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by hmm37 2y ago
(1) We are talking about an existential threat to the US. The idea that China is literally going to take its navy/army and try invading the US. (2) Taiwan and Tibet are different cases and could not be considered clear and cut cases o
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by hmm37 2y ago
It's not a bad-faith comparison at all. There's nothing about Tiktok's practice that is necessarily illegal as it follows basically the same business model as all other social media companies. It is only that it has a Chine
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by hmm37 2y ago
Yes. It's the Chinese exclusion act all over again. We already been through this historically. Essentially a ban on race/ethnicity vs practice.
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by hmm37 2y ago
In the EU all social media companies have to comply to the same rules. This is normal "regulation". China also regulates all social media companies on whether or not they are willing to censor speech or not. This is also called
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by hmm37 2y ago
Yes I think that's possible, and then you would need to get e.g. a 8 pin bios programmer for $10-15. But... I think often times if a switch wasn't supposed to be flipped you could just yank the battery to try resetting the bios t
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by hmm37 2y ago
In my opinion, you are just focusing on a small aspect of what the Mandate of Heaven was about or how it was viewed. If you read the philosophical text like Mencius, etc., and understand what supposedly the Zhou were arguing to claim that
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by hmm37 2y ago
This method works because many system bioses apparently just hide many setup options, and therefore if you can find these options, you can flip the switch by editing EFI variables. Doing so isn't that difficult as the blog entry state
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How to reenable undervolting in 2020 Dell Laptops by editing EFI variables(brendangreenley.com)
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by hmm37 3y ago
That's not even remotely the same. That's more equivalent of banning the installation of tiktok on government phones, which should be considered normal for security reasons. Apple is still able to freely operate in China otherwi
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by hmm37 3y ago
But Tiktok "is". At least Tiktok USA is registered in the US as a US corporation and therefore gets the same protections under US laws. Therefore constitutional protections apply. You could say the owners of Tiktok don't ne
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by hmm37 3y ago
The issue is that China has banned facebook and google, etc. because they don't censor which is the law in China. If they decided to censor and follow the laws of China they would be allowed to operate there. Google tried to reenter
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by hmm37 3y ago
Just pointing out, New Zealand, Canada, Australia, UK all have the same monarch. And perhaps the situation between them and e.g. the US, with its five eyes program, is actually closer to something that could occur between China/Taiwan.
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by hmm37 3y ago
I'm pretty sure at this point we are just talking pass each other. Taiwanese people don't consider themselves 中国人, because zhongguoren is now considered to mean a PRC citizen (although historically this was not necessarily the me
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by hmm37 3y ago
I don't think 华 is necessarily the same as ethnicity as it's interchangeable with the concept of "China" itself. 中華民國 translates into Republic of China the official country's name, of which Taiwan is mere province
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by hmm37 3y ago
There's an issue in how these polls are being conducted and it's hard to tell what's happening especially with Western articles that don't fully give all information or give the polling questions. The word "Chinese
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by hmm37 3y ago
When you actually show the rate of change from e.g. 2014-2022, it's about 3.5%. Inflation being about let's say 2% over those years. Although the fact that it's reported in USD probably matters as well to really understand
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by hmm37 3y ago
Annual exports dropped on a dollar basis but not when using RMB. On the other hand if you were to check Japan's exports, which newspapers are more likely to report on a Yen basis, it states exports are up due to weaker yen by quite a
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by hmm37 3y ago
East Asians apparently have a higher percentage of Neanderthal dna than Europeans, with it going as high as 4%. It's hard to believe that at 2% it's greater than 99% of people, since 2% seems rather average for the average East A
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by hmm37 3y ago
There most be different data sets or different measurements, or categories of bonds being used. E.g. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-16/china-bon... "Global investors raised their holdin
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by hmm37 3y ago
How did you conclude points 2 and 3 from this data?
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by hmm37 3y ago
Do you have any education in finance, securities, law, economics, etc.? E.g. Your Edit stating that China banned short selling. They didn't ban short selling. They banned borrowing of shares that are "restricted" to short
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by hmm37 3y ago
Equities are different from bonds. Bonds are being snapped up by a lot of foreign investors.
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by hmm37 3y ago
What's interesting is whether this tech will allow China to replace their coal plant boilers with this one as a drop-in. e.g. https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2016/12/chinas-plans-to-begin-...
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by hmm37 3y ago
Exactly who are we supposed to believe? Anonymous intel officials which the ISP denies, or what Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said a few months ago. "Now, seven months later, Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the
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by hmm37 3y ago
Oh. I missed that. In that case wouldn't Confucius grandson (子思) be higher up? After all he supposedly taught Mencius and wrote the Doctrine of the Mean 中庸, and that work is considered standard reading, while reading Xunzi would have
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by hmm37 3y ago
We can e.g. compare this to something Zhuangzi (a Daoist) stated. 荃者所以在魚，得魚而忘荃蹄者所以在兔，得兔而忘蹄言者所以在意，得意而忘言吾安得忘言之人而與之言哉？ The fish trap exists because of the fish; once you've gotten the fish, you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exi
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by hmm37 3y ago
I would actually say that for Confucians, it's Confucius, Mencius then Zhu Xi. Xunzi comes 4th, and was regarded a bit heterodox.
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by hmm37 3y ago
This isn't exactly correct, because of the differences between the countries. China and Taiwan are completely different with a different set of populations. Taiwan was colonized by Japan, and thus industrialized up until WW2 was over
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by hmm37 3y ago
It's pretty similar to Chinese Neo-Confucian concepts of 理 (li) and 气 (qi). Qi being matter-energy. Li - being structure or form or pattern. Although to be human in Chinese concepts, required more than just having the form of a human
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by hmm37 3y ago
Again. It's a matter of perspective. If Biden didn't ask Xi to attend the APEC meeting, Xi probably wouldn't bother to attend. But based on your viewpoint, I guess no one needs to worry about China anymore because it'

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