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by hkai 6y ago
It's not a duplicate, people are just trying to create a Streisand effect by reposting this news every day.
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by hkai 6y ago
It's like saying that as a McDonald's customer, you'd prefer they did not charge you for food and you could just get it for free, without having to follow the rules. In fact, McDonald's has a lot of anti features: having
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by hkai 6y ago
I think the media are trolling Facebook now by reprinting the same story every day. The Streisand effect of sorts.
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by hkai 6y ago
I'm inclined to believe the upcoming economic doom simply because anecdotally, I hardly know anyone who is against continuous lockdowns for as long as needed. In fact, people even seem to believe that the dead economy brings positive c
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by hkai 6y ago
How is your argument different from the people claiming that Chinese medicine cures covid-19? We don't have any proof that it doesn't, but 96% of covid-19 patients in Wuhan received it and they were cured! Yay!
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by hkai 6y ago
Hmm. But if you were investing that money even in some sort of risk free investment like time deposit, you'd be earning free money.
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by hkai 6y ago
You have been selected as one of the few people in the society who we will pay way above market rate. Someone like me would probably need to work 80hrs a week just so that my children can catch up with the level of comfort that you have. An
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by hkai 6y ago
What problem are you hoping to solve through this? We did it in Hong Kong. Over 30% of the population lives in virtually free housing rented from the government. They don't have an incentive to work. They get to live in one of the most
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by hkai 6y ago
Micromanaged software.
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by hkai 6y ago
I will admit it was not the best comparison. But having these books does feel quite scary, that a foreign language (even though you understand it well) is imposed on you by a hostile government.
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by hkai 6y ago
If we did, we would be proud of it! I once used two razors and a piece of wire plugged into the 220V outlet to boil some water.
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by hkai 6y ago
Well, John Bolton in his new book alleges that Trump told Xi to keep locking up Uyghurs. > “According to our interpreter, Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which Trump thought was exactly the right thing to do,”
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by hkai 6y ago
I fully agree with you, but the CNN article certainly tries to make a very condescending point. "Let me spell it for you: don't microwave your books!" - and based on just an isolated incident. By writing an article about this
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by hkai 6y ago
Some sources say 72 hours - not 2 - without mentioning that it's the time required to achieve absolutely guaranteed 0% viable viruses. However, the drop is nonlinear and indeed after 2 hours half of the viruses will be inactive.
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by hkai 6y ago
Please do not microwave your Kindle either. But if you do, film it!
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by hkai 6y ago
Oh, not just students. Most of my colleagues are ethnic Chinese folks who were born or raised in the West, schooled there and then they returned to China. On a few occasions that I have a chance to talk politics with them, they says that de
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by hkai 6y ago
It seems so, although it's not like the world paid much attention to the mass imprisonment and "reeducation" of Kazakhs and Uyghurs for the crime of speaking a wrong language, praying to the wrong god or wearing the wrong sty
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by hkai 6y ago
The folks protesting in Hong Kong are not really aligned with the views of the US Democratic Party or left-wing activists in the US. I think they are more aligned with the classical liberalism which doesn't seem to find much support th
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by hkai 6y ago
Two things are true at the same time: - Hong Kong's rule of law has disappeared; - The books in question are written by pretty radical young revolutionaries. Personally I am more concerned that libraries in Hong Kong seem to keep less
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by hkai 6y ago
As a programmer and not a finance guy, I can't understand the cost savings. I'm earning roughly 4k USD per month and our developers in India earn 1k USD per month. The output of the entire 12-people team there including managers e
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by hkai 6y ago
Is this the reason why my Indian colleagues never reveal their last name?
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by hkai 6y ago
The original headline on CNN.com is "Why EU is so white", but when you click it, the article has another, less provocative title.
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by hkai 6y ago
The encyclopedia seems to have been written, the mediawiki engine is working fine, so now they either have to rebrand, or work on a dark theme.
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by hkai 6y ago
I think the concern is that some people working in tech companies and media may define "hate" as anything to the right of Karl Marx, even well-researched centrist positions. If this is true, then I can easily see why policing of p
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by hkai 6y ago
Well you can think that way until you are the one they are protecting. Then it's nice having freedom of travel (thanks to the collapse of the USSR) or having the most progressive government in Asia (Taiwan). I'm really grateful to
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by hkai 6y ago
> China jurisdiction is not supranational It absolutely is.
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by hkai 6y ago
While this case is bad enough, mistakes like this are not the biggest concern. Mistakenly arrested people are (hopefully) eventually released, even though they have to go through quite a bit of trouble. The consequence that is much worse wo
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by hkai 6y ago
But you don't have a choice. Either it's Facebook, which is relatively transparent and can be sued, regulated and criticized in the media. Or it's another social network that you have absolutely no recourse against.
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by hkai 6y ago
Is this currently public? I advertise on Facebook but I can't see anyone's searches or current location. Although I can target people who are interested in LGBT or people who have been to SFO recently. If they like my post, I can
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by hkai 6y ago
I think that's because America made quite a few enemies in the process of policing the world. Israel is much tougher on inbound travelers for the same reason. If America didn't police the world, China would, and we would still hav

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