Hacker News: moreorless

New comment by moreorless in "PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition"

moreorless — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 16:06:32 +0000

Anyone actually using this as a daily driver? I am completely Apple free except for the the phone. I would love to be able to ditch that.

New comment by moreorless in "Canon's cloud platform has lost users' files and can't restore them"

moreorless — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 21:50:38 +0000

People call me crazy for having local backups, cloud backups, and offline backups for my critical assets.

New comment by moreorless in "Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under national security law"

moreorless — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 03:50:07 +0000

Why do parents go jump through hoops and are willing to break laws to get their kids into top colleges? People often say bribery is rampant in China. We have Super PACS and political donations and revolving doors.

New comment by moreorless in "Google speakers are listening to more than just voice commands"

moreorless — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 04:16:30 +0000

Not a huge fan of Google.

New comment by moreorless in "Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under national security law"

moreorless — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 04:15:17 +0000

As an anecdote, I hear people call out the CPC in public places in China.

New comment by moreorless in "Google speakers are listening to more than just voice commands"

moreorless — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 16:37:39 +0000

I get gizmos like this as gifts every now and then. I never bothered opening any of them up. What are some fun things that we can do with these things besides their intended use?

New comment by moreorless in "Pavel Durov on the TikTok Sale to U.S. company"

moreorless — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 15:11:53 +0000

> geopolitical adversary that intentionally interfered with our domestic politics

Pot, meet kettle.

New comment by moreorless in "TikTok: Logs, Logs, Logs"

moreorless — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 21:01:32 +0000

I recall reading somewhere:

In China, you can change the policies, but you can't change the party. In America, you can change the parties, but you cannot change the policy.

New comment by moreorless in "Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US operations"

moreorless — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 17:33:05 +0000

It is. Plain and simple.

edit: spelling

New comment by moreorless in "The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free"

moreorless — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 17:31:28 +0000

This exactly.

New comment by moreorless in "The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free"

moreorless — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 17:28:56 +0000

It seems like they have a history of it.

https://www.mediamatters.org/new-york-times/how-iraq-war-sti...

New comment by moreorless in "Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US operations"

moreorless — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 03:51:30 +0000

Then it is high time we get off our high horse.

New comment by moreorless in "Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US operations"

moreorless — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 03:42:23 +0000

It has since be sold to an American enterprise.

New comment by moreorless in "Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US operations"

moreorless — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 20:19:16 +0000

According to this Time's article, President Trump is ordering them to sell it.

https://time.com/5874408/trump-order-bytedance-sell-tiktok-u...

New comment by moreorless in "Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US operations"

moreorless — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 20:00:18 +0000

They do it, so we should too. Got it.

New comment by moreorless in "Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US operations"

moreorless — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 19:56:37 +0000

I find the whole Huawei situation to be quite riveting.

New comment by moreorless in "Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US operations"

moreorless — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 19:49:37 +0000

Not a single person seem to think that it is odd that we can simply order a foreign company to sell their business to an American company.

New comment by moreorless in "Podcasting: Turning Chinese?"

moreorless — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 18:32:16 +0000

The article mentioned MasterClass. Has anyone tried the courses?

https://www.masterclass.com/

Podcasting: Turning Chinese?

moreorless — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 18:28:15 +0000

Article URL: https://jacobsmedia.com/podcasting-turning-chinese/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24011938

Points: 3

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New comment by moreorless in "The TikTok War"

moreorless — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 18:18:43 +0000

TikTok = Chinese government? That is quite a leap there.