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by Leary 6y ago
Hacker News discovers more than a billion Chinese people actually supports the Communist Party
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NYTimes seems to disagree: https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/26/archives/worldwide-propag...
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These Hong Kong supporters are a true inspiration for Americans. Their occupation of the legislature shows what a free people could do against oppression
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Alibaba founder Jack Ma is not missing(cnbc.com)
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The article asserts: "Based on the underlying genetic structure, we have already established that, if COVID-19 was the result of a lab escape, it was from gain-of-function research. " This claim is illogical and does not stand. Fo
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the news came out before the market opened in the US
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The new missile gap [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_gap I thought Obama already refuted this in 2012[2] [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK3ORgw-h_4
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New info revealed by article: "The investment firms, which own large stakes in Beijing-based ByteDance Ltd., are key drivers behind a possible bid for TikTok by a group including Oracle Corp." "Microsoft had said it might inv
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General Atlantic, Sequoia Capital Are Key Drivers in Oracle Bid for TikTok(wsj.com)
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Yes. This will give a lot of countries incentives to be economic nationalists. For example, a country could lever a prohibitively high tax for all ads on an American social network. This is why Zuckerberg is now concerned about the Tiktok b
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Why do you think wars occur? Political fragmentation. Ever heard of Pax Romana?
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"What "real chaos" has "China" (which is, by the way, nowhere homogenous) seen that we have not seen?" Warring States: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warring_States_period Chu-Han Contentio
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When Trump said he was gonna build a wall, I didn't know it was gonna be a great fire wall.
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EU requires data to be based in the EU. So a US equivalent would be to require data to be based in the US, not banning whatever tickles its fancy. Consistent rule of law allows economic actors to make proper planning and decisions. If the U
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TikTok potentially to operate as a US company: White House adviser Larry Kudlow(straitstimes.com)
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A very limited/ target sanction against a few members. They should actually freeze the foreign assets of all Politburo members and work on technologies to circumvent the Great Fire wall inside China
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Chinese embassy: ‘Unknown pneumonia’ deadlier than coronavirus in Kazakhstan(scmp.com)
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Southeast Asia, where bats/pangolins are originally from, also might have been exposed to milder coronaviruses in the past (common cold, etc).
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The Herald Sun, I think the Herald Sun is calling for the ban.
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What authority does the Australian government have to ban an app? And would this authority also apply to apps built by Australians or only foreign apps?
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https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/12063/production... China's birthrate did decline with the one child policy (1979). But it declined way more in the decade prior to the introduction of th
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Perhaps you can spell out what political stance this community is for. I'm guessing libertarian? "The term free society is used frequently by American libertarian theorists to denote a society in which their ideal political, legal
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This is contrary to the historical experience of the United States in the 19th and early 20th century. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1873 .
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Facebook removes Trump ads containing symbols used by Nazis(cnbc.com)
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Looking at the cases of the NBA and Blizzard, no. Next step will be hours of Congressional hearings where politicians invoke fiery rhetorics and company executives use verbal jiu jitsu to dodge out of any legal liabilities.
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I would think that an in-person meeting could be substituted by videos calls in the current circumstances, but that phones calls/emails are inferior given the information bandwidth is a lot narrower. There are lots of different kinds o
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What share of US immigrants receive unemployment? Democrats: 25.6% Republicans: 27.1% Reality: 5.5% It seems the bigger bias comes from the general media than any particular party political bias.
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Android still looks 1.4 to me. Are you talking about ios?
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"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the G
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France had Covid-19 on November 16, hospital says after analysis of chest scans(scmp.com)
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