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by xster 8y ago
s/their nuclear program/our nuclear program. https://fas.org/sgp/crs/nuke/RS21592.pdf The US puppet planning to start building 23 nuclear power plants in the 70s were based on US support to create a
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by xster 8y ago
Can someone ELI5 why a nuclear reactor only operates at a lower temperature? I'm also surprised that it doesn't drive a generator via a turbine. I would assume the reactor speed and temperature can be arbitrarily tuned from zero t
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by xster 8y ago
Why is it a legalist tradition? Isn't the (competing) confucian tradition all about the 2 ways social contract binding and the virtuous ruler?
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by xster 8y ago
If you're gonna type into Google, "weather" is shorter to type. "temp" even shorter. And on iOS, a weather app + dashboard widget and a single right swipe even faster. And on Android, a weather app + home screen wid
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by xster 8y ago
One might be able to find dozens of non-snatched executives from sanction breaking companies per each arrested one such as: Banco do Brasil, Bank of America, Bank of Guam, Bank of Moscow, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Cle
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by xster 8y ago
Are there documentations for MTA and Port Authority being the best funded systems in the world?
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by xster 8y ago
Not all China Mobile/Unicom service centers are built the same. Doing it inside the Shanghai/Beijing airport arrival areas is way easier than doing it in the city with a foreign passport.
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by xster 8y ago
This may or may not be what the OP meant but if you trust Google Play and don't trust anything else like an APK from WeChat's website, then you won't be able to get it from the Play Store once you enter China. (Though you won
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by xster 8y ago
Canadian passport, Q2 tourist visa, no address. Second day after landing. Though like many things in China YMMV.
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by xster 8y ago
Since this is being used as a guide, it might be worth being pedantic and pointing out that it's the 'wrong' way of doing it. It definitely beats carrying cash but it's a 'second class citizen'-ish way of using
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by xster 8y ago
No need to worry about it getting political because it is a political rather than a judicial act. Otherwise, imagine private citizen board members or executives of HSBC being arrested or extradited (US-UK have extradition) for actually &#x2
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by xster 8y ago
Because there are no consequences of journalistic malpractice and no one will read retractions or revisions so the parent conglomerates can shape public opinion any way it wants.
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by xster 8y ago
And Canada has another slightly in between device that's super useful and mostly inaccessible in the US. Going negative in an easy to transact, straightforward pay-for-amount-and-duration-of-debt from your bank has no US equivalents. H
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by xster 8y ago
Besides the fact that the article is just the author opining his distaste without applying an equal amount rationalization to any distaste for familiar European languages. In fact, Mandarin, like English, Riau Indonesian, Swahili, are among
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by xster 8y ago
Oh ya, I was perhaps vague but don't get me wrong, I would of course prefer that American discourses could happen on American platforms and even if RT is letting proper non-corporate-aligned journalism run unfettered, it's just a
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by xster 8y ago
Outside of small scale independent journalists who are always at the risk of getting de-platformed, non-NATO/petrodollar-aligned foreign news are the only place I can find Americans talking about American stances like leftism (in the e
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by xster 8y ago
Would it be analogous to the OP saying let's do water flow management and you suggesting let's dam everything but build a monitoring system so when thing fail and leak, we'll go patch up as soon as possible
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by xster 8y ago
Because these said people don't live in the fictional mental construct you've created where they're cowering in a corner, shivering in fear of saying the wrong thing and waiting for the white man to swoop in and defeat their
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by xster 8y ago
Much of this is PR dominance as well. Corporate media has already done 90% of the hard work for people to be able to easily market and feel good about opposing specific issues. You just need to fill in the colors in the coloring book. But t
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by xster 8y ago
I don't think so. American media generally had the same tone for the past 20 years as far as I can remember where news segments longer than 60 seconds about China had to finish with a Tiananmen reference or something similar (imagine C
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by xster 8y ago
> What's worse is that International companies have been just giving their technology to the Chinese for years and years. Shouldn't it be "What's better"? Or would you prefer the arrangement to not be done by 2 c
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by xster 8y ago
But how could you 'remember' the DWS scandal if WikiLeaks were illegal to read :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-beYBLrkNAg
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by xster 8y ago
They have different company culture for now but at the end of the day, the business practice dictates direction and I don't think there's anything fundamentally different with Lyft. Their rides are both VC subsidized and unsustain
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by xster 8y ago
Did people also live on the same streets? That would change the entire nature of the area. It can't be an amusement park with a giant parking lot around it, it's a city.
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by xster 8y ago
Same. I was on King and Bathurst too was lucky to have had the options of walking, driving + looking for parking, biking (having lived in a couple of places in North America, Toronto drivers are mean to cyclists) or taking the streetcar and
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by xster 8y ago
Even 'niche' markets of enthusiasts like reverb.com uses this dark pattern where you can't leave a non-positive review unless you first try to work out the issue with the other party directly.
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by xster 8y ago
I'm curious about the social psychological effects at play here since it's more or less presenting the same content as James Damore (first paragraph page 5) to more or less the same audience. What made one presentation more palata
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by xster 8y ago
Did you just mean a general catalogue to branch off from? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Olds Seems like an unusual question to ask since it's not a sensitive or avoided topic in either organic or mainstream m
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by xster 8y ago
<I'm not a linguist, please don't laugh at my elementary knowledge> I only knew Noam Chomsky from his political thoughts and knew he dabbled in linguistics but never knew what exactly he contributed to in this field. I only
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by xster 8y ago
IANASecurityExpert but one one the named sources of the original claim also came out to say that the 'original attack' was a conceptual idea he had but that doesn't even make sense to apply in practice (considering better alt

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