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by xster 6y ago
And Iraq is taking Kuwaiti babies out of incubators and Libya was... what again? Considering the Uyghur population doubled in the last 50 years and China has 20 times more mosques than the US, China isn't very good at geocoding.
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I don't think that's necessarily the case. The Bretton Woods era produced national industries when finance wasn't as unrestricted. Though what happened is more or less the same as today. Companies like Alstom were competitive
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I think this is a bit of a meme that we keep telling ourselves. https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_7362899f13ec8816e5dee88b26... According to Lee Kai-Fu who launched Google in China: "Chinese laws are clear ab
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by xster 6y ago
That was the overall trend in YouTube since 2013 that makes sense for YouTube as a business but makes me a bit sad as a user. When they started to split up YouTube picked out the top, corporate friendly creators to let advertisers pick and
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by xster 6y ago
You're not wrong. Though following your line of thought, US sacking Beijing isn't new or limited to this administration either https://thediplomat.com/2015/06/when-americans-ruled-beijing...
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by xster 6y ago
> Since when is the OIC considered "Western"? HN has rules about acting in good faith. Willfully misrepresenting comments, trolling, and baiting are not allowed here. [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsgui
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by xster 6y ago
I'm not sure how exactly to respond either. Your response seems unrelated to the thread so far. > I don't think most consider the UN to be upholding Western values. Of course my reply doesn't respond to your questions on w
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by xster 6y ago
> If not, then it is a surprising and huge blunder. Ya, no disagreements there. The Chinese government has zero PR capabilities. Every response from their foreign ministry's spokesperson to a leading question sounds like a painful m
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No you don't https://observer.com/2017/05/dnc-lawsuit-presidential-primar...
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the ASPI is also behind the Uyghur forced labor story a month ago. But if you go to the actual paper and download the PDF https://www.aspi.org.au/report/uyghurs-sale , then one by one click through the primary source an
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by xster 6y ago
> My guess is you won’t see ethnic Uyghurs living in mainland China 15 years from now. Considering the Uyghur population doubled in the last 50 years, they're not doing a very good job at it.
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This keeps coming up but it's not factual https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/tiktok-china-state-medi... According to Lee Kai-Fu who launched Google in China: "Chinese laws are clear about what for
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by xster 6y ago
I'm not saying their contents are interchangeable. I'm just saying there are more diverse and deeper contents on YouTube and I should be spending more time on YouTube if the recommendation system's execution was more on point
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Doesn't seem like you two are disagreeing. He's just pointing out the economic side and you're referencing the political side. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_fascism > Fascist governments
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I think this is one good case of value from execution vs from idea. The idea's pretty dead simple but I think there are execution reasons why creators and viewers are on TikTok. The AI recommendations, video editing abilities and live
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by xster 6y ago
Because he doesn't work for the open technology fund/radio free asia/CIA. Or Adrian Zenz, referenced here, one of the only 2 primary sources they started the whole Xinjiang media episode in the first place. The other one bein
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by xster 6y ago
> in China where dissenters are forced into re-education black op sites and are forced into public apologies, or in other cases they're disappeared altogether Are you referencing something specific? > This occurred in HK prior to
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Do you have a reference?
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Are you referencing something specific?
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Are you referencing something specific?
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> Really? In the 1970's in the US it was possible to own a house and support a family of 4 on a single income in the manufacturing sector. It was also possible to work your way through college and exit with a degree and no debt, in
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by xster 6y ago
Following your line of arguments, should China find pictures of Microsoft employees in front of the American flag, argue that they stand for the genocide of native Americans, drone strikes of hospitals and expansions of the PRISM program, t
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by xster 6y ago
Agreed. This article is only sensible if you would write the same title after reading the primary source. > It’s the latest example of how cheap Chinese smartphones take advantage of the world’s poorest people. Current security concerns
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by xster 6y ago
Is this actually helpful in the end? > The XT910 supports RISC-V 0.7.1 Vector Extension, includes a vector engine for AI acceleration and is based on 12 nanometer FinFET processes from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. In other wo
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by xster 6y ago
I don't think they're hiding that. > Alibaba compared the chip’s capabilities with that of the Arm Cortex-A73, which is the foundation of Huawei’s Kirin 970 AI-enable mobile platform that was introduced in 2017. Kirin 970 was u
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by xster 6y ago
It's a bit of reductionist false dichotomy. I think it's fair to say that China is putting a decent amount of weight on vaccine development as well.
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And for context, the 13 journalist ban that was in direct response to the US initiated banning of 60 Chinese journalists one month earlier.
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> Wuhan went into a then unprecedented lockdown on 23 January - at a time where the virus had killed 17 people and affected more than 400. It hasn't been that long ago but I almost feel like I forgot how to count this low now.
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Do you have a link?
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by xster 6y ago
Forget semi-rural. I'm in the middle of Silicon Valley and I had 10,000ms+ ping and 95%+ packet drops for a month during work hours at the beginning of the lockdown.

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