bleriot | 6 years ago | on: Tsinghua law professor who criticized Xi Jinping barred from leaving China
Dang has no interest in upsetting Chinese loyalists, so he’ll never release the data behind his claims of “no voting manipulation”.
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bleriot | 6 years ago | on: Disney heir on CEO's $66M pay: 'No one on the freaking planet is worth that'
I’m not sure Disney is a productive company for society. I’d argue that Lebron James and Disney are purely for entertainment. And the owners of sports teams are able to attach value to the players by how many people they’ll draw to TV and stadium viewership and product sales, so Lebron’s value can be pretty well guessed in advance by the team that pays him that huge salary.
bleriot | 6 years ago | on: Facebook while black: Users say talking about racism is censored as hate speech
The person in the article said “white people are so fragile”. That’s a racist statement, so no spinning needed.
bleriot | 6 years ago | on: Amazon Quits China Market
Do you deny that the Chinese government makes it extremely difficult for US companies to operate there?
bleriot | 7 years ago | on: Internet Archive denies hosting 'terrorist' content
So there’s a time limit on censorship and free speech?
bleriot | 7 years ago | on: Internet Archive denies hosting 'terrorist' content
This is why free speech is such an essential right in the United States, and probably contributes to the success it’s had as a country in making things. It’s hard to create when some government can come along and crush your idea. I can’t think of any other country in the world that has fewer limits on speech.
bleriot | 7 years ago | on: Feds take down $1B Medicare fraud scheme
Not to mention that the government initially ignored a huge amount of complaints before finally investigating.
bleriot | 7 years ago | on: Tesla’s First-Quarter Deliveries Plummet
I agree that zip2 was not a great accomplishment aside from making money, but it certainly wasn’t copyright infringement.
bleriot | 7 years ago | on: Bay Area housing prices drop in tech-heavy counties
There’s no way to know how many of those were Chinese nationals because the only group with that data is FINCEN. So how exactly did you do this, and which county was it?
bleriot | 7 years ago | on: WhatsApp co-founder accuses Facebook of trading privacy for revenue
I’d think that the person who abuses customer privacy would be much lower class than that. I’d much rather work with someone like the WhatsApp founders than a Zuckerberg.
bleriot | 7 years ago | on: Amazon Caught Selling Counterfeits of Publisher’s Computer Books–Again
Considering that Amazon fulfills orders using counterfeit items from suppliers that they know have previously provided fakes to customers, and then removes reviews that point out counterfeits, I’d say they’re complicit in it. I’ve personally had a review removed that called out an obviously counterfeit item I received. That was two years ago and the seller is still on Amazon, and Amazon is still removing other reviewers’ bad reviews of them.
bleriot | 7 years ago | on: The Washington State Measles Outbreak
Looks like you got downvoted by the usual anti-science politically-correct contingent here on HN, but you’re right to investigate that possibility. Here’s an analysis of the last major outbreak in the early 90s that shows how huge a factor unvaccinated undocumented Hispanics were : https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00001675.htm
bleriot | 7 years ago | on: Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation
A lot of subs are full of edgelords. The sub was quarantined because they need to make Reddit more palatable to investors and advertisers.
bleriot | 7 years ago | on: Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2018 Results
Maybe Google should have put that in the explanation instead of not giving a reason.
bleriot | 7 years ago | on: Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio
For users. See all of the responses about gifs and bandwidth. I hate autoplay video but don’t want to sacrifice gifs to block it.
bleriot | 7 years ago | on: Ensuring a Level Playing Field for Rideshare
This seems specifically targeted to give Uber an advantage over Lyft especially with the 10,000 dispatches rule. I’d also keep an eye on where the TLC commissioner ends up now that she’s resigned. Given all the corruption in NY, it wouldn’t surprise me at all to see her end up at Uber in the next few years.
bleriot | 7 years ago | on: What China Threat?
Why is someone a shill for saying something negative about a totalitarian dictatorship?
bleriot | 7 years ago | on: Apple was warned about the FaceTime eavesdropping bug last week
Yes, a company at that scale could do it, but they’d have to actually spend some of their $200 billion instead of hoarding it Scrooge McDuck style.
bleriot | 7 years ago | on: Money-laundering oligarchs bought all the real-estate to clean their oil money
This might explain it a little better: https://therealdeal.com/issues_articles/money-laundering/
bleriot | 7 years ago | on: Money-laundering oligarchs bought all the real-estate to clean their oil money
No, at least in the US. The Realtors have lobbied very hard to make sure that the real estate industry doesn’t have the same reporting requirements that banking does. So a lot of dirty money has made it into the US real estate system. The government finally started looking into it a few years ago. “By 2017, 30 percent of cash purchases of high-end real estate by LLCs in New York, Miami, LA, San Francisco, San Diego and San Antonio were involving suspicious buyers, according to FinCEN.”
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