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Waterfallon How Late Zhou China Reverse-Engineered a Civilization

I recommend Han Feizi for anyone interested.

>Confucius died thinking himself a failure. He didn’t manage to get a ruler to adopt his solution long enough for a full-scale test. Though he was able to gain the ears of a few statesmen, he lost political fights to other advisers and so fell from favor.

No he didn't. He, Buddha and Socrates were around the same era. I believe it's called the axial age. Socrates and him both were not well regarded in their times and knew that they both would be more well liked after their deaths. I've read that they both thought their time would come later. I don't understand why they said he thought himself a failure. Nobody who travels around believing these philosophical ideas can feel themselves a failure and continue to hold these philosophical ideas.

Waterfallon Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027

I am sure they were able to do it without it, but others can interfer. Triangulation was already a thing in the courts. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/victory-supreme-court-... It's in Carpenter vs US, for deducting he robbed a store from just the cell phone signals.

Waterfallon The TikTok War

This comment chain is one of the funniest I've seen in a while. Literally laughing so hard at your comment thank you.

Waterfallon The TikTok War

Vine wasn't destroyed, it was bought by Twitter long before it released.

Waterfallon Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027

Yes you can. I used a jailbreak app on ios6 and I used llama on Android for this.

>The average for Boston is 21 meters; New York 27 meters; Austin, TX, 28 meters; Washington 29 meters, and Chicago 38 meters.

https://www.mobilemarketer.com/ex/mobilemarketer/cms/news/re...

I got my own room in my house with it, back in the 3G/4G days. I'm not sure what modern software and hardware can do it now, but I'm pretty sure it's even more accurate even without 5G.

Waterfallon Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027

I don't think it's that cut and dry. If people are being oppressed, why don't they leave? The innovations and benefits must outweigh the problems. I'm happy to be a US citizen, with excellent buying power.

What product is worst and more expensive that you have in mind?

Waterfallon Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027

But you can already tell what house you're in with triangulation, and even the room.

Waterfallon Who Pays for Cheap Language Instruction? The Dangers Behind Duolingo

>The company she works for, 51Talk, charges learners an average of 45 yuan ($6.36) per 25-minute session. Yet teachers receive on average only 130 pesos ($2.53) per hour. English, a legacy of U.S. imperialism in the country, may have made the Philippines one of Asia’s largest providers of proficient speakers, but it is certainly not showering online language teachers with riches.

People work jobs that make them money, they work jobs that give them the most money. If she didn't want to do that job, she would choose another better paying one.

>“Learners” on Duolingo are actually just performing the free labor—or even paying for the privilege—of helping the company improve its proprietary algorithms.

Learners don't benefit at all from learning a language, they're just cogs in a wheel, in fact learning languages hurts them and wastes useful calories that could be better used like thinking about what to wear or the regretful thing they forgot but remember now.

I fail to see the danger of combining translations and language learning together.

Waterfallon Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027

I'm wondering how much worst it is since we already can track people pretty well with cellular data now. Sorry if I didn't make that clear, seems like they can already do all those things. How much worst can it be?

Waterfallon Oura Ring 2 Teardown

My sleep isn't perfect either but if you feel fine you probably slept enough and if you didn't, you won't. I use a sleep tracker but it's not very useful except for that day.

The issue to me is that you never seem to fix your issues from sleep. Did you solve the problems?

Waterfallon Britain to give millions of HKers a path to citizenship

What do you define as the benefits?

Waterfallon Britain to give millions of HKers a path to citizenship

https://japan-forward.com/mythbusters-foreign-reporting-on-t...

Waterfallon Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027

I don't know if I want 5G. It sounds like wimax but faster. I don't think it gives that much benefit, triangulation already was able to bomb a terrorist in Russia in the 90s. How much worst could it get?

Waterfallon Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027

Yes. The point is not to hurt your own civilians, aka civilization. I don't even understand why you question that.

Our credit system is bad and theirs is worst. Next topic?

They can at any point renounce their citizenship, but they don't and continue to pay their taxes.

I grew up with cultural values, and I don't like the Chinese ones. Does that mean the US is perfect? Of course not.

Whataboutism is cushioning the evil creeping, instead of trying to stop the incoming flood, you're busy mopping up the puddle.

Waterfallon Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027

1RMB has been deposited into your bank account

Waterfallon Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027

The US seems to be stuck in the 1950s, with much of the infrastructure and the attitudes in a similar state of stasis. The US however hasn't lost its role model status, despite embarrassments like Bush (unless your definition is different). The petrodollar is just as powerful as ever, the dollar is the most powerful currency still, and US hedgemony is just as powerful.

Waterfallon Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027

China puts their own citizens in concentration camps. They're using machine learning to generate social scores. If you don't like America or the UK, you can leave. Try doing that in China. Dying in a free zone is preferable to the enslavement that the Chinese are subjected to. Freedom has a price, and it's not racist to not like these horrible cultural values or to go against them.

Waterfallon Britain to give millions of HKers a path to citizenship

This is a fact that is hated by many people for some reason. There birthrate of Japan is considered low, but they are growing still and the homogeneous society has social harmony, with none of the ills of multiculturalism. It's a trade-off for immigration boosting economies in the short term they don't think is worth it.

Waterfallon Britain to give millions of HKers a path to citizenship

A market for improvement in food and you think china is doing good? China is a literal welfare state that relies on the east of China. Most intake wealth while the East actually generates it, the Pearl River Delta is also where most of the economic progress occurs.

Waterfallon Oura Ring 2 Teardown

I used it to see what causes good and bad sleep. It's mostly useless after that.

Waterfallon Oura Ring 2 Teardown

What's the point after discovering what helps you sleep? I found out I don't sleep well when there's any extra light, and after that there's little benefit from my sleep tracker, except it's also a fitness tracker that I don't think is cumbersome to keep on.

What does the data do for you now? I have a day's worth and then I don't care much after, history isn't very usable or actionable.

Waterfallon Beware of Being “Right”

I agree with collateral damage. It's most interesting to me when people carry around a "wrong" belief despite social penalties and damage to their own lives. There's no (or very little) social penalty for being Democratic around me, but to be a republican is very bad socially. Yet people carry it, is it the idea of being right, enjoying controversy or some sort of screening mechanism I wonder?

Anti vaxxers don't seem to realistically cause terrible issues in the amounts of them (currently). People who believe HAES seems way more socially accepted yet has a larger impact on the healthcare system, consumer products and food offerings, yet there's way less dislike of them than anti vaxxers. Why is that?

Waterfallon France to introduce controversial age verification system for adult websites

In China porn is illegal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_China Its freely available.

Waterfallon France to introduce controversial age verification system for adult websites

https://pmohackbook.org/

This helped me.

Waterfallon France to introduce controversial age verification system for adult websites

I actually think that porn can have a detrimental effect on people, not permanent, but also not always the best. Will government regulation fix it? No. Kids now are having less sex, they are more isolated, and males are now having way less sex in general, so what fills in the place? Porn. If you get rid of porn and not have any changes in society, they will not magically go away.

If you or a loved one has a problem with porn: https://pmohackbook.org/

The teeth brushing thing is funny there was an onion video that said smoking is gay. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82x9pzHkHK4

Waterfallon Jack Dorsey to fund UBI experiment that could affect up to 7M people

I had no issues. It is not hard in a big city to live on less even without government aid, provided you aren't stupid with purchases. My family lived on less than that for the entire family. Luxuries weren't around and disappointed Christmases happened all the time, but its bullshit to assume that you can't survive.

Waterfallon Beware of Being “Right”

The truth doesn't matter. People want a narrative and they will believe what they want to. It's a depressing feeling to think of, but nobody wants to break the narrative they want to believe. Many beliefs have no value, I for instance don't believe China's narrative for their low Corona, while my father does. Neither of our beliefs have any proper function or carry a penalty for believing. Believing in the amount of water we should drink is a lot more useful and actually carries more of a real life impact, and I'd rather not argue about something that will only cause friction and never have any use. At the same time, Socrates and Confucius were not well liked in their times but they knew they were "right" and their time would come after. Mendel whose ideas were ridiculed also simply believed in his own ideas, and drew strength from it. Political truth is a funny thing.

Waterfallon France to introduce controversial age verification system for adult websites

As a kid, I was able to figure out limewire, Emule, torrents and I'm sure kids today will be able to download a free vpn or use similar tools I used as a preteen to figure out how to circumvent these pointless blocks. I started with free video samples and only moved onto methods by high school to get access to premium websites. As a human, our strength is not only the ability to do these things but to also teach others to do it. I was able to help my friends to get access as well. If one ape discovered fire it would die with them, but our ability to spread information, like a virus is what gives humanity intelligence. One kid like me at school is all it takes to make this stupid law useless.

Adult websites want brownie points and also don't like nonpayers, but mess with their revenue and you'll get a push back.

Waterfallon Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affiliated startup Dataminr

I think it's stupid to post this on Twitter and Facebook. I know someone who was protesting the policy of taking away guns from people deemed a threat and posting his guns. Sure enough his guns were taken away. The interpretation are too broad and it's better not to advertise anything that can be detrimental to yourself. I don't support the fact that this happened but I don't believe it's a good idea to give away information that can be hurtful to you. Activism happens in the court of law, not your Facebook or Twitter rants that make you seem unhinged and gives reasons to "lawfully investigate" you.

Waterfallon Jack Dorsey to fund UBI experiment that could affect up to 7M people

People who make under 20k or so don't pay any taxes already, and often get tax refunds. I like the idea of Milton Friedman's negative income tax as well.