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by aclsid 7y ago
This is spot on, and I'm going to call it for what it is. Just another way of Google creeping on user data to improve their products. The same way they do with fonts, email, ads, etc etc etc. I for one I'm appalled that nobody rea
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by aclsid 7y ago
They don't really need to do that since they have the great firewall in place.
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by aclsid 7y ago
You definitely haven't been in China. Even when they blocked some VPNs, Apple devices are a million times better in China because it has the official app store. You cannot begin to understand what it means to be forced to use one of th
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by aclsid 7y ago
The licensing is not the issue. It is the middleman charging fees for simple transactions that they will totally skip. Building that before was hard but the blockchain solved that
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by aclsid 7y ago
As a counterpoint, we can agree that the sea has lots of resources as well and that does not mean that we are all going to live in an oil platform because that is simply not ideal. There are well paying jobs to be had in those regions, but
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by aclsid 7y ago
Why? I'm honestly bothered by this Cold War mentality that has settled in people due to the amount of repetition that Huawei somehow is doing something bad yet no single piece of evidence has come out to support those claims. Restricti
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by aclsid 7y ago
Sorry to disagree but what you said is simply not true. If she stays long enough in the US with her spouse, and she gets a green card or citizenship then you are not obligated by any means to stay forever with that person. Tricking the syst
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by aclsid 7y ago
I seriously doubt that CamScanner wanted that kind of publicity. As for Kaspersky, they are like gun makers, selling you a false/real sense of security depending on who you ask.
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by aclsid 7y ago
In Venezuela as part of the universal history subject that starts with the Greeks all the way to the modern age, there is no mention of specific bombs but nuclear bombs overall and Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I do remember that at the time they
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by aclsid 7y ago
Well, people were doing that with horses and natural resources like wood, sperm oil and others for centuries before us. I do love our modernity but as far as being sustainable, there is no way on earth we are not going to destroy this plane
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by aclsid 7y ago
I don't think you know a lot of Chinese people. They use Baidu when they are outside continental China. It is mostly because the search results are finely tuned to local stuff and it has the big plus of not giving you links that are ce
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by aclsid 7y ago
I don't know which country are you from, but I think the world has far bigger problems than to "liberate" China. Especially when the US turns a blind eye to a journalist murder because it was done by an ally.
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by aclsid 7y ago
Trade barrier? Since when services offered through the web are paying taxes in the places where they are rendering their services. If anything, expect a lot more governments to wisen up, like the US did with Amazon and taxes, and create the
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by aclsid 7y ago
I think what you want is already here. Android is Linux on the phone. LineageOS was built on top of AOSP. What we really need though is a replacement for all Google Play Services that is free software, including push notifications.
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by aclsid 7y ago
Buy Chinese brands like Oppo, Meizu or Xiaomi (mix 3 is awesome). If you get the one with the Chinese rom Google has been removed to an extent that is not possible by end users or are least without switching ROMs which is generally a PIA. T
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by aclsid 7y ago
The same attitude applies to Russians and I doubt you can call racism on that one. Seriously, Chinese call up the racism card far too often for unrelated things for me to take those statements seriously.
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by aclsid 7y ago
That there might be corruption in a prison system that leads some corrupt officials to do perverse acts like selling organs is one thing, but stating that this is a state sponsored practice is a bit extreme don't you think? Any links t
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by aclsid 7y ago
Taking that moral stand should also go for other things I believe, like not buying oil from Saudi Arabia and as a consumer, demanding to know where the gas you are using is coming from so you could make an informed decision.
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by aclsid 7y ago
Nah, nobody is complaining about Taiwanese or Japanese investment, so that is moot point, mostly made by Chinese from the continent when things don't go their way.
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by aclsid 7y ago
Having lived in the US, I feel the police is non-corrupt and competent, which is a major step from places like Latin America, some places in Asia, Africa or even Eastern Europe. My main complaint is that they are being used as tax collector
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by aclsid 7y ago
In South America, such an attitude would be followed by thinking immediately, this guy wants money somehow.
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by aclsid 7y ago
You seem to forget that China has like 50+ minorities that are encouraged to rise up in society, with preferred employment in the regions they are from or better chance to get at top universities. That some Uyghur have been trying to create
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by aclsid 8y ago
As a counterpoint I would say that the old people that in that high level language called C, (real men use Punch cards ;) ), had no clue about user interfaces, developer productivity, used waterfall models for planning, and in general, crea
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by aclsid 8y ago
One of the new AR15 with .300 AAC Blackout munition, maybe. But there are some really good rifles out there and, especially of the 6mm breed. Beretta has the ARX-160, IMI and the Tavor is a awesome, the Russians have the A-545/A-762 wh
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by aclsid 8y ago
If money and logistics were not an issue, I believe the FN Five-SeveN with the specialty 5.7 cartridge would win hands down. It very much has done for the pistol what the AR-15 did for the rifle.
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by aclsid 8y ago
That tumbling effect sales pitch is the most baffling part of this whole story to me. It is great in a lab with ballistic gel on an uncovered target, but hardly the reality out there. I think sooner than later this whole fiasco will be in t
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by aclsid 8y ago
Ok in there you have a point. I ended up doing some more reading about this and saw this https://bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/china-worlds-b... So you are right with the nominal distinction, and if I was wrong
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by aclsid 8y ago
Please check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP) where the World Bank, IMF and the CIA, they all agree China is on top now. But I'm truly impressed how that fact seems to offend people her
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by aclsid 8y ago
Their economy is larger, and yes, bigger GDP than America. Per capita, US still leads, but since I'm not interested in a piss competition here, let me clarify. The point of my reply was that saying that the US has more money does not e
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by aclsid 8y ago
If that was the case, then China would be the top market. This has more to do with the fact that Americans are used to pay for software at a personal level, something that not even Europe is fully used to.

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