I was a kid, I remember one of my teachers saying the same thing about the internet ( google, computers, etc ). Us kids were so lucky to have such powerful tools and everyone in the future will be smarter for it. Turns out, people are dumb as ever and these tools made us lazy and dependent. Why memorize the multiplication table when you could ask siri?
I was so sure that rise of PC ownership would spell the end of consoles. I still can't believe console gaming grew and became even more entrenched the last 10 years. It would be like if blockbuster grew and became more popular with the rise of netflix.
The description reads like made up propaganda. And it's funny how quickly I got downvoted for mentioning that eucom.mil might not be the most trustworthy of sites. It's almost like there is a one-sided propaganda war waged all over social media.
Seems like the news companies are shooting themselves in the foot, but it sounds good to me.
No. They are using their political power to extort money from social media companies.
"Facebook to pay News Corp for content in Australia".
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-56410335
Rupert Murdoch literally forced google and facebook to pay him money for directing traffic to his sites.
Imagine a world where you search "supreme court decision X", "California covid policy", or "FDIC action today" and the top result is the responsible agency statement followed by blogs.
That would be ideal but ultimately, the social media companies always cave. Shows you the power of news companies and what they truly are when they can bully the likes of apple, google, facebook, microsoft, etc.
You would think that news publishers like news corp or the nytimes or cnn are no match for the tech giants. But history has proven otherwise.
This is just strange thinking to equate decline with some sort of technological leadership.
Technology is one of the best indicators of power, progress, societal dynamism and hope for the future.
- The US is still at a trade deficit with Europe despite the strength in dominating Internet technologies.
Who cares? The US has trade deficits with mexico too.
- US society is much more polarized than Europe both in economic equality and political affiliation.
Last I checked, there isn't a war in the US and the US didn't lose a member like europe did with brexit.
Some like Spotify or Arm might ring a bell.
Arm is owned by nvidia. Spotify?
So a European citizen can buy Apple stock and profit in the same way as an American one.
Is that what we are talking about? Trading stocks internationally?
Man, there are quite a few people here really hoping europe stays weak and stagnant - especially technology-wise. Wonder why. I guess trading apple stock is the same thing as being able to create apple.
In what world are customers equally subject to the same risks?
Perhaps not the same risk, but risk nonetheless. People forget what banks truly are. They are institutions you give money to and hope they leverage ( fractional lending ), invest, etc it well so that you can take out the money out eventually. And maybe even earn some interest along the way.
There's risk in walking outside.
No. The very real and actual risk that the banks managing your money may not be competent and gamble your money on risky loans, investments, etc. In this scenario, the depositer would lose part or all of their money.
It's amazing how well the industry PR has worked that people lose the sight of what banks really do. They fundamentally take your money, "gamble it" and hope it pays off. And if it doesn't, oh well, the government ( taxpayers ) bail them out. There is a reason why historically, people shied away from handing over their hard earned cash to banks.
Like it or not, the West generally is in a state of decline.
Europe is in a state of decline. The US is doing fine. The difference between the US and Europe is that we went up the value chain ( Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Netflix, Nvidia, etc ). Europe did not.
Consumer electronics is relatively low level tech. It was "gifted" to the japanese and then the koreans and eventually the chinese while we moved up the chain to the more valuable internet, social media and software development.
Where is europe's microsoft? Their apple? Their facebook? Their google? There is no "the West". No more than there is "the East".
Edit: Also, it isn't consumer electronics that's the issue. It's the future ( the next rung up the value chain ) - AI, big data, quantum computing, bio-tech, green energy tech, etc. Will europe even participate because currently it looks like it will be only the US and China competing.