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by xster 4y ago
Sorry if it's an ignorant question since my kid hasn't reached sports age yet. But athleticism doesn't seem like it should be an optional choice that detracts from other educational resources. Why not make it mandatory, 1h a
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by xster 4y ago
China had concrete laws its local competitors adhere to that Twitter etc elected to not adhere to. Are there concrete laws that local companies adhere to that TikTok can follow besides "don't be Chinese"?
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by xster 4y ago
Not mentioned in this article: from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_service#Modern_civil_ser... Modern European concepts of civil service was essentially influenced by the Chinese bureaucracy who selected members b
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by xster 4y ago
They were pretty explicit about the model being trained up until 2021
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by xster 4y ago
I think that is the problem. The foxconn lockdown was an extralegal capitalist enforced quarantine rule enforced separately from the government rules that kept all the workers semi-permanently locked in the campus for profit stability. The
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by xster 4y ago
Does anyone know overall how migrated to bezel Twitter is?
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by xster 4y ago
Though one can argue there's no shortage of compradors and their color revolutionaries to use among ethnic Chinese in the region, from sunflower revolutions to bobba alliance to umbrella revolution
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by xster 4y ago
I also got a premier kit, got the nice hardware, then got an error saying the workspace I signed up for the promotional offer with is not eligible for using stadia.
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by xster 4y ago
Probably the same kind of appeasement China does for the US by not selling weapons to Alaska and conducting freedom of navigation patrols between Alaska and Washington.
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by xster 4y ago
I think it's only ridiculous to the recipients of US MSM (which don't get me wrong, is hegemonic, but still insular). There's no confusion to it from the perspective of the RoC government (which claims a much wider legacy of
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by xster 4y ago
Why isn't Twitter owned by the Chinese government?
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by xster 4y ago
It isn't. It has been for specifically the auto industry and it generally hasn't had any positive effects for the domestic Chinese auto industry. Their side of the partnership has been mostly sticking with assembly and lower barri
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by xster 4y ago
To be fair, most US competitive products in the private sector arose from the public sector taking most of the risk away in publicly funded research from consumer electronics or aerospace to pharmaceutics. The internet and agent orange came
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by xster 4y ago
It does. US dollar purchase is subject to an annual limit per person.
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by xster 4y ago
America innovated rather than banned its way to the top in the last century
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by xster 4y ago
Depends on what you mean exactly. But you can split dynamically load code (all uploaded at once to the Play Store) via https://docs.flutter.dev/perf/deferred-components
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by xster 4y ago
What's the sunken cost of this policy?
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by xster 5y ago
I don't think referenda make much of a difference. 96% of Crimea ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Crimean_status_referendum ) voted to join Russia and 96% of Luhansk ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by xster 5y ago
> There is no "data", let alone primary data about these things. > The authoritarian nature of the governing system in Russia makes it nearly impossible to gather such data. oh I'm just referring to her argument that ac
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by xster 5y ago
Any example articles you can share? Very curious.
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by xster 5y ago
You're probably referring to the Bloomberg chip hack 2018 article that had no primary source, that was doubled down on and still has no source.
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by xster 5y ago
There is no content here. It's just the rant of one person going on a crusade and venting that she didn't accept that academics can have opinions. "It’s one thing to imagine a Russian store clerk believing in the story of gen
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by xster 5y ago
are there concrete cases you're thinking about?
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by xster 5y ago
Do you have a concrete example to point to?
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by xster 5y ago
To be fair, the British invaders were pretty friendly to a separated Tibet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_expedition_to_Tibet . > Tibet declared its independence from China I mean, the Catalonian independence
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by xster 5y ago
Taiwan's Zhuyin is 90+% the same as Pinyin except the input is composed with Chinese script radicals (like hiragana) rather than Latin script. > Both generally use Traditional instead of Simplified That doesn't impact the human
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by xster 5y ago
It's exponential growth. They don't have to be transparent for the world to know if they contained it or not.
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by xster 5y ago
Sounds like a description of neoliberalism :)
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by xster 5y ago
> The problem with 4 major meat packing plants, 2 owned by china Do you have a source? My google-fu doesn't seem to be strong enough
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by xster 5y ago
I think he meant to not devolve to into calling everyone a tankie bot or genocide denier if I were to ask you what non-editorial non NED or weapons manufacturer funded primary data you're referring to when you talk about "massive

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