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by xtian 5y ago
No - Russia is defending the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics where Ukrainian nationalists have killed over 14,000 men, women, and children over the past eight years by shelling civilian areas. The agreed upon diplomatic solution
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Ok that’s fine. That freedom comes along with consequences for your actions. So don’t complain when they manifest
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So free to be used as a chess piece against Russia by Western masters
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The terms of surrender Putin is asking for are: - Ukraine remains neutral - No foreign weapons in Ukraine No regime change, no occupation. I wonder why you’re talking about that. Can you explain why those terms are unacceptable?
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Willing to put money on any of that?
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So you're willing to put money on it?
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Here's the list of countries which have used nuclear weapons against another country: - United States
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Willing to put money on that?
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They are ziguanas :)
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Despite the sanctimony, I'm sure there's at least a slim chance of you understanding my point: the distinction between "what ends up in node_modules" and any other application dependency is arbitrary and purely conventio
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So I imagine that if you ship an app on Linux you check in the source of every system library and utility it depends on, right? Anything less is little more than a hack to escape the harsh and knowing gaze of your version control system.
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In what way has the US refused to use public funds to subsidize large corporations?
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The fact that there’s no mention of the `npm ci` command (or yarn or pnpm) makes me wonder how deeply this problem was investigated before using it as a justification for this hacky workaround. One wonders why they aren’t checking in the bi
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> Most of the population won't have any use for it - they'll have no reason to question what's in the mainstream. > […] > The population will ,by and large, believe what he wants them to believe, most people wouldn&#
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Maybe, but do you have any evidence that people are punished for using VPNs to view information that is officially banned on the Chinese Internet? Or is that just a personal fantasy
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Do you think people in China don't know how to use VPNs and find information on the broader Internet? They do. It seems like you may be the one living in a bubble.
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Yeah maybe they can give him back all his former slaves too
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Seems to you based on what?
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Actually the Chinese government is cracking down on excessive homework and after-school tutoring programs since they create an overly competitive academic environment and prevent kids from participating in activities like sports. So they ar
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You’re right, it’s an uninformed perspective. You’re starting with a conclusion of what the Chinese government’s intent is and then trying to find a way to fit the facts into that narrative.
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"Closing off and turning inwards"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative
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Right. From Wikipedia: "under Chinese law an autonomous region has more legislative rights, such as the right to 'formulate self-government regulations and other separate regulations.'"
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You mean the Tibet Autonomous Region? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet_Autonomous_Region
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You’re saying the US was constrained by its strong sense of morality? https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/world/asia/us-soldiers-to...
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That doesn't mean the sphere of the economy isn't being organized, though. Deng's reforms were just a new stage of that development.
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Why is GDP per capita important at the global level?
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Oh ok, well in that case by GDP (PPP) China has already surpassed the US.
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“We welcome foreign investment and advanced techniques. Management is also a technique. Will they undermine our socialism? Not likely, because the socialist sector is the mainstay of our economy. Our socialist economic base is so huge that
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Mumbo jumbo? I’ve read the CPC’s latest five-year plan, and it seemed pretty clear and concrete to me. Anyone interested can do the same: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQEtwcbYa9hTqs7y... Based
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My point is absolutely not that India was more bureaucratic. The decisive difference is that China was reestablished as a people’s republic led by a communist party which organizes the whole sphere of the economy to improve the overall stan

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