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by briandon 4y ago
Dr. Deborah Birx in April 2020: "If Someone Dies With COVID-19 We Are Counting That As A COVID-19 Death" https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/04/08/dr_birx_u... ! A few months ago, the C
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by briandon 4y ago
Dr. Birx back in 2020: "If Someone Dies With COVID-19 We Are Counting That As A COVID-19 Death" https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/04/08/dr_birx_u... In March 2022 (this year), sleuth
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by briandon 5y ago
Gibraltar was 140%+ vaccinated and that wasn't enough to save Christmas there. https://news.yahoo.com/gibraltar-cancels-official-christmas-...
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by briandon 7y ago
"No link with seafood market in first case of China coronavirus, Chinese scientists revealed" https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3047646/no-l...
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by briandon 7y ago
Wikipedia, which of course is not infallible, says that Pakistan rejected US offers to share PAL technology but is believed to have developed their own equivalent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_and_weapons_of_m
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by briandon 7y ago
I would not agree with the statement you've quoted either, but can you see that you've posted a comment shot through with the same attitudes that you believe tainted his comment? You've assigned a race to another poster based
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by briandon 7y ago
Here are two recent examples of my having to interact w/sellers on WangWang. Top half of screencap: have to confirm address or they won't ship. Bottom half of screencap: other seller waits two days to tell me that the stuff I boug
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by briandon 7y ago
Frankly, I envy you. Here are two recent examples of my having to interact w/sellers on WangWang. Top half of screencap: have to confirm address or they won't ship. Bottom half of screencap: other seller waits two days to tell me
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by briandon 7y ago
I believe you and I'm glad that you have such a smooth experience on Taobao. I wish that it were as hassle-free for me, my wife, her coworkers, and pretty much anyone I've met who has used Taobao. Here are two recent examples of m
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by briandon 7y ago
HN doesn't allow inline images, so I've tweeted a combo screencap of a recent example of a sellers messaging to confirm my shipping address (no response from me and that order would not move) and an example of a seller waiting two
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by briandon 7y ago
Nope, we've never used Ali-express or 1688.com. I'm talking about Taobao. We also often purchase from Tmall, but Tmall sellers are usually better organized or less shady. Sales numbers and reviews aren't 100% trustworthy. If
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by briandon 7y ago
I am not complaining about delivery times (i.e. the time from logistics service pickup to delivery). I know that China is a developing country and logistics operations in China have a ways to go. Once an order gets moving, it will arrive in
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by briandon 7y ago
Speaking truths that you find objectionable is not lying. If you haven't encountered these issues, then I'm happy for you. For my wife and I, phantom inventory is a regular problem. Usually, we can catch the problem over WangWang,
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by briandon 7y ago
Taobao is ecommerce with Chinese characteristics (i.e. clown-world style) and I say this as someone who has been using Taobao multiple times a week for years. There's having to get on AliWangWang and chat up sellers to make sure they a
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by briandon 8y ago
Meng's arrest is for actions she allegedly took to help Iran evade sanctions years ago, during the period in which U.N. sanctions on Iran were in force. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-07/
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by briandon 8y ago
Meng has been arrested for her alleged involvement in sanctions violations that took place sometime between 2010-2013 (i.e. during the U.N. Sanctions on Iran era), not for violations of the the current US-led sanctions. https://w
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by briandon 8y ago
Completely eliminating simple carbs (bread, noodles, rice, pasta, potatoes, and the like) and eating meat and veg and dairy (i.e. a cheese-heavy salad with sugar-less dressing, a big bowl of broccoli with cheese melted on it, as many chicke
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by briandon 9y ago
It's also a shame that the US DOE has partnered with and is funding R&D for a fully-owned subsidiary (as of 2016 iirc) of a Chinese state-owned company (Haier, which bought GE Appliances).
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by briandon 10y ago
Your comment spurred me to look for some stats. "Race, Ethnicity, and Sex of Victim by Race, Ethnicity, and Sex of Offender, 2015" https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2015/crime-in-the-u.s.-... Accordin
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by briandon 10y ago
I'm not a Breitbart reader but, after reading your comment, clicked through your link to see what was what. To claim that it has "basically no source" is not true. The Breitbart piece links to the German-language article on w
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by briandon 10y ago
I apologize if I'm wrong here, but I believe that the word you were looking for was "disingenuous" rather than "indigenous".
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by briandon 10y ago
Not comparable since supermarket in-store free samples are tiny servings of a product you can purchase in the same establishment. Supermarkets wouldn't allow, much less encourage, anyone to consume large numbers of free samples instead
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by briandon 11y ago
The point of the PRC's tech company pledge that you say you find difficult to parse happens to be the one where the phrase "secure and controllable" is used: Article #6 states: "Accept the supervision of all parts of soc
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by briandon 11y ago
Owning homes, educating one's children, and stashing ill-gotten money overseas is de rigueur for hypocritical PRC chieftains. Those five indictments were perhaps a way of gently signalling to the higher-ups, who do have exposure to the
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by briandon 13y ago
Collapsible shopping carts would not solve the problems created by trying to accomplish everyday errands and maintain a developed-world standard of living in the absence of a personal vehicle any more than keeping your plough's blade r
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by briandon 13y ago
If someone is living in an urban area without a vehicle, they are likely to be paying more for housing and living in a significantly smaller space than someone living in a lower-density setting (e.g. suburbs) who owns and uses a vehicle of
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by briandon 13y ago
It sounds awesome, so long as there's always excess supply of on-demand transportation. When there's a bump in demand (rainy day, major sporting/tourist/whatever event) and on-demand transport services are fully utilized
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by briandon 13y ago
What I'm getting at is that having a personal vehicle gives a person a lot of choices that are not available to those without personal vehicles and that walkability and public transit are not a viable replacement for vehicle ownership
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by briandon 13y ago
Sorry that the 2nd half of my reply to your comment is on top of the first half). HN wouldn't let me post it as a single reply, so I had to break it up. HN wouldn't let me reply to myself either, so it had to be a 2nd reply to you
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by briandon 13y ago
[continued from previous reply] (4B.) The next day was uneventful. You were silently thankful that the delivery guy didn't call you while you were at work and pointlessly try to browbeat you into agreeing to an afternoon delivery. When

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