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by qiqing 8y ago
I'd be really interested to find out more about the security model of Station, which would be useful for finding out if our infosec department would be willing to approve it for internal use. Also, ditto on the pointing to an internal
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How do we know that they aren't installing software? It may just be a matter of time before someone reports an incident in which another one of these nations do install something.
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This part jumped out at me: > Apple wrote back to him that “the content provider has removed these movies from the Canadian Store. Hence, these movies are not available in the Canada iTunes Store at this time.” So, if the person in the a
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by qiqing 8y ago
You can download your existing collection when you have the opportunity, and then put the device on airplane mode. I know that doesn't address the main point, but ... quibbles.
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by qiqing 8y ago
What about ethnically Chinese Canadian citizens in its Toronto office? It sounds a lot like the rules did apply to US citizens.
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> Where other countries often enact piecemeal and uncoordinated reforms, Singapore tries to look at the system as a whole. It invests heavily in education research. All reforms are tested, with the outcomes diligently monitored, before b
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by qiqing 8y ago
It sounds like a good time for the fire department to switch to Project Fi. Would be good publicity for Project Fi if that happens. They're upfront about exactly what you're buying. No illusions.
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by qiqing 8y ago
Would you care to provide some nuance then?
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by qiqing 8y ago
It sounds like you are claiming that no lives were lost during colonization (of Asia, the Americas, Africa, Australia...) or slaves traded. Would you like to clarify your statement?
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by qiqing 8y ago
Notable excerpt from the article: Some have stood their ground, arguing the legitimacy of their acquisitions or touting the value to the Chinese of sharing their culture abroad. Others have quietly shipped crates of art back to China, in ho
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by qiqing 8y ago
It's possible that the author wasn't trying to play into the stereotypes but the editor wanted to stay "on-message" and asked for revisions in order to be published.
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by qiqing 8y ago
I'm just going to leave this right here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_policing The commenter was angry, but I understand his anger. I can see how even the slightest hint of it in sharing my personal experien
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by qiqing 8y ago
In the polite paraphrase of John Oliver, host of Last Week Tonight: "I understand that you want the diamond, but the thing is that we have the diamond, you don't and we're going to keep having it forever. So in summary, finde
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by qiqing 8y ago
Both of you are lumping all Chinese people together as a monolith. Let's put it this way. If you come to my house and beat me up and loot my stuff, and then burn most of my house down, but I survive, and then a mob of poor people came
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by qiqing 8y ago
I agree with you. It would be as though the Constitution, the Liberty Bell, most of the contents of the Smithsonian, and almost all the contents inside the White House were looted and then put on display elsewhere, and it took the looters 3
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by qiqing 8y ago
I don't understand the downvotes. I'm describing the personal experience of my own family, and trying to relate it to this audience. Sometimes, people like to lump all Chinese people together as a monolith without any nuance, as t
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by qiqing 8y ago
Excerpt from near the end of the article (about Summer Palace zodiac heads, separate pieces from the heists): > The curator guided me toward a dark, carpeted room in the rear of the museum. Inside, each of the four revered heads—the ox,
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by qiqing 8y ago
> Because of the Old China's Empirical Close Door Policy, they got invaded by Europeans. Because of the invasion, art works were robbed, the Old China fell and the New China was born. By Close Door Policy, are you including making o
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by qiqing 8y ago
If I were you, I'd try to ask someone at Canary or another swag producer to see if they can find a source for them as part of a larger order. Or see if there's a swag coordinator at the company where you work who has a relationshi
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An 11-year-old hacked a replica of Florida’s voting system in 10 minutes(vox.com)
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by qiqing 8y ago
Notable call-to-action from the article: > Adrea Schneider’s organs and tissues have helped at least seven people. > From halting infections to curing blindness, a single donor can save or > improve more than 70 lives. Enroll to do
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by qiqing 8y ago
Well, prior to the 1600's, it was the dominant economy on the planet, and then during the mid-later Qing Dynasty, there was the critical leadership error in not sufficiently investing in the military instead of investing everything in
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by qiqing 8y ago
Get a SIM card from Project Fi (by Google), which auto-VPN's for you, and you can use everything (FB, Twitter, etc.) you're used to using. Bring a Chromebook and use your phone to provide Internet for your Chromebook. Install Didi
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by qiqing 8y ago
First point: Excerpt: "The great American teenage dream used to be to own your own car. That is dwindling in favor of urban living, greater reliance on mass transit, cycling, walking and, of course, ride-sharing services such as Uber a
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by qiqing 8y ago
Minor quibble, but Airbnb doesn't own the hosts' homes or apartments, and Uber doesn't own the drivers' cars. Renting is an accurate descriptor of Netflix or Kindle (and Google Play movies actually does have "rent&q
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by qiqing 8y ago
Thanks! In case anyone is curious, I found the excerpt that had what I was looking for (the list of specific endocrine disrupting compounds). From page 2: "The probabilities had been based on assessment of the toxicological and epidemi
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And if you live in an area that used to manufacture semiconductors (and possibly contaminated with heavy metals), it is recommended that you use a certain kind of plastic sheet between the dirt in the ground and the topsoil that you buy at
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by qiqing 8y ago
Does anyone have the PDF to the full article? I'm curious to read more than the summary.
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Do you recommend the air purifier that you have? And would you mind sharing which one has a built-in sensor? I'd like to try measuring my laundry room.
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by qiqing 8y ago
It seems like a good time to use cryptocurrency mining to balance out the periods of zero or negative energy cost.

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