First Gen immigrant here. Credit card obtainment is itself not that hard if you already have guardians or sponsors who are willing to cosign your paperworks. If you don’t even have that then it would have been impossible for you to even legally get into this sh*t hole to begin with so I have no idea why you said it was hard.
The hard part is getting a credit line as high as 100k without a stable income and high credit score. Even many US citizens I known don’t even have close to that numbers in all their accounts combined fresh out of college. The conman in the post either already have rich relatives who are paying it back or must have lost even more cash withdrawn from China to bankroll his “scam”
Lastly, regardless of how you spent that money, it’s still entrapped inside the US economy and thus not enrich his own country at all. Unless they bought gold or cash back to China, of course
Doesn’t seems to be an official ban. My friends in Vietnam are still able to access Steam just an hour ago. This is most likely a situation like those manga websites black listed by Comcast or AT&T DNS.
Last month, the Justice Department charged tech giant Apple with serious antitrust violations related to the iPhone. It’s a relatively aggressive suit — but likely an inadequate response to Apple’s outsize power.
The IP and character designs are probably the only thing that’s worth saving. Everything else from writing, world building to even power systems have been a complete mess.
I kinda understand the pain of those fanfic writers who sent time to write those stories. But book printing and binding for small numbers of print is really expensive. And I’m sure a lot of book lovers would love to have physical versions of their favorite works. So I am sure the situation will continue until things change in the publishing industry.
Pretty sure killing wounded combatants who have no means of resistance is a war crime. It’s even worse since it happened inside a hospital which should be shield from any fighting. Most moral army is acting as a bunch of war criminals as usual.
Whatever already existed won’t be thrown away regardless of the ruling. It’s like throwing all the gold already dug up just because it was done by slave labor. The law and legal actions are mostly just a moat around the pile of gold already dug up. Sure AI companies will have to pay more for the new data from other sources. However that would be peanut compared to how much they will have to pay starting from zero.
The main cloud services don’t even work natively (GoogleDrive, OneDrive, iCloud) basically the only mainstream choice is Dropbox. I tried to use Google Drive in Mint, and it’s a pain to get it to work, and usually it stops working after computer restarts....
Most people I know who use Linux wouldn’t trust Cloud services cause that’s just storing your stuff on somebody else machine. You can self hosted service like Next cloud on a raspberry pi or just get comfortable with networking enough to setup VPN and ssh into your home computer from the net to get your stuff.
he doesn’t even have the gut to post his own country name cause he knows people will tear away the farcade of bullshit of his successful social democrat country.
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Vietnam ban access to Steam (steamcommunity.com)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/9361843
Can a Major Antitrust Case Rein in Apple? (jacobin.com)
Last month, the Justice Department charged tech giant Apple with serious antitrust violations related to the iPhone. It’s a relatively aggressive suit — but likely an inadequate response to Apple’s outsize power.
What is something the world would be better without?
Libation: Download DRM Free copies of those audiobooks you've paid for on Audible. (lemmy.ml)
The project has versions for Windows, Linux and macOS, and even ARM builds for those using M Series macs and ARM on Linux....
Warner Bros. Discovery Shuts Down Rooster Teeth After 21 Years (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
Fanfiction Community Rocked By Etsy Sellers Turning Their Work Into Bound Books (www.404media.co)
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China is quietly reducing its reliance on foreign chip technology (www.economist.com)
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Israel says commandos kill 3 militants in West Bank hospital raid (www.reuters.com)
Reddit Advised to Target at Least $5 Billion Valuation in IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
How Fascism Serves Capitalism | NonCompete (www.youtube.com)
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Why Personal Cloud Storage is so bad on Linux?
The main cloud services don’t even work natively (GoogleDrive, OneDrive, iCloud) basically the only mainstream choice is Dropbox. I tried to use Google Drive in Mint, and it’s a pain to get it to work, and usually it stops working after computer restarts....
Made me double backed for a second (lemmy.ml)
Today i installed arch linux for the first time (pawb.social)
Why are folks so anti-capitalist?
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