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by Volpe 14y ago
China (as usual) painted as an evil villain to the righteous U.S. A great startup idea, would be a media outlet that didn't push such a massive point of view on everything... Likely, a lot of media outlets probably started that way...
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by Volpe 14y ago
With you're example highlights the amount of 'hype' around the issue though. If someone assumed I was brown-eyed (when in fact I'm blue), I'm not going to write about it, because it is a non-issue. The issue is around the stigma we place ar
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by Volpe 14y ago
Their agenda is economic advancement, your point is indicative of that. The party would serve no (meaningful) purpose if it lost it's ability to govern, so stability of government is equally important.
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by Volpe 14y ago
But buddhists generally aren't vague, they are extremely expressive about what they are talking about. Are you refering to something specific?
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by Volpe 14y ago
iTunes does all those things. :)
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by Volpe 14y ago
A number of schools of buddhism hold no 'diety', yet still have monks who isolate themselves.
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by Volpe 14y ago
Lots... yet everyone quotes that same australian one. That misrepresents a suburb as a 'city'. How many places in the world have vacant property developments? Do you call them 'ghost cities'?
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by Volpe 14y ago
Well despite proving my point. What isn't innovative about this project?
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by Volpe 14y ago
> Israel on the other hand has never called for the destruction of any of its neighbors. Not true. But this political debate is probably not for HN
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by Volpe 14y ago
But you don't read between the lines with USA Today, and The Australian? "Unbiased press" = oxymoron
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by Volpe 14y ago
China doing something innovative! Queue the slew of pro-West/Anti-china comments. sigh
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by Volpe 14y ago
They are the same thing. Government owned companies are not "part of the government" like government departments are. The CEO's and directors are probably all members of the party, but labelling every employee as a party member running th
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by Volpe 14y ago
I suspect the Great Firewall already does whitelisting rather than blacklisting. When an external (out of china) domain is visited from within china (for the first time), it is blocked. It is then later unblocked. I've experimented with th
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by Volpe 14y ago
Except that in any "democratic vote" such a 'call for independence' would be voted down, as the number of Han chinese outnumber the ethnic minorities in those regions. They've thought of that problem already. True democracy... (Is that like
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by Volpe 14y ago
No, they aren't. Working for a government owned company is not working for the government. They can have no affiliation with the CCP (which isn't possible if you work for a government department).
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by Volpe 14y ago
Phone number style email addresses are quite common in China. I assume it's because you can't have unicode email address? (can you?) And there are only a hundred or so different names (in pinyin without tone marks)...
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by Volpe 14y ago
> And what's with use of the term "capitalist"? Are there lots of socialists in America now? Are American workers not capitalists? Workers (as in people who work for a wage) aren't Capitalists (as in the Noun). You don't have to be a So
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by Volpe 14y ago
I hope that isn't a serious response... really?
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by Volpe 14y ago
For those that don't quite get the difference... What do you mean "really referring to ID" ? Is that different to id (other than case)?
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by Volpe 14y ago
Cherry pick much...?
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by Volpe 14y ago
Loaning money that poses no risk to yourself (subprime brokers) is quite different from loaning money you risk losing (VCs). Morals don't come into it, they are factually different. VCs aren't on selling their risk (thus mitigating it). Ar
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by Volpe 15y ago
> skilled migration is still an excellent pathway to Australian citizenship via permanent residency if you've got desirable skills. and fluency in English.
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by Volpe 15y ago
One type of immigration (aka Student/Skilled migration) is based on points. The rest are a mixture of bribery, and racism. (See parent-contributory, english requirements, etc). All of the above only get you Permanent residency (You can't vo
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by Volpe 15y ago
They are supposed to have a hard time estimating a few months out. Predicting the future is hard.
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by Volpe 15y ago
You're kind of ranting about downvotes... no one cares, and it's annoying. Why care about karma so much? It's just a mechanic this site uses, it's no reflection on your character.
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by Volpe 15y ago
I think you need to moderate this view slightly. Whilst yes, ostracising people doesn't help. Humour and sarcasm are effective team building/social tools, and "sledging" or "poking fun" are effective ways to build long term teams. Just sp
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by Volpe 15y ago
Actually Apple predicted this when they released the knowledge navigator video[1] in 1987 [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGYFEI6uLy0
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by Volpe 15y ago
Interesting that we now think "The website is broken" because google can't index it... rather than "Google is broken" ? I remember reading somewhere google executes javascript as part of its crawling...
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by Volpe 15y ago
Why is that so shocking? It logs both.
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by Volpe 15y ago
No, it's not possible... how do you delete a key with a mass-assignment hack?

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