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by fiblye 6y ago
Yeah, I remember my parents needing to clean their windshield every time we went on the highway. It'd get absolutely caked in yellow and brown spatters after merely an hour or two. As for me, I've never cleaned my windshield in my
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by fiblye 6y ago
Not sure what internal prejudices or twisted reasoning I have about my own country. I certainly don't know what it has to do with Trump. My concern is that countries will ship people to a country they've never been to for things l
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by fiblye 6y ago
>“These charges are a warning to drug traffickers worldwide that neither the shroud of the darknet or of virtual currency can hide their illegal activities from the vigilance of U.S. law enforcement,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Michael Sh
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by fiblye 6y ago
> Why can't you recieve sms abroad? Because my SIM card is useless the minute I'm outside of its recognized area. > Why can't you give Google your current phone number? Because my phone number is useless the minute I&#x
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by fiblye 6y ago
The outcomes will also give them a heightened sense of nationalism and feed into the idea that the West is just out to get China and Chinese people, which the media plays up quite a bit. As an American, sitting down next to a European on va
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by fiblye 6y ago
There are two outcomes: 1: They really will not know what you're talking about and think you're crazy and just hate Chinese people (this is common). 2: They will somewhat know what you're talking about, and have a massive li
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by fiblye 6y ago
As someone who travels frequently and has moved to different countries, SMS is the absolute worst. If a service asks me to verify my number after crossing a border, the chances of me ever being able to log into that account ever again are b
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by fiblye 6y ago
So long as it's from sustainably farmed trees. Every time I see a pack of paper, it proudly says "MADE IN INDONESIA." So long as cheap paper made from clear-cut rainforests and monkey massacres exists, I think I'd rather
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by fiblye 6y ago
> Most of the traffic came from desktop. At best it got to 50/50. I think most of your early traffic is going to be biased towards the techie crowd who use desktops. They're also more likely to be using pro software. Mobile use
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by fiblye 6y ago
I predict Chinese tech companies will offer wages equal to American tech companies for foreign workers in under a decade. Tech companies are really going to start feeling pressure in the coming years, and I know headlines will be full of &q
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by fiblye 6y ago
TikTok has been publicly criticized for their censorship and filtering countless times, so I wouldn't doubt that they toned it down a bit in the non-Chinese versions while they're actively getting negative coverage.
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by fiblye 6y ago
I bought a 2012 iMac with 8GB of memory as the baseline. We’re more than halfway through 2020 and Apple is telling us 8GB is still just fine for a >$2000 computer?
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by fiblye 6y ago
And it's definitely not future-proofed. Languages can change a lot in decades, from pronunciation to vocabulary to grammar. People think it's crazy that we still have people editing 50 year old COBOL programs today. Imagine how an
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by fiblye 6y ago
They were sure he wouldn't have made it this far to begin with. Any business decision riding hard on political hopes and dreams isn't really a safe investment this decade, no matter which side it's favoring.
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by fiblye 6y ago
I mentioned /r/Sino because it's what you'll typically find on the Chinese internet. It is an echo chamber. Try scrolling through weibo for an active discussion saying "Maybe Taiwan can be its own country" or
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by fiblye 6y ago
The NYT has a tracker for this: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav... A few countries are close enough to be considered accurate. Some are off by over 100%.
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by fiblye 6y ago
/r/china is exclusively western expats. They're the opposite of what mainstream Chinese thought is. And based off what I see on the actual Chinese net in Chinese, /r/sino stays completely in line with the common con
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by fiblye 6y ago
This sounds crazy, but /r/sino on reddit is pretty much as close as you'll get to mainstream Chinese political thought in English. There's a very good chance many of the people there are legitimate shills for the governm
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by fiblye 6y ago
It's surprising to look at the nutrition labels for anko/sweet red bean paste. It seems like it'd be a healthy alternative, but it's basically concentrated sugar cake. I live in Japan. I've eaten plenty of it. It&#x
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by fiblye 6y ago
> That's what I do, and yes I'm port sure I don't smell bad. I don't know about you specifically, but I've met a few people who tell me they've been on a no soap/low shower experiment for a while. In ev
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by fiblye 6y ago
Several states have had mail-in voting for years. It only became a political issue a few months ago, and only amongst one party. Meanwhile, rigged voting machines that flip votes have been caught on camera countless times. Zero effort has b
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by fiblye 6y ago
Even if they were honest and absolutely no data ever went back to China after this (not likely), that’s still billions flowing right back to a Chinese company straight out of America if they’re purchased. If Trump is sincere about his Ameri
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by fiblye 6y ago
Not really ironic here, since the top voted comment on every thread about Google or Facebook is about exactly that problem.
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by fiblye 6y ago
Honestly, Microsoft could purchase TikTok in its entirety and I still wouldn’t believe that it’s anything more than a front for the Chinese government. MS has a reputation for being exceedingly cozy with governments. No matter how they try
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by fiblye 6y ago
Travel is a time of excess. There’s a lot of cost beyond just the airplane tickets. Those costs come from somewhere.
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by fiblye 6y ago
You can make it seem like there's no effect if people simply ride airplanes then disappear. There's a whole economy before, during, and after. People taking trips on airplanes are often riding taxis and pumping CO2 into the air, b
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by fiblye 6y ago
Garbage men are working one of society's most important jobs. They're deserving of respect for the hard work they do. If UBI results in underpaid people leaving, employers will have to raise wages to match the true value of the jo
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by fiblye 6y ago
Imagine if people stayed home, avoided unnecessary gatherings, and the virus didn't spread uncontrolled. People with medical emergencies could get the care they need and the medical system wouldn't be overwhelmed. If everybody jus
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by fiblye 6y ago
> the type of content that is rewarded on TikTok makes it less exploitable by people who build followings by posting low-effort content that looks good aesthetically Forgive me for not being completely in the know, but everything I'
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by fiblye 6y ago
There wasn’t any confusion. Their point was they’d much rather pay a monthly fee, because as it is, paying full price to “own” a Stadia game is ridiculous because Stadia is going to end up dead like most other google services and all the ga

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