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by moreorless 6y ago
Anyone actually using this as a daily driver? I am completely Apple free except for the the phone. I would love to be able to ditch that.
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by moreorless 6y ago
People call me crazy for having local backups, cloud backups, and offline backups for my critical assets.
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by moreorless 6y ago
Why do parents go jump through hoops and are willing to break laws to get their kids into top colleges? People often say bribery is rampant in China. We have Super PACS and political donations and revolving doors.
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by moreorless 6y ago
Not a huge fan of Google.
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by moreorless 6y ago
As an anecdote, I hear people call out the CPC in public places in China.
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by moreorless 6y ago
I get gizmos like this as gifts every now and then. I never bothered opening any of them up. What are some fun things that we can do with these things besides their intended use?
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by moreorless 6y ago
> geopolitical adversary that intentionally interfered with our domestic politics Pot, meet kettle.
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by moreorless 6y ago
I recall reading somewhere: In China, you can change the policies, but you can't change the party. In America, you can change the parties, but you cannot change the policy.
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by moreorless 6y ago
It is. Plain and simple. edit: spelling
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by moreorless 6y ago
This exactly.
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by moreorless 6y ago
It seems like they have a history of it. https://www.mediamatters.org/new-york-times/how-iraq-war-sti...
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by moreorless 6y ago
Then it is high time we get off our high horse.
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by moreorless 6y ago
It has since be sold to an American enterprise.
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by moreorless 6y ago
According to this Time's article, President Trump is ordering them to sell it. https://time.com/5874408/trump-order-bytedance-sell-tiktok-u...
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by moreorless 6y ago
They do it, so we should too. Got it.
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by moreorless 6y ago
I find the whole Huawei situation to be quite riveting.
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by moreorless 6y ago
Not a single person seem to think that it is odd that we can simply order a foreign company to sell their business to an American company.
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by moreorless 6y ago
The article mentioned MasterClass. Has anyone tried the courses? https://www.masterclass.com/
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Podcasting: Turning Chinese?(jacobsmedia.com)
3 points by moreorless 6y ago|1 comments
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by moreorless 6y ago
TikTok = Chinese government? That is quite a leap there.
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by moreorless 6y ago
There is a workaround: https://geekermag.com/enable-windows-sandbox-in-windows-10-h...
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by moreorless 6y ago
All I am hearing from this is, "We must reopen the economy."
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by moreorless 6y ago
This is just stupid. If you're referring to suicides in Foxconn factories, you first need to consider the size of the workforce. The suicide rate at Foxconn factories was, at the time of the report, and is still currently significant
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by moreorless 6y ago
You're not alone in this thinking. Chinese corporations have been investing heavily in Africa for quite some time now.
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by moreorless 6y ago
In what world do you pay a skilled American $12.50/hr? And that is before considering benefits.
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by moreorless 6y ago
Winners normally do not get overly worked up about the vanquished.
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Doordash needs to be called out for their bad behavior(sfist.com)
7 points by moreorless 6y ago|1 comments
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How should a company handle a racist CEO?(sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com)
9 points by moreorless 6y ago|1 comments
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by moreorless 6y ago
In the case of Facebook being banned, there is precedence for that. https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/01/23/facebook-banned-in...
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by moreorless 6y ago
> Where I think a lot of folks are missing the point is that this is also a tremendous boost to local Indian entrepreneurship. Last I looked, a good portion of the funding for Indian startups is from China.

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