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by pimmen 7y ago
They probably are following orders really well, it's the judicial and legislative system using the police that are almost not even trying to uphold the human rights conventions. You know, the UN ones, which China claims they support, s
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And this is a discussion about domestic courts, that’s what’s relevant to this article because those are the ones HK would extradite to. Extraditing to an American court is far more in line with respecting human rights than to a Chinese cou
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It is never ok, but there is a clear difference in the extent to which it occurs, the legality of it and how it’s handled by the government. For example, Gui Minhai has also criticized the US government but they didn’t kidnap him and keep h
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by pimmen 7y ago
Not even remotely to the same extent as China. Even Joaquin Guzman gets a trial.
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France has a democratic system, Hong Kong has no democratic way to get rid of Lam. USA has due process, the right to council and many other fundamental human rights. Most of the posters are in Chinese. Brexit will be worse for the UK econom
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by pimmen 7y ago
I live on the other side of the world, but this still strikes a deep chord with me. I'm Swedish, born and raised in Gothenburg. After the Umbrella protests in 2014 five people connected to the Causeway Bay Books store in Hong Kong disa
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I work for a media company too that has been very aggressive when it comes to charging for our content and yes; quality journalism like this costs money and ads can unfortunately not support it anymore. It was a good read! I appreciated you
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You can use anaonymous exams or maybe have them solve a project. If you do that, people who are qualified get in and not people who were good students as children.
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I agree. I’m from an upper-middle background and my parents always try to downplay it. They’ll say things like ”well, they say we’re rich but you know we don’t see how we could afford going abroad this year, you know with the renovations go
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I a legal complaint came in I would have figured that you start a far more transparent, cohesive process where the one accused has some information of what's going on and feels some agency. If there's a DoS, inform the party about
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by pimmen 7y ago
So, how is the EC not a rule of mob then except that it weighs some part of the mob greater than others? And, because states are different you want that to reflect on the people in that a state that’s different should have citizens with wea
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I don’t want to treat people differently based on their ethnicity, and I also don’t want to treat people differently based on their geographical location. If I move 15 feet in the same country my vote should not become more powerful. What I
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by pimmen 7y ago
I've never understood this argument at all. What's so special about the states that there needs to be power rebalancing in order to prevent larger states from getting more influence? What's so special about Washington DC that
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by pimmen 7y ago
Outside the US it's very common for the losing party to pay the legal expenses of the other party, in order to discourage stuff like this because someone who's obviously right has theoretically nothing to lose. However, since that
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The price drops to zero if the business dies because the stock gives you no voting power or dividends. Because the company is dead. So, if it's a dying business everyone is pouring their money into then every active manager would searc
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Yes, the algorithm makes all the difference. I've missed out on two friends who were expecting children now, even though they posted it on Facebook, yet I see all kinds of conspiracy crap from my closest relatives. If this was done thr
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It's sad that only MPs are allowed to speak in the Swedish parliament. There are quite a few politicians who don't take her seriously here, in her own native country.
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As your last paragraph shows, the Electoral College does not ensure minority representation of the states (or ”tyranny of the majority of states”) because if enough people moved to Texas it would decide everything. As is right now, about 22
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by pimmen 7y ago
Because when another company fills the void they'll know what happens if you don't think about these issues and risk getting shut down themselves. That opens up the possibility of benevolent actors filling the void. Or, someone at
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by pimmen 7y ago
We can't substitute water for anything, though. Hundreds of millions of people will lose their water, won't adapt to that, and will move to the northern hemisphere which holds the vast majority of the world's surface level fr
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by pimmen 7y ago
One could reply with "Yeah, visit less than half the population because the rest wouldn't matter. Right back to the real Tea Party."
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by pimmen 7y ago
It's skyrocketing across the world. Sweden for example has seen levels of growth in real estate prices that rivals Hong Kong, the Bay Area or London. There are many, many, many reasons why but I wouldn't expect the prices of homes
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by pimmen 7y ago
We had this system in Sweden for a long time, my parents were able to study with these terms in the 90s. Basically, you could choose between multiple payment plans, one of them being that the government takes 4% of your income (after taxes)
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Violent crimes has been stable for about a decade. About 100 people are killed in Sweden per year[1], about 250 are killed in Detroit per year[2]. Comparing different crime statistics between countries is very dicey BTW. Sweden has the broa
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This attitude to googling is poisonous. I once helped an elderly relative in my teens with his router and I got the same treatment after I googled the answer. Later we watched a court drama the entire family, with the same relative present,
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There are probably other ways but they lack the network effect of people already being there, and the fact that many major companies use Github to distribute and administer their open source projects. In the West we have the choice to use t
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Of course they are, it's almost June 4th which is the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. You know that events is going to be the featured article on one of the Wikipedia editions, or at least be mentioned in the "O
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by pimmen 7y ago
What definition of fluency do you use? I can’t seem to find any agreement on a definition in the Wikipedia article on language fluency.
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That’s so true. Everyone has an idea, do you have the grit?
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Which is probably why alot of business is backing this protest in contrast to the Umbrella protest of 2014; their lawyers know that it would be harder to incentivize Western business to send people and capital when they can be arbitrarily s

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