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by trasz 4y ago
They are the same in every practical sense, in particular in their end results. The differences you mention are an implementation detail - in some countries you have the rules written down as law, in others you got shady three letter agenci
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by trasz 4y ago
>China has never repealed this law. US never repealed the Hague Invasion Act. Would you say they are threatening Europe? Or do you know someone who says this law no longer applies? >avoid a war What war? Neither Taiwan nor China wa
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by trasz 4y ago
The title is misleading, the actual first one has been operating commercially since 2018 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanmen_Nuclear_Power_Station ). There are another couple of them in operation.
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by trasz 4y ago
It works the same way in capitalist countries - except it’s enforced with money and patriotism instead of democratically introduced, officially existing rules.
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by trasz 4y ago
>Prosecutors recommended that Wilson receive “a sentence at the lowest end of the applicable sentencing guidelines” slow clap
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by trasz 4y ago
>If criticism really doesn’t matter, why does the Chinese government show so little tolerance for it? Are they thin-skinned? That’s a very good question. I’m guessing it’s cultural, and it’s somewhat similar to what you see in Japan or
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by trasz 4y ago
It’s already explained in your link. Also this is not infrastructure, which is what we’re talking about.
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by trasz 4y ago
>How were those carriers threatening Taiwan exactly? I understand how those carriers might have threatened China, but not Taiwan. If it triggered the war, do you think it would be waged mostly on territory of continental China, or Taiwan
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by trasz 4y ago
American companies can criticize the government, because it doesn’t matter - in the end they will do whatever they are told, legal or not. Tell me, why are there backdoors in American telco equipment, but not in Chinese? Are those manufact
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by trasz 4y ago
Except Huawei and ZTE aren’t any more “subservient” than non-Chinese companies. That, btw, is another aspect of this problem - American companies like Cisco have been shown to plant backdoors, while the “subservient” Huawei hadn’t.
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by trasz 4y ago
I’d love to see a HN<->NNTP bridge. This would make it possible to use standard Usenet readers, which provide vastly superior functionality, from proper threading to scoring.
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by trasz 4y ago
Sure, https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/two-us-carriers-e... . Your turn now - can you quote the law which threatens Taiwan?
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by trasz 4y ago
So you got a shit job to shield yourself from a shit job in the future? Are you aware of other options, such as non-shit jobs?
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by trasz 4y ago
>Is this legal It doesn’t matter. For this to matter it would require punishing the offenders, and since they are wealthy it’s not really an option in most western countries.
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by trasz 4y ago
Using your analogy, US blocking a Swiss child porn site would be “banning EU businesses”. Google isn’t banned in China, it just isn’t operating there, because it would need to obey the law.
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by trasz 4y ago
>Could you provide an example of this please? Literally anything about the conflict. Look at their posturing, or military exercises. It’s a matter or rhetorics - it’s usually described as helping Taiwan, because, well, that’s media for
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by trasz 4y ago
Are corporate profits still going through the roof?
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by trasz 4y ago
USA regularly threatens military action against Taiwan. China has made it very clear they don’t have any intention to invade. They also don’t have a recent history of invading. I guess the optics here depends on the sources you’re followi
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by trasz 4y ago
It’s not banned in China.
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by trasz 4y ago
It’s a very different situation - Europe has been militarily attacked by Russia, while China hadn’t attacked anyone for many decades.
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by trasz 4y ago
If you have no problem knowingly wasting 30% of your life making useless shit in exchange for money then… well, enjoy, I’m not judging, but please realize many people don’t feel this way.
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by trasz 4y ago
Well, if American companies can’t compete on market terms… They are buying congressmen for a reason.
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by trasz 4y ago
And? There isn’t anything military going on between China and Taiwan, despite continued US efforts to change it.
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by trasz 4y ago
Can you provide some examples of China banning American tech?
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by trasz 4y ago
Sad to see UK sabotaging its own infrastructure just to boost insider trading profits for some US politicians.
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by trasz 4y ago
Of course they targeted the civilian population. That’s the common modus operandi for Russia: they don’t do well against an opponent who can shit back, so they focus on killing civilians. Here’s some data: https://twitter.com&#
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by trasz 4y ago
None of it makes sense from military point of view; it's yet another case of Russian terrorism. The consensus seems to be that it was required for domestic policy, a sign of Putin yielding to hardliners.
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by trasz 4y ago
It might be because in countries other than Russia, targeting civilians to maximise casualties is not the default, quite the opposite.
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by trasz 4y ago
It's a bit sad when you have a billion-dollar company which only exists to work around a law. And when it takes a decade to fix that loophole.
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by trasz 4y ago
Yup. Previous generations lived their entire lives blindly believing in commonly held fringe theories.

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