jialutu

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by jialutu 4y ago
For some reason, the illustrations really gave me the JoJo vibe. Does anyone else feel this book may have inspired Araki to create JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Phantom Blood?
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by jialutu 4y ago
Google maps is pretty much one of the only Google products that I still actively use. It's funny that this article was written and published today, since I had noticed the exact same thing yesterday! Does anyone know when it first star
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by jialutu 4y ago
> Uk .... now more food banks than macdonalds. Holy cow! I just checked this fact and it's true! https://fullfact.org/electionlive/2019/dec/9/food-banks-more... That said, it shouldn't be a
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by jialutu 4y ago
I am really baffled by this claim, since I've been observing the Global Hunger Index for a while, where India has consistently fared worse than even DPRK (North Korea), and is almost the same level as Afghanistan, a country that has be
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by jialutu 4y ago
> it feels like the GDP being accurate This has been my personal gripe for a long time now! Imagine that I needed to borrow £1000 from my mum, she lends me that money, and then I return that much back to her shortly after; therefore gene
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by jialutu 4y ago
To solve your problem with Epic games, all you need to do is to find the installation directory of the said game, create a shortcut for it, and voila! A DRM free game! Remember, do not use Epic's own game shortcuts that the client crea
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by jialutu 4y ago
I have no idea when it happened, but recently I have been explaining to my girlfriend that we are all Bayesian machines, that we are constantly working with priors and posteriors, and while that subconciously our posteriors are updated a lo
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by jialutu 4y ago
> From the title "worst drought on record" Great, I am not talking about France though, I am talking about England. Unless England now is part of France, which last time I checked, is definitely not the case!
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by jialutu 4y ago
> the idea that crops would fail from climate change There was a massive drought in England about 10 years back, where farmers had to change the types of crops back then to accommodate for the drought, which was then proceeded by a large
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by jialutu 4y ago
I've been wondering the same. Surely given the amount that has been quoted in this article of $160k, I would assume millions of dollars gets scammed on a yearly basis. Why has this not even become a diplomatic issue yet?
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by jialutu 4y ago
No, and I wouldn't, since I absolutely love it. I've put our entire build pipeline and everything into one single cluster at the moment, and been finding it incredibly straight-forward and easy to build our CI/CD pipelines us
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by jialutu 4y ago
You don't have to wait 1-2 years, there are already studies for the US voting. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli... Basically, the TL;DR version of this is that no, the average vote
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by jialutu 5y ago
I think you might want to read this recent study: https://ash.harvard.edu/files/ash/files/final_policy_brief_7...
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by jialutu 5y ago
> thieves had gained access to a key part of Bangladesh Bank's systems, called Swift Eh, what? I recall that to get access to SWIFT, you would require a SWIFT USB stick. How would a hacker be able to access SWIFT without the USB sti
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by jialutu 6y ago
Now I know you are lying! The Qing dynasty was far larger than China is today; in fact, it included Bhutan: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_Qing_dynasty_...
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by jialutu 6y ago
https://www.mayflowerpub.co.uk/ One of the best pubs in London if you are in the area. Never disappoints.
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by jialutu 6y ago
Thinking about it, my need to constantly remind my Android phone to f Google (I actually don't hate Google, I do it just in case they are overhearing me...) is already a sign that I am being paranoid.
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by jialutu 6y ago
Are you sure they don't have the mic on constantly already? I swear, the number of times the ads that were shown to me were absolutely spot on, even though I've not done any searchs online to indicate those were the things I wante
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by jialutu 6y ago
"Waa waa, someone does not ascribe to my beliefs so they must be a paid troll!" Do you need a tissue mate? The reason I don't make many comments is because 1, I am too lazy and 2, HN is pretty toxic in that if you write anyth
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by jialutu 6y ago
Do you guys remember when a Chinese soldier beat up someone who was holding the Koran? Well, except, it didn't happen: https://factcheck.afp.com/no-not-video-chinese-soldier-beati... Also, when are people going to stop
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by jialutu 6y ago
I think this might interest you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony So pretty much all of US's wars in Iraq has been based on lies.
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by jialutu 6y ago
What about the US blowing up the Middle East, where Germany and much of European countries having to deal with the refugees as a consequence of those wars? I think countries like Germany have been penalised enough by the US for not picking
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by jialutu 6y ago
All of this reminds me of what happened to Toshiba in the 80s: https://www.anti-empire.com/today-the-us-is-waging-a-war-on-... Just goes to show that the US is as much the thug as it has always been.
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by jialutu 6y ago
Chinese Americans are cool because they can read English, which is real news. I won't bother reading anything in Chinese or learn Chinese values, but I can judge them according to my beliefs because the English one is far superior. Sou
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by jialutu 6y ago
> please provide an example of two of where they claim China is more oppressive than it actually is I'll give you one. Pretty much every single mainstream media basically says religion is banned in China. However to my detriment, ev
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by jialutu 6y ago
No, I get it, I also find a lot of people who put links in to say "see, this is the definitive proof", I am not one of them; I've only put the paper into the response simply to add a bit more context to the other person'
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by jialutu 6y ago
Yeah, I've been thinking about how much false positives are with the result. I don't know about your background, but I am certainly not an epidemiologist, nor do I have the time to do the investigation, so I'd rather not get
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by jialutu 6y ago
Here is a paper to back up your claims, where they apparently found traces of COVID-19 in Spain in March 2019. The paper is yet to be peer reviewed though: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.13.2012962
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by jialutu 6y ago
For anyone interested, here is the US National Security's view on the current standoff between China and India, from China's strategic perspective: https://warontherocks.com/2020/06/chinas-strategic-asses
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by jialutu 6y ago
Well, there is no country that would ever allow money to move in or out "no questions asked". Why do you think there are a lot of terms like AML, or KYC floating about in the finance sector? Also, international payments are a pain

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