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by berdario 6y ago
It's never RICO https://www.popehat.com/2016/06/14/lawsplainer-its-not-rico-... specifically, I don't see how this can be bribery. Who is the person or official that Yelp is bribing? It's not G
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by berdario 6y ago
> population "balance" maintained through periodic overpopulation and starvation (How do people think it happens? Forest fairies tell the deer how many babies to have?) Thinking about this, I just realized a simple thing: balan
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by berdario 6y ago
I had no idea that such places existed. I looked it up, and one of them for example is Ontario: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common-law_marriage#Ontario
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by berdario 6y ago
I looked a bit further, and they shared data on their vaccine already in August, but there are gaps: https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/sinopharm-shares-phase... "unlike other COVID-19 vaccine trials, the study
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by berdario 6y ago
How does this compare to the chinese vaccine? It's already in use around the world[1], but I haven't heard of how many people gain immunity thanks to it in percentage, nor if that one also requires multiple jabs. 1. https:/&
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by berdario 6y ago
> Actually even GPL is not a protection here, with sources given away they become almost a manual how to re-implement it which is far simpler than making it from scratch (oh and yes, people are doing that without copy pasting). That&#x27
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by berdario 6y ago
Have you seen the Anti-capitalist Software License? https://anticapitalist.software/ By default it disallows use by entities like Apple, but you could dual-license it, to provide the million-a-year alternative
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by berdario 6y ago
I recently opened 3 bank accounts. It's not only the challenger banks: nowadays banks will also encourage you to use their app for 2FA. You can use a proprietary token instead, but you'd have to pay for it (the app instead is free
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by berdario 6y ago
Is Trump a leftist? https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/20/trump-says-coronavirus-masks... Wearing a mask is just a simple precaution that everyone should take. Using pictures of you wearing a mask rather than not,
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by berdario 6y ago
"Once income and spending exceed this level, taxes must be paid. Unless… Unless that income comes from qualified dividends or long-term capital gains. In this case, a married couple can have $24,400 a year in income AND $78,750 in inv
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by berdario 6y ago
Maybe? Ingvar Kamprad net worth was "only" 3 billion $ That's about 25 billion $ lower than if he had unfettered access to all of IKEA's worth. https://www.forbes.com/profile/ingvar-kamprad/ If
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by berdario 6y ago
Be mindful that there's lots of misinformation regarding the "social credit": https://www.wired.com/story/china-social-credit-score-system... I'm not sure that drawing a parallel here is actually he
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by berdario 6y ago
> No — many accounts aren’t created by the people that use them Can you elaborate on this? I can only think of 2 examples, but neither seem like good ones: 1- someone holds power of attorney over someone else, and register an account (em
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by berdario 6y ago
The pandemic has a death toll. A lot of these things would've happened even without a lockdown, since if the pandemic goes badly enough, huge swaths of the population would've shut themselves at home to avoid risk of contagion. Al
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by berdario 6y ago
You should learn some history, instead of repeating US propaganda talking points, example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_Korea There was a unified Korea, led by Lyuh Woon-hyung. Americans arriv
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by berdario 6y ago
China didn't drop the nuke on harmless civilians, the US did. China didn't displace tens of millions of people in the middle east from their homes, the US did. China didn't destabilize dozen of countries (via assassinations,
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by berdario 6y ago
The US must not go unpunished. The world needs to stand up to their lone wolf style. If we do not stand up against the US now it will only embolden the evil. Vote with your wallets. Avoid using US made products and services. Pressure/
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by berdario 6y ago
> Each time you reply, a new rep is assigned the ticket I recently had to open a support ticket with Paypal, they are exactly the same, unfortunately I understand the incentives that led to this, but it's still crazy to think about
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by berdario 6y ago
They look perfectly natural to me I tried to pay attention to what you and others flagged (parts not moving, facial expressions, shoulders, etc.) But I cannot spot anything out of place. That said, looking at other comments here, you'r
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by berdario 6y ago
I'm really confused. I just watched the video again, and I cannot really see the effect that you're talking about. In fact, I struggle to see any difference from the original. It totally feels genuine, I'm not sure why you pe
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by berdario 6y ago
IANAL (and law differs around the globe) but... discrimination is prohibited towards protected categories. i.e. gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation... on top of it, most of those aren't things that you choose yourself. With the possi
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by berdario 6y ago
I recently reinstalled Assasins Creed 2, and discovered that it was unable to load levels or start a new game. I haven't tried hard to get it to work (i.e. completely wiping my local data, maybe just having a corrupt savegame would als
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by berdario 6y ago
I wish there were actually opportunities in my life. My office is still closed, I tried to have a reunion with university mates in my home country (I always meet them when I travel back to my birthplace), but 3 out of 4 of them bailed out.
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by berdario 6y ago
I've been spending some time in Italy, and I've been surprised to notice that banks, services and tv advertisements are often talking about the Huawei Appgallery (it's listed as an alternative for Google Play or the iOS app s
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by berdario 6y ago
You might want to educate yourself: https://www.chinalawtranslate.com/en/the-right-to-an-attorne... It's far from perfect, but better than in the US
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by berdario 6y ago
Exactly, in the US you are left at the mercy of cruel jailors who will torture you https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/08/wait-do-people-actual... You'll be forced to work and live in prisons overrun by the p
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by berdario 6y ago
Not as bold as the claims of millions of Uyghurs being detained: https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1287411708374454273
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by berdario 6y ago
Yeah, sortition looks very promising, I recently read this article describing it: https://newpol.org/issue_post/the-return-of-democracy-by-lot... My main concern with it, is that black people (and BLM supporters in gen
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by berdario 6y ago
You're right, of course. I still think that the trend is there (in this thread, the comments aren't very nuanced and before I commented, the ratio of "against:non-against China" was 3:1, but now the ratio is much more ev
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by berdario 6y ago
Indeed, I wonder how many of these people complaining about chinese astroturfing actually get their information only from US-aligned sources. It's really polarizing: they appear to me as mindlessly spouting propaganda, and in the meanw

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