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It raises a valid question: How to find reliable sources for stories such as this? Is it even possible, concerning the usual secrecy of similar processes?
by Ygor 15y ago
It raises a valid question: How to find reliable sources for stories such as this?
Is it even possible, concerning the usual secrecy of similar processes?
- cglee 15y agoChinese forums, if you know where to look. But you have to learn to read Chinese, or find some one/way to translate.
- PakG1 15y agoThat raises a whole new problem though, which is distinguishing signal from noise, truth from fiction. That's hard, even in North America when some crazy rumour races through Twitter and the media starts reporting on it accidentally as true. It has happened a couple of times. :(
- cglee 15y agoYou'll need to participate a lot and then you can start to get a sense on who to trust. Or at least who is sensationalistic, who's logical, etc.
- aptsurdist 15y agoGoogle translate is certainly a good start to help with this problem. Thanks google. http://translate.google.com/#zh-CN|en|http%3A%2F%2Fbaike.baidu.com%2Fview%2F606422.htm http://translate.google.com/#zh-CN|en|http%3A%2F%2Fbaike.bai...
- cglee 15y agoDoubtful. You think Chinese readers can understand HN conversations with Google Translate? Especially when commenters are trying to be subtle to dance around censors?