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by bb123 6y ago
I notice from your comment history that you are the business of defending the CCP at every turn. I’m not sure that we could take your work for everything being a-okay with minorities in China.
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by bb123 6y ago
I suppose at this point we will have to agree to disagree, but I’ve got to ask if the U.K. is such a hellscape, why live there?
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by bb123 6y ago
They publish extremely detailed methodology for each country, so feel free to browse and let me know which parts you disagree with (assuming you're not in China, because you probably won't be able to access this there. All that de
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by bb123 6y ago
Come on bud, that’s a silly argument disproved with a 2 second google search. The U.K. ranks 16th on the democracy index, and China ranks 151st. At this point I can only assume you’re arguing in bad faith for fun.
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by bb123 6y ago
Well the U.K. government is a democratically elected one for a start. On the Northern Ireland border, wasn’t it the EU that that unilaterally broke the protocol by invoking article 16 without even checking with Ireland? My point is that gov
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by bb123 6y ago
Ah yes the original version of “warranty void if opened”.
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by bb123 6y ago
All of those things are a good start but it is five hundred thousand dollars . It’s obviously a huge amount of money for someone like this. Why wouldn’t you check with your bank or a solicitor or the financial services regulator in your co
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by bb123 6y ago
This is a terrible scam, but I am astonished by the frivolity with which people would move life-changing amounts of money into something with absolutely no due diligence. When I took on a financial advisor I verified their identity with the
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by bb123 6y ago
It looks like they skirt pretty closely around "submerging" the device. At no point in the commercial is it actually submerged in a body of water.
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by bb123 6y ago
Is it? They’re about 4th globally, and way ahead of the EU.
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by bb123 6y ago
The idea that U.K. tows the line on US endeavours in a way that countries like Canada and Australia don’t is absurd. Canada and the US share an enormous border and it’s often joked that Canada is like USA-lite. As for Australia - you may be
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by bb123 6y ago
My point wasn't that COVID was handled well, although I think there are more factors than government at play (It would be pretty hard to argue that the US govt has handled COVID better than the UK, so why is there death rate so much lo
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by bb123 6y ago
Haha yes, "revenue based policing". Australia is pretty bad for that. I once got a $300 speeding fine for doing 1kph above the limit. In general though I think policing in Australia is still very different to the states. Police in
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by bb123 6y ago
I think given the timezone difference, most people on here this time of day are probably in the UK/Europe. I guess the emotive nature of the subject is showing through.
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by bb123 6y ago
In the spirit of keeping these comments high quality I'd love engage with you about this. Why do you think that? I'm actually a dual citizen of the UK and Australia and I have to say my experience is that neither country is anythi
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by bb123 6y ago
I agree. I didn't vote for Brexit but it is hard to see how the pro-Brexit crowd haven't been vindicated with the vaccine roll out.
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by bb123 6y ago
Why is it inevitable that the UK will become like America? There are plenty of independent Algo-States that are nothing like it. Australia, New Zealand, Canada for example. This comment seems to be borne out spite more than any kind of logi
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by bb123 6y ago
Because the issues kids in these articles claim to solve are usually large unsolved problems, that have been studied by subject matter experts for years. It's possible someone could dream up a silver bullet, but I believe the trope of
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by bb123 6y ago
Does anyone else approach these "teen invents x" or "wiz kid middle schooler discovers y" articles with extreme skepticism? About half the time the invention turns out to be bogus or trivial, and in the other half it com
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by bb123 6y ago
I disagree strongly that their software is terrible. My iPhone is bombproof, and I strongly believe that part of their success has been in making these phones easy to use, every time. My parents and people like them don't have time for
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by bb123 6y ago
Is nuclear power particularly an element of Japanese government prestige? I have to say when I think of Japan, nuclear power doesn’t spring to mind. Same goes for the military - is there any evidence that nuclear power is particularly entwi
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by bb123 6y ago
What does"sub-milliarcsecond territory" mean? I know nothing of satellite tech.
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by bb123 6y ago
Yep this was me about 4 years ago. I distinctly remember sitting through the loading screen and being absolutely astonished at how long it took. I never fired it up again because I just couldn’t be bothered to wait that long.
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by bb123 6y ago
I don’t think the grandparent comment is taking exception to the phrase so much as the fact that it is verifiably false (and is even directly contradicted in the article body!).
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by bb123 6y ago
They describe the rollout as world beating in the headline but simultaneously acknowledge there are a number of countries ahead of the US in several aspects of it. It really isn't a competition but this is just nationalistic nonsense.
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by bb123 6y ago
It is also worth mentioning that the AstraZeneca vaccine is being sold at cost. They're not making any profit from it.
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by bb123 6y ago
Also lets not forget that this was specifically targeting the UK, not the rest of the world.
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by bb123 6y ago
I like the point this makes. The expectation for us to remember hundreds of convoluted and complex passwords for every site we might interact with once a year is totally ridiculous.
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by bb123 6y ago
Yes, my point is that I don’t care about the performance impact. Positive or negative I’m prepared to eat it (whatever it is) to avoid ads.
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by bb123 6y ago
I’d be quite happy for website load times to be increased by 50% if it meant no ads. Performance impact is a price absolutely worth paying.

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