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by y2kenny 7y ago
Not sure why this was downvoted when it's a statement of fact: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/world/asia/china-began-pu...
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by y2kenny 7y ago
It wouldn't be giving to ROC, but returning. I am not sure how many people know this fact: the Chinese copy of the Treaty of Nanking is currently in Taiwan (the treaty that ceded Hong Kong to the UK.)
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by y2kenny 7y ago
If China is using "safety" as a political weapon, I think other countries need to respond with sanction. The idea of safety is not some abstract concept. Safety is an objective measures with international norm, standards and pro
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by y2kenny 7y ago
The fixed line break probably make reading difficult on a small, narrow, variable width screen such as mobile.
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'Thugs-for-Hire': State Coercion and Everyday Repression in China (2015)(academia.edu)
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by y2kenny 7y ago
No, you did not state fact. The protest at the Liaison Office and the Yuen Long terrorist attack happened at the same time. The Yuen Long attack is also now shown (via various news outlet) to be planned well ahead (as early as 7/20 i
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As Hong Kong protesters embrace Telegram, when will the app fix one of its flaws(hongkongfp.com)
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by y2kenny 7y ago
Does anyone know of a way to migrate an active chrome session (with all the tabs and windows) to firefox? (so kind of like restoring a session but restoring a session from chrome.)
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by y2kenny 7y ago
the world, because the CCP hasn't been listening.
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About 2M People Rally in Hong Kong Weekend Protests(bloomberg.com)
508 points by y2kenny 7y ago|222 comments
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by y2kenny 7y ago
The Taiwan case is just an excuse. Taiwan already said they will refuse the transfer under such bill: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-extradition-expl... Taiwan is not China so an extradition law with main
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by y2kenny 7y ago
Because they signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-British_Joint_Declaration
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by y2kenny 7y ago
This video give a good summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUl-J0oh3k0
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by y2kenny 7y ago
According to the wiki, BRI started around 2013 [1] so how come loans made prior to that being counted towards BRI? My recollection is that, prior to BRI/earlier loan diplomacy from China, the strategic goal was for influence in the UN
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by y2kenny 7y ago
> I don't think Kim Dotcom would have a military style raid on his house in NZ done on behalf of the Chinese government. perhaps not, but in Thailand, yes. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/03
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by y2kenny 7y ago
This should give you a good overview: China’s Trojan horse: Hong Kong’s new extradition arrangement puts foreigners at risk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUl-J0oh3k0
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by y2kenny 7y ago
Are there anything that help with switching existing session? (I have like 400 tabs opened in 60+ windows.)
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AMD Ryzen 9 3900X: 12C/24T chip will cost $499(tweaktown.com)
15 points by y2kenny 7y ago|2 comments
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Taiwan Tech Homeward Bound from China(eetimes.com)
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by y2kenny 7y ago
Gerrit would be simpler. You would just do `git push origin HEAD:refs/for/<branch>`. And I would argue the "now attach/upload bugfix.patch" is as unnecessary and time consuming as the remote/fork branch
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Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years(zdnet.com)
187 points by y2kenny 8y ago|35 comments
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Closing the gender gap in the tech industry(cbsnews.com)
3 points by y2kenny 8y ago|0 comments
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The World's Shrinking Problem(youtube.com)
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Populism and the Future of White Majorities(youtube.com)
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Flat or round? What one author learned about believers of the flat-Earth theory(cbc.ca)
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by y2kenny 8y ago
The problem is, when you use the term "Chinese" do you include people from Taiwan and Hong Kong? And are you attributing the bad behaviours to the historical Chinese culture that has thousands of years of history or the comparati
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WWI grenade found among potatoes at crisps factory(news.rthk.hk)
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Facial and emotional recognition; how one man is advancing AI(cbsnews.com)
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by y2kenny 8y ago
If I understand the arguments some folks are putting out these days, race, like gender, is now a social construct and therefore entirely mutable: https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/06/16/how-fluid
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Room-temperature cycling of metal fluoride electrodes: Liquid electrolytes(science.sciencemag.org)
3 points by y2kenny 8y ago|0 comments

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