legofr

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by legofr 4y ago
I am happy to see Tencent-owned Miniclip die. Hope their mobile games will face similar fate, and that moral companies will take their place.
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by legofr 5y ago
If your market is large enough and the tariffs are high enough then it seems logical that tariffs will force the companies to manufacture their goods elsewhere to stay competitive and increase revenue. Short term the tariffs are likely paid
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by legofr 5y ago
We definitely need laws that require companies to display this information online as well so that ethical shoppers aren't forced to go to the stores to avoid Made in China products.
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by legofr 5y ago
I hope they don't do anything. It's extremely hypocritical to see companies stand up to Russia yet fail to do the same with China, who in recent years stripped Hong Kongers of their human rights, send innocent Uyghurs to concentra
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by legofr 5y ago
That spyware thankfully isn't no mine, and if you're forced to use it (if you for whatever reason can't use Jitsi/Teams) then I strongly encourage you not to install the app and instead use the web version.
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If Russia Invades Ukraine, Sanction China(foreignpolicy.com)
7 points by legofr 5y ago|0 comments
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Canadian-born goalie barred from speaking English at 2022 Olympics presser(nypost.com)
7 points by legofr 5y ago|2 comments
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Olympics put Chinese authorities' press intimidation on full display(axios.com)
17 points by legofr 5y ago|0 comments
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George Washington University’s President Condemns China Olympics Posters(twitter.com)
7 points by legofr 5y ago|1 comments
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UN accused of colluding with China to delay Xinjiang human rights report(scmp.com)
2 points by legofr 5y ago|0 comments
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Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab but feared discussions(nationalpost.com)
41 points by legofr 5y ago|7 comments
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by legofr 5y ago
I think you can compare it to "natural scrolling" - imagine if an operating system suddenly flipped the default scrolling direction without even presenting a dialog where you could choose your preferred option. > everytime I go
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by legofr 5y ago
They had a couple big blunders with the ugly border/expansion when clicking the address bar, and "Ctrl+Tab cycles through tabs in recently used order".. both of these things should have never been the default (or at least we
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by legofr 5y ago
I don't think it's one-sided at all. If you look at the 30 most popular stories in the past year then 5 of them paints China in a positive light ( https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=tru
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Asian Boss planted deep blue YouTuber and pretended he was a 'man on the street'(laorencha.blogspot.com)
232 points by legofr 5y ago|212 comments
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by legofr 5y ago
The Economist claim China have had 140k to 1.9m excess deaths since the pandemic started in Wuhan ( https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-... ). It's of course worth noting that China is one of
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Tesla criticised for opening showroom in Xinjiang despite human rights abuses(theguardian.com)
9 points by legofr 5y ago|0 comments
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UNintegrity: For a transparent, accountable United Nations(unintegrity.org)
3 points by legofr 5y ago|0 comments
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by legofr 5y ago
> All other search engines that I've come across are for-profit. Please let me know if I've missed one! https://www.ecosia.org/ https://ask.moe/ https://ekoru.org/ I remember s
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by legofr 5y ago
The reason it took more than a year for me to realize this phenomenon is because when I first visited the country then I relied on travel agencies, international hotel booking apps, and had accommodation provided for me. It's certainly
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by legofr 5y ago
In every other country you show them your passport, you write your signature and you pay a deposit - done. In China you either need to go through an agency that have something similar to "The Negro Motorist Green Book" ( https:&#x
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by legofr 5y ago
We wouldn't be turning into China if we only banned Chinese companies, if we only blacklisted/punished western companies that spread CCP propaganda (nine-dash line, calling Taiwan a province of China, etc). To quote HN user stale2
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by legofr 5y ago
I'm personally opposed to the idea of visiting certain countries, such as China and North Korea, to 'see for yourself', especially when you don't know the language, when you're not willing to risk your life to under
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by legofr 5y ago
The Embassy of France in China also posted a translated version to China's version of Twitter: https://weibo.com/1987630007/L5n5ny5iF . The post itself has surprisingly not been censored, instead they're censo
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Statement of the EU Delegation to China on the International Human Rights Day(eeas.europa.eu)
6 points by legofr 5y ago|2 comments