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"That evening, the Haitian minister of justice personally intervened for the contractors’ release, according to local reports, independently confirmed. "

-- So someone high in the Government hired them.

Sure, but doesn't help with the PR does it. If people start using it to send/dist the stuff, the news will mention it.

How are they going to deal with bad content? Child porn? Pirated content? Illegal stuff?

Depends on who you are. If you're a common worker, no. If you are member of the economic elite and work with foreign companies, then yes.

When I worked in China, I say most of my team had FB profiles. Then again I was working for a major Chinese IT company and we had a lot of foreign collaborations in open source stuff.

The database, whose server is in China, included fields labeled in English for sex, age, education, marital status, as well as a column titled “BreedReady”, which could be a poor translation of Chinese terms to describe whether a woman has children or is of child-bearing age, observers noted.

So basically child bearing age or not.

The sunrise period ended yesterday. All .devs are now only 12USD/year

We haven’t done enough of the latter. I’d love to automate and improve a lot of stuff but our project manager is pretty much always client visible first.

My version of #9 I'm dealing with is: Is this an feature that a customer will use? Or is it internal improvement? Yes to first, no to latter.

You won't be able to because the people higher are doing the same thing. Unless of course you make it to the top.

I own a business that is selling a lot of #MeToo merchandising. High demand and profitable.

The rational move is to be active in the outrage culture and profit. She's a journalist so if she starts going all outrage and getting more readers, it's good for her.

This always happens with whatever movement that is hip the current day in your location. Regardless of what movement, #MeToo or Red Guards or etc, this will happen. Your only hope is to follow it and make a profit at it, which is what I'm doing.

Why does it need to be an AND? If it is much cheaper and faster but 5% worse, why not?

Really? That's an international flight and you put in your passport number.

He probably booked the other ticket in advance as well.

This is why.

One of my ex's maternal grandma left her a little over $100K for college. The grandma trusted her daughter and son in law to manage it. The parents divorced and the mother went wild for a while and spend it on drugs, partying, and vacations. My ex ended up taking a bit OSAP.

I like to point out that Russia violated the INF Treaty in 2014. https://www.csis.org/analysis/putin%E2%80%99s-treaty-problem...

My sister-in-law works in a fashion store. They have a 14 day return policy assuming same condition. You be surprised how many people buy a dress, cut all the tags, wear it once to an event, and try to return it.

Real question: does anyone see anywhere on the site where they say what LTE/3G/GSM bands it supports? Or TD-LTE vs FD-LTE?

I like to know before I pre-order if it will work in my region.

"Upon initial shipment of the Librem 5 in 2019, it will offer the essentials: phone functionality, email, messaging, voice, camera, browsing. The featureset will expand after shipment and over time to more free software applications. Your user experience will improve as we incrementally add commonly requested applications and features (such as calendaring, notes, calculator, PDF viewer, etc.) while keeping performance in mind."

A phone without a PDF viewer or calendar app? :)

They say it on their site:

Upon initial shipment of the Librem 5 in 2019, it will offer the essentials: phone functionality, email, messaging, voice, camera, browsing. The featureset will expand after shipment and over time to more free software applications. Your user experience will improve as we incrementally add commonly requested applications and features (such as calendaring, notes, calculator, PDF viewer, etc.) while keeping performance in mind.

So I'm reading this and I'm wondering, is Librem pulling a BlackBerry here? When the BlackBerry PlayBook came out it had no native email or calendar or contact management capabilities.

Purism is going to ship the Librem 5 without the ability to do calendar, notes app, calculator app, and PDF viewer. My question is why? Why is this a good idea?

Edit: Reference their site: "Upon initial shipment of the Librem 5 in 2019, it will offer the essentials: phone functionality, email, messaging, voice, camera, browsing. The featureset will expand after shipment and over time to more free software applications. Your user experience will improve as we incrementally add commonly requested applications and features (such as calendaring, notes, calculator, PDF viewer, etc.) while keeping performance in mind."

Going GA and shipping to customers.

I'll commit to buying one.

If they ship a final product by 2019-12-31, I'll donate 500CAD to any charity they pick

Isn't 2019 the year of Linux on the desktop? :)

I'm willing to put up 100CAD that it won't ship this year.

When were you in Beijing? I was there for 2-3 years with Google prior to them leaving.

Xi's breaking the 10 year rule. Xi's involvement in the Bo Xilai incident. Xi's anti corruption campaign which is basically a purge of those who oppose him.

You have to remember that the people on HN from China or Chinese is not representative of the average person in China. My cousin was born and raised in China in a tier 2 city. He now works in a tier 2 city making 30K RMB/month which is extremely good pay. He has travelled abroad many times and reads western books/culture.

I was born in China and left at 16. Educated in Canada and went back at 26 and worked for 14 years there before I left. When I was there I was working in major IT companies in a tier 1 city.

You have to think about Hu's The Harmonious Society Idea (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonious_Society) and part of the 'Stability At All Cost' ideal. The censorship is for the average person in China.

Sure most people if you include the peasants and the migrant worker force. If you look at the true middle class in the cities, I'd say most know about the truth but don't care. When I was working there for major IT companies pretty much most of my reports know about it.

My cousin has the same point of view. He knows about May-35th and the other issues (eg. Xi's insanity) but doesn't really care. He's making good money right now (30K/month) and things are looking good for him (family, home, car, economy, etc).

Hell when I was working in China (left in 2016), I didn't care that much and still doesn't. Money is good and the benefits are awesome.