Total control of the lives of your citizens is evil. It’s an evil goal. It’s evil if you’re Chinese. It’s evil if you’re European. It’s a goal for insects. Not humans.

I will morally judge total control of citizens with my voice, my wallet, my vote. all my strength as long as I and my children live.

Soft influence. Release a couple more international films. Allow at least one major American company unfettered access to the Chinese market (better if it were an underdog American company whose brand is an up and coming younger hip version of some big corporate player) to demonstrate the possibilities inherent in playing ball w/ China. Continue to advertise world leadership in AI research and invite cooperation and share advancements with neighboring countries. Continue and expand their space program with international cooperation.

In another 10 years they’d take the mantel of world superpower from the US.

But I guess it’s true of totalitarian government as it is with most evil: it contains the seeds of its own destruction

Agreed, largely. At the rate we're going, that mantle will be theirs for the taking before long.

They are really shooting themselves in the foot over HK

For the Communist Party, it's not about HK, at least not exclusively. It's about everybody else in their sphere of influence, including Taiwan, who will be emboldened if HK prevails.

HK is basically an exercise in calling Xi's bluff. Everyone will now see his cards, whatever they are. The residents of HK have judged that now is the time to do that, for better or worse, and they deserve our support.

China has intentionally conflated dealings with government cartels with capitalist enterprise. Its just a means to obscure what would otherwise be called "treason" and sweep under the rug any notion that your business can be, "nationalized" at their whim.

I don't understand how American businesses didn't learn their lesson in Cuba in the 60's?

What would that lesson be?

US and American businesses did fine business with the Cuban dictatorship of Batista:

"Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (/bəˈtiːstə/;[1] Spanish: [fulˈxensjo βaˈtista i salˈdiβaɾ]; born Rubén Zaldívar;[2] January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was a Cuban military officer and politician who served as the elected President of Cuba from 1940 to 1944, and as its U.S.-backed military dictator from 1952 to 1959, before being overthrown during the Cuban Revolution."

I guess the takeaway is: "Do business with friendly dictatorships we helped install, as opposed to independent ones".

Exactly!

>I suffer from deep depression because I wageslave for a surveillance capitalist and I'm also terrible at writing JavaScript. Should I start microdosing lsd or just kill myself?

Ouch.

People don't talk. HR departments talk. If you consider them people then that's on you.

Move jobs after a year or so for more money regardless of whether you like your employer.

Circumstances change. Your salary stays with you long after that great manager has moved on.

I think this misconception stems primarily from the 2008 Obama campaign where groundbreaking work was done directly by Obama's campaign staff using social media for outreach and organizing. This was largely driven by open and direct channels of communication to Facebook staff and the hiring of Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes and his work with the campaign.

In retrospect I think the relationships built between the Democratic party and Facebook were more about Facebook the company dipping its toe into the wider world of lobbying and the personal relationship of Chris Hughes to LGBT issues and his partner's burgeoning political career. It had less to do with Facebook's Executive staff having deeply held Democratic values or entrenching corporate values that align with the Democratic party and was driven more by a desire to see favorable economic policy for the company.

In the years since we've seen almost 0 movement by political campaigns to pursue this kind of outreach short of your typical ad buys. I think Democratic candidates realized that they were funneling huge amounts of time and money into a service that is actually a competitor. A competitor that is more regulated and less scary than what modern political parties actually track, retain, and use to target their base.

I wonder if Warren isn't getting as much grass roots traction in large part because she hasn't realized that what Facebook does is chump change compared to the operation she needs in place to win.

Let's see how far a candidate gets who takes a similar stand against LexisNexis and threatens to cut off their H-1B visa rubber stamps.

The modern political campaign is basically a startup on the scale of Facebook but your verticals are online, email, direct mail, text, calls, and door to door sales. Oh, and you have physical offices in 50 states, your CEO is perpetually out of office on the road, your sales model is largely B2C, the unpaid interns outnumber the poorly paid full time staff by 100:1, your runway is a couple of months, and you have to completely pivot the company to an entirely new business model 1 month before your IPO (GOTV).

I think people for some reason overlook the historical coincidence that the Obama campaign came along only two years after Facebook was open to the public.

I don't think that any other explanation of why they are associated can be meaningful, when it was the first presidential campaign that could work with them, and the last one where it could be groundbreaking.

I thought this was going to be an article about how Github is preventing scraping of your personal information by recruiter sites by displaying your profile information in a flash container.

I don't really have a point here, but my wife and I recently looked at burial options and there's a beautiful cemetery near us but the only really affordable option is cremation and storage in a wall of tiny notches with little doors with an indoor/outdoor viewing area and garden for visitors.

I have started referring to it as, "Our Cubby" and my wife hates it.

If "JS Framework Anxiety" isn't in the next DSM it damn well should be.