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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
I respect people with different opinions. I do not respect people who try to impose their opinions through criminal and reckless actions. By the way, I have not likened their actions to the IRA's, the article does that based on fact. T
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
First result on Google: "the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims." Isn't this unlawful intimidation in the pursuit of political aims?
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
This is not civil disobedience. Flying drones to shut down an airport is nothing like sitting in the white seats of a bus. That's a ludicrous comparison. Such drone attacks are dangerous (they do put aircrafts at risk), affect thousand
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
There certainly are wrong and undemocratic ways to "participate". Breaking the law, causing public nuisance (to say the least), putting aircrafts are risk are not acceptable.
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
It cannot and won't replace the current monetary model (nor is there any need to replace it) . People who spread this have something to sell.
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
Well if that's the best alternative to fiat money it only shows how fiat money will stay with us for a long, long time...
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
Many of those connected appliances can receive software updates. They probably thought "Let's put a mic in, it costs nothing, we'll add speech recognition later when it's ready."
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
Maybe they do but at least WeChat have their own face recognition technology, in which case they do hold people's biometric data. This is not that big a deal in China considering that people have photo ID card, which means that the gov
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
This has nothing to do with FaceID, which isn't mentioned in the article. WeChat has its own face recognition system.
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
Obviously not. As others have pointed out, it comes from Chinese/Taoist mythology and refers to a character. It's like if we chose a name from a character in Roman or Greek mythology. As many such Chinese names it is not that easy
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
It's exactly the same as debating whether God exists.
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
Not sure how that answers my question. There is the rule of law in HK and, according to this bill, any extradition request will be examined by HK courts with the accused able to defend, in the same way as extradition requests from other cou
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
The IMEI identifies a device. It is, or should be, useful to lock stolen phones, though it can obviously be used to track someone who keeps the same phone even if they change SIM card. The IMSI identifies the subscriber (and/or the SIM
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
Hence the groupthink we see all the time... Not least on such a topic which is 'owned' by extremists who will not tolerate even a shred of non-conformity. It's hypocrisy when mods say otherwise.
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
Most varieties of plants used for crops, fruits, flowers, etc. have been so heavily selected by us over thousands of years that they are completely artificial and would not survive long in the wild. It does not mean that it isn't susta
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
It is not really a question of integration, as far as I can see. Currently HK has extradition treaties with 18 countries, but none with Macao, Taiwan, and mainland China. On the face of it, it is rather odd that currently someone may be ext
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
> This extradition law has far reaching consequences against freedoms and the rule of law that locals have had until now Could someone explain how?
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
> once something is more than a few hundred years old then humans will automatically try to preserve it unless there's a good reason not to This is a very recent development that started circa the 19th century in Europe. Before that
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
> The problem with explicit leadership positions is that people have no downward mobility. If you are bad, then the organization loses a great resource. There is downward mobility if you want it. I have seen technical people promoted to
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
Whatever we think of the mainland Chinese justice system, and there is indeed a lot to be said about it, the current situation is rather strange. Indeed, it seems quite extraordinary that someone could not be sent from one territory of the
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
It's not possible to protect against destruction by human beings over these timescales, irrespective of whether people remember what the artefact means. Any such project can only use engineering to provide assurance that the result sho
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
If Hollywood can no longer do in-your-face American propaganda then the end is nigh, indeed.
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
Uber Eats, Deliveroo, etc. are like Uber, Lyft, etc. : Throwing massive mounts of money to 'grow' at huge losses.
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
It should be for your manager to introduce you to the team. Then you can add a message yourself.
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
Once you are the first man on the Moon they can ask you to resign for disobeying orders or even sack you if they don't mind the bad publicity at a time when NASA is showered in international glory. But you're still the first man o
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
The market is already crowded with Uber Eats, Deliveroo, etc. All of the incumbents are bleeding money. Amazon decided to invest in Deliveroo not to miss the boat but it seems sensible not to pursue their own platform.
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
> You can't say they're not money makers though. Since that's what Amazon is optimised for, that's indeed a success.
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
What is the larger point, then?
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
Electricity generation does not need to burn fossil fuels.
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by NotPaidToPost 7y ago
Competition drives people to push themselves, and can therefore play a useful role in education.

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