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by adinobro 7y ago
The best way to preserve the rainforest is to collapse the US, China and the EU so there is no one to buy from Brazil. Not practical but a solution...
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by adinobro 7y ago
They also got freedoms that they never had under the British either. The next 10 to 15 years seem to be their golden years.
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by adinobro 7y ago
That used to be the case but that has changed in the last five years. From memory it used to be about 80% and now it is closer to 20%
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by adinobro 7y ago
You don't have to wonder. It has already happened. They are currently the best at refining rare earth metals and they are not interested in sharing it. Have a look at the patent graph: https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org
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by adinobro 7y ago
Only in the last 10+ years have large quantities of Chinese people started to earn enough to be able to buy US products. In the past, virtually none of them had enough money to buy products made in the high end (The US generally makes high
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by adinobro 7y ago
There are still almost 50,000,000 people in China that live on less than $2 a day. The GDP per capita is roughly 3x less than the US. 20 years ago there was close to 700,000,000 people living on less than $2 a day and there was no undergrou
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by adinobro 7y ago
There are stacks of US companies that have made a significant entry into China: * Coke * Starbucks (the largest one in the world is currently in Shanghai) * KFC * McDonalds * Pizza Hut * Domino's Pizza * US movies regul
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by adinobro 7y ago
If this is true then there is nothing for the US to be afraid of.
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by adinobro 7y ago
China already had a top supercomputer a long time before this happened. They didn't need x86 for this... It helps in the future but for this scenario, it makes not difference.
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by adinobro 7y ago
This is exactly what they do in Shanghai and it works. The rails are not for the whole route just long stretches with lots of lights. As far as I can tell they have a mixed fleet. Electric for ones that are downtown enough to charge and nat
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by adinobro 7y ago
This doesn't stop them from copying what China does. China has the same problem in Shanghai. The solution they use is overhead wires to charge busses while they are driving for parts of downtown that busses can connect to and disconnec
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by adinobro 7y ago
This is true but it is also rewriting the past. The WTO was designed to encourage free trade. The problem with free trade is that countries with developed industries will crash those that don't have developed industries. Basically, the
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by adinobro 7y ago
They should copy China to solve the problem. The standard policy in China is x3 refund if the product is fake. The all online sellers have this policy but it makes it a lot easier to tell if something is likely to be fake. Also if you get a
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by adinobro 7y ago
500,000,000+ people taken out of extreme poverty is generally considered a slight improvement.
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by adinobro 7y ago
There is a metal strip in the real 100 RMB notes that most of the copies don't have.
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by adinobro 7y ago
Why bother? They already have access to cell phone location data and meta information. I'm sure in China it is direct access. In the US it is a two-step process. Not that it would make much difference in practice. https://ww
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by adinobro 7y ago
I think you are right. I only used a foreign card for Taobao. I don't think it works for normal purchase... I'll try it tomorrow and see if it works.
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by adinobro 7y ago
I don't stay in hotels that expensive (I generally have to pay up front) very often and since I'm not Chinese I don't have access to most loans here either.
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by adinobro 7y ago
The wallet option only exists if you have a Chinese Wechat account (using a Chinese phone number).
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by adinobro 7y ago
One of the biggest and more interesting difference is that the US government wants to keep these things secret and investigative reporting finds them. In China, they want this information public because they want people to know that they kn
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by adinobro 7y ago
China doesn't actually have a lot of police. It looks like it does but a lot of them are teenagers doing there year of service with no real power or authority. Enforcement of basically all laws is done using some rotation system. This
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by adinobro 7y ago
Out of curiosity do you change your behaviour because of your credit score (created by private companies)? Considering the fact that the private companies pitching social credit to the government are merchants (Tecent & Aligroup) that i
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by adinobro 7y ago
If you want to get a real taxi use Baidu maps. It is in Chinese but you can just drop a pin where you want to go and ask for a real taxi instead of a Didi. A Chinese person can show you the buttons to press then you can pay with cash.
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by adinobro 7y ago
I didn't say anything about privacy just that it is a private company. It doesn't seem that different to the US government with AT&T. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130901/23253224379/att-h.
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by adinobro 7y ago
I actually find Alipay easier to use for payments and it is easier to set up. If you don't want to chat I would use it instead.
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by adinobro 7y ago
There is a button that you hold down and it sends a voice message (up to 60 seconds). They generally just send voice messages back and forth. There is also a + for extra features like: * Sending a photo * Sending a short video * Calling * M
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by adinobro 7y ago
WeChat is a private company owned by Tencent.
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by adinobro 7y ago
It is illegal to refuse cash in China but it takes a while for the shops to be found and fined.
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by adinobro 7y ago
A few things worth being aware of Alibaba does not own WeChat but rather's it's competition Alipay. It does not have any access to WeChat data. So far the "social credit" on seems to be mostly based on how much you buy a
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by adinobro 7y ago
Roughly 1,000 people died. The population of Beijing was roughly 10,000,000. Chances are he went home and was ignored since he wasn't a student protestor and was basically a nobody. The most boring answer is most likely to be true but

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