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by throwaway2474 6y ago
Imagine the outrage (from the same groups advocating this) if this were China, deleting books about, say, traditional Western Chinese Muslim culture.
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by throwaway2474 6y ago
It’s very different. The West begins with privacy as a basic expectation, and is surprised when it doesn’t exist. In China it is never assumed in the first place (between individuals and the state). People accept the surveillance and mostly
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by throwaway2474 6y ago
How do you imagine the ISP/VPN gets your browsing history for https traffic beyond domain names?
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by throwaway2474 6y ago
It seems to me that Kalanick was often “aware” of things but conveniently avoids scrutiny. How is this? Uber did so many questionable things under his leadership. And he managed to totally dodge the Levandowski saga.
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by throwaway2474 6y ago
> If you want to reach out to someone in China, you have to use a Chinese company's app If you want to talk to someone in China, you have to use WeChat and have your entire conversation mined by the CCP. There’s no encryption and no
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by throwaway2474 6y ago
What do you mean? News Corp definitely has a sizeable influence over elections, or at least they have had in the past. So it works in that sense.
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by throwaway2474 6y ago
It’s likely an attempt by the libs to buy favour with the Murdoch press, who have traditionally had a lot of control over election outcomes.
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by throwaway2474 6y ago
It may be a case of Google lagging behind others yeah, I’m not overly familiar with translators other than as a casual user. WeChat is very “smoothed” in that it gives you something that makes grammatical sense and sounds native, in prefere
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by throwaway2474 6y ago
The air quality has actually improved a lot in recent years, and I’d expect that trend to continue. The govt is putting a lot of emphasis on it recently. But yeah, it’s still pretty bad.
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by throwaway2474 6y ago
Transportation, not healthcare. High speed rail is ridiculously good, it connects just about every major Chinese city, it’s affordable, very comfortable and fast. I would consider healthcare an exception, it may be affordable but outside of
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by throwaway2474 6y ago
Your comment is about 15 years out of date. There isn’t much that is “excellent beyond what is available” in China anymore. This type of thinking is why western foreign policy continues to get China totally wrong. Chinese people who study a
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by throwaway2474 6y ago
Ok but he wasn’t able to sell .org, so why did he still get the job?
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by throwaway2474 6y ago
Can you please explain this comment?
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by throwaway2474 7y ago
The government keeps repeating the claim that most cases have been acquired overseas, but testing criteria in every state explicitly only include people who have returned from overseas or have had known contact with a confirmed case (up unt