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    Comment #26047611

    Nowadays its probably best to set up your own VPN server for that. Back when I lived there, most VPNs got occationally blocked, then they would get new IPs and work fine again. But…

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    Comment #26047559

    They show you a BTC address and you send BTC to that address. Whatever arrives at the address is credited to your account. No "invoicing system" involved.

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    Comment #26047495

    > Now why would that be? Who donates money to fund the studies?

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    Comment #25701236

    > The situation in HK is depressing, It sure is. HK was my favorite city. Great place. I liked to live in China too, but left when Xi got into power, because it was all too obvious…

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    Comment #25701048

    China annexed the Scarborough Shoal 8 years ago. And the guy who will "be at the wheel" soon did nothing back then (despite of there being a defense treaty). These mass arrests are…

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    Comment #25701018

    I tell you a secret: The CCP doesn't actually care about the rules of international law. Who is gonna stop them? Nobody.

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    Comment #25701007

    China invaded and annexed the Scarborough Shoal in 2012 and the Obama Administration did nothing. Despite the defense treaty with the Phillippines. The Biden Administration will ha…

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    Comment #25700976

    When the CCP invaded and annexed the Scarborough Shoal in 2012, the Obama administration ignored the defense treaty between the US and the Philippines and allowed the CCP to keep t…

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    Comment #25603330

    Do you do nationaly checks before allowing people to have an opinion?

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    Comment #25603326

    > If the EU does nothing it's useless, if it does something it's just corruption. Wrong. Its not about "doing something", its about doing the right thing. And they don't.

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    Comment #25603307

    Not true. SpaceX was almost completely privately invested and private risk. Once they had shown that they were serious, NASA awarded them contracts, because it was a great deal for…

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    Comment #25603292

    It's always been normal in the EU. There is little innovation here based on private risk taking, almost no venture capital, and huge barrieres for banks to lend money to innovators…

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    Comment #25570594

    I guess the US voters have decided that they like forced prision labor in the US.

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    Comment #25550331

    As another European: proportional voting has nothing to do with it. Its more about ideologized voters who care more about ideology than merit when voting.

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    Comment #25367141

    So, after 4 years of constant unfounded public "Russia gate" allegations, now it is too much to look into hundreds of sworn wittness statements, video footage, statistical anomalie…

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    Comment #25112774

    > Also very relevant that VPNs seem to be illegal in China. How illegal are they currently? When I lived there, they were illegal too, but still everybody would use them. There was…

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    Comment #25112734

    Sadly, that's the flipside of our strategy of telling authoritarian governments that they should follow rule of law. China made laws that obligate data companies to share the data …

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    Comment #25111379

    Sadly, its a lost cause. The result is [left-pad]( https://www.theregister.com/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/ ).

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    Comment #24982235

    Yes. And a big reason I am considering to move to the US. Germany (and most of Europe) is getting more and more scary.

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    Comment #24982201

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    Comment #24982180

    That's Germany. You think we didn't learn anything from our two dicatorships in the past century? You are correct!

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    Comment #24900806

    Chilling Effect to let all know what will happen to them, if they don't follow the Business Party.

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    Comment #24821710

    And they placed a photo of Trump shaking hands with Putin at the top of the article. I wonder why.

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    Comment #24809579

    Nobody is destroying anything. This sounds more like institutional interests being defended by those who work in the institution that is forced to be more efficient. Many will comp…