Hacker News: stevens32

New comment by stevens32 in "Trump gives Microsoft 45 days to clinch TikTok deal"

stevens32 — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 16:59:28 +0000

It doesn't add up because we have a president that can't do math.

New comment by stevens32 in "Blog Anonymously"

stevens32 — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 22:06:17 +0000

It's mind boggling that someone who doesn't understand a term and asks for clarification of it be down-voted like this.

New comment by stevens32 in "India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps"

stevens32 — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 18:08:37 +0000

This is super late, but if you see this - care to clarify what the bias is?

New comment by stevens32 in "Calls for TikTok to be banned in Australia over Chinese spying fears"

stevens32 — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 17:56:45 +0000

Banning books is certainly wrong, but to be fair to Australia - banning a book on assisted suicide is maybe not the worst thing

New comment by stevens32 in "Git Repo of Police Brutality During the 2020 George Floyd Protests"

stevens32 — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 00:28:09 +0000

It's possible the police forces are a body of people who have a strong us-vs-them culture. On the one hand it probably helps them execute their sometimes dangerous job, on the other hand it bleeds into symptoms like the blue wall of silence.

New comment by stevens32 in "Git Repo of Police Brutality During the 2020 George Floyd Protests"

stevens32 — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 00:14:34 +0000

Good point, the police already have avenues to tell their side (the news) and this resource provides the rest of the story. Like all pieces of information, it's good to understand the biases at play before accepting anything as fact.

New comment by stevens32 in "Git Repo of Police Brutality During the 2020 George Floyd Protests"

stevens32 — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 00:12:05 +0000

:%s/ or/ and/g

New comment by stevens32 in "How Did Vim Become So Popular?"

stevens32 — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 23:58:23 +0000

I knew vim was old, but had no idea the lineage traced back 50 years. Vim has always felt like an exoskeleton suit compared to the spaceship dashboard of full-fledged IDEs. You can also add plugins to gain most of the functionality of an IDE.

It does have a blood price, some days I spend just as much time hacking on my vimrc/plugins as the actual code I opened vim for.

New comment by stevens32 in "The world should think better about catastrophic and existential risks"

stevens32 — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 23:36:04 +0000

20c being habitable seems like a stretch to me, and my Google Fu only turned up mentions of Antarctica hitting 20c. Have any references for that number? Most reports I've read say a +2c will cause significant problems globally.

New comment by stevens32 in "Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions Next Year"

stevens32 — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 17:23:45 +0000

Vocational training is way under-utilized and promoted in the US, but there are still many many jobs that won't even look at you without a degree in hand. As long as we're careful about where the money comes from, universal education can be a huge win for almost all citizens.

New comment by stevens32 in "Stripe CEO urge US business to condemn atrocities committed by CCP on its people"

stevens32 — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 17:11:32 +0000

It is horrible, you're right.

The parent comment implied it was evil to mistreat minorities - absolutely true. But in the article that was linked it mentions that they were treated better than the majority, and were now reduced to the same (horrible) treatment of the majority.

This is an altogether different crime due to mistakes in policy that lead to overpopulation. Would the Nazi Germans ever have let Jewish people have fewer restrictions and easier access to government positions? No. The comparison as presented here is untenable.

New comment by stevens32 in "Stripe CEO urge US business to condemn atrocities committed by CCP on its people"

stevens32 — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 16:57:38 +0000

You're right, it is fascinating. I looked through the edit history and it seems like there's an ongoing effort to remove the references to his other beliefs. Among the referenced articles which have been scrubbed from his wiki:

https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/21/china-detaining-millions-...

New comment by stevens32 in "Stripe CEO urge US business to condemn atrocities committed by CCP on its people"

stevens32 — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 16:18:22 +0000

I just don't want to live in a divisive and post-fact world. It is both sad and scary that this is "fascinating" and "clearly an agenda".

New comment by stevens32 in "India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps"

stevens32 — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 16:12:17 +0000

Thanks for providing more references. Maybe I'm dense, but where exactly is the bullying by the Chinese side? It seems to have gone from a claim that 7-8 Filipino fishermen besieged them, to them saying it was an accident and apologizing.

> Isn't that exactly what USA did to its Japanese citizens during World War II

It was, but eventually they got the dignity of an apology and a check to get their lives in the USA back on track.

The war in India also only lasted barely 2 months, to be held for 5 years seems excessive.

> But that's why nobody likes to go to war, isn't it? The first casualty of war is the truth.

Sometimes the loss of truth is placed before the lead up to war. I'm seeing a lost respect for truth (I'm not directing this at you) and I find it very concerning.

New comment by stevens32 in "Stripe CEO urge US business to condemn atrocities committed by CCP on its people"

stevens32 — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 10:27:29 +0000

This guy is the primary source of the article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Zenz

New comment by stevens32 in "Stripe CEO urge US business to condemn atrocities committed by CCP on its people"

stevens32 — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 10:18:57 +0000

> For decades, China had one of the most extensive systems of minority entitlements in the world, with Uighurs and others getting more points on college entrance exams, hiring quotas for government posts and laxer birth control restrictions. Under China’s now-abandoned ‘one child’ policy, the authorities had long encouraged, often forced, contraceptives, sterilization and abortion on Han Chinese. But minorities were allowed two children — three if they came from the countryside.

This is what evil looks like?

New comment by stevens32 in "Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse"

stevens32 — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 09:54:08 +0000

This seems like a win for the trolls. I've cut Reddit out of my diet and I'm sure those communities were deserving of the ban, but targeting specific subreddits rather than properly enforcing whatever rule they were breaking to create a toxic atmosphere seems like the less good answer of the two.

New comment by stevens32 in "India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps"

stevens32 — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 08:39:38 +0000

Don't worry, apparently India has "snapped the necks of at least 18 PLA"

https://swarajyamag.com/news-brief/indian-soldiers-merciless...

New comment by stevens32 in "India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps"

stevens32 — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 08:35:22 +0000

I read through the tribunal report expecting some sort of evidence, instead it uses guestimates to arrive at numbers for transplant volume then says there's no possible way the organs could've come from volunteers due to that volume. China has 4 times the population of the US, and right about 4 times the amount of transplants claimed in the report.

New comment by stevens32 in "India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps"

stevens32 — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 01:05:36 +0000

This is a world I want to live in. Where do I sign up?