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    Comment #38967715

    https://www.nio.cn/charger-map This map has real time stats on battery swap. Unfortunately it's only available in Chinese. NIO has done 35 million battery swap to date and you can …

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    Comment #38706775

    Obviously you didn't read (the first sentence of) the article, I applaud your courage in commenting regardless. The 1044km claim is from a livestream where the CEO of the company d…

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    Comment #30525863

    not trying to "confirm" anything here... if you actually look at any of Putin's interview this is basically the only thing he kept on blabbering about... of course nobody in the we…

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    Comment #30522477

    > These countries don't join NATO because the USA pushes them or because "NATO wants" to expand. Of course smaller countries with less security guarantees want to join NATO! It's t…

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    Comment #30522026

    Interestingly, Kaliningrad is also brought up every single time in order to dismiss the argument raised in the parent comment. I wouldn't call your comment US propaganda because it…

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    Comment #30520670

    to clarify, "thinking like a trader" means Putin ought to tolerate continued NATO expansion, with American missiles placed on Russia's front porch, just because the west is a buyer…

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    Comment #26804381

    No it's not hard to get some idea of the transaction volume, at least on chain transactions: https://www.blockchain.com/charts/estimated-transaction-volu... . It stands though that…

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    Comment #25159016

    wow, there's no mentioning of Google in the article at all (ctrl-F showed no hit); Even then, "Google engineers" do NOT just get access to GCP client's data... it would be a immens…

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    Comment #24902394

    How is cutting off at "150 most populated cities" relevant for this comparison? Out of the 150 cities, 39 or 26% of them are in China making the candidate pool quite imbalanced to …

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    Comment #24537807

    > The difference between TikTok and WeChat and FB/Google/Twitter is obvious: the former are to some degree controlled by China and the latter are private entities. The irony is tha…

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    Comment #24468743

    Thanks for providing this perspective! I think it would be super interesting to look at CO2 emission per capita broken down by states (i.e. perhaps states along the coasts would sh…

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    Comment #24468071

    It blows my mind how much higher US/Canada's per-capita CO2 emission is compared to European industrialized countries as well as China [1]. While we lament how much of this is due …

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    Comment #24363286

    Makes you wonder what was the motivation behind creating "Whistleblower protection" program in the first place.

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    Comment #24304583

    are you alleging, without evidence?, that OP has been sponsored by state organisations?

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    Comment #24304382

    or, OP simply does not want their true identity to be labeled as "pro-China" and created this specific account given how toxic, biased and hostile HN comment section has become wrt…

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    Comment #24304350

    I'm amazed how this link even made it to the HN front page. What's the relevance does this article have for hacker news?

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    Comment #24304339

    > Epoch times ... I'm amazed by how brainwashed one has to be to regard Epoch times as a reliable outlet worthy of attention.

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    Comment #24050272

    > Because the Chinese cyber threat is incredibly real. Comment like this lumps tiktok, a privately owned company with the Chinese government with no evidence. It's never about nati…

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    Comment #23999101

    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/tiktok-and-53-other-... This article further shows the point I was trying to make: not saying tiktok is in the right here but the media focu…

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    Comment #23999074

    https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/3/21312821/linkedin-app-ios-... This does not seem specific to tiktok at all. Would you jump in on discussions on LinkedIn and claim "Not surprised,…

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    Comment #23992575

    citation needed. It's truly amazing how people justify arbitrary claims to fit their ideological perspectives.

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    Comment #23992553

    and how sketchy exactly is it?