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preach··on Colin Powell has died
Rest In Peace.

Thank you for putting up a black banner for Mr. Powell. Very appropriate.

preach··on Agile as Trauma
I want to like this article but it sounds like the author is more concerned with signaling what they know vs. educating/enlightening the reader. It should be a genre of writing in itself if it’s done well and tastefully.

Agile vs Waterfall isn’t “Kayfabe”. Software developers genuinely believe that there is some rivalry because they’re uncritical and inexperienced with software development management layers and don’t know any better.

preach··on Bonhoeffer on Stupidity
> The word of the Bible that the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom declares that the internal liberation of human beings to live the responsible life before God is the only genuine way to overcome stupidity.

Do you agree?

preach··on “Epic Games Store will welcome games that make use of blockchain tech”
Cold War moves by both companies here. Very strange behavior.

Hot take: Gabe and Tim are long time friends and they’re having a friendly competition over lawsuits with nothing more important to do with their money/time (they did, after all, both start video game companies).

preach··on Tech's big bad morale problem
This is an opinion piece without a shred of evidence to back up the opening paragraph.
preach··on Billionaire Alibaba Founder Jack Ma Reappears in Hong Kong
Until China tells you to shut up and then you have people flying over there groveling with apologies and self censoring.

You can engage in self-flagellation if you think it helps, but you’re not fooling people watching this thing unfold.

preach··on Billionaire Alibaba Founder Jack Ma Reappears in Hong Kong
> If there was any further indication that a group of people needed to all band together and overthrow their government, you'd think that'd be it, but I guess some people just love living in near slavery.

Which people? What if the majority agrees with this move but they won’t speak out in public about it?

I for one am perfectly fine with China being able to do this. It would, at the very least, keep Zuckerberg and others in check.

The anti-China rhetoric on HN is mind boggling sometimes when it’s put next to the constant stream of complaints in the West, regarding inflation/monetary handouts, zoning laws, corruption, real estate, oil spills and companies getting away with shit, etc. The list is endless.

And yet, you’ve accomplished nothing. In fact, things are now worse than they were and yet you just keep complaining thinking it will make a difference. You’ll never get anywhere complaining without having a path to act. China, evil it may be, actually acts.

Go and call your congresspeople. They’ll listen to you over the sound of money that is pouring their way to look the other way.

preach··on [dead]
Internet tribalism fueled by anonymity and boredom.

Eventually people will learn to make themselves inaccessible online, or at the very least, anonymous to 99.99% of people on the internet.

Keep your real name off of social media.

preach··on China blocks Wikimedia from entering World Intellectual Property Organization
Yeah the West is screwed, but let’s not pretend we didn’t see this coming.
preach··on China proposes prohibiting private investment in news service sector
If I’m a hardline Westerner and I feel like participating in a pro-Chinese Western Community, what are my options? HN isn’t the place for this. Basically, I’d like to praise China for the last handful of bold moves they’ve made, but the usual channels (FB, Twitter, Reddit, HN, …) are vehemently anti-China. I’d probably get shadowbanned or banned saying the three child policy is the way to go forward.

Any suggestions?

preach··on Ruqqus, an open source Reddit clone, is shutting down their main instance
> Over time however it's clear that /pol/ is a far right platform

Citation needed.