PakG1

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by PakG1 6y ago
We can go back and forth about this, but political feelings aside, although Taiwan acts like an independent state and has its own government, no important independent state treats it like an independent state, including the US. Donald Trum
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The difference being that the world never agreed to the idea that France was a part of Germany. The world has for the most part agreed that Taiwan is a part of China. It is what it is. Whatever people's personal feelings might be, t
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by PakG1 6y ago
Not sure what your question is. With the new laws, China would not let any HK residents be non-loyalists.
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I think you misunderstand how much of the world's electronics are manufactured in China and how difficult it would be to relocate all that. Like I'm invested in a rare earth element company in Canada, and I still expect to see th
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by PakG1 6y ago
Yes, but my point is that most of the world, including the US, has agreed to acknowledge the One China policy as correct in order to access China on a diplomatic and trade basis. Hence why it's not so easy to resolve.
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Their navy is nowhere yet ready to fight a real war. Look at analysis of their fleet. Two aircraft carriers with limited capacity. But any war would have home court advantage with long-range missile support from the coast. That's t
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by PakG1 6y ago
Hong Kong not being able to diversify its economy beyond real estate and finance disabled it from having strong leverage. The Hong Kong that was rich enough to support Sichuan after the 2008 earthquake is now arguably less economically dyn
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by PakG1 6y ago
Did an MBA in Hong Kong, just finished earlier this year. A lot of my classmates are mainland Chinese. Bunch of them would regularly talk with each other and say that military action was the only way to resolve the situation, China needs
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I have never realized this. Wow, this would explain some weird conversations.
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Well, I suppose I'd have to see the growth rate of how much that 30% cut adds to their bottom line to decide that. But even if it were huge, probably the actual iPhones still make way more money.
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Well, never let it be said that conspiracy theories go with Occam's Razor, they can get really convoluted. Like the jump from Gates wanting to inject everyone with vaccines to Gates wanting to inject everyone with vaccines and chips s
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These people are the really weird ones to me. They think they are more experts than the people who have studied this stuff for years. I don't understand the arrogance.
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Is that sarcasm?
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I run IT for my organization and I am seeing a lot of phishing emails from Sendgrid. I haven't counted or done data analysis for proportion, but it's enough volume for me to really notice it.
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by PakG1 6y ago
You got it wrong, it's a fantastic superhero origin story. Well, hopefully superhero, not supervillain. :)
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by PakG1 6y ago
Maybe. In the tainted milk scandal, the executives were jailed, and it was the lower level people who were executed. https://www.nbcwashington.com/local/natlchina-issues-death-s...
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by PakG1 6y ago
Easy for HN to do that. HN is not incentivized to make money. The people who run HN do not care if HN does not make any money. In fact, they have zero monetization strategies for HN.
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by PakG1 6y ago
Epic being big is possibly the only reason why they had the balls to pull the trigger on this whole thing. Can't imagine indies doing it, not enough money and power. Gotta take fights you can handle.
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That part is REALLY weird.
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I'm working longer because now everyone expects my availability 24/7, rather than just during office hours.
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The mortality rate may be low over the long run. But certainly over the short run, it was very very high. It is not a normal thing for city morgues to run out of room such that they need to truck in refrigeration units to hold dead bodies
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The worst part is that anti-vaxxers would be able to say, "See??? I was right!!!! You're all idiots!!!!!!"
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Yes, sure, but this all unfortunately feeds into the motivations of conspiracy theorists. Maybe it is what it is, but what can we do to stop the wave of noncritical thinking washing over the Internet, where people insist that they are the
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Seriously makes me wonder if future generations would be able to garner a relatively objective understanding of everything that's happened. 100 years later, what would make one media source from today be considered more reliable than
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I'd love for more data on this. Is ability to maintain a close relationship also a predictor of ability to overcome bad things that happen? That is, is there some overarching skill or ability that those people have whose close relati
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What the heck? How would they even know? Neighbours reported seeing them carrying new cabinets in? The store reported it to the government? That's just weird.
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Really would prefer to not have all my sweat dripping into my carpet though. :)
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For what it's worth, Thiel isn't supporting Trump like he used to so far. https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/2/21312154/peter-thiel-trump...
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Dang, so someone who invested in 1997 would have still made money in 2002, though they would have a lot of psychological pain from the ride down from the peak.
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by PakG1 6y ago
Hah, same feeling. Let us know if you find any good AWS courses! :D Will do likewise.

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