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China has been rightly condemned for "speaking" of invading Taiwan. What would you like the world to do for this "thought crime" given no invasion has occurred? Surround the country in military bases? We've done that, has that helped defuse the situation?

China have pursued interventionist policies? You are going to need to cite that. Which African leaders did China coerce?

Your reasoning for "less publicised and less visible" doesn't make sense... couldn't the "free press" of the US shine a light on it? Taiwan has a free press...?

I think you need to understand Myanmar better, it was the military that launched the genocidal campaign, and it was the military that overthrew the democracy. Converting a state that shares a land border with China to be an ally of the US feels way more strategic than the Phillipines... or even Taiwan for that matter (sans the microchip manufacturing capacity).

"Rules based order" - Wow, straight out of "Western nations' talking points". You honestly sound like the communists quoting Mao from the little red book. Is the US following this rules based order? Seems to me China is following those rules more than the US ever did. Which rules is china breaking?

Like when the US signed the treaty that said space would not be militarised, then it created the "space force", and banned china for the ISS. Or that it wouldn't imprison people unfairly (according to both its own constitution AND its international treaties), so it created prisons on foreign soil to imprison them unfairly. Or that it helped establish the United Nations but then lied to them, and ignored them when it invaded Iraq... well and Pakistan... which no one even mentions. When it established the five-eyes then used that infrastructure to spy on its own allies.

Did you mean domestically? Like how it impeached its last president twice, has since convicted him as a felon... so he can't vote? But can still run as president? That rule based system?

Well, Alcohol is an even more easily accessible fuel that your body can readily use for a variety of activities... but its negatives are well understood...

Thanks for the contribution. I think challenging the screen actors guild and calling bullshit on “I own the sound of my voice” would be a good thing.

Open AI already took a stance like this challenging copyright threats against llms.

But maybe you haven’t considered it that way. Or you think unions (representing the 1%) are cool! I think they are stupid AF

So China has stated its intent on Taiwan.

But the US actually did it: Iraq and Afghanistan.

It’s not nobody should talk about China, it’s that it literally hasnt done anything worth talking about compared with a whole host of countries…

If you think the view is myopic… how about you challenge it? Who’s disturbed more foreign nations than the US? Like in the history of civilisation.

Myanmar was not run by a junta, it was a democracy and they did invite the US and are desperately asking for help right now… just like Vietnam did. So what is different?

I would say because the US only wants to fuck with China and couldn’t care less about these other nations. Which you also admit is the case. What is “strategic” about protecting the Philippines? The answer is China, most specifically “containing China” - but why “contain” a country that has never expressed ill will towards you?

Is the US also containing India?

It is like people purposely pretend the US are the “Good guys” and ignore any other possibility.

If you point this out, it’s whataboutism (a made up term pretending to be a fallacy used generally to justify American exceptionalism)

None of my examples (except China) were from over a century ago, nor were they from before the United Nations (or League of Nations existed).

Guess you need to look at the nations that took part in the various battles during the annexation of Hong Kong, Opium Wars etc. The US was not involved?

Didn’t say China has done nothing wrong, just if we are looking at nations that need to be reigned in. The US has done more to damage other countries sovereignty than basically the rest of the world combined. So it seems weird to focus on China…

So the US is just protecting Phillipines sovereignty… randomly? Interesting take on it. I wonder why they don’t care about Myanmar… same region… very clear cut destruction of a democracy (which was the reason they went to Vietnam…)

Or even Australia, that time they assisted in the sacking of a prime minister to protect their mining interests. Or the fact they passed laws to try to undermine nations (specifically its allies)to purchase drugs as a whole to prop up the pharmaceutical industry.

It’s not whataboutism. It’s the US is shit to everyone, and the fact that people even talk about China (unless you’re a Uighur, Tibetan, or Filipino) is just falling for US propaganda.

No need to apologise. I was honestly curious.

I see because the US border is near there? Not on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.

Anyone familiar with history, recall that Mexico was bigger? Did the Chinese get involved in that conflict? I guess what we are saying is they should have to stop an aggressor annexing territory? Oh wait, but that was actual land, where as the annexing you are talking about is ocean… ocean that the US has filled with military bases. Do you think the conflict between China Vietnam and Philippines is unrelated to US activity? Maybe you should lookup a map if US military bases and perhaps you’ll change your mind in who the aggressor is.

China, except for Tibet and Korea (Both neighbouring countries) has never invaded another country. Should we look at the US? Just in that region It’s invaded Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Laos, China directly. Philippines indirectly.

Moscow would freely admit they are driving the culture war? Can you cite that?

Either way, aren’t you disagreeing with your own statement. What you’re really saying is Russian disinformation is effective.

Or “we should have stopped the US”?

I have my Uber set that way, and yes, I just get the driver stuff.

Uber eats though, I can never seem to get right, and it tries to spam a lot more. So I still agree with the original point

So we should tell the US to stop driving its ships and planes right on the Chinese border? And directly through the Taiwan strait.

Who is the aggressor in your mind here? Note: China don’t have any military assets off the US west coast… meanwhile then US has multi thousands of soldiers within staging distance of Chinese coast line from the very bottom to the very top.

Can’t this be handled by switching off Lock Screen notifications but keeping time sensitive ones on?

I take your core point but your specific example I think is handled by that.

They should rename the voice:

Sosumi

Come on OpenAI - do it!

Protected voice? Pianos all sound the same, how come they aren’t protected?

Voice is just an instrument. I love finding reasons to hate on big tech, but “it sounds like Me” (intentional or not) is bullshit. If I build a piano that sounds just like your piano… tough luck there are two pianos now.

Onboarding is harder. Social cohesion is… different.

Remote work has just as many issues as in person.

But perhaps a lot of the issues are the employers problem more than the employees. Hence the shift and the tension

Aging population prefers low quality tiny screens with awkward interfaces?

Racism won’t get you far. Nor will thinking your culture is superior.

If they state it up front and people know what they are getting into. What’s the issue? If it’s so horrible, it won’t work right?

In that working culture it is often okay to sleep (at work, at your desk) for 2-4 hours. It is brutal, but people are willing to do it, so it persists.

And is prestigious for its business school… it’s basically the prototypical corporate training ground

Some kind of cool idea that desalinates/heats water and cools solar panels at the same time.

The sand bit feels like a filter problem.

I see, and its prestige comes from what? Its contribution to academia? Or its contribution to industry?

Is there a prestigious university that corporates do not value degrees from highly?

So universities (in some quite common scenarios) ARE corporate training grounds?

So there are no universities that do what I’ve mentioned?

See how fun it is when you assume how it is in your country is the same in all the other countries in the world?

So in your country where the government pays the fees (I’m going to assume that is what you mean by “no fees” as I imagine academics are paid in this country), they do so because they care so much about the wellbeing of academia… or do you think the higher income graduates earn plays a role in increased taxation? Or do you live in a country without income tax?

Funny how people want to attack what you say, rather than refute your actual point: Universities (today) are corporate training grounds.

> Universities aren’t corporate training grounds.

So the ridiculous fees that correlate to average wages of the profession you graduate into is just a weird coincidence?

No idea. Does this question answer mine?

(Where did you load minibone from in an ipfs context? Couldn’t that same endpoint just perform the encryption?)

Where you aren’t asking a third party (the server) for your security layer. End to end implies 2 parties (sender and recipient)

So you both trust and don’t trust the server?

I think the original question is, how is that different to TLS? It seems exactly the same to me.

Thank you for repeating what I said. If these features are: “carrying weapon” or “visiting known Hamas military site” - then the risk of unintended bias is lower.

If the features are things like “wears a scarf” or “has a beard” then I agree unintended bias is likely a problem. But given we don’t know. How can we comment?

Given we don’t know what it’s using to identify people we don’t really know any biases. “Holding a military weapon” probably doesn’t contain a whole lot of bias (of course there is misidentification).