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It's time for western companies to stop pretending it's possible to be economically successful in China whilst remaining true to their purported western values.


> whilst remaining true to their purported western values

The issue is of course that none of the big corporates give a rat's ass about any these "western values".


Of course they do.

All big corporations love the western values; money, money and money.


They are pretending alright, but the order is reversed.


Article dances around and equivocates. Simple answer is "no".

Whole purpose of E2EE is to assume server is untrusted, but build a secure system anyway.

Zoom can watch & read your content whenever they want to. Full stop.


All your cell phone calls can be heard at the providers servers too


I've really grown to dislike the "people who presumably consider themselves ethical defending a regime that represses free speech and expression, brutally crushes dissenters, disappears ethical doctors, is led by a 'president for life' dictator, and has literally hauled off 1M muslims to internment campus where their organs are being harvested and their culture is being erased, thing".


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Wikipedia references estimates of 1.5 million & 1-3 million. [0]

"Uighurs are allegedly pressured to renounce their culture" [1] More references is the Wikipedia article as well.

"China forcefully harvests organs from detainees" [2] Same article discusses the 1.5 million figure.

All of these are from basic Google searches. The information is out there if you look.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps

[1] http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2019/11/14/20...

[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-forcefully-harvests...


Where the 1 million number came from:

https://qz.com/1599393/how-researchers-estimate-1-million-uy...

https://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/features/where-d...

https://www.nchrd.org/2018/08/china-massive-numbers-of-uyghu...

Note the sources: Radio Free Asia (CIA propaganda group), Adrian Zenz (religious nutjob), etc.

Note the method: Estimates by satellite imagery and interviewing a handful of residents.

All of these reports that are used as evidence of cultural genocide are hearsay. Uyghurs are taught to renounce extremist beliefs not their culture as a whole.

Here is the actual report from the 'tribunal':

https://chinatribunal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ChinaTr...

Note that their 'direct evidence' are also just hearsay. I see no concrete proof of organ harvesting from Uyghurs. Maybe you can find it.


First Page Of Google.


I don't believe everything I see on the first page of Google, and you shouldn't either.


You have been given the citations you asked for, but now you want something specific but you haven’t said what.

What are your criteria for something you wouldn’t just dismiss?


>You have been given the citations you asked for

I disagree. I see a lot of speculation not actual proof.

>you want something specific but you haven’t said what. What are your criteria for something you wouldn’t just dismiss?

How about proof to back up these claims? It's amazing how some people can be so invested in a story that they'll throw basic logical reasoning out the window.


End of 5th paragraph:

>"unfortunately, the NSFG doesn’t have full data on men’s premarital sexual behavior, and in any event they recall their own marital histories less reliably than do women)"


Men can't remember if they had sex?


I believe they tend to over-remember, if anything.


The claim is less reliably, not that they can't remember.


Repl.it is amazing -- my company builds software for higher-ed and repl.it is consistently the most oft-requested integration, in CS classes but also in STEM more broadly.


Is this only for incentive stock options or also for RSUs from Facebook, etc?


Softbank


Latest news seems to indicate that Softbank is considering investing at a ~$40B valuation.. considerably lower than the $69B number floating around. And although it is probably just a negotiation tactic, they claim to be considering an investment in Lyft instead.

https://www.recode.net/2017/8/7/16110020/benchmark-softbank-...

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/31/softbank-talks-to-invest-in-...


To elaborate, iirc Softbank wants to buy at a 30% discount to the latest topline paper price (which is entirely fair).


Boost is _not_ a bot -- it's a team of AI-enhanced, real-life career coaches. Think Facebook's M.


"Levandowski's side-companies were acquired by Google in 2011 for around $50M"


Study credits Uber because specificity > vagueness. From 2011 - present Uber was responsible for vast the majority of ride-share rides: https://www.thestreet.com/story/13536061/1/uber-now-more-pop...


Living in New York for 2012-2015: it felt like there was about a 50:50 split on Lyft vs Uber.

Lyft doesn't seem to have even near that sort of penetration in other cities from what I've experienced.


What gave you the impression that Lyft has 50%? Thats certainly not been my experience.


SF probably 60% Uber, 40% Lyft. Although to be honest, I'd argue Lyft is becoming a bit more common.


My feeling is that statistics figures based on feelings are probably at least 60% wrong.



Lyft has a decent presence in Los Angeles and a number of people, including myself, find it to be consistently cheaper.


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