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Steve Jobs famously said Dropbox is a feature not a product. This feels very much like it.

Why the false dichotomy? Does political freedom automatically contradict with economic prosperity for some reason now? Born and raised in China, I fail to see how the last 10 years…

Maybe insurance companies should drop them (or raise their premium, just like what they do with smokers).

At what cost? If there were crazy people jaywalking onto the freeway, do you want to reduce speed limit nationally to accommodate that, or would you rather let it play out and peop…

> In the US, they created this backdoor "Opt" work visa (which they're desperately trying to expand) that allows hundreds of thousands of foreign students to stay in the US once st…

Dominion the company uses SolarWinds or Orion does not mean the voting system it develops uses SolarWinds or Orion. I am pretty sure Dominion also uses MS Office, but that does not…

My visa was rejected twice before I gave up. One of my friend was rejected 3 or 4 times before he was granted a visa, in a span of less than 1 year. I don’t think it’s out of the o…

Parent’s keyword is “allow to succeed”, not “succeed”. I always warn people about false equivalence when it comes to China. The laws and rules in China are not the same concept as …

If the new regulation targets the root of the problem - which is lack of economic opportunities - then yes. Regulation targeting patchwork solution, then it's the definition of vir…

That is what they want you to believe, as everything in China must look reasonable. Google left because it decided censoring according to law was too much for them. Really? They su…

I think the article did a really good job highlighting the power of combining a worship-level deference towards algorithm and an incredibly deep pocket. In the West, if you are an …

Quite the contrary: it’s illegal to not share data with government if requested: > Two pieces of legislation are of particular concern to governments — the 2017 National Intelligen…

Maybe this is history repeating itself: the story of the father of Chinese space program [1] was quite pertinent: > During WWII, he was involved in the Manhattan Project, which ult…

It’s not about conservatives. It’s not just “words taken down”. It’s regular good people who lose their job and career. For example, read the story of Professor Steve Hsu: https://…

Of course it’s OK the authentication system can read the password! What is so wrong on both technical and ethical levels is that the password entered into some data pipeline for ma…

You know back in the days you can also go to farmer Joe and buy a chicken and pay no middle man. Jumping from that fact to the conclusion that food supply chain has not much value …

That's a very cynical view. Doctors are by no means lower class. Most if not all of them can quit, and are not subject to "economic coercion". Yet almost of them choose to work and…

Healthcare is notoriously difficult to “disrupt” due to regulations and how the medical system is set up. I once worked for a healthcare startup and we joked that 1) your customer …

If you cannot get everyone to review for all purchases, then the next best thing is to do random sampling by randomly choose buyers and purchases to get reviewed, and possibly pay …

Are you even looking? I did one Google search, and found this [1]: > The results of the analysis show that Huawei devices quantitatively pose a high risk to their users. In virtual…

I expect private companies will be the ones providing the infrastructure for self driving cars, and your car will have to subscribe to a "awareness service provider", much the same…

I honestly don't care when Apple complies with local law a la iCloud China. I think that is disappointing but completely reasonable, whether we agree with the law or not. However, …

First, it’s called “baby bullet express service”. Second, even the high-speed trains in China do not travel at high speed in city core (IIRC <80kph).

Because zoom’s patch will only help users still using and updating zoom while those who have uninstalled zoom are still vulnerable (because the uninstalled leaves the web server be…