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Line is the default messaging app in Taiwan, so one would assume that the Chinese government would be interested in targeting it.

It's too common for it to be a meaningful data point. Taiwan was the biggest destination for Chinese tours around 2015.

I have heard that having a degree from a Taiwanese university is somewhat suspicious.

2.7 million Chinese tourists visited Taiwan in 2017, mostly as individuals.

But this was the justification in countless think pieces in the Economist, the NYT, and so on. Align the incentives of the CEO with the shareholders and magic will occur. The author is dueling with a ghost that you never saw.

What an unfortunate name. All search results are for the Minecraft editor.

It's also fairly obtuse for non-experts. A champion non-modal editor would have a learning curve as shallow as nano but more depth that could reveal itself over time.

There is a deep resonance to the way this game encourages lying to protect an alliance that is already being betrayed. This inspires paranoia along those who have successfully been defeated.

This needs unpacking, because it's true but not very complete. Diplomacy is correlated to human behavior that causes people to reevaluate relationships. This pattern is not caused by losing players being unable to take a game as a game. It's having a game reveal real-life patterns of manipulation and deception that ends relationships.

That said, I do recommend a game with your friends.

It's unusual for someone to win outright in my experience. But the presence of an outright victory condition affects player behavior.

Koebler was not the original story author, but he was the editor who contacted Naomi to 'give her the opportunity to' respond to the messageboard accusations.

Facebook and mobile gaming companies are both taking their playbook from gambling companies. Casino addiction doesn't root your teeth, but it certainly does convince a lot of people to steal from their mother. It's a very unethical business model.

There are a lot of studies about inhaling PG in the context of smoke machines (in bars, generally). It reduces lung function, but not permanently. No more serious harm seems to be indicated.

A brand publisher is in a much better position to roll with that than an indie content maker. Having worn both hats, it's strange how much your perspective changes.

Forbes doesn't have a Russian bias. It has a business model bias. In short, it milks its good name while paying a low per click rate.

This combination is very, very attractive to propaganda operations. People who see themselves as writers cannot make an actual living there, but writing for a publication their parents recognize feeds their ego.

This can work either overtly or more subtly. They can simply reward useful perspectives with clicks, or they can offer additional steady money work through other channels. Either way they have an entirely deniable useful idiot.

Forbes is particularly full of this.

The visibility is part of the problem. In itself it's distracting. The problem is when it's seen to work, thus encouraging others to imitate.

According to reports, invitations to lynchings of Rohingya are shared on Messenger. If you say freedom of speech, I say Facebook and all of it's evil is banned.

I think I have the better case.

FB people, if this isn't your canary, than what is?

Because the freedom to switch is often a luxury. At the minimum, it requires foresight, which many lack. At the maximum, it requires buying the same thing twice.

Competition implies profit seeking. When you're selling stories about future profit to fools, idiocy ensues.

But people use them to remove firey fat while grilling. I've done that. Obviously, bad idea.

Because Facebook already controls what people say and see on their platform. But they choose to use that power to censor boobs and show you whatever will provide the strongest response.

With restaurants, you pay afterwards. With conferences, there is a lot of up front money. The situations are different.

There are a tremendous number of people outside of programming who spend much or all of their work time collecting, cleaning up, and understanding data. Think teachers, accountants, traders - essentially everyone who spends a lot of time in spreadsheets.

I'm a teacher in Asia. My students complain mightily about the sudden deluge of ads. They experience it as being much worse than Facebook.

Foxconn / Hon Hai had an extensive record of doing exactly this in Taiwan. I would be surprised if they haven't done the same in China.

The Ritalin prescription train is alive and well in industrial Asia. You seem to be basing an argument on false priors.

The point is not solely related to investment banking. Education as social signaling will not be disrupted by the blockchain.

English Central attempts the conversation bot but it is fairly terrible. Competition would be welcome.

People who can reliably be convinced to buy advertisers' goods when presented with fake information in response to a search. 'Cure cancer with one easy pill' and that sort of thing.

Federal judges are part of the local legal community, just like the law firms that survive by creating Delaware corporations. Social cues and environment affect all of us more than we imagine.

You mean the tax dodge that only started doing research when the government started investigating?