wonnage

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by wonnage 6y ago
conservatives are more interested in staying on power over actually being right about anything though, it's a fact
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by wonnage 6y ago
Most conservative activism is just...wrong
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by wonnage 6y ago
The hard upper bound for English was the British ability to manage hundreds of far-flung colonies.
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by wonnage 6y ago
Chinese is not some mysterious language that nobody knows...
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by wonnage 6y ago
This is a poor example because it wound up being more about Bloomberg's shoddy reporting https://www.servethehome.com/investigating-implausible-bloom...
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by wonnage 6y ago
This is a silly simplification. You might have $446,368. You might have $0, because in the interim your kids had to go to college, or you buy a house, or you got sick and you live in developing country that can't help you pay for it. O
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by wonnage 6y ago
It's also not in Taiwan's interest to align too close to the US. The bulk of Taiwan's exports are to China, and they stand to lose the most in the trade war if the US attempts to ban business with more Chinese companies. We
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by wonnage 6y ago
This is the same logic used by people who insist ads don't work on them, because "I never click them!"
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by wonnage 6y ago
How is Google/Twitter/Facebook any different? Lemme guess your answer: well, they're on our side because it's an American company, and we can control them! It's been 10+ years of these companies and no meaningful ov
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by wonnage 6y ago
You pick up the phone and call someone. You don't pick up the phone and have the phone company present you a list of people you might be interested in calling, ranked by how much they bid to be on that list.
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by wonnage 6y ago
You are so, so close to understanding the problem, and then stopped at the last minute. Are you arguing that SF should be only populated by L8s at Google? Surely not. It should make financial sense for teachers and cooks and Uber drivers
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by wonnage 6y ago
Apparently for Americans helping China surveil their population is insufficiently patriotic, they must help their own DoD and NSA as well
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by wonnage 6y ago
You can't wave away taking care of kids as "personal obligations", as though it was akin to doing laundry or something. Also, "I chose not to" is a silly statement - do you think all the parents looked into a crysta
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by wonnage 6y ago
This is not stopping any enslavement or forced labor, in China or elsewhere.
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by wonnage 6y ago
You mean like the ones made up before every major US military intervention in the last 30 years? Some examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony?wprov=sfti1 https://www.theguardian.com/po
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by wonnage 6y ago
There are cultural differences here. Japanese houses are seen as depreciating assets, as nobody wants to live in an old house. See https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2018/03/15/w... As a res
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by wonnage 6y ago
This is like having a bulletin board in your store and not being able to take anything down from it. Yes, Google and Apple are big. You can say well, it’s different because in this world there’s only two boards for the entire country, that
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by wonnage 6y ago
Violent crime has been on a decades-long decline.
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by wonnage 6y ago
Not wanting to get Huawei-ed?
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by wonnage 6y ago
Once you buy the device why the hell should Apple prevent someone from putting a counterfeit battery/screen/whatever inside of it? Sure, people might be defrauding AppleCare, but that's their problem - there's no reasona
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by wonnage 6y ago
Joke's on you, all companies are Delaware companies
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by wonnage 6y ago
Yeah, show them the power of the free world by checks notes banning all their apps, which is only constitutionally possible because the app stores are controlled by two American companies, and the ban technically works on the companies ra
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by wonnage 6y ago
This is fairly likely sent from his own phone - WeChat requires you to verify via various forms of 2-factor to log in on a new phone. He also states that it's own phone in the report.
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by wonnage 6y ago
While in theory we could fight it via electing people, the fact is that these programs were built over the last three decades by elected administrations (both D and R), and this two-party setup doesn't seem to be changing any time soon
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by wonnage 6y ago
Why give a government with modern day concentration camps, an avoidable epidemic of prisoners with COVID-19, and military occupation of free countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, or more historically in Iraq (again), Somalia, Korea, Viet
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by wonnage 6y ago
Huawei (a Chinese company) was paying Google a bunch of money in 2019 until they were banned by the government. You may argue that this was justified for national security reasons, but the decision was ultimately up to the whims of the pres
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by wonnage 6y ago
On the flip side, people used to argue for SSO as a privacy/security feature - rather than sharing your email and creating passwords with every site, just let a trusted intermediary like Google/Facebook handle those nasty details!
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by wonnage 6y ago
The officers would have faced no consequences if it weren't captured on video. The Minneapolis PD initially gave the classic "resisting arrest" excuse: "After Floyd got out [of his car], he physically resisted officers.
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by wonnage 6y ago
scroll down and 7/11 is the anniversary of the grand jury indictment
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by wonnage 6y ago
South Korea was similarly ravaged after the war, and was ruled by a series of various dictators until the 90s. Luckily they were authoritarian capitalists instead of authoritarian communists, and were propped up by US aid (much better than

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