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by evgen 5y ago
Exactly. Evergrande is simply the tip of the iceberg. There is a huge amount of bad debt in the Chinese banking system that has been hidden for various reasons and while the most obvious examples are starting to explode the big fear (for Ch
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by evgen 5y ago
Yes unlike to all of those other political systems that are perfectly happy to crash the system now when it hurts less, like..... I am sure we can come up with examples... any day now....
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by evgen 5y ago
If you print photos yourself then you are doing it wrong. Send them to a service that actually has a photo printer that is not a piece of shit and you will find your prints actually lasting longer than the ink cartridge you used to print th
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by evgen 5y ago
Yes, because at the time there were only four or five main junctions for cross-country internet peering locations. Seattle was not on that list and if you are not going to be local then why go to CA and compete for space, data-center engine
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by evgen 5y ago
So your proof is one bullshit story made up by someone who wants to claim Google was created by the CIA but lacks any real evidence. The fact that a mid-level exec at twitter was an Army reservist, and an claim that TLAs were controlling ne
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by evgen 5y ago
No it would not. It would only suggest that once the data existed there was an interest on the part of certain government agencies to gain access to the data. The idea that these companies are 'fronts' for these agencies is moroni
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by evgen 5y ago
If I were to make a guess, I would say that the Heritage Foundation thinks that all funding of GotV efforts are bad and should be illegal. They are not really fans of enfranchisement beyond the elite they serve. While Republicans have money
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by evgen 5y ago
Basically this, but it even goes a level deeper. Facebook engineers to not know they are working at the Weekly World News. At a high-level the algorithms treat the actual content as a black box; what matters is how people respond to and int
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by evgen 5y ago
Because we all know that any attempt to get out the vote and ensure the populace participates in democracy is actually a backdoor Democratic plot...
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by evgen 5y ago
Facebook's newsfeed algorithms are actively tailoring the content that is surfaced in your newsfeed in a manner that encourages 'engagement', but this quest for engagement creates false narratives and an inaccurate understand
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by evgen 5y ago
The fact that it was previously restricted to only monied interests means that it was relatively rare in the past. Yes, there were the magazines and floating 'reviewers' who everyone learned were shills for whatever company was pa
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by evgen 5y ago
It is probably also worth noting that while this sort of defense in depth provides the strongest protection, the risk involved with the first infection probably means that you are better off in trusting the vaccine. Infection prior to vacci
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by evgen 5y ago
Sorry, but Keystone XL has absolutely nothing to do with this and the fuel that it was going to transport is the dirtiest, heaviest crude around and not gas. After a year or more of lockdown and diminished demand we are now ramping back up
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by evgen 5y ago
Am I the only one who remembers articles from late 2019 talking about how the crash of gas prices was going to drive all of the fracking operators to slow down operations or go out of business? This particular article seems to drag in some
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by evgen 5y ago
This is clearly only the opinion of a delusional Tory. The majority of the public already recognizes brexit as a failure and the numbers who share this view are only increasing. The growing recognition of the scope and breadth of the lies u
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by evgen 5y ago
It does not need an exception. The thing about the filibuster rules is that they are only rules if the members of the Senate agree that they are. At any point they can change the rules, and can even just decide that a particular piece of le
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by evgen 5y ago
Oh wow! You found that ONE TRICK that governments HATE. Somehow thousands of legislators and economists around the world never, ever thought of that and are going to be completely fooled by a company that structures its revenues in this fas
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by evgen 5y ago
The fact that Clegg was such a political fuck-up that he managed to destroy a viable UK third-party within four years of getting a whiff of power should tell you all you need to know about Nick.
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by evgen 5y ago
> HN used to attract people who value personal freedom and freedom of speech It also used to attract far fewer idiots. Unfortunately, those days are long past. Now that HN actually has some (small) measureable influence in the industry w
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by evgen 5y ago
Don't care. No one is banning supersonic travel, just supersonic travel over land. If it can't be made to work economically over the long oceanic routes then it is a dumb idea that deserves to die. Again. If it works over wate
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by evgen 5y ago
You ignore the fact that sonic booms are really fucking annoying, so I will dispute your claim and say that there is no way to put lipstick on this pig and say it was mishandled by the FAA. The booms annoyed everyone. This issue is further
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by evgen 5y ago
> In some parts of the world, that would be discriminatory against ex-convicts. Please name the part of the world where I am required to hire a former bank robber to manage my bank.
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by evgen 5y ago
"Might", "possible", "may", "potential" all seem to be the most damning terms applied to this issue in those papers. Lots of suggestions, no proof. Given the ubiquity that the original research is sug
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by evgen 5y ago
> Is a problem because most plastic products release substances that mimic sexual hormones This is simply not true. There is a small set of softened plastics (BPA, DEHP & DBP) that are widely known to have some endocrine disruption c
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by evgen 5y ago
Please cite your sources for these claims. No one is claiming it is good thing, but when you start to spray FUD around you run the risk of having a few of your wilder claims (cancer, really?) shown to be complete bullshit and then no one ca
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by evgen 5y ago
Could you cite a study that shows this? I can find lots of hand-waving about microplastics possibly acting as carriers for such substances, but nothing that indicates these substances themselves can be directly linked to this particular pro
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by evgen 5y ago
Nice chaebol you have there, would be a shame if its behavior became the subject of international trade sanctions from the country that is providing you protection against your crazy and heavily armed cousin who lives next door.
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by evgen 5y ago
Interesting that majorities in every demographic say that tech companies should restrict and prohibit misinformation ( https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/08/18/more-americ... ) People get twitchy w
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by evgen 5y ago
Nice ISP you have there SK Broadband, would be a shame if your users could not access one of the most popular sites on the internet.
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by evgen 5y ago
Looks to me like they still have the right to say it, YouTube is just opting out of being their distribution system.

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