BelenusMordred

> No, it’s actually illegal in the US

You are misunderstanding what the GP comment said. The reality is that landlords/employers can and do discriminate based on race, religion, age, etc all the time. They simply just can't say it out loud, that's the illegal part.

I find that Asian people tend to be pretty open about this stuff, whereas in the west it's taboo. Don't think that anyone would be foolish enough to try arguing that there's no silent discrimination occurring in the US.

> it was designed to be an 'banking/commercial haven'

Singapore was a trading port from it's first conception when the Sultan of Johor sold the basically uninhabited swamp island to the British. When they were amicably booted out of Malaysia the country was one of the poorest on Earth, they had no natural resources, rampant poverty and unemployment, no military and infrastructure was in a terrible state. They somehow managed to completely turn that around in half a century, if you look at other new nations formed since then not a single one has managed to even come close to their success despite having vastly superior natural advantages. The Balkan states in particular come to mind, they also had a chance to start anew with a clean slate in the 90's and 30 years on they are a collective basketcase of nations whose younger population is abandoning in droves.

40% of all shipping traffic on Earth passes through their waters, the Port of Singapore is the worlds 2nd busiest by tonnage handled. People associate the country with finance while ignoring the sheer volume of cargo that moves through there.

> Like a more complicated version of having 'Oil Wealth'.

Find this comparison very hard to grok. Any country on Earth could copypaste Singaporean banking and corporate laws today if they wanted to, there's nothing stopping them. Now those same countries can't magically have the oil reserves of the Saudis or Venezuela.

> What makes Singpore 'rich' is the foundation established by the UK as having 'rule of law' and 'peace and order'.

By that metric all former colonies should be thriving?

> Organic herbicides and pesticides contain the same constituent chemicals as their conventional counterparts.

Care to tell us the chemical composition of modern pesticides from say... Monsanto?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/29/pesticides-e...

> In a landmark ruling in August last year, Monsanto was found liable for causing a school groundskeeper’s cancer through exposure to Roundup, the company’s leading pesticide. Earlier this month, in a later case, Monsanto was ordered to pay more than $2bn to a couple that got cancer after using its weedkiller. Roundup, a glyphosate-based, organophosphate weedkiller, is one of, if not the most widely-used pesticides in the world. A formal review of glyphosate by the EPA and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) released this month found some statistically significant links to certain cancers, such as non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Don't really understand the cries for their server code to be constantly updated or even open sourced, you can't ever verify that's what they are running anyway.

Maybe there's some sort of cryptographic attestation out there which could fulfil such purposes but quite sure it's not that practical.

> naked

She's not wearing a top, for many on Earth that's not considered naked, this is hardly a "Russian" thing, most of Europe has no such prudish hang ups. America on the other hand considers it on par with extreme violence being shown on tv. Just a cultural issue I guess.

Price controls are successful until they aren't. The US can subsidise an egregious amount of bad policies for a very long time I suspect, from agriculture to health, it's not really going to hurt as there are other parts of the diverse economy that can pay.

An better example would be Venezuela, with the largest oil reserves on Earth, they subsidised energy costs to an extreme extent and it was one of the things that drove them into the ground.

People seem to dislike my comment above, yet no one seems to be arguing for petrol to cost ten cents a litre. Why not subsidise fuel if doing such things has such a successful history in the United States?

Baseband chips and sim cards aren't infrastructure, but you still can't compete because getting permission to run one on modern networks is financially well out of reach for most. This is why open source inspectable firmware simply doesn't exist for these things.

All we currently have is leaked 2G and 3G source code for people to build their own off, most notable would be omsocombb

> You really need to see these results to appreciate them.

Seems more like the quality of the queries rather than the results. Many of the complaints I see about google and friends is related to them dumbing down search for the global common denominator.

This is such a bizarre comment given the history of price controls and their horrendous outcomes.

Satoshi rightfully feared the same outcome as those behind libertycoin. The main guy was only just released from prison for trying to create a currency, a concept that seems comically quaint in 2021.

https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/charlotte/press-releases/2...

I think many on this site really don't understand how prevalent drugs are in Australian society.

As an Aussie that number doesn't seem big at all and is probably an underestimation.

This is really cool. As a native speaker it's not really relevant for me but impressed nonetheless. Excellent site, I wish there was something equivalent for Mandarin or German.

Tried this one off the bat - https://youglish.com/pronounce/elucidation/english?

It is completely tangential to my comment. Please take off your political blinkers and debate the issue reasonably.

To painfully ask yet again, does the ROC make claim to what we in the west call mainland China?

Is it really that hard to say yes or no?

Are you Taiwanese and/or live in Taiwan?

I linked a wikipedia article that clearly states the history of the ROC, you linked a rambling conspiratorial HN comment from the exact person I was replying to.

Would you say the Republic of China does not claim dominion over what we in the west call mainland China? Yes or No? It's a very simple question that I doubt you will answer.

That has absolutely nothing to do with what we were discussing above and I suggest you read it again slowly.

Genetics of the Taiwanese people is an absurdly spurious defense in this debate, I'd ask you to provide any sort of proof to your original claim that 'Taiwan does NOT want to “reunite” with the mainland.'

If you look at their history and policies it clearly does not feel the same way you do. There's a big wikipedia article that I linked there that says otherwise. Prove me wrong on this and I'll happily admit defeat.

The ROC(Republic of China) aka Taiwan has always held a constitutional claim to mainland China, they were driven out after the communist revolution.

Your statement is inaccurate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan,_China#Background_and_a...

An open source cellular modem firmware is long overdue, but there's no government on Earth that would be keen on allowing it to happen, the best we have is 2G/3G stuff that has been illegally leaked and reverse engineered.

A lot of dragons lurking in the dark there.

Zerodium is a good starting point, you can find individual grey market brokers too, you probably already follow one of them on Twitter :I

> if your car has android is modern.

I think you misunderstood, I bought a cheap bluetooth obd2 device and accessed the data from an open source android app. It was a 2004 model from memory, the amount of data you could glean from that blew my mind back then.

Older and easily serviced cars are fun, most things you can do yourself with a service manual. For a few things like changing brake discs I got a mobile mechanic to come to my house to do it and teach me at the same time.

You don't need many tools to get started. Working on your own vehicle is a very self-reassuring hobby.

> only requires the car be able to report faults related to emissions

I'm just a layman who dabbles in diy car repair but from my experience with a cheap Chinese bluetooth obd-ii interface and an android app it reports far, far more than that. There's almost an obscene amount of data, and this was with an old car that was made only a few years after obd was released. I don't think this statement is correct.

You can pay a fraction more and get your own compartment if communal sleeping takes it toll.

> zero-click

Literally worth millions of dollars on the wholesome greymarkets these days, possibly the most prized, just in case anyone was wondering.

> they did nothing to target single mothers specifically

It was example of the outcome, not a declaration of the actual law.

The Victorian government now has more cases than ever before and is amusingly opening up, dropping nearly all restrictions/curfews, they've been dragged kicking and screaming though this whole thing and have prided themselves on being the strictest state government possible with a tough on covid approach. Despite that, having the toughest restrictions and the world record for lockdowns, they still end up with the most deaths and infections in the country. Clearly whatever they are doing isn't working, yet the rusted-on types will support them no matter what while ignoring the clear and plain facts about the massive differential between state policy outcomes in Australia.

The mayor of Sydney made a few km of our main street pedestrian only (service vehicles can enter early morning/nighttime). Ambulances can cross the distance in a third of the time now and often route through there to cross the CBD, they aren't banned from what was once previously a horrendous congested car hell that even google maps admits will take you longer in a vehicle than on foot in peak hour.

Your predictions are misplaced.

> sad part

Feel free to serve authentic Thai and Chinese cuisine in the west. Surely it will be a successful venture.

US defense R&D is tiny compared to total expenditure. It's also falling dramatically.

https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2020/02/us-defense-rd-...

> not the temporary State-Government health orders that some people have tried to blow out of proportion

They banned single mothers from taking their child to playgrounds after being locked in their homes for weeks and then fined them thousands for doing so. They got rid of this absurd rule when cases rose by 3x, further highlighting how absolutely ridiculous it was.

Certain state governments have clearly overstepped the mark and anyone defending them will not go down well in time. Thankfully you can't delete comments here.