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seppin
7y ago
IQ tests are ridiculous and unscientific. Comparing cross-species capacity has no point or relevance or i'm not sure why you did it. Comparing humans to other humans, as I suggested, is flawed as well. If you go by "ability to do
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seppin
7y ago
Are you seriously implying the Chinese government doesn't have access to both of these sets of data?
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7y ago
And if the CCP asked for access to TikTok's international data, do you think they have the ability to say no?
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7y ago
"Bullying" is a simple phenomenon explained by physical size and capacity in relation to everyone else. If you have the size, you bully. Very few exceptions.
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7y ago
This is one instance. They already have 10-15k, planning to add at least 10k more.
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7y ago
There was no pullout. The 'HQ' won't exist but they'll hire the same amount of new people. They just wanted more tax breaks.
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7y ago
Yes, they don't give the data they harvest to an authoritarian government that already has proven they will use said data to target and ID people for arrest/detention/torture. Which is an important distinction.
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7y ago
It's a more efficient way of tracking you, and banning.
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7y ago
By that logic if you lived in a nice countyside vila in Poland during WW2 you should not have been worried at all about what was going on around you.
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7y ago
> drank milk mcpoyle ?
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7y ago
You ever been to a bar sober? It's very needed to prop up an entire industry.
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7y ago
> I've been reading a book called "How to Change Your Mind It's amazing how the same books get tossed around Silicon Valley, is their a book club i'm not aware of. (just finished the above book, it's heavy on dru
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7y ago
Not already made up*
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7y ago
Google and a mind not already up is all you need, good luck.
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7y ago
> and the Chinese government hasn't seized Alibaba, Tencent or Huawei. Funny, your examples include a company famous for the CCP removing their CEO (Ali) and the company being an arm of military intelligence (Huawei). I don't f
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7y ago
Ignoring or tolerating a violent ethno-nationalist ideology isn't going to make things better either.
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7y ago
It's not, ignore nationalist defending a fascist state.
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7y ago
> doing business in China is different and relies on of relationship building that takes a long time to nurture That's a strange way of saying they require a Chinese national to be part owner, and if it grows enough the party will s
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7y ago
> Upon return to civilian life, he said he was astounded by the triviality of peoples' everyday life concerns. They were going to live another day, what did they have to be concerned about? Perhaps the key to a well-adjusted view of
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7y ago
> If that first experience is a bad one that will reflect on what people think about the rest of the country. So yes, you do think an airport is at least a good starting point for forming an opinion about a country. Seriously that is cr
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7y ago
It's more a case of doing something everyday, eventually you become that thing. It's just a matter of time and consistency. Faking happy could very well be one of those things.
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7y ago
Pulling one out automatically puts the other in transparent mode
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7y ago
> (Barr will eventually side with them, not Trump) You aren't paying attention very closely.
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He also had/has significant mental issues before the matter began.
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7y ago
Are you honestly basing your opinion of a country on an airport?
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7y ago
> Since it is harder to _simply not be a criminal_ European misunderstanding and distortion of American society never fails to entertain.
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7y ago
Same, I quite like them. Just a heads up, don't walk the streets with both in. The in ear allows to listen with just one in.
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7y ago
This is one of the reasons I love small companies
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7y ago
Also, governments are finding new and creative ways to put new taxes on already legal money. So yeah, privacy matters.
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7y ago
> I'd concluded that Apple didn't really think much of laptops anymore, and had simply moved on to caring more about other form factors: it seemed a logical conclusion if one assumed that people at Apple were in fact competent.
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