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Meng was PRC royalty - the daughter of Huawei's president, imagine a literal billionaire being a spy. She was taken hostage under Pence's China Initative for Iranian sanctions shenanigans that historically was dealt via fines. The
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Always has been, affirmative action and policies that limit Asian education upward mobility is like the one issue I see masses apolitical asians consistently and vocally rally for in the last few years. MSM has been downplaying their frustr
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Joey on Android with text to speech feature also seems to be working. The developer has been very quiet throughout ordeal, hopefully there's an exemption as well.
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> bad thing to interfere with the ability to access information on the Internet for reasons of nationalist politics Or after 20 years, non Americans recognize information control should be more nationalized instead of under perview of US
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That seems like a lot. Is this in line with ransom levels demanded in these attacks?
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The definition, US propaganda under Pompeo as head of State tried (and failed to meet), was UN's convention on genocide, which would trigger legal responses on member states. The TLDR is Pompeo laundered very tortured legal analysis th
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It's absolutely not. There's a reason US propaganda under Pompeo had to manufacture and launder reports with tortured legal interpretation to try to get the genocide label to stick but couldn't because there's no intent
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PRC centralized narrative setting apparatus is more efficient than constant misinformation shitshow on western platforms. Not to mention the entire reason why PRC has domestic info ecosystem is because they were prescient in filtering exter
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Amazfit and xiaomi bands are like the Casio f91w of smart watches.
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No it's just recognition that the problem is PRC has less ariable land and water resources per capita. Relative to other developed economies with comparable restraints, PRC's doing the the same thing of importing calories (and by
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> SSR dropped from 93% to 65%. This is a damning indictment of their government and economic system. The opposite. PRC SSR dropped because economy exploded and people can afford significantly more calories, including imported food produc
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That was a general remark on western influence, i.e. western NGOs. On HK specifically, see the amount of prominent HK activists who shook hands with US politicians including pompeo, asked US to sanction HK politicians hoping US can exert pr
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For 250k, I hope they were provided a cyanide pill.
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>The case centered on Xu Jin, a former Chinese government official who moved to the United States over a decade ago "Over a decade ago" - 2010-12 - was when PRC dmismantled CIA intelligence network, and found out CIA infiltrate
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Hopefully decent translators so it wouldn't even matter.
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The British committing navy for East India company is not remotely similar to PRC inaction to curtail organized crime operations in LATAM when they'd rather direct resources domestically or in ASEAN. The primary attack vector of Opium
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Yeah, PRC isn't so much doing an opium war on US as watching US doing an opium war on herself and not helping. Which PRC did when relations where good. Now the relationship is bad, there's no reason to waste PRC domestic resources
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Bloomberg reporting on PRC not passing basic smell test once again. Huawei having significantly higher bid than Ericsson should raise some eyebrows. Or Somehow Huawei having the tradecraft to monitor TDC employee teams but alledged TDC mole
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From the planet's perspective, climate change doesn't matter. Mass extinction events are rounding errors on geologic / deep time scales. We can launch all the nukes tomorrow and it won't matter in a few thousand years. C
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PRC has little control over NK whose the one that's been limiting cross border trade. NK would rather starve a few people in exchange for autarky / independance. NK only started openning up to agri imports from PRC / RU in Q1
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What would it take to get a honest investgation within US? The fundemental issue is why would PRC entertain US lab leak propaganda narrative? Let alone submit to basically weapons inspection tier scrutiny that no sane sovereign would permit
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Losing access to personal comments from subreddit that's gone dark has also been PIA. I'll occasionally refer to past comments for links/citations.
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Somewhat related, are there methods to embedd LLM "traps" like trap streets in maps to establish Provenance?
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What's next? Degrading the front page experience like a few years ago over I forgot what drama. I think ultimately this will blow over but I'm curious how far motivated actors can break/cripple the platform, at least in terms
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Shopping for a phone plan last few days have been pretty annoying.
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A friend would wear his winter parka with 6 massive pockets on budget airlines. Even to warm destinations. Each pocket contained travel pouch that he'd move into a bigger pocket molled to his main backpack. Folded up parka made for nic
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2TB for 16 years of reddit comments. I would have thought larger.
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>But that Euros were some especially brutal oppressors/conquerors compared to the whole of human history? Kind of. It's like when historians delineate historic genocides with Nazi genocides. Or slavery vs chattel slavery. Funct
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RIP crazy how many developers made living off reddit 3rd party app for 10 years. Bad bet.
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Pinker's "long peace" theory with respect to global conflict is likely bad statistics - 20th-21st century under US military hegemony had a comparable if not higher number of conflicts, see Max Roser’s work documenting global

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