Why does this need to be an app? Can’t this all be built into a web page?
Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store
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#582Lesson learned: don't use apple phones. Android lets you install APKs from any source.
How many tech parts, phones, and whatnot are “made in China”? How many of these companies are owned by the government? Basically by buying whatever you are shoving money in to this regime. No matter what and where you buy. Also what about huawei?
> Basically by buying whatever you are shoving money in to this regime. No matter what and where you buy.
Your other option is...what?
You can't buy anything electronic anymore solely "Made in America"; that is, where all the parts, design, assembly, casing, etc - are all done here. Outside of maybe a few select items (and probably certain military stuff - but that isn't available to consumers anyhow) - it just doesn't exist. And it won't likely ever exist, as it would be suicide for a business to go that route.
Anything made in other SEA countries likely use parts sourced from China. I am not sure what you are suggesting, except that we stop purchasing new electronics, and hope and pray that (somehow) our electronics manufacturing systems from the 1950s-70s magically return back to our country.
You'll be waiting a long time...
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In (quasi)defense of Google on this front: On my Google Pixel 3a, I can download AOSP to my own computer, modify it how I wish, scrape the vendor dependencies I need[1], compile it myself, sign it myself, and use my own key to control what OS gets installed, then relock the bootloader so it only trusts updates using my key! I can choose not to use Google Play and then install whatever App I want on it. I wish I could…
Also in quasi defense of Google (note that I work there), it almost do no business in China. So it doesn't bend over to The CCP. Moving forward, my biggest purchasing decision as a consumer is going to be based on how much ties a company has to The CCP. I feel like my freedom is under direct threat from The CCP more than anything else, and I'll treat it accordingly when making purchasing decisions moving forward.
So it doesn't bend over to The CCP.
It tried to and would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids.
Did you not read the memo?
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That’s not how this works. Apple is one of the wealthiest companies in the world, and saying “just don’t spend money there” is a bit reductionist and trivializes the problem of corporations with more power than nation-states. You need to fight fire with fire: governments of the world (especially the US government) need to create laws that restrict and punish this kind of behavior. Otherwise, I sincerely doubt Apple’s…
The US government is currently rather busy attempting to stave off what looks more and more like a coup. That the tech industry has been a primary player in enabling this. Each and every one of us needs to have a nice long think about our own ethics and what we're willing to support.
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> You're pretty invested in being an American, skin in the game, manifest destiny etc. Huh? You just described maybe 1 in 10 Americans. We genuinely do not care about "manifest destiny" and many of us don't put much value in being American either. I'm not even sure what you mean by "skin in the game" > Let's say one day some stupid little state that you don't care about and vaguely resent decides it wants to secede,…
Didn’t Americans freak out over a few players kneeling for the anthem? Didn’t Americans freak out when Black Lives Matter protesters blocked the highway? A tactic the Hong Kong protestors are using? Didn’t Americans make fun of Occupy Wall Street?
How many of those American protestors were thrown in prison camps and murdered by the government? Hint: zero.
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#586Can’t this app just be a web app? I assume it’s a central web backend that the app uses?
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#587It helps to know a little bit about what's been going on in Hong Kong, before you all decide to line up and take your daily dump on China. It all started a few months ago when someone committed a crime in Taiwan and fled to Hong Kong. To prevent HK from becoming a safe haven for criminals, the Chief Executive of HK proposed a new law to facilitate extradition of these crime suspects from HK to various jurisdictions i…
I recognised the author's username before even reading the body of the comment. HN is inundated with recently created or recently reactivated accounts posting CCP propaganda. These accounts don't necessarily belong to bots or shills, but they are nonetheless part of a state orchestrated social media influence campaign. Reddit has addressed this with mass purges and browser extensions that allow shared tagging of user…
I remember you from our earlier discussions as well.
Even though we disagreed, I always thought you sounded intelligent and thoughtful.
But somehow you felt the need to resort to naming calling and baseless speculations here.
The facts are really not on your side, are they?
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Using Alabama is a flawed analogy. Hong Kong has always enjoyed greater autonomy than other Chinese cities. A better analogy would be Puerto Rico citizens aggressively protesting their lack of rights electing members to congress in the federal government. Do you think the US would react the same way as China?
Waco. Ruby Ridge. Chicago MOVE bombing. I guess it depends.
> Chicago MOVE bombing.
I hate to be pedantic, but wasn't that in Philadelphia
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#590Earlier quoted context omitted.
> You're pretty invested in being an American, skin in the game, manifest destiny etc. Huh? You just described maybe 1 in 10 Americans. We genuinely do not care about "manifest destiny" and many of us don't put much value in being American either. I'm not even sure what you mean by "skin in the game" > Let's say one day some stupid little state that you don't care about and vaguely resent decides it wants to secede,…
Didn’t Americans freak out over a few players kneeling for the anthem? Didn’t Americans freak out when Black Lives Matter protesters blocked the highway? A tactic the Hong Kong protestors are using? Didn’t Americans make fun of Occupy Wall Street?
>Didn’t Americans freak out over a few players kneeling for the anthem?
Looks like you fell exactly for the Trump propaganda. Saying "Americans" "freaked out" over the kneeling thing is so ridiculous I don't even know where to start. Trump tried to make it a big deal, and probably 0.0001% of his stupid supporters like /r/the_donald try to make it a big deal so that someone like you thinks it's a big deal.
Trump has been extremely effective at some things, I'll give him that.....