horsemessiah

Wtf is going on at Github? They're having outages almost every other day.

August had 11 incidents it seems. September already has 3.

https://www.githubstatus.com/history

Americans always love tying things back to attacking China.

You're not wrong, but arresting people for possession doesn't help them either. And I can definitely tell you drugs aren't hard to find as it is.

Reaganonmics has been a disaster for my generation.

Another example of capitalism tending towards monopoly.

> no rights This is not true.

> Uyghur genocide This is a lie being spread by far right fundamentalist Adrien Zenz that the U.S. media had eaten up.

This is what is known as "anarchy of production" which is a key feature of capitalism. A global crisis like this is not compatible with our existing economic systems.

Markets are basically anarchy... there are countless examples of markets inefficiently allocating resources (homes, for one). Not sure I buy this.

Teachers unions are definitely not a net negative...

The U.S. has 22% of the worlds prisoners, despite only having 4% of the population, if you really wanna talk about prison.

Could the U.S. govt not subpoena a U.S. company for information, giving them the same power people are worried about China having?

My father made this argument to me, almost verbatim. It's definitely out there.

Yup!

Why doesn't the government pass laws preventing this, instead of banning one particular app?

Congress should pass laws in retaliation then, not the President.

The solution would be to pass a law akin to the GDPR then. There is no need to go through executive action.

The U.S. is not supposed to be authoritarian like China is.

State and Revolution is where I'd recommend people start for ML ;)

Check out Bolivia, Honduras, and the failed attempt at Venezuela for some more recent examples within the last 15 years.

This is simply not true. Looking at the three mainstream cable channels (Fox, CNN, MSNBC) Fox hardly ever critical, MSNBC is almost exclusively critical, and CNN is pretty in between. Fox is by far the most popular of these three.

Similarly, the NYTimes and Washington Post are usually pretty critical of Trump (unless he's bombing people, in which case they love him) and the WSJ are somewhere in between.

Then, consider that Americans are increasingly not getting their news from these sources and podcasts, blogs, social media, etc. are becoming the primary source of news for many people.

All this to say, to claim 97% of media is critical of Trump is a wild fantasy of victimhood that has no basis in reality.

This comment is not explemifying the problem, as you put it. It's pointing out the hypocrisy of this author for condemning something she engages in herself, without taking any blame.

Ah, good. More echo chambers.

This is only true if they block all non-work discussions. Law explicitly allows union related discussion if other non-work related discussions are allowed.

Definitely possible, but not at all extremely likely.

You wouldn't believe this if you didn't grow up in a stable home.

Kickstarter recently voted for a union and was able to negotiate excellent terms for their layoffs.

Check out their website here: https://kickstarterunited.org/

On another note, unions are a wonderful idea for increasing worker power. I don't understand how people expect others to care about democracy, voting, etc. when we're stuck in a dictatorship 8 hours a day at work. Unions make the workplace more democratic, which will overall make people care more about democracy in general, IMO.

Police aren't really distinguishing between the two. Besides, even looters don't deserve to stay in jail if they can't afford bail - they'll still see their day in court.

"Unluckiest" as though decades of neoliberal economics didn't directly bring this on us.

How can western leaders condemn China's lack of publishing info related to COVID-19 and protect private research for curing it at the same time? Research like this should be public and accessible to everyone. I don't know why I shouldn't applaud any hackers spreading this information.

Imagine how different the comments would be if this article were about China...

How can you steal research to stop a disease causing global catastrophe? There's no good reason this research shouldn't all be publicly accessible.

If China were withholding research, I would applaud anyone who stole it from them. I see no reason I shouldn't do the same for China here.