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by seppin 7y ago
> And what exactly caused the wealth inequality? I never mentioned inequality. The purchasing power (and wage) of the average American and European working has either declined or stagnated. What China has done pulling millions out of pov
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by seppin 7y ago
What would someone that kills people for their government think they are doing for a living?
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by seppin 7y ago
> The worst case scenario for China is a complete decoupling of the US economy from China. This is impossible, even if someone wanted to do this (which is like saying you want to commit suicide) they couldn't.
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by seppin 7y ago
> result of trying to help the Chinese? No, I said the American and European middle class has suffered while the Chinese lower class has risen. And in a democracy, large policy decisions that affect the economy and your standard of life
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by seppin 7y ago
remote, right?
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by seppin 7y ago
How quickly would a foreign application for IP project get through a Chinese court? Would it matter in the end if it did?
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by seppin 7y ago
It will never happen. What's the worst case scenario, China cuts off its markets completely from western digital products? They already have.
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by seppin 7y ago
> On other hand, Russian own spies are said to be intentionally recruited from small towns in Russian Far East Matches the two men who carried out the Salisbury Attack.
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by seppin 7y ago
> 2) (Eagerly) subvert to whoever offers a good deal. The amount of head bowing to Putin and Xi from European politicians is, troubling.
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by seppin 7y ago
> Internet is actually a tool for the US Intelligence Community The internet is a tool for every countries' intelligence community. > Skype's acquisition by MS was in part a covert operation to help the US Intelligence Commu
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by seppin 7y ago
There is a lack of a third place in American society. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place
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by seppin 7y ago
If you are new in a city, go find a local church. Specially if there's a national identity behind it, instant community.
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by seppin 7y ago
Poor comparison. If Apple and Motorola was run by the DoD that would be better.
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by seppin 7y ago
Because it's a literal wealth transfer from the American middle class to China. Yes growth has supplied some of that wealth, but America and Europe have done the rest. And no one asked the respective populations of the lower middle cla
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distinction without a difference
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by seppin 7y ago
>with support from the US bad policy isn't the same as support
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by seppin 7y ago
> - Facebook makes money from your data by showing you ads. If you stop using facebook, you stop generating any revenue and your data becomes a liability, not an asset. I doubt this
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by seppin 7y ago
> I predict their own Android fork and China-focused app store will do fine in China, but struggle big time in other markets. Why would they need it to be popular anywhere other than China?
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by seppin 7y ago
This article is about low skilled workers. I've worked the same job in the US and the EU, I earned MORE than double in the US. Also lower taxes. And holiday you can negotiate up front to get as many as you would in Europe.
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by seppin 7y ago
> It’s the people in the middle that get screwed Medicaid doesn't cover even a majority of lower income or younger Americans.
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Since 2014 yes
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by seppin 7y ago
> Let it all burn. The rich westerner who never had to struggle to survive wants chaos. I wonder what a person raised in chaos has to say about that..?
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by seppin 7y ago
> It's very easy to fall into despair that regardless of what you do today the collapse we are careening towards will erase all of it and more. The demographic of boomers are to blame for the shift and the lack of response to said t
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by seppin 7y ago
Wow when did Chris Hedges become a Russian propagandist? I used to really represent him, how did he get banned from western media?
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by seppin 7y ago
> time to schmooze (read: invest time in developing a human relationship) There's a reason why engineers are looked upon as aliens. "developing a human relationship" is the basic thing all people do, not some annoying side
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by seppin 7y ago
Two different things here. The odds that all Huawei hardware is setup for mass surveillance is low. The odds that the Chinese gov could use that hardware to target specific people for spying is close to 100%.
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by seppin 7y ago
> The fact that others think that such a thing as "boundaries" exist only serves as an advantage. Isn't this how villains in Marvel movies work?
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by seppin 7y ago
> It sounds like they knew exactly what was going on. Perhaps they didn't have the means to recover it themselves, nor the desire (it would mean admitting to the accident and deaths of the soldiers)
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by seppin 7y ago
> War was not declared in those cases either. Tell that to the dead.
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by seppin 7y ago
Allies is a bit much, they had a common enemy. Once the enemy was destroyed, no longer allies. Compare that to US/UK aka true allies.

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