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What happens if China and Russia form a NATO-esq agreement while Russia takes old USSR countries and China takes Taiwan?


Then they still have to take them. Russia's having trouble with the first step. Some of the other steps are going to require facing off with all of NATO. That's going to be harder.

China may be able to take Taiwan. First they have to get enough stuff across the straight. That's not easy. To do it, they have to own the sea and the air, which means that they have to have disabled most of the American assets within hundreds of miles. That's not easy either.

They can form the agreement (the Moscow-Beijing Axis) if they want. "Taking" is harder.


Well, we have always been at war with Eurasia and East Asia.


> while Russia takes old USSR countries

Given that several of those are NATO countries, WWIII if they even try.


that sounds like pretty bad deal for China, I would assume at very least China taking at least Mongolia as well together with Taiwan


Two sides to every coin. Ethical developers need ways to make low prices work, which is impossible without good testing suites.


These days, if you're developing something for profit it's pretty hard to see your software as ethical. You're either trying to empower your user or trying to monetize them, the two will always fight one another and snuff the other out unless you, the developer, take a stand.I fully understand the market for proprietary software, but trying to define some ethical middle ground is just blatant lip service, nothing else.


Hey! Jake here from FitnessAI (YC W20)

We should chat :)

jake@fitnessai.com


> More to the point, if a law is passed that says "all browsers must do X,Y and Z". How to you enforce that in a world where open source is so prevalent?

Easier to enforce it on browsers than EVERY SINGLE website that uses cookies for tracking, no?


If you tell the website “no don’t track me” it can’t even remember not to track you (because doing so would be tracking you!) so they have to ask every time.

If you tell the browser no, it would just block the site from storing any info in the browser. It would ask you once only the first time you visit a site, and you can change it whenever in the toolbar. Problem solved, no?


> If you tell the website “no don’t track me” it can’t even remember not to track you (because doing so would be tracking you!) so they have to ask every time.

That is absolutely not true.


Yet another asshole comment on HN. How about being supportive of new endeavors? Nobody got anywhere without a little self promotion.


The "Show HN" post is allowed and encouraged [1], it's shame that we always see comments like that here.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html


Not always, or even close to most of the time—but the poisonous comments unfortunately stand out so much that they loom large in one's impression of these threads.


Making this free is brilliant.

(1) maybe OP has AWS or GCP credits (very easy to get from these companies’ startup ambassadors)

(2) If there’s ever a greedy actor taking up resources, it seems like they would be relying on the system to the point where they are willing to pay for it.

This is exactly the right way to start a business... Do one thing well in a way that doesn’t scale — this gives you the opportunity to learn from customers and build better offerings.

Why do you think AWS and GCP give out free credits to begin with?


A tiny utility to cheat the App Store review process and ship any feature you want. Why? Because Apple likes to remove apps that compete with their own.


Here you go! If you visit the site on mobile it links directly. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fitness-ai-weight-lifting-pl...


You're only hit with the chat during sign up, after that it's optional. Beginners like the feature.

The download badge links directly to the App Store on iOS; on desktop it lets you send yourself a text with the download link, which is standard behavior for Branch links. Alternatively you can just search FitnessAI in the App Store

I'd suggest giving it a shot before drawing any conclusions. Message me for a free 30 days :)


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