howlingfantods

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by howlingfantods 6mo ago
Grammar at its best promotes clear communication but more often is used as a social tool of control and exclusion. When you are already talking to people within your in-group, that impulse isn’t necessary.
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by howlingfantods 8mo ago
Where is it confirmed that Pretti's gun went off? The only place I see this theory is /r/conservative... You're arguing that an acceptable, albeit unfortunate, punishment for civil disobedience is state murder.
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by howlingfantods 11mo ago
They shouldn’t exist
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by howlingfantods 2y ago
Public companies have to undergo a financial audit every year. If you’re referring to a tax audit from the IRS, then yes, those are rarer.
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by howlingfantods 2y ago
“Sneeze” or “喷嚏” is a pretty difficult word to write in Chinese in terms of number of strokes and its internal components. I’m not surprised people wouldn’t know it off the top of their heads. It’s like if someone asked you to spell “unnece
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by howlingfantods 2y ago
The graph is percentage of total production. You can see Chinese production ramps up significantly, which can presumably imply that US production as a percentage of total world production falls off, even if absolute production increases.
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by howlingfantods 2y ago
WhatsApp servers have been blocked in China forever. I lived there for 13 years and the only time I recall using WhatsApp without VPN was in the early 2010s.
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by howlingfantods 3y ago
Guys, it’s chapter 11 bankruptcy. Wework is not going out of business. One of the top uses of chapter 11 is to renegotiate/break commercial leases. Wework is going to continue as a company though it may shut down some locations. It is
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by howlingfantods 3y ago
I think you’re underestimating the agony of a overland trek through Central America…
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by howlingfantods 3y ago
In NYC, the commission for sales is about 6% and 1-2 months rent for rentals. So I would welcome this.
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by howlingfantods 3y ago
market valuation depends on the consensual negotiations of all the stakeholders and consumers of a product don’t have 100% power to control the price. movie studios would love to price content creation at 0 if possible.
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by howlingfantods 3y ago
i love my iphone mini form factor, but i have to charge mine twice a day. and if i'm traveling, i have to carry an external battery pack, which severely diminishes the form factor advantages.
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by howlingfantods 3y ago
If you can't judge someone by their actions, what can you judge them on?
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by howlingfantods 3y ago
Irrespective of the contents of the leaks, the Trump resistance leaker wrote an Op-Ed for the NYTimes and leaked formally, directly to the media, so of course the media is going to protect its anonymous sources. This leaker was trying to wi
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by howlingfantods 7y ago
In simple English Context: Dell has large stakes in both Pivotal and VMware VMware buys Pivotal. Pivotal's regular shareholders get paid in cash per share ($15). Dell, which owns a separate class of shares, gets paid in VMware shares r
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by howlingfantods 7y ago
"acquiring companies" not "acquired companies"
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by howlingfantods 7y ago
How does the left has a vice grip on discourse in media? The most watched cable news network is conservative. The largest operator of local tv is conservative.
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by howlingfantods 8y ago
iCloud accounts are region specific, it’s a pretty involved process to change it. You have to have a local payment source like a credit card.
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by howlingfantods 8y ago
Warby Parker is a good alternative to the Luxotica monopoly but I think even their lenses are Essilor
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by howlingfantods 8y ago
On one hand, I understand Ross’ reasoning. If my company were to go to a bank with a federal guarantee, we’d get a very cheap loan. On the other hand, he thinks an average individual’s response to missing paychecks should be to seek a low i
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by howlingfantods 8y ago
Seems like it’s just delays rather than a full stoppage. From Newsweek: ‘Flights arriving into LaGuardia Airport were delayed by about 41 minutes as of 10:15 a.m. EST and gate hold and taxi delays were between 15 and 29 minutes, although F
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by howlingfantods 8y ago
I’m pretty sure there’s no e2e encryption in WeChat. I communicate in WeChat with the assumption that everything I write can be read by censors.
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by howlingfantods 8y ago
There's currently no one 'social credit score' in China. There's some local government pilots and some private enterprise "credit scores." The ones you hear about often are stuff like Alipay's Sesame Credi
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by howlingfantods 8y ago
I remember some weeks ago, I sent over a picture of the Chinese President as Winnie the Poo (a popular meme at the time) to some friends on WeChat. It showed up as sent in my WeChat but my friends confirm it never actually reached them. May
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by howlingfantods 8y ago
That's patently untrue. Saudi crude is primarily heavy or medium and sour (high in sulfur), the complete opposite of what you're saying.
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by howlingfantods 8y ago
If you enjoyed the article, I'd highly suggest "The Power Broker" by Robert Caro (the author). It's the best non-fiction book I've ever read and the only 1300 page book that I felt was too short.
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by howlingfantods 8y ago
Just to add some color. There's currently no one 'social credit score' in China. There's some local government pilots and some private enterprise "credit scores." The ones you hear about often are stuff like Al
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by howlingfantods 8y ago
Can confirm that Bing is blocked in China for me. Having lived in China for the past decade, I've found that increasingly, my VPN has gone from sporadically on to sporadically off. China's internet has become an entity unto itself
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by howlingfantods 8y ago
That was primarily because of the nostalgic and hypebeast factor. The nostalgia from the people who loved the original movies. And the hypebeast from the resale market which loved that it was a highly limited run (89 pairs). These new shoes
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by howlingfantods 8y ago
The point is that they're cutting 10% from planned production, rather than previous quarter production. This implies less than projected demand, which means they may miss their sales forecasts.

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