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by sdm 10y ago
As a Canadian, yes they did. Look at our history and how the British tried to assimilate the Canadiens. That's not to mention that forcing Christianity on conquered subjects was one of the main goals of the British Empire.
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by sdm 10y ago
Yup, #2 would hits us very hard. We have just over 40 people split between two organizations; everyone has access to Github and all have been trained to use it. Only about half are developers; are a lot of rules in a simple DSL that busines
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by sdm 10y ago
First/second/third world is not an economic concept. Both Namibia and the Philippines are first world countries. Both Switzerland and Sweden (and Austria too) are third world countries. China -- by the very definition of the first
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by sdm 10y ago
Ummm... China is not a third world country. It was a second world country. In fact the whole point of the definition of first/second/third world revolves around China, the USSR, and their allies being the second world. What you me
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by sdm 10y ago
> Vz went down hill the moment that private property rights were lost. The problem with that statement is Vz never had real private property rights. Nothing really changed when Chavez came to power other than who was doing taking away.
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by sdm 10y ago
Just because something is "Netflix Original Content" in one country doesn't mean it's "Netflix Original Content" in another. For example "The 100" is "Netflix Original Content" in Canada but
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by sdm 11y ago
English, an official language, and British culture are still pretty strong in HK though declining. Still, I get your point. I live in China and I while I don't work remotely, I just don't interact with the expat community. It&#x27
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by sdm 11y ago
No. You just need a Chinese bank card. Though some services do require a Chinese ID number. But pay/send money in WeChat that's all that is needed. China Merchant Bank is the easiest to deal with: English online banking and their
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by sdm 11y ago
I agree with the OP, I found the captions extremely condescending. Especially the ones about China. The worst one for me was: > At night, the elderly Chinese dance in the streets in unison avoiding any displays of individuality. This com
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by sdm 11y ago
This is pretty much the situation in China with VPNs and GFW. Some providers will specialize in providing ways to get around the locks. They will be able to charge extra for it too and people will pay. Because $7.99 + say $4.99 for the VPN
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by sdm 11y ago
There is something wrong with your connection; where are you? I'm in Suzhou, I have no problem maxing out my connection downloading things outside of the GFW. It starts slow but speeds up about a minute in usually. With VPN turned on I
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A16z: Mindsets for Thinking about Innovation in – And Competition from – China(a16z.com)
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by sdm 11y ago
No effect. For now at least. One country two systems. These restrictions would violate Basic Law.
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by sdm 11y ago
> In total, 106 members of China's National People's Congress and 97 members of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Congress, are on Hurun's China Rich List. Their combined wealth hits $463.8 billion. Ummm... The NPC h
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by sdm 11y ago
At no point do they claim drone-ing is wrong or immoral. It's the bad guys that tricked them. And the whole, normalizing it as just a mistake. Carrie is never punished for her crime. There is no introspection on the issue. It was purel
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by sdm 11y ago
I'm an Apple user so I'm not very familiar with the offerings on Android. I don't drive. Apple Maps has all the public transport info so that's key to me for any map. Plus, in Suzhou where I live, I've found much of
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by sdm 11y ago
I live in Suzhou. And use gmail via Mail.app and iOS Mail daily. Other than around certain anniversaries, it's never been blocked for me. I do visit SH regularly -- it's right beside me -- and haven't had trouble. But YMMV.
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by sdm 11y ago
Two notes: 1. Never use Google Maps in China; Google Maps in China are just hilariously wrong and out of date and will get you lost. Even if Google Maps wasn't blocked you wouldn't want use it in China. Apple Maps is the best Engl
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by sdm 11y ago
I'm sorry, but your analogy is pretty far off the mark. > China won't be able to get any FDI for a a long time. Economic depression China has been a net exporter of FDI for some time; it doesn't really need more FDI especi
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by sdm 11y ago
> I don't understand what you mean when you say it's "only" due to India and China starting to have a middle class. That is literally the definition of decreasing inequality globally: people who were previously below
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by sdm 11y ago
Then would have to expand the other side of the comparison to include the whole world as well. It would not surprise me if the comparison remained true. There are likely only 5-10 countries in the world where terrorism has killed more peopl
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by sdm 11y ago
You're leaving out the SGD which would be the natural choice for an ASEAN member and on very solid footing.
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by sdm 11y ago
He is exaggerating. You just use Astrill or ExpressVPN or one of the other VPN providers that specialize in getting around the GFW. Other than the one week of the year, around a certain anniversary, when the GFW decides to shit on everythin
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by sdm 11y ago
Does whatsapp make money from users in Brazil? Then yes, it has a business presence in Brazil.
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by sdm 11y ago
Also the lack of differentiation between PM10 and PM2.5 numbers is very unhelpful. What's actually being measured? Just saying PM isn't useful. Plus, the scale only goes to 150 -- LOL, I'm in China, a scale that only goes 150
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by sdm 11y ago
It's unclear if the results are for a specific country or in any country's library. Would be handy to identify which countries' libraries contain each item or have the ability to specify the country.
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by sdm 11y ago
But really, how often does the customer actually see the courier? If I have stuff delivered to the office, the receptionist signs for it and drops it off to me. If I have stuff delivered at home, my building's concierge signs for it an
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by sdm 11y ago
This is a pretty common thing -- except the glass door cubby hole thing that your food gets put in. You find in a lot of Taiwanese restaurants machines at your table for ordering, requesting things like water and utensils, etc. Yes they hav
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by sdm 11y ago
There is nothing about sales that stops an introvert from being good at it. The is especially true is the introvert is passionate about what they are selling. So much of sales is listening to the client's problems and thinking about ho
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by sdm 11y ago
> American culture IS canadian. Yeah right, buddy. > But look to the UK, to the BBC, and you won't find any. As other have pointed out you find a few there. However this is more easily explained by two things: (1) for Canadians w

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