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  1. China is communist in name only. It's a one party dictatorship market-ish economy with uncontrolled capitalism except by the state.

  2. As long as there is compliance with the labour laws. Anything above is moral policing. And the thing about moral is - there are too many standards.

    Why would anyone want to offer career development advices or perks to "vendors" and "contractors"? Their primary employer is either themselves or another company. There's absolutely no point spending on them resources designed for internal growth.

  3. Would be to release her totally and let her fly away.
    At the same time, turn on the rumour machine that she's turned into a double agent as a condition of her release.

  4. Re:Call me when I can test it myself. on A Chinese Startup May Have Cracked Solid-State Batteries (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    i would moderate it as insightful instead of interesting.

  5. It will be a failure on Google To Launch Censored Search In China Despite Denials (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    The Chinese know that their searches are censored and they got used to it. Google has no hope of being popular in that country unless it is not censored. It simply cannot differentiate itself from the myriads of established search engines there.

    My guess is that it won't be launched as Google, it'll be an engine behind another name to test the waters and to avoid humiliation that would certainly happen when we all find out that the name Google means nothing in China if it is still censored like all others.

  6. Re:Nobody wants underpowered fart boxes on VW Group, BMW and Daimler Are Under Investigation For Collusion In Europe (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    > If you forget

    It's the problem. Take some more driving lessons.

  7. It's just the old saying that no replacement for displacement, which is proven to be absurd these days.

    In passenger cars, a 2.0L 4 cylinder turbo nowadays produces more power than a 3.5L 6 cylinder naturally aspired 20 years ago (that's around 300PS).
    A 1.0L 3 cylinder turbo can produce about 140PS, which is sufficient for most people who wants to buy a car.

    The traditional big displacement engines from the American manufacturers...I haven't seen any stats they're in any way more reliable than the turbos.

    Where does your "nobody" come from? If you know how to drive. It's in no way "underpowered". Of course, if you don't know how to drive, it's another story.

  8. Migration on Google is Killing Its 4-Yr-Old Inbox Email App (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Would Google aid in migration of a few differences between Inbox and Gmail?

    Inbox mark as Done is in sync with Gmail archive
    Inbox read doesn't seem to equate with Gmail read
    Inbox pinned is also not the same as Gmail starred

    Please create a migration tool, so all Pinned messages would be starred and all Read messages are also marked as read in Gmail.

  9. Re:Truth is not truth... on Facebook is Rating Users Based On Their 'Trustworthiness' (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's replace that 10 potential victim with 1 victim, now you have 1 terrorist on one side and 1 innocent person on the other side. How would your system handle this?

  10. I see, these people are just right wing by name only. they just do what the lobbyists want.

  11. It's a mainland Chinese company.

  12. Re:Playing God on Scientists Take Step Toward Creating Artificial Embryos (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If you purposefully suppress (you hope) the evidence that would convince you, of course you'll never find it.

    Except that the "evidence" itself is also the definition of what is real.

    By the way, those embryos didn't "happen" to look like. It was on purpose and they *are* early embryos.

    Since when does purpose implies equality? An Accord is built on purpose to be like a Camry, but it is not a Camry.

    Stated as fact, but still an opinion.

    Nope. Fact. Fact is I have seen egg and sperm develop into a real human. To prove that another lump of cell is real, development needs to happen first. The burden of proof is on those who declare they're real, not on those who say they're not real - because they're different from real ones as we know it.

  13. Re:Playing God on Scientists Take Step Toward Creating Artificial Embryos (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    They're not "prevented". There will simply be no evidence. Period. If there's no development, there would be no "result".

    "how will you distinguish between the result of a cell tricked into development and one from an inseminated egg?"

    The burden of proof is on those who say it is real. How can you be sure they're the same? The TFA only shows one facet of similarity.

  14. Re:Should not be playing God on Scientists Take Step Toward Creating Artificial Embryos (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If one can simulate on a computer at a molecular level, and repeat the same experiment to form a "cell" in-silico

    (with progress we're seeing, it won't take that long for it to happen)

    Can it still be a 'vessel' for a human 'soul'?

  15. Re:Should not be playing God on Scientists Take Step Toward Creating Artificial Embryos (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The whole point of inducing it to form would be that is is a human embryo.

    Incorrect. The point of inducing it to form would be that it is similar enough to a human embryo such that conclusions drawn from experimentations on these cells can be reasonably applicable to real ones.

    There is a minor but huge difference between the two.

  16. Re:Should not be playing God on Scientists Take Step Toward Creating Artificial Embryos (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If you induce a human embryo to develop from human cells, then what you have is a human embryo. Implanted, it would develop and mature.

    There is only one way to find out. Has anyone implanted one of these and see it mature?

  17. Re:Playing God on Scientists Take Step Toward Creating Artificial Embryos (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    "Real"?

    For even more controversial ethical reasons, there is not a chance that these cells will be attempted to be developed into a foetus.

    Therefore, nobody will know for sure whether or not they'll be viable foetuses. There'll simply be no evidence to support the "realness" of these lumps of cells that happen to look like early embryos.

    A "real" embryo would be those created through an egg and a sperm.

  18. Re:Should not be playing God on Scientists Take Step Toward Creating Artificial Embryos (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Hold on a second. You mean using artificial embryos which don't come from real eggs and sperms also constitutes "killing unborn babies"?
    The process is created exactly to *prevent* real embryos from being used for experimentation.

    I'd call this progress in the right direction - this will *save* millions of innocent unborn babies by using artificial, not real, embryos.

    If the anti-abortion and/or "no playing God" crowds still protests about this, I'd call it goalpost moving.

  19. Re:Playing God on Scientists Take Step Toward Creating Artificial Embryos (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Well, if scientists cannot experiment with real embryos due to ethical concerns, the logical thing is to experiment with simulated ones.

    Progress needs to be made and the "shouldn't be playing God" mentality cannot have it both ways by ever expanding what's considered a real embryo.

  20. why is it an "experiment"? on Australian Experiment Wipes Out Over 80% of Disease-Carrying Mosquitoes (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    the technique had been used multiple times before, starting decades ago.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  21. Typical trick by pseudocommunist China on Ex-Apple Worker Charged With Stealing Self-Driving Car Trade Secrets (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    Stealing technologies and pretend it's theirs.

  22. Re:And this is a "problem" because ... on Most Organizations Are Not Fully Embracing DevOps (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    Even if both the answers are yes, it still does not mean individuals should be both developing applications and managing the infrastructure. Even in separate teams Ops and Dev can (and do in many organisations) communicate very well.

  23. "no government has ever asked us compromise" on The Pentagon Bans Huawei, ZTE Phones From Retail Stores On Military Bases (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure. No government. Just a political party...oh wait they're the same, never mind.

  24. Re:Telegram on Amazon Web Services Starts Blocking Domain-Fronting (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Very interesting. Telegram seems the most likely ultimate cause. If Russia is threatening to block all of AWS, I can imagine this happening.

  25. Would the actual cause be on Amazon Web Services Starts Blocking Domain-Fronting (theverge.com) · · Score: 2