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tfcataon Chinese app included malware to gain competitive advantage

This app uses huge amount of coupons, discounts to attract users. Unfortunately many Chinese citizen don't care if their privacy is infringed, all they care is that they are able to save maybe 5 yuan. Baidu's CEO even made an open statement that Chinese users are willing to trade privacy for convenience. That is a very sad situation.

tfcataon Leaving China

Oh well, the fact that e-cigarette pneumonia at the end of 2019 and the samples were not allowed to be inspected, and that those US military members who went to Wuhan to participate in an event showed symptoms, is conveniently forgotten.

tfcataon Why did Dostoyevsky write Crime and Punishment?

There are seven in-print translations of Crime and Punishment (and another six that are out-of-print). Which one is best depends on who you ask, or what you're looking for. The Garnett translation is itself considered a classic, and is in the public domain. The trendy one is Pevear and Volokhonsky. But there are other well-regarded versions to consider. This page lists them all and has extracts and links to articles to aid comparison. https://welovetranslations.com/2020/04/25/whats-the-best-tra...

tfcataon China lands rover on Mars

The remote authoritarian regime you fear the most have the covid-19 pandemic well under control for its people. And you still have to deal with the virus at your doorstep in your non-authoritarian paradise. How good is that?

tfcataon China lands rover on Mars

No, it's about your neighbor slept with the wife of your great great great great great grandfather 143 years ago, and he's offspring is biting his teeth, alleging you slept with his wife, coz he probably learnt that someone can sleep with others' wife from his ancestor.

tfcataon China lands rover on Mars

Because right now the US politicians feel challenged, and they are panicking to paint their competitor as a threat for everyone. This kind of political trick happens all the time.

tfcataon China lands rover on Mars

That's blatant slander. Think about the detergent presented as 'evidence of weapon of mass destruction' that led to the invasion of Iraq.

tfcataon China lands rover on Mars

Good, are those who joined the thousand talents program the property of the US?

If you insist on the 'involuntary' part, well, all of you stole paper from China.

tfcataon China lands rover on Mars

The problem is that some of those impressions you got about China are manufactured as part of the politics. Things can't be so torn, can they? Now it's your job to figure out which ones are manufactured and which ones are not.

tfcataon China lands rover on Mars

That's funny. The thousand talents program is about attracting talents globally. Now who are you to say that those talents are 'yours' not 'theirs'? How about those talents the US attracted before because 'everyone likes the freedom here'? Are those not stolen simply because the US did it under a different political banner?

tfcataon US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days

Both are stealing, why is one better than the other?

tfcataon US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days

If you are talking about the military, hey, doesn't NSA spy on everybody on this planet? Or didn't Crypto AG spy on every client, even on the Germans, who are allies?

tfcataon US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days

Well I am being an adult because I am saying that that kind of whining in that article is simply not-being-an-adult.

tfcataon US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19959473

These companies are after profit, so they chose to go to China to earn that profit. And for that profit, at some point in time, they must have deemed acceptable to give up something in exchange. Isn't this what trading is all about? Now somebody regrets they shouldn't have made certain choice, so they blame it on the other government? Be an adult.

tfcataon US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days

You need evidence to support your claim that they are 'required' to hand over intellectual property. Joint ventures are formed based on terms and contracts, signing such contracts is a very silly move.

Also, the use of 'hand over' suggests they are all the way not willing to disclose the intellectual property but were forced to, but isn't there a patent system in China? Why would these companies refuse to disclose some intellectual property and make use the legal system, just as how they did it back home?

tfcataon US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days

China has not forcefully seized foreign company's promising assets so good so it's impossible to consider for sale, by both a measly 'offer' of maybe 1/10, or less, of the market value and threatening from the leader, has it?

tfcataon Boost mobile GPU performance by 60%, less power hungry, too

My other submission of the same story only appear for less than a minute or so. I could see it in my submission list, but not on the first three pages. Why?

tfcataon Apple introduces macOS Mojave

It's so kind of you.

tfcataon Apple introduces macOS Mojave

Maybe try telling that to every user?

tfcataon Apple introduces macOS Mojave

It looks like dark mode is not a global option like on Linux, but rather needs to be adopted by individual apps. That means when opening old apps at 2AM, my eyes are really gonna be hurt..

tfcataon Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Replacing Intel

try 'brew install gnome-desktop' maybe?

tfcataon Wine 3.0 Released

Does anyone know if SonicStage works on Wine? It's an ancient piece of proprietary software from Sony to transfer songs to their NetMDs.

tfcataon Linux page table isolation is not needed on AMD processors

Can you post a few links maybe to the SYSRET issue mentioned? Just curious.

tfcataon Alibaba’s UC Browser is dominating in Asian markets with lower-end smartphones

The founder is the very first guy in China who used malware technique to prevent his own IE search enhancement plugin, 3721, circa 2004, from being uninstalled. It was a pain in the ass to uninstall this thing because it hooks so deeply in the system. Now it's sarcastic that this guy is running a security business.

The most recent case is that they broadcast the footages captured on the so called security cameras on a website that it positioned to be something like Twitch but with daily life content. So you really got to see inside other people's house! Supposedly this needs to be enabled by the user as an option, but I'm not sure why so many people enabled it. They have stopped this 'service', without admitting that it's wrong.

My hands shake out of anger when I'm typing this.

tfcataon Zerg: Boot a VM instance per request, all in under 250 ms

Overlords only need mineral, 100 each.

tfcataon Behind the fall and rise of China's Xiaomi

Are you paid by some other company to post?

tfcataon Academic success is either a crapshoot or a scam

Perhaps he's just celebrating Christmas in his own way.

tfcataon “Beautiful” in the Constitution of the Chinese Communist Party

But that sentence does not appear in the Constitution. Or maybe I'm looking at a wrong version?

tfcataon “Beautiful” in the Constitution of the Chinese Communist Party

If the entire Constitution is about concrete matters comparable to 'building good-looking cities', and 'building good-looking cities' is certainly one such matter because it is emphasized in the concluding remark, then why would the word appear only once?

I don't believe abruptly inserting a term that's never mentioned is good writing style.

A plausible way to understand it is that, the concluding remark is a summarizing call-to-action, laying out the spiritual and ideological framework for the rest to act upon. It certainly needs to be abstract, just as the four words preceding 美丽.

tfcataon “Beautiful” in the Constitution of the Chinese Communist Party

I think you only understood part of what it tries to convey.

Good aesthetics, yes, part of '美丽'. But I won't say '美丽' stops short at simply say 'we will build our cities to look pleasing', at least I won't expect the Constitution to be so pragmatic, because it serves as an guide on the ideology (sort of).