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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 p…

And with a relentless ethno-state dictatorship supporting those advances, it can get there even faster.

> 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.

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…

I would say that now it's a weird mix for power projection: Economic prowess and Military Strength, and Cultural Propagation

Africans had European colonies before Europeans had African colonies. Carthage predates Rome, and Carthage had colonies all over Hiberia, which Rome later conquered.

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 th…

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…

The word slave actually comes from Slav

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 cen…

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.

you seem to miss the point, the Chinese companies were already winning by a large margin before the laws came into existence.

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 o…

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

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.

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

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 …

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.

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 go…

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 sol…

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 mu…

Every weapon is bad in the arms of the enemy. I won't be cutting any hands because they can form fists.

yes, but it isn't false

Well, Haskell uses just a space.

you are forgetting the part where hospitals got overrun even with lockdowns.