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by woooooo 3y ago
Your experience doesn't contradict theirs at all -- they're not talking about being imprisoned, found guilty, or even brought to trial. They exit the pipeline, with hardship, before your statistics pick up.
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by woooooo 3y ago
If previous poster's description is correct, they would have to, right? Or have a revolving fund of debt which is the same thing with extra steps. Builder doesn't get paid until after building things, the construction has to be
483.
by woooooo 3y ago
Ok, mostly one culture. Yes there are Mongols, uyghurs, etc but they're a pretty small % even added all together.
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by woooooo 3y ago
I double checked and couldn't find mention of a license. There was a handwave towards "evading sanctions" but not much detail.
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by woooooo 3y ago
Again, it cuts both ways. How much will westerners willingly misunderstand because it intersects with the ideological conflict? Why aren't we asking questions about western colonialism's impact on the culture? Too awkward? It&#x
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by woooooo 3y ago
Secret to whom? Were they supposed to file permits with the US after we cut them off?
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by woooooo 3y ago
Bezos has had a rocket company for over a decade and never reached orbit. I agree that Musk looks like an ass with Twitter but it's a heck of a coincidence that both Tesla and SpaceX were successful doing things nobody thought was poss
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by woooooo 3y ago
Guns turn things into an issue of preparedness and position instead of direct martial skill. It's still skill to get into the situation but it's way harder to work into fictional warrior tropes of superior skill at arms winning..
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by woooooo 3y ago
Not a fanboy but he definitely did something with SpaceX and Tesla. Both companies were laughable ideas that would clearly never work.
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by woooooo 3y ago
If that's true, it just means we're losing our edge. I'd say we're still tied, personally. Arizona and mainland China are both getting a TSMC plant.
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by woooooo 3y ago
Is that a serious question? Russian state-sponsored hackers oppose American interests. British, the opposite.
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by woooooo 3y ago
But british hacking groups would never ever be arrested for doing the same thing. Politics exists and it drives these decisions, there's nothing more hideous than someone who exercises power to destroy lives and pretends its merely pro
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by woooooo 3y ago
I'm sure the Chinese have a bunch of legalese bullshit for why they locked up those innocent Canadians, but we can look through it and see the real score. Right?
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by woooooo 3y ago
To be clear, I'm not comparing China and the US broadly. I'm saying with the Huawei exec, we started it and we were over the line. Arresting a foreign national for activities not on our soil which are not illegal in their home co
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by woooooo 3y ago
I'm surprised! I thought you would be much more sympathetic to the American. Everyone's so outraged at arbitrary detainment of westerners. I would apparently be more upset than you about it.
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by woooooo 3y ago
But someone who's just passing through, the founder's daughter btw, and Huawei has no manufacturing in Canada that I'm aware of? She wasn't shipping stuff out of Canada to Iran, the problem is that Huawei generally does
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by woooooo 3y ago
Why is she subject to US export law? Chinese citizen on Canadian soil who was not personally exporting anything at that moment. Do you consider yourself subject to Chinese export law? I know, empire, we can do what we want, but like I said
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by woooooo 3y ago
Let's flip it and see how different they are. China sanctions France. Would you be supporting their right to detain arbitrary American businessmen for doing business with France? The same exact way you're supporting our detent
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by woooooo 3y ago
Absolutely true but it sounds like people think there's only one wrong here.
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by woooooo 3y ago
I'm saying we did it to their people first, and then they responded tit-for-tat. If you're selectively outraged at their response, ignoring what we did to provoke it... that starts sounding awfully motivated. And, yes, arresting n
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by woooooo 3y ago
We already forbid export of chips and other technology to them. I suppose it was unwise of her to enter Canada, but again, you're ceding any moral high ground here.
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by woooooo 3y ago
Neither she nor the nation of China are party to sanctions on Iran. They have no obligations to follow American foreign policy. If you're saying, ultimately, "because we can", then fine but that's not great moral ground
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by woooooo 3y ago
Why is it just accepted that Huawei executives can be detained by the west, though? I don't think taking vengeance on random civilians is justified, but it was a response to us doing the same thing to one of theirs. It's only ba
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by woooooo 3y ago
Doctors are paid the same as software engineers for a job that is like 10x as hard. MBA hospital administrators have greed as their official main job responsibility.
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by woooooo 3y ago
Talk to any doctor about the priorities of the MBA-holding decision-makers at their hospitals.
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by woooooo 3y ago
Way better imo. The first one is good sci-fi, "deepness" stands above the genre.
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by woooooo 3y ago
No, all other rates are effectively downstream of the fed rate. It would take many more cracks in the edifice to make them subject to typical market pressures.
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by woooooo 3y ago
Why not? Even if we were superhumanly competent at on-land infra, you still have to negotiate right of way and bury hundreds of miles of cable overland. The ocean way they just drop the cable off of the back of a boat.
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by woooooo 3y ago
Yeah, but the beavers don't consult with civil engineers on where to build the dams. It's an issue for rural roads that get eroded and washed out.
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by woooooo 3y ago
Sturgeon's Law, though. The average article on all of those topics is a pile of political flamebait.

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