A bit interesting to see that not much mentioned about blizzard's declining and Activision being a low grade money grabbing game studio, which collectively Activision Blizzard is heading to irrelevancy. Or I might get the wrong impression. Or its just blizzard is going into oblivion.
Most comments are about monopoly. But is A & B really that good? Or its just more of a optimization of financial strength between A &B and MSFT?
You know, they were funded because of these novelty. If you spend more time with international charity activity, you'll see that no one truly want to help the poor, they are more interested in showing their kindness.
I don't think it's quite that. I think it's that the prospect of making reducing poverty your life's work and the end result is that you reduce the world poverty rate by 0.02% is just too oppressive to face head-on. So you either get people who devote themselves to the process rather than the outcome, or you get outcome-oriented people who look for shortcuts and miracle fixes. But that doesn't mean the motive is insincere.
First, Ukraine and Taiwan are independent themselves. No one can cede them to any other. One can refuse to offer helping hands when they are needing them.
Second, get your facts straight. There had not been evidence, I mean evidences that not manufactured by the Iraq WMD type nonsense, that Russia or China really planning to invadr Ukraine or Taiwan.
> China openly stated that they would invade Taiwan if they declared independence
I mean Taiwan is effectively independent. Everyone knows that.
If China want to save face, why not grant that?
China never said that they would invade no matter what, right?
> I always find articles like this very interesting, because what they're talking about is manipulating the worldviews, sentiments, desires, minds of people, and therefore behaviors, which is the ultimate goal. This is very intimate, and military people discuss it matter-of-factly.
If you look at the world, such feeling is not only prevalent, it's actually far more disturbing than you think.
For example, all ads industry is built on manipulating human emotions. And surfing the web, you are forced into so many such abusive staff every single seconds.
Look at the web content as well. When people staring at their phones, they are bring manipulated in the literal sense.
And you'll find every one of these AD's producers have a matter of factly explanation, or even glorified one.
Surprising?
Not at all. Karl Max predicted this inhumane end of the capitalism more than a century ago.
If you can predict the death of something with no time constraint, I suppose you'll be right 100% of the time. That being said, capitalism isn't dead. Meanwhile communism has died several times over in that time frame.
I was talking about the ridiculousness of people taking abuses without much care. To OP's point that someone discussing manipulation matter-of-factly.
Capitalism death? Capitalism is the strongest it ever is.
HN now are a playground of people whose attention span cannot be maintained more than 5 minutes, and jump onto stimulation without a strain of sensibility.
Reading this, I am not sure what is the "right" policy in the author's mind.
The author argue that the ups and downs of infection is more of a innate dynamism of covid spreading, than any society wide policy. Is that suggesting there should not have been society wide intervention to covid? Like just keep things as normal.
Although I agree with the conclusion that the covid policy in US definitely has not been effective.
The Japanese did plenty. They cancelled festivals and sporting events, switched many schools to distance learning, widely wore good masks, got tested, traced contacts, closed entertainment venues, etc.
The government did not order this. The citizens did it voluntarily when asked to by their government.
Correct, the Japanese people naturally wear masks if they feel sick. This fact, combined with Tokyo being one of the most densely populated cities, should be plenty evidence for how effective masks are.
Well, there must be an indoctrination process happened sometimes in the history. After all, facial masks are not invented in ancient time people are not used to wear them.
So when the obedient Puritan people coming to this land. They are very cooperative in helping maintaining the community.
Through some indoctrination, they learned to stand up with their own wills. Turns out coins indeed always have 2 sides, right? When the individuals learn to stand up coercion with their own wills, they would stand-up against facial masks, vaccines, quanrintaines, etc.
For some circuits, there can be substantial redundancy. This includes memory, disks and networks. Sometimes that redundancy is in hardware, sometimes software and sometimes a mix.
For other hardware, there is almost the of redundancy. In those parts of the system, you depend on multiple components all working correctly with no chance of detecting errors at the circuit level. This means that if you have 10 components with expected life of 6-20 years (with a mean of 10) you can expect an actual life of about 6, not the mean life at all. The weakest link and all that.
Words are thoughts. Thoughts are mental processes. Be careful with treating similarity in appearance with equivalence in substance.
> social harmony and the rule of law
The association between the story and social harmony seems plausible, but actually superficial.
Social harmony would be that people involuntarily work together without an authority, and reached mutual agreement on their dispute. To me, it is a sign of social conflicts that dark web actors need arbitration.
Although that by itself matches our impression that dark web actors are lawless individuals should be punished. More ironically, the story actually shows that they are not lawless in the absolute sense. They just breakd the laws majority of the society abides by (or the majority actually do not even realize exits).
> rule of law
You know, rule of law is more of a political term nowadays. It refers to a western style of political organization framework centered on written laws and a voting process to revising them, and many other subtle details.
Is arbitration on darkweb an example of rule by law?
I tend to say no. Arbiter is necessary in all steps, and they seem are not codifying their "laws" for dealing with the future occrance of similar litigation at all.
Well, obviously, this is almost a metaphor, as it's a stretch to literally apply the term Rule of Law to something as sketchy as the dark web. Also, note that I did not use something like "Law and Order", as that can have a pretty unpleasant meaning.
Media lab, given its name, is very good to show attractive demos, just like media outlets. The style is just not familiar to a computer scientists or software engineer.
Most comments are about monopoly. But is A & B really that good? Or its just more of a optimization of financial strength between A &B and MSFT?