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one of the better memes on hn well played

you must be fun at parties

it works better than the offerings from competition, and Apple isn't beholden to China.

how do you spell waffling in chinese

The fact that he's Pakistani means he's not accountable under any reasonable Western legal system. I have the same issues with products of Chinese origin or Russian products for that matter.

The fact that he's Pakistani means he's not accountable under any reasonable Western legal system. I have the same issues with products of Chinese origin or Russian products for that matter.

He does not answer to any reasonable Western legal system.

I hope you’re trolling, for your sake

Envoy proxy for C++

I know, the truth hurts

Adding bugs intentionally? Based

Amount of tickets closed on JIRA lmaoo

tbh, Pynchon is overrated, pretentious and tedious. If he were an engineer, he’d be the kind that implements event driven microservices architecture just to recommend new items for users.

Sure, he so smart - but if he so smart, why he so stupid?

Protip: they dont.

Seems like there are a couple of people with this mindset at every company. “Let’s write X”, “are you crazy, no one writes X! We can use Y!”, “But Y lacks Z”, “No! The thing you want Y to do is bad! You should not want Z! Do W instead - it is the correct way”

Stop larping as graybeards, and try to actually do something instead of endlessly bike shedding your cargo cult.

then you must be sociable af.

Tldr

prod.do.dsp.mp.microsoft.com settings-win.data.microsoft.com sls.update.microsoft.com watson.telemetry.microsoft.com ctldl.windowsupdate.com

These five domains/subdomains can block Windows Update

How do you pivot value xd fr nu-hn is too hilarious for my health

dude what the fuck, literally lmao

This is an interesting approach to self promotion.

Instead of outright saying “I wrote a book, you should buy it!”, you generate some form of meta-content revolving around your book, that ideally fits the kind of content that would be appreciated by the people on whatever platform you’re doing the promotion on.

Admittedly this ain’t exactly rocket science and in this specific case the actual agenda is so obvious as to make ones eye roll but it does make you wonder about other more subtle techniques being applied.

And very quickly this can lead to a form of existential crisis where you wonder if anything you see, even say on hn, has any actual value or maybe its all just people finding ways to hijack and abuse basic human neural mechanisms in order to generate revenue off of others.

And then you wonder, what does that make them? If these people and what they do are solely defined by what others find “interesting”, or by what can be profitable - what does that mean about who they are? Like, they are essentially non-entities, with no real human substance to them: they are the descriptions of our worst tendencies and reflections of economic mechanisms. I think this is called “soulless”.

Maybe I should write a post about how I wrote this post. Like subscribe and leave a comment :)

No it’s fine. You’re just getting and tired of the churn. Most changes are good and welcome imho (30 y/o software dev tho, not a PM [thank god]).

Thats how a free market works, bro.

nice try IDF, but I'm behind 7 proxies.

As someone who worked in Israel and is familiar with the tech scene there firsthand I can testify to the fact that the entire cybersecurity industry is intertwined with the IDF and the Israeli government to such a degree that any differentiation that could be made would be purely superficial.

The intelligence units of the IDF are petri dishes in which the talent that later creates the very cybersecurity firms whose products are sold under the direct supervision of the Israeli government is cultivated. There is an entire framework focused around funding and training these graduates of intelligence units to create commercial companies that are essentially subsidiaries of the IDF. And these companies don't discriminate when it comes to sales - clients include tyrants, criminal organizations and even Muslim states. Big corporations e.g. Microsoft are also involved, as they usually end up buying these infosec enterprises, essentially funding the Israeli government / military.

It's truly disturbing to see the opportunistic nature of all of this.

What is this moral relativism? If you want to live in a world where disappearing people for speaking up, heavy handed state censorship and social credit score are all common practices - I suggest you buy one way ticket to China. It’s easy to talk all of this “liberal” bs while sipping your latte at your local Starbucks, but when it comes down to it you know very well what is right and what is wrong: you make the distinction daily (eg by not immigrating to China)

This isn’t about racism or xenophobia. This about collectively applying pressure on China, and, more importantly, standing by your ideals. We don’t conduct business with corrupt organizations, and by definition any Chinese company is an organization that is tightly tied to one of worst, scariest regimes that the world ever saw.

And remember - it’s never “just business”, not unless you’re a completely corrupt psychopath.

Read up on apartheid - there are no decision makers. Maybe a few bad apples, some sociopaths, sure, but by and large if you look at Google, for example, you'll find mostly average people, content with doing whatever it is they are doing to get by, maybe cutting a few corners here and there and trying to get promoted so they can afford that new Tesla model. Product manager responsible for introducing the auto login in Chrome sure wasn't trying to think about how he's helping embezzle billions of dollars; poor guy was just trying to get to that sweet L7. There are no grand master minds here that you can put in prison and make an example of - and if there are, these guys would be way too well connected, and isolated with 10ft of 2000$/hour lawyers.

We need to stop looking for the responsible, evil, individuals that are making this happen and start treating the problem like the systemic problem it is. We need to dismantle the systems and organizations that allow these things to happen. The US government is using these techniques against other governments, and often against terror organizations (if not against its own citizens via the justice system), so why not do the same for domestic organizations and corporations? Because they (govt & corpos) are all intertwined, to such a degree that this relationship is itself is codified into a "system" (one aspect of which are the lobbyists).

We live in a world of systems and rules - we've been living like this since before Jesus walked the Earth but recently this trend has accelerated significantly: individuals can no longer be held responsible for much of anything: they depend too much on the state, on the organizations they work for, etc. etc. If you think on it every single significant aspect of your life depends on someone or something that is external to you and you have no control over. And so, good policing isn't chasing after criminals in the streets while shooting at them; good policing is preventative and in the more advanced states wouldn't even be necessary since all people would've not been allowed (or rather, given a chance) to misbehave.

You don't blame or punish a man, you make it so that he can no longer do anything bad.

p.s. Shit sucks, I know, I want to be free too but what can you do; we were born into an age of hyper connectivity and over socialization. We are basically slaves of the machine that I can't even name. Used to be capitalism, but I don't think that word has any real meaning left behind it any more... not when China is the most successful capitalistic nation in the world.

If prison is the instrument through which we remove freedom and deliver rehabilitation to citizens, then what would be the equivalent instrument of justice for corporations?

People who had done bad things are sent to prison; you can't apply the same process to corporations - even though corporations are considered legal "entities" you can't really jail a corporation; the few people who take the fall are usually designated fallguys and serve laughable sentence, anyways.a

So, how can we truly "rehabilitate" a corporation? How do we decide which ones to send to "death row"?

Of course, but that's not the reality. The reality is that Google have positioned Firefox as a "viable competition" while having them mostly under control. Can you trust Mozilla as an organization, when you know that it receives over 80% of its funding from Google?

I'm using firefox too, and yea it works great - but that doesn't mean its the "anti-chrome" / anti-google browser. The executives running Mozilla live in the shadow of Google's interests, and long ago have forgotten that their job is to make a damn good browser. Now they're too encumbered by the politics of the game, politics (and game) which Google are in full control of.