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by xster 6y ago
Right. When the 2010 Haiti earthquake hit, it wasn't a natural disaster that killed. It was an infrastructure disaster that killed. For a country that went from self-sufficiency in food to having its domestic agriculture wiped out from
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Is it referencing something specific? It's an editorial referencing other editorials. Is there something direct like PRISM type wikileaks? Considering the NSA hacked and had backdoors in Huawei servers for almost a decade, I imagine di
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I might be wrong. I'm not aware of the Chinese military flying in the gulf of Mexico however.
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I think it's just greed and poor risk management. Up until recently, china couldn't even manufacture ball point pens (which I think only 2 companies in the world produced). There's no money to be made at the bottom of the inv
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Ya that's another very common frustration against an imaginary premise. Western companies that enter joint ventures in China with IP transfers are proactively done with executives who explicitly weigh the cost benefit of gaining the Ch
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I think too much brain-cells are devoted to debating this point based on non-factual premises. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/tiktok-china-state-medi... According to Lee Kai-Fu who launched Google in Ch
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Not only that but the machine learning models on those ARs are so successful that judging from our context (of non-Chinese apps we're normally exposed to), I'd be semi-surprised that we can algorithmically apply makeup so correctl
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To be fair, I'm lost too at what I'm supposed to respond to :D Can't tell if the GGP is disagreeing because it's suggesting that the US can only impose "nuclear ambitions" sanctions on finished commercially ope
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Oh ya, that would be. Though the OP and this whole thread is about forcing a sale of the company's ownership, not whose data center it's running on. So again, the equivalent would have been for China to force Amazon to sell it&#x2
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> when the foreign company is one of the largest espionage threats to United States Are you referring to something specific or this is a Bush doctrine sort of thing?
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I think this is the real topic to discuss. I think China has been doing very poorly in the past years with all its top companies ultra-distracted by the greed of grabbing fast money from the e-commerce boom but paid no attention to basic in
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Well no, it's not that complicated. To make it as illustrative as possible, your example is like the child of an American goes to work in China and China says, if you want to work, you need to use my shovel. My example is like the chil
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Iran This is the first sentence By 2012, Iran had roughly 400 power plant units https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_program_of_Ira
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https://www.aspi.org.au/sponsors The main primary source for editorials around the recent forced labor is https://www.aspi.org.au/report/uyghurs-sale . You can click into its references. They're re
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> US would lose its last bit of moral high ground in China, the spirit of free market and rule by law. No it won't change a thing. And to be fair, forcing a sell (which is just forcing it to exit all stakes in the US market) is a fa
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Can't the same arguments be made for something like having Huawei sold to Cisco or something? i.e. it's a great outcome for everyone except the target party.
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Is there a specific statement or position from him that you think is incorrect and colored by his falling stamina due to age? > should be running a large critically important part of society. Or maybe this ties into our perception of wha
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Wouldn't the logical equivalency be for China to strong-arm the NBA to sell ownership to a Chinese company if they want the NBA to continue to be watched by Chinese audience?
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oh, this is still Adrian Zenz of Victims of Communism who counted all WWII war casualties on the Nazi side and recently global covid deaths as victims of communism? Zenz happens to also be one of the only 2 primary sources all recent editor
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I'm surprised you're drawing on anecdata with n=1. My feed has plenty of China videos, good or bad. Now you have n=2.
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> there is zero difference between what China does Do you have a primary source for what you're alluding to?
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I think people have trouble grasping the concept of exponential growth.
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> certainly suggestive that it escaped from the lab, though that doesn’t mean it was necessarily “man made.” https://www.iesdouyin.com/share/video/6823589225980644623 Dr Fauci said it better than I could, so I&
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Neither the OP or the grandparent or my post had anything to do with long article's. The original premise is mediocre articles.
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Not sure if you read the article you're linking. I'd say it's demonstrating the inverse if what you're saying, i.e. china is so not 'falsifying numbers' that it went back in time to tally cases that never made
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I'd love to be corrected with primary source but as far as I can ingest from all the recent article's I'm reading, Bloomberg is also the only source that started the whole China is falsifying its covid numbers narrative based
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I mean I don't know what else to say besides the fact that Bloomberg itself deserves all the blame for having a reporter compensation scheme that rewards article's that "move the market". https://www.businessi
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Is there some Android/iOS app or a simple web app that de-AMPs URLs? My process for just sharing an article these days is to find the tweet button if they embed one for the article, click through them, pray that it's not to tweet
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In that he specifically called out Asians to out-american others to prove their Americanness. For illustration picture Obama calling on African Americans to do more to prove that they're Americans.
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Unlike Zoom which is an American company (and everyone feels like they need to pull an Andrew Yang and try extra hard to prove their American-ness for some reason), unless I'm mistaken I don't think TikTok really made any effort t

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