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You’re missing the point. You can’t call yourself a democracy and prevent people from peacefully protesting. Either you allow people the right to demonstrate in peace to show those in power the scale with which a certain cause moves people or people skip protesting altogether.

How can the web players read the videos if they are encrypted? I’m guessing by definition they need the keys to do so thus would it not be possible for ytdlp to also support this when the encrypted video implementation is fully rolled out?

How do we know if something is truly irreversible?

What’s the dogwhistle?

> Yeah it has terrible optics, yet it's clearly going to be normalized and come. The question is who does it and what is the organization of it. If this company doesn't do it, the next will.

Where have we seen this before..

Why does the ccp always come up in these discussions? You have Rogue billionaire taking an axe at the pillars of government and there’s still someone bringing up the ccp.

Why

Lack of empathy for other humans.

Sorry this isn’t exactly a fresh conflict, why are we pretending like settler colonialism in the region is a new thing, I’m not sure.

> these issues need to be debated by Americans

Yo can we drop the whole “our government executes on the will of the people charade”. If you think your average American has any say in their governments foreign policy I have a bridge to sell you.

What’s also funny is that the promoters of the “China is stealing all of our IP in exchange for their labor” folks never mention why corporations don’t just pull out?

Are these IP thefts or technology transfers? If corporations are having their IP stolen, why don’t they just leave?

These narratives never explain or mention this. Idk why people still latch onto them, they are completely uninteresting “China is stealing all our IP and there’s nothing we can do about it except for continuing to allow our IP to be stolen” is an IQ test and trope.

Does “theft of IP” outweigh, or not, “access to very cheap labor (read: jobs)” ?

We need to stop simping for corporations and start thinking critically about these things.

Exactly. Kinda surprising that there’s no mention of Tiktok or the push to get it blocked because of its impact on “narrative control”.

Reminds me of that old Soviet joke regarding propaganda in the west/east which goes something like:

> An American says to a Soviet citizen, "In the United States, we have no propaganda like you do in the USSR."

> The Soviet citizen responds, "Exactly! In the USSR, we know it's propaganda."

I’ve been using the TS3+ for many, many years now. Not a single issue.

Weren’t theres couple of dead Boeing whistleblowers in recent times relating to poor AA/design?

Create a linting step that fails if running the linter creates a git diff delta.

So people transcribing audio/video content should be paying for the opportunity to do so? They are quite literally offering a service based on derivative work.

Surely this is already ironed out, no? What are laws regarding transcriptions?

Is that really unfair? Surely we can see that in capitalist societies, profiteering from other peoples work is one of the core tenants.

Very cool! Would you share/describe which tools you are using to build the pipeline?

I really hate it when a feature I didn’t develop manages to get into my prod environment…

> We do. Pax Americana is unprecedented time in world history.

Unless you’re high up in one of the MIC companies I need to disagree.

Who’s the “we”? Countries on the receiving end of “foreign ‘aid’”? Americans receiving improvements to their standards and quality of life because government expenditures are made on infrastructure and services instead of warring?

Wasn’t 1.6B just approved to fund anti-CN disinformation/propaganda?

I guess if a large part of the world’s population, domestic and international, doesn’t fall within your definition of “we” then sure.

We don’t all benefit when the MIC gets more chips..

Can someone explain to me the theory of stock buybacks? How is this not just financial engineering? How are you meant to differentiate companies who’s stock goes up because they’ve been productive and made great products from those that increase their stock prices using buybacks? Are there rules against taking out loans and using them to perform stock buybacks?

but more importantly , separate! After all, we wouldn’t want to mix up the foreign and domestic budgets.

> From Middle French stolide, ‘stolid’…

> calm and not emotional

There’s nothing bad faith about calling someone out for being a bigot but I agree with your sentiment that there’s probably not much left to discuss.

As an aside, is it really so hard to ask not to get bombarded with state department red scare propaganda anytime anything CN pops up? OP happens to be from CN, shares his work, and CPC comments are made.

There’s a serious lack of empathy around these parts and there really doesn’t need to be.

Everything is made there but we don’t know how reliable their products are?

Their products are unreliable so we have to hit them with import tariffs?

I really don’t get the purpose of a comment like this, who is this for? Have you ridden in a Chinese EV? They don’t “feel” cheap. This type of rhetoric is pretty much the reason other companies are lagging behind. After all, why compete with a “cheap” competitor? There may have been a time when quality of Chinese vehicles was questionable but I’m not sure that’s still the case.

If it weren’t for the protectionist tariffs the west has imposed on them, I would seriously consider a Chinese EV, maybe a Zeeker or Byd.

I don’t know what clarifications are needed or why you felt the need to reply “yes but” to a “racism is bad, don’t do it” comment, it’s not a good look.

It’s kind of irrelevant that Open > close source. Many other comments have pointed this out, yours included but the issue at hand here is the remarks regarding OPs nationality/origin. If you want your ideas validated there are tons of comments in this thread doing so, you don’t need me to agree with it. I personally prefer OS, but don’t have any issues with closed source software. However, that’s not the issue at hand.

Comments like these and follow-ups like “yeah but actually it’s closed source”, that don’t immediately call out racism, end up normalizing this type of behavior which is not acceptable.

Would you also have sidestepped the obvious racism had OP been from Africa?

Say yes to OS software and no to racism, it shouldn't need to be said that ignoring racist remarks and/or glossing over them like they aren’t there promotes/enables that behavior.

I don’t know what’s confusing. You’re replying to a post which references a parent post that doesn’t mention open source and is fond of everything until Parent learns OP is living in China.

> And the developer lives in...China. Hard pass.

This isn’t complex. Parent is rejecting OP’s work because he’s from China, not because it’s closed source, otherwise he would have mentioned it, he didn’t and now you’re acting as though _you_ mentioning open source should also somehow apply to OP?

I’m referring specifically to OP, not sure why you’re muddying the waters with “well not all HN posts say x,y”.

Exactly. This is just reactionary fear-mongering. Once you start thinking about it a bit more, it completely falls apart: - what about expats living in China? - what about Chinese citizens living abroad? - what about Chinese born citizens that have switch nationalities?

Again, the point I’m making is that we’re even entertaining the discussion because of the target country.

I’m sure everyone will make the same type of remarks and take the same kinds of precautions the next time a closed-source project from someone in SanFran gets posted here.

Let’s not dance around the topic, the whole “take head” thread has to do with CN, not because it’s closed source else he may have mentioned it, but he didn’t.