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NedIsakoff
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NedIsakoff
7y ago
"To say it is the natural way of things is, in my eyes, completely ignorant. If that were the case we wouldn't have seen numerous people's revolts throughout the entirety of human history [1]." - It is natural, people wa
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"Authoritarianism aligned with $my_ideology is a terrible thing, but it does seem like a fair number people would actually be most comfortable with that and liberal democracy is just a token, socially acceptable icon." -- This is
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NedIsakoff
7y ago
I've always said that freedom (liberalism) and democracy is actually unnatural. People do not want freedom and democracy, they want authoritarianism that favor their point of view or agenda. The problem is that we have different points
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7y ago
"We are currently torturing asylum seekers, with unlimited detention periods (the only nation on earth who allows this)." - China would love a word with you..
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"Being able to forcefully disclose a journalists sources would not be permitted anywhere else in the world." -- China would like to have a word with you, prehaps..
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NedIsakoff
7y ago
She doesn't think it's odd buying airline tickets from someone named CaptainCooll on WeChat?
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7y ago
At my current company it’s basically the roadmap.
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7y ago
At the same time China is producing more banned CFC, no one is doing anything.
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7y ago
At the time there was no alternative to IBM and their technology. Same can be said of Dow Chemicals. Now there is competitors. Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud will gladly help anyone with facial recognition . See how evil America refuse to
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7y ago
I meant that as internationally. Alibaba and Tencent is having major growth in the Asia markets faster than North American companies. You have to ask why that is, and the answer is that they're more willing to help the country their mo
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7y ago
The reason why U.S. business is more successful is that we have been pushing internationally for longer. As Chinese businesses expand internationally (typo: internally) they are out competing US companies on price and services. Once it has
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7y ago
Is it wrong thou? I don't see the Chinese Government breaking up Alibaba or Tencent.
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7y ago
I lived in China for 15 years. This is probably only temporary leading up to May 35. It happens every year.
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7y ago
Yes. It’s called a knife.
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7y ago
"A Chinese software developer who previously expressed suicidal thoughts has been jailed after putting one of drone company DJI's AES private keys onto Github in plain text." What are AES private keys? Does this mean there&#x
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7y ago
Seriously at this rate I know I'm going back to pirating.I'm currently looking at 4 subscriptions just to keep everyone happy (Disney, NetFlix, CBS, and NBC). Each with its own login username/password and setup everywhere.
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7y ago
Okay, I am confused here but perhaps I'm missing something. It's a TV show right? So if you download something wouldn't it be an AVI file or a MKV file. How do you do malware in an AVI or MKV file?
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7y ago
I think he based it on reality rather than theory. Every communist government has use force to "maintain the revolution": USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, DPRK, China, Romania, etc.
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7y ago
A wise leader once said: All things grow out of the barrel of a gun. According to the Marxist theory of the state, the army is the chief component of state power. Whoever wants to seize and retain state power must have a strong army.
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8y ago
She pissed off the government by using 'yin-yang contracts' which is both illegal and tax evasion. Of course she's not the only one doing it, but she is the most famous actress in China. They probably have her in an re-educat
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8y ago
That's one of my points I always make when people mention UBI experiments. The other one is the amount is too low. I have never been to Finland, but can someone there comment on this: can you live on 560 euros a month without some othe
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I have some concerns about this experiment, but I may be wrong. The whole idea of basic income is that the basic income would be enough for a person to live. Having never been to Finland (but other northern European countries), I can't
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In China, you're mom or mother-in-law will help you raise the kid. That's also why the retirement age in China is 60 for men and 50 for women (55 for women civil servants).
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8y ago
How long a time frame are you talking about? 10 years? 20 years? 3 months? 1 year? If it up to 1 year, find a company that lets you pay up front and pay up front. Also cover domain registration as well. It becomes harder the longer you go t
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8y ago
SalesForce also has professional services, which are SalesForce employees that help you with the integration. My guess is this is what the suit is about, the professional services.
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Read my comment below: SalesForce not like Office 2016 where you install and use it. It's like Oracle EBS in that the forms, workflow, processes and etc needs to be customized for your business and use case. SalesForce has consultants
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SalesForce not like Office 2016 where you install and use it. It's like Oracle EBS in that the forms, workflow, processes and etc needs to be customized for your business and use case. SalesForce has consultants and service people that
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I honestly really don't see the difference beyond that.
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His competitor will provide separate quotes and win.
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8y ago
If you ever go to the flat earth events like conferences, you'll find as I have there's two group of people. The first is the real believers. The second group (which I am a member of sometimes) is there to sell stuff and really do
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