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by asa4akj 6y ago
comparing uber and etsy is dishonest at best. The only freedom an uber contractor has is "when to work". All the pricing and trips are decided by uber, and they can't even reject properly. They are in fact an employees in eve
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by asa4akj 6y ago
And with a relentless ethno-state dictatorship supporting those advances, it can get there even faster.
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by asa4akj 6y ago
> Doesn't seem much of a threat to TSMC. Now. It's still brain drain, and it's to boost their industry. Measures such as this do not exist in a vacuum, more will come.
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by asa4akj 6y ago
You see, there is a big emotional difference in unplugging a network cable of a node, and see your cluster keep going and re-routing traffic compared to clicking on a "shut down VM" button. These small emotional things end up maki
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by asa4akj 6y ago
I would say that now it's a weird mix for power projection: Economic prowess and Military Strength, and Cultural Propagation
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by asa4akj 6y ago
Africans had European colonies before Europeans had African colonies. Carthage predates Rome, and Carthage had colonies all over Hiberia, which Rome later conquered.
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by asa4akj 6y ago
Thanks for your comment. Quite interesting. Also, people tend to forget that Africa is a huge continent, and drastically different from north to south. Specially with regards to the past.
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by asa4akj 6y ago
Because it collapse still in the part of expanse. Other empires like roman was just like the british. In fact the definition of empire is the dominion of "second class" territories in virtue of the "first class".
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by asa4akj 6y ago
The word slave actually comes from Slav
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by asa4akj 6y ago
In Brazil's case, it was a colony for sugar extraction(and other farm products) and later gold extraction. Sure, when oil extraction started, Brazil has not been a colony for a century but the extraction culture was there. Still, with
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by asa4akj 6y ago
Nope, because only the brits surpassed the previous biggest empire, the mongols. And mongols did come with some advancements in tech as well, but also plenty of destruction.
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by asa4akj 6y ago
you seem to miss the point, the Chinese companies were already winning by a large margin before the laws came into existence.
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by asa4akj 6y ago
China already has concentration camps, heavy censorship, its a dictatorship and forcefully controls the population, and it's not just he "one child policy", its the sterilization of Uyghur men, and the forced marriage of thei
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by asa4akj 6y ago
they pose smaller risk, as they sell data to china. But that can simply be outlawed with something like GDPR, without a big drama, unlike a ban
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by asa4akj 6y ago
iPhone is a locked device. Nothing stops apple from actually not giving you that option for particular apps and you would know nothing about it.
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by asa4akj 6y ago
does this means that attacking the starting king position will always put the king in check of the very first board? but, he can't really escape that
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by asa4akj 6y ago
but you are just adding possible unfair/unethical things that might have happen. What about good things? The 1st seller was aware there was a big chance for the stock to grow, but was in need of liquidity for other ventures or needs. A
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by asa4akj 6y ago
it's called patience and keep on investing. You only need to put 400$ every month into SP500 in order to reach retirement age with more than a million.
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by asa4akj 6y ago
youtube android and earth are acquisitions, Cloud is nothing compared to its competition, GMail is almost 2 decades old. In the last decade, I can't remember a single innovative google original product, or some copy-cat product that is
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by asa4akj 6y ago
and got people worrying about such generic things instead of the problem. It's not the fact that its hard or not, it's just yet another thing to keep in mind when you should be solving issues. Managing time is important, juniors n
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by asa4akj 6y ago
Some era adventure games were famous from simply being illogical. It's always nice having to pick up cat hair to make a fake mustache to impersonate someone that does not have a mustache. A nice 3 page rant from 2000: http:/&#x2F
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by asa4akj 6y ago
Every weapon is bad in the arms of the enemy. I won't be cutting any hands because they can form fists.
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by asa4akj 6y ago
yes, but it isn't false
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by asa4akj 6y ago
Well, Haskell uses just a space.
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by asa4akj 6y ago
you are forgetting the part where hospitals got overrun even with lockdowns.
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by asa4akj 6y ago
and only one of those examples is before the publishing year
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by asa4akj 6y ago
Completely disagree. Shame is a very potent society shaping factor. Without it humans wouldn't be as civilized. So we should just use shame appropriately.