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Virologist releases paper claiming coronavirus made in Chinese lab(taiwannews.com.tw)
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
The value TikTok brings to the CCP cannot be understated. > 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 committ
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
The entire world gains if the CCP collapse. If we weren’t willing to make sacrifices then Nazi Germany would likely be the world’s superpower today. I personally think it’s better to make financial sacrifices now and try to isolate China fr
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
I think the people that expected this to happen are the same people who thought he’d succeed in building the wall. Although it probably has accelerated the need for automated manufacturing capabilities. I’m sure there are many who believed
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
Funny, I was thinking the exact opposite. It’s the perfect way to isolate China from the rest of the world, and unless they start going after allies then I’ll be cheering them on. This is also why 40%-Tencent-owned Epic Games have been atta
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
I often hear people wonder how Biden would deal with China - to those I say look at what he and Obama accomplished (with regard to China) during their 8 years, and you’ll have your answer. Passing laws can also easily be overturned and igno
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
I disagree. They’ve done a lot of economic damage to China (besides war then it’s probably the best way we have to combat the CCP), and they’ve forced companies to move their manufacturing out of China. Even high-end tech stuff like the iPh
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
This is why I’ve been supporting Apple and their App Store. It’s the most effective way to isolate an evil, authoritarian regime. Right now there’s zero reason to believe that the administration would target apps outside of China, and as lo
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
EU have already ordered Facebook (and others) to restrict data sent from EU to US. If US started banning EU tech companies (like China are doing) then it would of course make sense for EU to do the same to US tech companies. This is of cour
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
Biden appear to be pro-China and has gone on record saying he would end Trump’s China tariffs.
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
Here’s a HNer claiming Namecheap dumped his personal info without even informing him of having done so: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18063667
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
Relevant Lobsters thread: https://lobste.rs/s/nfjifq/v_update_june_2020
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
I also tried after hearing people on HN speak so highly of their recommendation system.. I only watched (in full length)/searched for/liked videos of a specific gender/race/age group.. yet even after liking over a hundre
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
I thought Vine was designed in California as well.
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
Not sure why you’d think Facebook isn’t a national security concern for other countries. I mean in China they outright banned Facebook, and EU have ordered Facebook (and others) to restrict data sent from EU to US. The only thing unique abo
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
You don’t have botnets on iOS, but you do have the problem on OSX (can find many instances by googling it). The reason OSX have this problem is because they allow third-party app stores/installations. If Apple was forced to open up iOS
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China bars media coverage of Disney's 'Mulan' after Xinjiang backlash(reuters.com)
2 points by abc-xyz 6y ago|0 comments
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
The alternatives are all the other platforms that allow third-party app installations/stores, such as Windows, Android and OSX, all of which have a huge problem with malware.
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U.S. to block cotton, tomato product imports from Xinjiang over forced labor(reuters.com)
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
Their annual report does not make this distinction: https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/ad-aspi/2019-10/ASPI... But it’s really besides the point. Instead of attacking the authors or their sponsors, perhaps we
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
Their sponsors also include Google, Microsoft, Oracle, etc. who would likely prefer not to escalate the ‘new cold war’ since it would hurt their profits.
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
The purpose is not to win the minds of Chinese citizens. There’s little that can be done to counter a lifetime of propaganda, even more so when its citizens obtain most of their information from heavily censored platforms controlled by the
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Disney criticised for filming Mulan in China's Xinjiang province(bbc.com)
58 points by abc-xyz 6y ago|31 comments
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Disney’s Mulan thank Xinjiang security bureau involved with concentration camps(twitter.com)
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
I’ve had success with an iPod. It’s very cheap, the size is perfect, and it’s just as fast as the latest iPhones. It does everything a normal iPhone does (and I’ve never encountered an app that didn’t work), except you have no SIM so you ca
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US, Taiwan seek 'like-minded' democracies in supply chain shift from China(reuters.com)
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The Next Front in the India-China Conflict Could Be a Thai Canal(foreignpolicy.com)
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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
> All well and good, but this is not due to sideloading. It is. iPhones don’t suffer from these malware issues precisely because everything is locked down and you can’t get apps to the iPhone without Apple’s manual approval. If Android w
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by abc-xyz 6y ago
Actually they do, and the reason for that is precisely because they allow third-party installations on Macs, and the exact same thing would happen to iPhones if they allowed third-party installations there as well. > Adware has become mu

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