adinobro

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by adinobro 7y ago
I found out (as an adult) that the first 10 seconds of this video had been aired: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4woMuFZAx88 My teacher should have known about it. Now I found out that the media has had this footage the wh
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by adinobro 7y ago
When I was a young adult I found out there was a video BUT this is the only section they showed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4woMuFZAx88 Now I found out that the media has had this footage the whole time: https:/&
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by adinobro 7y ago
Everything that I've read said that they did. I was just told disinformation growing up along with virtually everyone I grew up with. Maybe your country was more honest about it but mine wasn't (Australia). Most people that I talk
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by adinobro 7y ago
Growing up I was taught about the "tank man" and that no one knew what happened after the photo and if he was run over or not ... a partial lie. We know that he was taken away by other civilians and wasn't run over. I was nev
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by adinobro 7y ago
When I was at school I was told that all we had was this one photo and we didn't know what happened to him. I assume other people were told the same thing. It turns out that there was a video that shows him being taken away by other ci
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by adinobro 7y ago
Be aware that the famous "tank man" was not actually run over. You can see the rest of the video if you look online. The CIA files have also been leaked which provides more information about that happened that day. As always the t
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by adinobro 7y ago
I'm just curious why you think a Taiwanese company should stop selling to a Chinese company based on statement/policy of a foreign country? It is obviously in their best financial interest to sell to Huawei. Why should they stop?
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by adinobro 7y ago
Part of the reason for this is that the US system uses common law which means that it changes over time based on previous cases. The Chinese system is based more on the German system where courts have less leeway and follow the laws more th
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by adinobro 7y ago
In Australia, it was considered a type of shoe like a "boot". We got really annoyed when a US company trademarked an Australian product and then stopped Australian companies from selling it under the name they had been using for d
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by adinobro 7y ago
Which would make sense if they were going after the US companies that did the same thing... Hmm... they've decided not to follow any of those leads even though they did the same thing? Interesting...
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by adinobro 7y ago
What is happening in China is that most things are pre-paid or have very low hard credit limits. You often have to pay six months of rent in advance to rent. I know lots of people that have been cut off electricity or phone service but you
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by adinobro 7y ago
I'm still on the fence. A lot of the time when you run a credit score you also run a police check. Not always but often enough. I expect most of the other stuff will be too much effort to be kept in the score at a national level unless
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by adinobro 7y ago
China currently doesn't have a "credit score" like most of the rest of the world. They also don't have a national police database so this is their attempt to do both at once. If you look at the information these two thin
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by adinobro 7y ago
Why would the government want to stop this? Most small business in China happens without being taxed. It is fairly trivial to get money into China but harder to get it out of China. From memory, Chinese people can exchange about $10,000 USD
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by adinobro 7y ago
Thanks, Yorwba. I guess I've been desensitised to the whole Taiwan issue. They do go on and on and on about it and any company that refers to it separately rather than as part of China. There was the issue about the airlines recently a
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by adinobro 7y ago
I'm not actually trolling. I'm interested in reading an article like this. I've seen people talk about them and looked for them but not seen one. The ones I've seen are just boring. Sorry if you thought it was a troll. I
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by adinobro 7y ago
I live in China as an expat. I haven't seen any bashing of US companies from the media in the limited amount of Chinese media that I consume. There is propaganda everywhere but it is about China. They don't tend to bash other coun
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by adinobro 7y ago
Do you have any actual examples? Chinese TV & newspapers spend most of their time speaking about how good China and Chinese companies are rather than caring about US companies. Lots of Chinese people are not aware of the "trade war
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by adinobro 7y ago
Yep. http://fortune.com/2016/09/16/samsung-galaxy-recall-china/ The battery was different but had a similar problem - https://www.scmp.com/tech/enterprises/article/2026800&
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by adinobro 7y ago
I was crazy. I thought it said "non-US companies on behalf of US companies". Not sure how that happened.
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by adinobro 7y ago
It was a different leak BUT ... yes. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/29/wikileaks_docs_show...
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by adinobro 7y ago
The government doesn't need to. The Chinese population will decide if they want to drop Apple themselves. They already have basically stopped buying Samsung after the S7 issue and the US military base. The free market in action...
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by adinobro 7y ago
The technology seems similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYjc9h8oSsY (This is actually Alibaba but JD should be the similar)
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by adinobro 7y ago
Electric bicycles and scooters are amazing. They are the most common form of transport in China as far as I can tell...
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by adinobro 7y ago
What I find really interesting is that Alibaba inside China has already solved this problem in Tmall and Taobao (it doesn't really work for international sellers). Once you've built up a buying history and reach the level of VIP y
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by adinobro 7y ago
This was already standard in China at least 7 years ago.
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by adinobro 7y ago
JD and TMall have about close to 1,000 distribution points in the major cities with at least 10,000 delivery people each. Same day delivery is standard (order before 10am and it arrives by 6pm) for a lot of products. Install and building fu
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by adinobro 8y ago
How is this any different to the NSA and Chinese companies? We already know the NSA did this to Huawei for multiple years.
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by adinobro 8y ago
As an Australian living in China one of the things that annoys me is that I have to provide all of my Australian bank accounts and investment accounts with my Chinese tax file number. I also have to tell my Chinese banks my Chinese tax file
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by adinobro 8y ago
Everyone focuses on driving which in the long run is probably going to go away as self-driving cars come onto the scene. The best example I've seen of the gig economy is jobs that were already contract based but where it was hard to fi

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