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And East Asia, especially Hong Kong since 2019.

For now anyway

He's been right this entire time and caught a lot of flack for it.

Unrelated, but you just reminded me of an old blog: Groklaw. I can't believe it's been over 10 years since it was active

As is git. I think it's intentional

Fellow Reason subscriber here. They're more balanced than most.

It's interesting to see them go after others for copying gameplay when they have done exactly the same: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jun/15/connections-ne...

What is echonewshub? Is this a reputable source? Their Privacy Policy seems incomplete and the T&C pages seems to have been generated by GPT

Daniel Rensch and others have said that Magnus has not seen chesscom cheating algorithms or lists. It had been a rumor in the chess world for a while that Hans has cheated before

I'm not sure what you're suggesting. This is the comment: > FIRE has done way more for campus free speech issues this last decade or two ... > You mean conservative speech? Or has …

I'm not sure why you're implying that FIRE "despises" speech; perhaps you see them as conservative. That said, here's are some recent situations in which FIRE has taken the side of…

Zombocom. Anything is possible at Zombocom

Thanks for sharing. One thing caught my eye in that report. It says that 57% of Black and 61% of Hispanic respondents claim to have been fully vaccinated. The totals across 40 stat…

OP was talking about someone making the argument, not that it would be affirmed. That's what I was referencing, fwiw

This happened last year. The Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC) hosted a discussion about this[1] [1] https://www.news.com.au/sport/more-sports/john-adams-slams-a...

I don't find this so convincing. Most normal usera may not be able to secure things effectively and they can still use the existing iCloud / Google Play infrastructure. That doesn'…

No, the government did not remove the extradition law until September 2019, after proposing it in February 2019. By then, many Hong Kongers had been protesting, arrested, beaten an…

The former Reddit employee in question accused the Green Party in the UK of transphobia, after they discovered she hired her own father as an election consultant, under an alias. A…

The post was removed after a few hours, not immediately. It was also removed because Challenor was referenced at the bottom of the article, not because of anything in the Reddit po…

The road to hell is paved with good intentions

AWS too. A large portion of it is written in Java

Wall Street punishes companies that are not profitable or are losing money. Consumers can make that happen by walking away when companies are anti-consumer. If they do, profits fal…

Whatever the government decides, they rarely, if ever, provide an explanation or recourse either: the Patriot Act, Ahmad Arbury, TBTF, the assassination of Awlaki, snooping on Amer…

If that's all that needs to be done, Google should update their boilerplate responses to include that. Right now, for multiple developers, they're appearing to be obtuse. For Googl…