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by xster 5y ago
Was there an article in there? Seems like there's only an insinuation of a possibility of a fan fiction story there.
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by xster 6y ago
The Chinese people might, since the Organization of Islamic Cooperation [1] and Muslim majority countries in general [2] overwhelmingly support China in Xinjiang. [1] https://www.oic-oci.org/docdown/?docID=4447&refI
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by xster 6y ago
If you want to understand Xinjiang, you have to first understand the First Island Chain (and China's recent development in MRBM).
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by xster 6y ago
The best thing we can do as participant citizens of the world is to look at the primary source and draw your own conclusion of what the best action to take is. There's 317 footnotes and citations in the attached report document. I enco
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by xster 6y ago
Also, since you're asking users to type in their matrix password onto https://hummingbard.com , it would be nice to have some understanding of why (even though you can host anything anyway).
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by xster 6y ago
It's also funny looking at sources that they're referencing Comcast (vox.com/NBCUniversal) to tell Comcast (Xfinity TV) to censor certain contents. There is no government.
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by xster 6y ago
Ironically if they put the app on Huawei's AppGallery, it would have been up the whole time on a very non trivial amount of phones outside China where the AppGallery is preloaded before and after the Google ban.
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by xster 6y ago
This seems like a strawman. The OP isn't arguing against outsider/non-expert discussion. He's just satirizing HN's specific tendencies to spin off of a headline/article first glance into a let-me-teach-you-something
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by xster 6y ago
And since the first in the thread asked about money, which is an important question, Amazon has a 600 million dollar CIA contract before counting the billions in IC contracts this year to big tech. That's more than double what Bezos pa
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by xster 6y ago
Take this with a grain of salt since it's not too clear how much money they got exactly from OTF, but they seem to have been partially seeded initially with the CIA spin-off Radio Free Asia money ( https://pando.com/2015
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by xster 6y ago
Even if they did, creating a Chinese IME is a really difficult problem space. Since typing is generally done phonetically in mainland/HK/taiwan and the real words being typed are ideographic, there's a lot of inference to tra
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by xster 6y ago
I'd love to read more about this. Where is the actual content of this article though? It's entirely a restatement of previous editorials on Xinjiang. A single line makes up the new accusation: "According to a report by the co
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by xster 6y ago
#LetYangSpeak
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by xster 6y ago
How are you sourcing that conclusion? I'm not well versed but I enjoy watching finance related UGC and analyses on Bilibili. There's certainly tons of in-depth content and discussion about Ant's leveraging practices and the i
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by xster 6y ago
Is it me or there's some cognitive dissonance going on with the whole article discussing the ramifications of a nationalization without describing at all what sourced this "news" in the first place? A cursory search seems to
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by xster 6y ago
Can you quote a line in the article that relates to what you're saying?
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by xster 6y ago
I think the issue is rather that it's nothing like Deus Ex which has immersion. Getting augmentations were meaningful choices which alter ways you can approach explorations (such as picking up heavy items blocking vents). Stumbling upo
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by xster 6y ago
There are also more CPC members than the combined total populations of the UK and Australia, to put things into perspective.
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by xster 6y ago
It was "caught" because that's the only one the consent manufacturers reported on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRSWdtoUAjo Most of the apps in your home screen did it when the beta came out from NYTimes t
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by xster 6y ago
That's how <25 year old spoiler> how 006 died too </spoiler> https://youtu.be/wGmDAjRRNXs?t=160 Surprisingly inaccurate and led me to think up until today that the reflector dish was a concrete bowl ra
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by xster 6y ago
> against recent land grab near Himalayas by Chinese Army This seems like a strange qualification considering the Line of Actual Control ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_of_Actual_Control ) hasn't changed sin
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by xster 6y ago
Are you referencing something specific?
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by xster 6y ago
It's a powerful sentiment. But it needs to withstand the objective test of demonstrating, numerically, its narrative against historical data. When the CPC took power, the GDP per capita was 54 USD in 1952 (earliest date in https:&#x2F
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by xster 6y ago
One part to clarify, you're quoting NTD/FLG/Epoch Times/Shen Yun/Bannon/New Federal State of China/Guo Wengui. Being partisan is fine. Just be sure to dig through to primary sources beyond editorials.
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by xster 6y ago
What is the european MAP loophole though? I shop for music gear regularly and don't recall seeing prices listed for lower from european retailers or on platforms like reverb. Even if it was cheaper, shipping was usually inhibitive. Is
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by xster 6y ago
What about consumers they owe money to? Are they "creditors"? e.g. if you had "credits" from prepaid lessons, gift cards, sold gear etc, can you not get money back from them anymore until all their other creditors split
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by xster 6y ago
For context, here's another Twitter thread from Mr. Potter (the Cigna former CEO in question) regarding his and his industry's role in pushing narratives about the Canadian healthcare. https://twitter.com/wendellpo
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by xster 6y ago
I was just responding to the GP regarding when candidates are tested. Sure they're symptoms. That'd be relevant if they were following the non-placebo group to test for long-term organ damages or other "symptoms" too. Th
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by xster 6y ago
umm this seems non-ideal. I assume people want to be vaccinated against the damages covid causes, neurological, cardiovascular, etc, not just against the symptoms of covid.
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by xster 6y ago
Apparently it can even change course mid-flight. So it's even less likely the type of thing this countermeasure's meant to respond to. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/25904/china-wants-u-s-...

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