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One hour, 22 upvotes, and disappeared? I found it carefully written and well worth sharing. > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. Tha
by zhte415 8y ago
One hour, 22 upvotes, and disappeared?
I found it carefully written and well worth sharing.
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
- TaylorAlexander 8y agoDamn really? I just finished reading and I thought it was really interesting.
- zhte415 8y agoI thought very interesting too.
- paulorlando 8y agoThanks. For a while I had been thinking about my experience there and how things have changed. Glad you liked it.
- sctb 8y agoOK, we've turned off the flags and wound back the clock on the post.
- burfog 8y agoMaybe you could make something to alert yourself whenever a story appears to be related to China. Stories about China seem to always get flagged to death whenever they include anything that could be considered unflattering.
- toufiqbarhamov 8y agoHi sctb, I’m given to understand that you’re one of the moderators here. I’ve tried to contact you three times in theee weeks through email, and this is my third time trying to get your attention in the comments, so far without a response. Is there a better way to contact you? I don’t feel good about inserting my comment in an unrelated post like this, but I’m unsure what else to do.
- paulorlando 8y agoThank you. Glad you liked it.
- owens99 8y agoGreat post, thanks for sharing! If you are in Shanghai in the future, would love to get a coffee. We are running a new incubator here. Seems we might have a lot in common!
- paulorlando 8y agoThanks! Sounds good. Or let me know next time you're in LA.
- thratchnee 8y agoWhen I was a young child I belonged to a Christian group in China. We weren't allowed to have our own church and I remember hearing a couple being jailed. The first time I spoke of it in the West I was met with laughter. If the reports are true, then what's happening in Xinjiang is horrible. However, if you look at the comments section in this site you can tell that that's not the real reason they're being posted. Posts of these kind are posted primarily as rhetorical fodder, and in the case of this article, seeks to paint all Chinese as [sic] "unformed" racists. Notice how the author generalizes both Uighers and Han from maybe one or two meetings. Notice how when describing the government, the article claims that the people "forced the hand of a hard-line government". In the other thread one user is now advocating for the expulsion of Han people(notice this implicit conflation of Han with Chinese, imagine claiming only Whites are American) living in the region, and claiming that they "are not innocent". If you actually speak with anyone in China, you'll realize that Middle Eastern culture is held to a high regard, and that the majority of people are more sympathetic towards the Uighers. The more this tragedy gets used as political fodder, the harder it is to voice domestic opposition. Contrary to popular belief the CCP is not omnipotent, and the rest of the world does not need to be invaded to progress. Of course the commenters on this site would rather everyone in China whether they be Han, Uigher, Manchu, or Mongol, be "liberated" Iraq style.
- _iyig 8y ago>Of course the commenters on this site would rather everyone in China whether they be Han, Uigher, Manchu, or Mongol, be "liberated" Iraq style. I understand why people outside the U.S. (assuming you refer mainly to American commenters) could develop this impression, but in my experience the situation is quite the opposite. Anecdotally, I’m an American with family in government/the military and friends of every political stripe. Nobody I know thinks the Iraq invasion was a good idea or would want to repeat it elsewhere.