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by 07d046 7y ago
The other problem is that "Hongmeng" literally means "Red dream", which isn't ideal for a company that wants people to believe it isn't controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.
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by 07d046 7y ago
I recognize the term "Hongmen", although I'm sure I'm not representative of most people. It's probably not in Huawei's interests to have an operating system colloquially known as Triad OS.
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by 07d046 7y ago
There's also a bit of discussion on the link I posted, which got enough points but never made it to the front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20651984
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by 07d046 7y ago
I don't think "hate" is the best word, but I would say the concern is that Huawei can be wielded as a weapon by the Chinese Communist Party in any way they see fit. Even if you look at it from a country-neutral perspective, i
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Huawei Announces HarmonyOS(androidauthority.com)
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by 07d046 7y ago
My complaint about political topics is that the views expressed just aren't very well informed. Comments are typically what smart engineers would write, but there is very rarely any expertise in the topic like there would be in a discu
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by 07d046 7y ago
It's funny. I'd generally be more skeptical of an essay coming out of China because of China's ideological control. Few authors will argue contrary to the official narrative. That said, here's another perspective on Chin
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by 07d046 7y ago
The English version of the page might be more helpful: https://en.greatfire.org/news.ycombinator.com These sites are also saying it's blocked: https://viewdns.info/chinesefirewall/?domain=news.ycom
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FinSpy can spy on calls and messages sent by Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp and more(threatpost.com)
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by 07d046 7y ago
For every thing the American judicial system does wrong, China does a hundred things worse. The conviction rate in China is well over 99% (if they want to find you guilty, they will). You can be detained with no access to a lawyer or family
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by 07d046 7y ago
On that note, apparently Instagram in Laos is blocking "liking" posts related to Tiananmen Square. > I’m in Laos, a close ally of China, & whenever I “Like” a post on @instagram related to Tiananmen Square it comes up with
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by 07d046 7y ago
"It appears at least 1000 Chinese dissident's accounts on Twitter have been effected on the Friday before the 30th anniversary of tiananmen square." https://twitter.com/robert_spalding/status/1134600
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“A large number of Chinese Twitter accounts are being suspended today”(twitter.com)
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by 07d046 7y ago
Technically, China was a democracy for a brief period after the Xinhai Revolution at the start of the 20th century. Democracy was also one of the major themes of the May Fourth Movement of 1919. In these decades, China was busy importing We
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by 07d046 8y ago
A Chinese friend once had a wisdom tooth taken out and was back in the office that afternoon.
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by 07d046 8y ago
Interesting, I wasn't aware of that. I wonder if anything will happen with this protest then. For communists, the Chinese government isn't fond of labor protests.
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by 07d046 8y ago
An interesting aspect of this is that this is an online protest on a platform that the Chinese government doesn't control. They normally exercise strict control over their internet to prevent movements from getting out of their control
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by 07d046 8y ago
It's interesting to contrast the picture that post paints of Jack Whittaker with how the Washington Post article describes him. The Reddit post makes it sound like he was a good guy and all the bad things that happened to him were unju
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Fowler–Noll–Vo hash function(en.wikipedia.org)
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by 07d046 8y ago
Two thoughts: 1) "Political correctness" has always meant "excessive language policing from the left" rather than anything more concrete—it was a pejorative term even before it was introduced to the general public in 199
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by 07d046 8y ago
I've seen a lot of comments on HN saying how good the level discussion is here. It's true if it's talking about JS engines or term sheets, but when it starts moving towards social issues or politics, I see better discussions
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by 07d046 8y ago
I don't know enough about this, but isn't the article saying that the appearance is deceptive: The chips on Elemental servers were designed to be as inconspicuous as possible, according to one person who saw a detailed report pre
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by 07d046 8y ago
The article says: But they were capable of doing two very important things: telling the device to communicate with one of several anonymous computers elsewhere on the internet that were loaded with more complex code; and preparing the devi
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by 07d046 8y ago
It looks like it isn't surprisingly affordable on Amazon. If I'm reading this right, EKS is 20c an hour per cluster, or about $150/month, and that's before EC2 costs for the actual machines in the cluster. https:/&
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by 07d046 8y ago
I think it's partly censorship, and partly the secrecy around the creation of economic (and other) data. When people are incentivised to report inaccurate data and have the ability to do so, they will. This is an old problem. Emperor K
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by 07d046 8y ago
I'm not sure you understand how much is unknown about China: https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/21/nobody-knows-anything-a... And don't forget that this lack of knowledge about the true state surely
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by 07d046 8y ago
It appears that they are treated horrifically by the Chinese Communist Party. Falun Gong was founded in the 1990s as a Buddhist sect, and it grew rapidly. The CCP doesn't tolerate ideological rivals or power structures it doesn't
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by 07d046 8y ago
This doesn't seem like a problem with a technical solution. If he slips up and gets caught, that alone might be enough to send him into a Xinjiang concentration camp. Some of my libertarian tech friends like the idea of more encryption
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by 07d046 8y ago
That looks like you want presidents to be graded on a curve. Maybe more negative articles have been written about Trump because he's governing in a negative, divisive, chaotic manner and there are countless of examples where he lies or
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by 07d046 8y ago
It's not fair to say that the US is close to China in this regard. There are no private or encrypted chat apps available in China. Everybody uses WeChat, which is actively surveilled. It's not uncommon for "private" grou

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