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by abc-xyz 6y ago
Here’s an incomplete list of things Trump has done to stand up to China. I challenge everyone to name a single person (or country, or continent) who’s done more than him. - He refers to the Wuhan Virus as the China/Chinese Virus (CCP i
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Taiwan official in hospital after alleged 'violent attack' by Chinese diplomats(theguardian.com)
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Day 4 of Twitter barring nypost account access unless we self censor(twitter.com)
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China passes export-control law following U.S. moves(reuters.com)
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
What exactly did Biden do to stand up to China during the Obama/Biden administration (or throughout his political career)? Here’s an incomplete list of things Trump has done: - He refers to the Wuhan Virus as the China/Chinese Vir
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Sony Playstation TOS for users with China as country/area of residence(remarksfrombeijingandfriends.blogspot.com)
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
s/Belarus/Hongkong/ and get flagged off the frontpage.
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
How’s it ineffective? The previous administration spent 8 years coming up with a terrible agreement that all candidates wanted to quit. Meanwhile the high tariffs have forced companies to leave, and sure, Biden has said that he’d end Trump’
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
From Alexis Ohanian interview in 2006: > Paul wanted to give Aaron Swartz, another YC founder, a birthday gift in November. More than anything else, Aaron wanted co-founder so Paul suggested the “merger”. Merger is probably a bit hyperbo
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
Have you tried publishing apps for the App/Play Store? Last time I made a game with Unity then I had to export it to different platforms and for some of them, such as iOS, then I had to make additional code modifications with xcode to
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
You’d have to be a fool to believe the numbers coming out of China, there’s also been a great increase in suicides and job losses (especially in countries like Thailand and the Philippines). But you’re right, we have a million deaths that c
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
> In China's case, it is only as good as the CCP dictator. What if the next leader of CCP is corrupt or even worse, incompetent af? You make it sound like their current leader, who’s no better than Hitler, isn’t corrupt and incompet
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
Tit for tat reciprocity is the basis for most modern trade relations.
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
> ByteDance has had a party committee since 2017 and is headed by CCP secretary and company editor-in-chief Zhang Fuping (張輔評), reported Human Rights Watch. Members of the committee hold regular gatherings at which they study speeches by
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
But they cannot buy the same data - the quantity and quality of the data they obtain themselves (through apps like TikTok and WeChat that are running in the background 24/7 while collecting any information possible, such as secretly co
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
Why not? It’s basically the only app China have managed to make popular in USA. And they’ve had to blow billions on ads to do so. I do believe it would be best to block all apps owned by the Chinese, but blocking them one by one would work
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
Then why would you put China alongside USA? It’s not like their software has been an international success. China pretty much only have TikTok, while EU have Spotify. You might be tempted to include WeChat and games that Tencent brought, bu
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
> ByteDance has had a party committee since 2017 and is headed by CCP secretary and company editor-in-chief Zhang Fuping (張輔評), reported Human Rights Watch. Members of the committee hold regular gatherings at which they study speeches by
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
No it isn’t. iOS have had malware problems as well as a result of people jailbreaking their device to install software from third-parties. Apple fortunately makes it increasingly difficult to jailbreak it. We can also see that Apple were un
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
F-Droid is even more locked down than the App Store, and even if they turned it into the default app store then Android would still be riddled with malware. As to how the Android users keep acquiring malware, I have no idea whether it’s fro
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
Android also have a lot of malware issues. I’ve had to help factory reset Android phones quite a few times because friends and family ended up getting spammed with sex notifications and had their search engine hijacked. Windows and OSX suff
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
Let’s compare malware on Windows, OSX, Android vs iOS, shall we?
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
Why are you, tech-savvy users, forcing Apple to allow third-party app stores/installations, which would no doubt lead to malware like we see on Windows, Macs, and Android? I and my software friends/colleagues might be capable of a
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
> TikTok takes the content you have seen and implicitly shown that you like, and shows you diverse content that has some of the features you seemed to enjoy, while it learns from that. In my case the recommendations had nothing to do wit
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
Are you implying that the only valid use case for liking specific types of videos is sexual gratification?
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
I’d say there are countless of valid use cases where this is relevant. Maybe you normally live in (or plan to travel to, or just curious about) X country but TikTok is incapable of understanding you’re only interested in videos from there.
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
TikTok’s recommendation system is absurdly overrated. I tried to make an account where I only watched (in full length)/searched for/liked videos of a specific gender/race/age group.. yet even after liking over a hundred
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Chinese authorities threatened to detain ABC journalist’s 14-year-old daughter(theguardian.com)
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
Tencent/WeChat also control what you see in your feeds. I often notice when I share information/pictures related to Hong Kong/Xinjiang then my posts doesn’t always appear in my friends feeds (because the image hash/phras
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
What are they gonna do? Ban Google, Facebook, et al.? Oh wait, they’ve already been banning foreign companies for decades. Or maybe they’ll force foreign companies to give up ownership to Chinese locals? Oh wait, they’ve already been doing

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