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You have very restricted definition of market. Market != Stock Market. Slap of market does not mean you go down, it means the profits goes to your compititors. Rise of China is tex…

Its not just US vs China. Its US vs Market. Its the hand of market that US need to watch out for. Everytime a powerful entity acts like a madman, it gets weaker. Soon or later it w…

Now thats a moral argument. In a realpolitikal world, X aggresses against Y because its in X's self interest, not because Y have been bad. Under this model, China _is_ suffering fr…

No Canada is arresting on behalf of US. On the contrary, Huawei is building 5g infra for Canada. > Violating sanctions is a criminal offense under U.S. and Canadian law. Just becau…

> Huawei stole a Canadian company's technology Then Canada gets to do the arresting and jailing. Re next 2 points: If you want to justify violance you need stronger triggers. Those…

Safety/Quality regulations reduces choices and quantity. This hits poor the most, as they can no longer buy inferior but cheap products and services. See China. Instead regulations…

I am more refering to the css. All content is fetched without needing js. But its css hidden because ...

main {display: none;} You donve Javascript enabled. Good luck with that. Wow. Going out of the way to annoy js blockers.

> I certainly wouldn't want a social media company to make money from it being shared Reddit/etc make money because of their platform not content. All of the content on reddit is a…

You are basically normalizing violent response to a non-violent action. US can do that because FB is US company. UK cannot just because you happen to visit. Please realize that oth…

Oh I did not realize FB was pointing gun at people.

> I mean if this loophole is available to extremely well off individuals and companies why not for services... No you have to move at the very least. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne…

WW1 was monarchies (professional war-makers) still thinking war-making a major wealth gaining activity. 100 years ago they were proven horribly wrong, and ultimately triggered thei…

But without the IPMI kernel modules loaded, IPMI is harmless, right ?

Absolutely. Though nomad lifestyle isnt really for me. Malta has a cool residency program [1]: pay only $15k/yr + territorial tax and live and work from there. Georgia is a good an…

There is no extradition in civil offences. For example extradition under Europe Arrest Warrant require criminal offence carrying maximum panelty of >=1 year [1]. GDPR only fines an…

If the group does not have enough consensus on what mission is or what is in service of the mission, then group cannot advance anywhere and can only be disbanded.

Meritocracy means your elevation within a group is not influenced by your ancestory, wealth, socail status, who are your friends with, how much you were/are-being oppressed, charis…

Nah its just stupid programming from Google. You will spook GMail if you try to access from different country. It will lock you out. Good luck trying to remember details about your…

IP is not a user-entered data and cannot be freely selected, unlike email addresses. > the fact that your email isn't yourname@mailprovider.com doesn't make it any less identifiabl…

Ok here is my email: 1373f84998986cf8@tutanota.com. Identify me! Know that I wont used the email elsewhere. > You cannot use ToU to bypass GDPR. Just to clarify this is not buried …

> ToU don’t change what PII is or isn’t under the GDPR. ToU can by prohibiting user from entering any PII. In case of email, ToU would say that only non-identifying email can be us…

I like this definiton better. IANAL Warning. Personal Data: - PII is Personal Data. - If a user has PII, then all of the userdata is Personal Data. So HN posts would not be Persona…

There is nothing you have said that a business who can potentially be fined to death, rely upon. The fact that every response to the criticism of GDPR being too ambiguous, is ambig…

This argument can be used to justify any form of government as long as some share of extortions get invested for the benefit of extorted. But I agree all of this is great if I only…