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by xster 7y ago
I mean it's not meant to be a surprise. It's been the official policy of the United States since 1972. Specifically "the United States acknowledges that Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one Ch
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by xster 7y ago
#yang2020
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by xster 7y ago
Rather, the previous administration was just more successful bringing the full weight of the media machine on turning down news of the previous H1N1 pandemic which had 2 orders of magnitudes more cases and deaths so far. https://
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by xster 7y ago
I'm surprised they didn't start with outlawing receiving money from NED or subsidiaries first.
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How could it though? Without (bazel) BUILD files, it couldn't even know how to build everything.
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Adam Neely (YouTube music educator) had an absolutely farcical run-in with this situation ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM6X2MEl7R8 ) where he made a video defending Warner Music and Katy Perry's Dark Horse against F
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by xster 7y ago
Isn't the sales tax in Barcelona 21%? Seems like it would be a big influx to the city's coffers that could theoretically provide it the means to do something like pay subway workers more and alleviate the need to strike in the fir
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by xster 7y ago
Hard to be conclusive with that video. Iran's own state media says the engine was on fire. Not necessarily contradicted by the video. https://en.irna.ir/news/83625750/147-Iranians-32-foreigners-...
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by xster 7y ago
That's like saying 911 (US equivalent of 110) should be "nine hundred and eleven" instead of "nine one one".
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by xster 7y ago
That's actually exactly one of his central arguments https://www.yang2020.com/policies/measuring-the-economy
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by xster 7y ago
Besides the whole Bloomberg also running for president thing, I'm also just still waiting for the second shoe to drop from the supermicro chip story.
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by xster 7y ago
As more of a meta point, it's fascinating to see the corporate media's response playbook to outsiders like Yang. First stage was a Ron Paul style pretend he doesn't exist, such as MSNBC consistently omitting him from polling
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by xster 7y ago
Seems like a stretch of a conclusion to draw. Carriers had way more direct, consequential impact in the outcome of the Korean War on the (proxy) PLA itself. Is the author suggestion that the Chinese leadership just thought "meh, let&#x
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by xster 7y ago
I also generally have trouble taking anything from Bloomberg seriously after the chip story.
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Though I think the onus is on you to demonstrate that it's a myth when you're directly contradicting the first line of the first main paragraph of their wikipage (which is referenced) "Musical.ly Inc. was founded by longtime
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by xster 7y ago
To be fair, I think the story of laowhy86 and serpentza is also one of consent manufacturing not by censorship but by incentives (a bit like journalists in corporate media implicitly knowing that they can kiss their promotions goodbye if th
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by xster 7y ago
That's what I thought too but with the advent of ultra-wide angle lenses on more and more phones, I definitely noticing more spoiled pictures if I use a volume button as shutter on phones with corner lenses than phones with center lens
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by xster 7y ago
https://twitter.com/cybnox/status/1174722533377085444 This is probably a key conversation. In other words, we don't really know yet what part of GMS dependent apps will or will not work.
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by xster 7y ago
Fi could otherwise be a great smart watch plan too since they don't charge per additional device. Unfortunately, they don't support eSIMs beside pixel devices.
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by xster 7y ago
that's just how neoliberalism works. In heterogeneous markets, lose money and bribe users to monopolize. Once you monopolized, all bets are off.
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by xster 7y ago
On the flip side, I'd also be cool with it if the phone industry can manage to move the fashion industry to produce clothing articles with pockets that fits these phones in places that doesn't prevent you from sitting down etc.
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by xster 7y ago
Same reason why the rich-controlled media manage to get the 99% in the US to be too busy calling each other bigots and nazis instead of fighting for their common economic cause.
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That's what Tung Chee-Hwa tried to do as the first beijing friendly chief executive. Beijing can't decide what the legco votes for (since the functional constituency is by definition allocated to the local oligarchy who prefer to
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by xster 7y ago
Sure, the threat of using "Emergency Regulations Ordinance" seems credible. Though that makes one ask of all the hypothetical outcomes which according to https://www.elegislation.gov.hk/hk/cap241 includes &qu
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I think it's also probably pretty obvious since 1898 :) I don't think there was really any indication counter to what you're describing since.
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Are there primary sources? It seems like a response to rumors but are there primary sources to the speculations they're alluding to?
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oh ya, for sake of brevity, that was totally a coastal HN crowd facing message. I'm sure people living in Chicago where 40-60 people are being shot each weekend has a different perspective.
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by xster 7y ago
There's such a funny mismatch of culture and display of poor international PR sense too. Based on some cursory search, it looks like it's another one of those local-government-pioneered pilot/experiments [1] like the credit s
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What are you referring to? There was a video of people tearing down a cisco street light with weather sensors.
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Where did you look for them? https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/2174006/...

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