China’s Ministry of Commerce said Tuesday that PVH Corp. must provide documentation and evidence within 30 days to show it did not engage in discriminatory practices

That’s one way of saying they want this US company to provide proof they don’t comply with US sanctions.

I don’t understand what they’re realistically hoping for. Forcing them to pick between operating in the US or operating in China?

At least this is putting a spotlight on the genocide of Uyghurs.

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fines of up to €50,000 ($55,580) for supporting “the refusal to have children.”

I’m sure the law is absolutely consistent and grant the right to adopt to gay couples, right? Right?

It’s obvious that it’s about the country, at least for anyone outside the US.

China’s really being a champion of peace and stability /s

Better late than never.

Once the war in Ukraine is over, weaponized drones won’t just vanish. They’re already made by companies with different level of ethics and any country able to pay is or will be able to buy them. Sooner or later, like many weapons, organised crime will get their hands on them, and use them outside of battlefield.

There’s no way to completely prevent it, but we could at least limit damage by regulating the shit out of drones.

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A call for resignation may only be the first step, or a way to confront him and calling out his failures.

Nice.

Does Forgejo support Git? I’m not familiar with Forgejo, and it’s not obvious in this announcement or their homepage.

Forgejo does support Git, I didn’t read carefully enough.

There miners robot don’t exist yet, but they would probably require high tech components and manufacturing capabilities for all these different components (motors, electronics, batteries, sensors, …).

Self replicating robots is still science fiction. If we wanted to build such robots in space, we’d need to build and launch manufacturing facilities in space before we can actually build robots in space.

Hypothetically, it would only make sense to mine rare materials in space, and it would only have environmental benefits if we return significant amount compared to the mass of rockets we send into space.

There is no coal/gas/oil in space, and even if extracting these resources were cleaner, burning that stuff would still be disastrous.

Space mining would be at best viable for very niche uses for a few material. It won’t bring us infinite clean resources, overall we still need to reduce extraction of resources.

I was about to say people can walk and chew gum. But this kind of miss the point.

This is not space exploration, this is not for science’s sake. This is about extracting resources, and making a profit. I heard one of these companies perpetuate the idea that there’s virtually infinite resource, which imply we can continue with humanity’s exponential growth without negative consequences. That mindset landed us in the inextricable mess we’re in.

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The Skeptics Guide also commented on The Cass Review in their August 3rd episode, starting at 39’45". This summarize the review and its conclusions, explains the problems with it, and why most specialist in the US are ignoring the cass review’s conclusions.

That’s unfortunate.

Technically this hasn’t been approved by the General Assembly yet, and then individual countries would need to ratify it. But press coverage suggest it’s a done deal.

For the treaty to go into force, 40 nations have to ratify it.

UN approves its first treaty targeting cybercrime

In many places, ratifying a treaty requires parliament approval, so it’s not going to be quick. Talk to your representative once this treaty comes up in your parliement’s agenda.

Bitcoin is not practical for small purshases, because transaction takes several minutes, and have around 50USD per-transaction fee. Note the cost of fees and value of bitcoin vary wildly, so the same amount of bitcoin may be enough to pay rent in August, but not in September.

On a more ethical level, it’s also quite bad because of the insane energy cost of bitcoin transactions.

This is an opinion piece… It’s clearly marked as being an opinion. Even though it has solid arguments, and probably hold some truth, it’s not an actual news article written by NYT staff, it’s not pretending to be a factual reporting by a journalist nor an objective truth.

Everyone is free to agree or disagree with it. To buy, sell, or hold.

It would be wise however to consider the argument themselves, and not decide go to in one direction just because the author/publisher is someone you like or dislike.

Bitcoin finds a new use! Helping Russia finance its war of agression against Ukraine.

Why not both?

zero usefuless x 2 = zero usefulness