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by avocado4 7y ago
https://hkmap.live/
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by avocado4 7y ago
Apps provide better user experience through higher performance. I'm this case though website is sufficient: https://hkmap.live/
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by avocado4 7y ago
Nicotine vapes are a problem too. They were meant to help people quit smoking, but instead introduced a lot of people who haven't smoked before. I wonder if we could do some sort of blood test to make sure non-smokers don't get ea
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by avocado4 7y ago
Also Grindr is Chinese-owned. An TikTok. Lots of people uploading nude content that CCP can deidentify.
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by avocado4 7y ago
Opium wars happened over a century ago. It was a crime against humanity, but it gives no moral right to anybody to repeat the same thing in the modern time. It's like saying Israeli should have a right to demand that Germans be gassed
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by avocado4 7y ago
SCMP is a Chinese government propaganda arm abroad, owned by Jack Ma, a top figure in the Communist Party.
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by avocado4 7y ago
I still don't get it, I just signed up for a new Twitter account and didn't have to provide a phone number. Was there an official policy change from Twitter? Do you have a link?
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by avocado4 7y ago
I've had a Twitter account for years (to contact customer support). They keep asking me for a phone number but I never provide it. I never got banned.
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by avocado4 7y ago
Why would somebody ever give their phone number to Twitter, Facebook, or any other service for that matter? You loose anonymity when you give away your phone number.
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by avocado4 7y ago
> "our" Southern border Account registered 10 days ago posting in political threads.
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by avocado4 7y ago
> how would the administration gracefully reverse these blacklisting actions Why should they reverse these?
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by avocado4 7y ago
Tangentially, here's a neat WHO's map of global air pollution I find useful when traveling abroad: http://maps.who.int/airpollution/
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by avocado4 7y ago
There's no legitimacy to the argument for using events from 150 years ago as a justification for repeating the same crimes against humanity over again today. By this logic, should Israel have a moral right to put half of German populat
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by avocado4 7y ago
I'm addition to trade and human rights-related issues we should also be talking about the Great Firewall as a protectionist tool. China blocks & throttles European / Western digital services but we allow their tech to be sold
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by avocado4 7y ago
Why does South Park need Comedy Central anymore? Just distribute it online.
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by avocado4 7y ago
Climate change is primarily hitting the poorest of the world.
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by avocado4 7y ago
What's the best spot around SF to view foliage? Tahoe?
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by avocado4 7y ago
> while the US govt is dropping taxes for the biggest companies California has no shortage of funding for the transit. The failed bullet connection had more funding then the system in China that carries 10x people. Stop blaming "evi
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by avocado4 7y ago
It takes time to move supply chains.
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by avocado4 7y ago
They are burning Iranian flags.
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by avocado4 7y ago
Article about Chinese government stealing Airbus property and here we go derailing it towards Boeing.
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by avocado4 7y ago
HN / Reddit votes are very easy to manipulate with State-backed funding. Best to ignore the "consensus" on online boards and make one's own decision based on available evidence.
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by avocado4 7y ago
Google coding interviews are meant to test if a candidate would be good at coding for Google, not for building innovative companies.
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Doctors Clash over NP, PA Say in Physician Privileges(medscape.com)
1 points by avocado4 7y ago|0 comments
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by avocado4 7y ago
https://www.businessinsider.com/china-harvesting-organs-of-u...
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by avocado4 7y ago
If China stops harvesting organs from Uyghurs, harassing foreign companies with arbitrary law enforcement, dumping fentanyl in Europe and the US, blocking foreign online services, manipulating currency, stealing IP, building out Orwellian m
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International physician compensation report 2019(medscape.com)
1 points by avocado4 7y ago|0 comments
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by avocado4 7y ago
> There's almost no job where 80% of it couldn't be done by someone significantly junior. Especially when people are going to die if the person in the role can't handle the whole job, and there's no cost-effective way
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by avocado4 7y ago
I'm yet to find a physician (especially somebody trained at Harvard/Stanford/etc plus a couple fellowships) who is actively practicing, and who hasn't told me with intellectual honesty that 80% of the patients they see p
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by avocado4 7y ago
> You are getting WORSE care for the same price when you see an NP or PA. Whenever I get to choose between NP/PA or MD I will always choose the former. MDs are typically overworked and condescending. Most of the time I already know

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