baseless_discourse

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baseless_discourse, (edited )

Sounds like yet another app to fuel excessive-consumption.

Letting us trade our children’s planet for manufactured waste, while enabling billionaires move elsewhere when the earth inevitably die in their hand.

baseless_discourse,

I think clear signage and message on the bill indicating “tipping is optional, service charges is included in the menu price” should suffice.

Making tipping illegal goes too far, but I am okay with implementing it for couple decades, in order to correct a bad habit.

baseless_discourse, (edited )

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang

I don’t think he isn’t properly treated, at least according to wikipedia: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang#Illness_and_d…

There is a bench in New York central park dedicated to him: westsiderag.com/…/central-park-bench-and-gatherin… . If you are near the central park, you can stop by to pay tribute to him.

baseless_discourse, (edited )

You know who else was arrested for “spreading misinformation”? The doctor who tried to warn his friends about covid privately, before the government took any action.

Source (in chinese): www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/chinese-news-51371586

The form he filled out at police station, clearly stating his action is against the law:

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/ws/412/cpsprodpb/8A2F/production/_110757353_wuhandocletter2.jpg

couple related articles in english:

baseless_discourse, (edited )

Yeah, the final ECMO was indeed controversial in Chinese community. Other than that, I have not heard any indication of mistreatment.

Given his high social status, and he said “一个健康的社会不该只有一种声音” (a healthy society shouldn’t only have only one voice), some people suspect CCP likely wanted him dead. But so far, I am not aware of any evidence that his death is man-made.

baseless_discourse, (edited )

According to dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/…/arrest, “arrest” means

If the police arrest someone, they take them away to ask them about a crime that they might have committed

And in www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arrest

to take or keep in custody by authority of law

Dr. Li was taken to police station because the police has deemed his action is against the law.

He was later released because he signed a consent about “stop spreading misinformation”, which I showed in my response. We wouldn’t know how he will be treated if he refuse to sign such consent. But I might hypothesize that the police wouldn’t simply let him go.

And he has never spread any misinformation, the patient record he sent to his friend clearly indicated the patient has tested positive for SARS; and as we know later, the disease is indeed caused by SARS-cov2.

baseless_discourse, (edited )

since most western outlets are causally dismissive of the claims.

It is interesting you didn’t give any western media the benefit of the doubt, while giving CCP plenty.

After a quick google search, it seems like there are several court documents for Zhang’s case circling the internet:

There are two different versions, one judgement, one indictment (copy). Their contents seems to match, and they also match the reports of various media articles.

The indictment mentioned neither “the lie” nor “the truth”, which, in my mind, is probably why most media never reported it.

The document only mentioned:

故根据现查明的事实可以证实 张展通过微信、“twitter”(推特)、“YouTube”(油管)等网络媒介发布的相关文章、视频及接 受采访内容均与武汉市实际防控疫情的客观实际情况不符。

according to current known fact, the related article, videos, and interview by Zhang Zhan on wechat, twitter, youtube, differ from the objective truth of situations in Wuhan.

I was not able to find any court document from official source from China/CCP. Since all these articles are either photos or transcribed from photo, I don’t imagine the original documents are easy to find. It seems like the original document can be obtained from: wenshu.court.gov.cn (according to the title of the website, and Chinese government owned domain name), but they require personally identifiable information (like phone number, which is connected to ID in China) after I typed in 张展 (Zhang Zhan).

But since you clearly know more about China and CCP than I do, so you might want to give it a try.

baseless_discourse, (edited )

So this is how our money is spent, wiping the butt of some power-trip cops. No wonder why we cannot get free education.

After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year (www.billboard.com)

When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...

baseless_discourse, (edited )

bandcamp is nice. They give much more to artist, and allow you to download flac. So that you can enjoy your music without worrying about your listening habits feeding the machine.

Our share is 15% on digital items, and 10% on physical goods. Payment processor fees are separate and vary depending on the size of the transaction, but for an average size purchase, amount to an additional 4-7%. The remainder, usually 80-85%, goes directly to the artist or their label, and we pay out daily.

bandcamp.com/fair_trade_music_policy

baseless_discourse,

I think spotify is swedish. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotify

baseless_discourse,

I think capitalism has already prevailed before America is the dominant force in it.

baseless_discourse,

What if I am allergic to cicadas? The article doesn’t seem to specify that case.

baseless_discourse, (edited )

This is a violation of GDPR, no?

EDIT: user created content is not directly protected under GDPR, only personally identifiable data is pertected under GDPR.

baseless_discourse,

User should have the right to delete their data stored by the company.

baseless_discourse,

I am not a expert or a lawyer, but I believe user actually hold the right to completely erase personal data:

The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller the erasure of personal data concerning him or her without undue delay and the controller shall have the obligation to erase personal data without undue delay

gdpr.eu/right-to-be-forgotten/

Note the word “erasure” as opposed to “anonymize”

baseless_discourse, (edited )

I am not a lawyer, but I believe in general, yes.

Git is not even that convoluted, as all the history is stored in the .git folder within the repo. Unless there is some convoluted structure built on top, they would only need to move the repo folder to a trash disk, waiting to be formated.

That being said, GDPR is somewhat poorly enforced at the moment, unfortunately. I don’t know if you can sue the company and expect some result within couple of years.

baseless_discourse,

I think you are right, user generated content doesn’t seem to be protected. This is surprising to me, as user should hold the right to their content, which in my mind should enjoy stronger protection than personal data.

baseless_discourse, (edited )

And it is actually published by OP (in the image), finally, a meme that is not a repost.

I also hope one day bio/chem community can move away from paywalled platform like nature and science to more reasonable publishers.

baseless_discourse, (edited )

countable infinite set are unique up-to bijection, you can count by rational numbers if you want. I don’t think counting is a good intuition.

baseless_discourse, (edited )

On the contrary - to be countabley infinite is generally assumed to mean there exists a 1-1 correspondence with N.

Isn’t this what I just said? If I am not mistaken, this is exactly what “unique up-to bijection” means.

Anyways, I mean either starting from 1 or 0, they can be used to count in the exactly same way.

baseless_discourse, (edited )

I don’t personally know many programming languages that provide natural number type in their prelude or standard library.

In fact, I can only think of proof assistants, like Lean, Coq, and Agda. Obviously the designer of these languages know a reasonable amount of mathematics to make the correct choice.

(I wouldn’t expect the same from IEEE or W3C, LOL

baseless_discourse,

Oh, array indexing, sure.

baseless_discourse, (edited )

BTW, 0 is typically considered a scalar. As in mathematics scalar is typically defined as a field, which would require an additive identity, namely 0.

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