bigpumpkin

Too bad the government can't ban a communications platform under the First Amendment. Just give the offending companies huge fines (billions of dollars) instead.

Obviously due to the fact that Chinese input could be better optimized by third parties.

Yep. Lifting heavy is also good because it doesn't take very long and it's far easier to go high intensity for a few reps than medium intensity for many reps. Just gotta be careful to have proper form and not injure ourselves.

To China hawks:

Any Chinese civilian company + Military Civil Fusion = Communist Chinese military company

The only reason they didn't label Alibaba+Tencent was their market caps are too big/ too many American investors own them.

Rather let the Chinese continue to ride on bicycles than the west give up on SUVs.

The RFA references Song Qing, "Internet finance industry insider":

"These nationalizations are definitely happening, and [the antitrust investigation] will likely speed up that process," Song said. "It's also, I think, about making an example of [Ant and Alibaba]."

So I would trust the article as much as I would trust Song Qing.

What's the CCP's greatest investment? US treasuries.

To the tune of trillions of dollars, the CCP is funding the tyrannical American military that invaded Iraq, and killed hundreds of thousand of innocent civilians.

Those curious about this could read more about this here, which documented Obama's unrestricted drone warfare[1]:

[1]https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/24/unblinking-sta...

HN readers should take care to not associate themselves or their companies with these moral outrages.

Congress should pass a law banning all Chinese investments in US treasuries. Or perhaps Trump could do another Executive Order before his impeachment.

10-20 years seem to be the right timeframe for long-term thinking. It is long enough that a kernel of an idea can become world changing in that time frame. Yet not so long that present people would have no ability to predict future trends.

They sure have the right to. But I also have the right to criticize their decision.

The post by the Chinese embassy is not advocating for forced sterilization. Rather, it is disputing the claim that forced sterilization is happening and saying the decline in birth rate is due to choice by the Uyghur women.

Twitter's decision therefore takes a stand on what the "truth" is.

I'm curious why Pompeo is choosing to do this now, rather than a year ago. Only 11 days until the next administration, or is he still thinking about transitioning to a second Trump term?

Let's see what this disappeared Billionaire exile is doing in America:

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/950360647

hahahaha Epoch Times as an alternative source to NTD. Now I've seen it all.

Did nobody out of the 70 realize the answer they were copying from was wrong. West Point should look at its math education in addition to the integrity of its cadets.

"These preliminary data indicate that the vaccine is 70.4% effective, with tests on two different dose regimens showing that the vaccine was 90% effective if administered at a half dose and then at a full dose, or 62% effective if administered in two full doses."

High family income matters for college admissions not because it causes a higher SAT score. People could study for the SAT regardless of income.

It matters when elite admissions favor legacy students, athletes, and those with unique extracurricular activities. All of which favor the rich.

Pfizer will start another smaller trial in China to generate local safety data, which will be combined with its global data as it seeks regulatory approval in china. [1]

[1]: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3110042/coro...

DF 21 and 26 are Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM), not Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM).

Gotta love the accounting practice of putting coupons/discounts in the Sales and Marketing Expenses. I saw the same thing in Doordash's S-1. I wonder what their true gross margin is.

This is why:

https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-antfinancial-ipo/u-s-sho...

Hong Kong has some of the most anti-communist people in China, because that's where they escaped to during the Chinese Civil War/ Cultural Revolution.

I find my theory has a better predictive power on what Xi might do next than the simple explanation that he is villainous.

The fact that the communist party made extensive studies of the fall of the Soviet Union has been well documented.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303755504579207...

The characterization of Hong Kong, Taiwan, Xinjiang and Tibet being content with Chinese Communist Party rule may be an exaggeration. Furthermore, Xi's hardline was a reaction to 1) rampant corruption of the communist party as a result of market liberalization. 2) democratic movements across the world, including the Arab Spring, the 2011 Chinese Jasmine Revolution, and the Umbrella movement.

Basically Xi's nightmare is the disintegration of the Soviet Union and he's running the opposite playbook that Gorbachev used.

This deleted $150 billion off of Ant's valuation. Yet the bigger news in China tech this week was the new proposed Anti-monopoly rules that wiped $280 billion off the market. [1]

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/12/morgan-stanley-chinas-draft-...

Probably SnapChat or TikTok

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-st...

Two separate orders:

1. Issued by Trump on August 6, which uses the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-or...

This executive order was stopped by a preliminary injunction issued by Judge Nichols, who based his decision on an explicit exception in the International Emergency Economic Powers Act:

"

    (b)Exceptions to grant of authority

    The authority granted to the President by this section does not include the authority to regulate or prohibit, directly or indirectly—

    (1) any postal, telegraphic, telephonic, or other personal communication, which does not involve a transfer of anything of value;

    …

    (3) the importation from any country, or the exportation to any country, whether commercial or otherwise, regardless of format or medium of transmission, of any information or informational materials, including but not limited to, publications, films, posters, phonograph records, photographs, microfilms, microfiche, tapes, compact disks, CD ROMs, artworks, and news wire feeds. The exports exempted from regulation or prohibition by this paragraph do not include those which are otherwise controlled for export under section 4604 of this title, or under section 4605 of this title to the extent that such controls promote the nonproliferation or antiterrorism policies of the United States, or with respect to which acts are prohibited by chapter 37 of title 18; ...

"

2.

An executive order by Trump based on CIFUS, which is forcing a divestment of TikTok's acquisition of Musical.ly (whose founders are Chinese but operated the company in the US). If not, the order would bar TikTok from operating in the US.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/order-regard...

The part of the order that would bar TikTok from operating in the US was halted by an injuction by Judge Wendy Beetlestone. Although she did not opine on the divestiture.

What does it mean that the virus responds weakly to antibodies?

Were these antibodies produced before against the unmutated virus?

Or is it that humans have a harder time forming effective antibodies against this new variant.

I'm curious why this man was denied a US visa in 2018 despite an invitation from Congress to speak about his experience. [1]

[1]https://apnews.com/article/dc4062529014451e914ab361b3987afd