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by 07d046 8y ago
This is a problem from the top down. Even Xi Jinping's doctoral thesis contains plagiarism, and it's possible that the whole document was written by someone else. https://www.asiasentinel.com/politics/plagiari
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That's an old article, written in the days when people were reading Xi's absence from newspaper front pages as a sign of turmoil. Now: https://twitter.com/QiZHAI/status/1036293006100328448 Also, that pro
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by 07d046 8y ago
I'm no historian, but I think extreme poverty has existed for a lot longer than the idea of capitalism.
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Almost everyone was extremely poor then too. You can tell from the percentage of the labour force who worked on farms that most people couldn't have been wealthy, and the industrial revolution changed everything. https://our
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Cyberspace controls set to strengthen under China’s new internet boss(scmp.com)
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A fun fact about the name of Australia is that it's kind of a mistake, and the name should have been applied to Antarctica. Terra Australis (Latin for South Land) is a hypothetical continent first posited in antiquity and which appear
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by 07d046 8y ago
Following their World Cup protest, I discovered that some of Pussy Riot's music is on Spotify, in case anybody is interested. Edit: I guess people aren't interested. My bad.
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by 07d046 8y ago
According to this guy, the Western media has a habit of getting this story very wrong: https://twitter.com/ChinaLawTransl8/status/10420403727660277... There are so many things wrong with China and the world today
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by 07d046 8y ago
True. It would be a more accurate post if it listed "having a watch set to the wrong time zone" instead (mentioned in the HRW report). It is unfortunate that there is a lot of misinformation about China out there. Winnie the Pooh
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Definitely. As a rule of thumb, the shorter the event, the more it advantages young males.
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I think it goes both ways. As a democracy, America has a pressure valve if things are going poorly, and a peaceful transition of power to the other side of politics is always an election away. (It could fall as a democracy, but it's ha
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by 07d046 8y ago
That's very true, extraordinarily few people are going for fastest times on these, so it's quite speculative. Here's an article about it: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/04/sports/on-the-lo
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by 07d046 8y ago
Yep, I've heard the same about thru-hiking. Women might be faster at running 2000+ miles than men. It's for efforts measured in minutes or hours that the fastest men are faster than the fastest women. Edit: I wasn't expecting
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by 07d046 8y ago
Crazy. But I'm not so sure about this claim that the coach makes: My theory is that women are able to push that aging envelop a little further than men and are more capable of long-distance peak performance At the top end, the strong
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I have no idea how likely that is, but that looks like an ideal scenario for the White House, and a possible existential threat for the Chinese Communist Party. People have a habit of putting up with a lot when the economy is growing dramat
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by 07d046 8y ago
To be fair, China doesn't really want "fair" trade either. China would like to become a high-tech autarky dominating modern global supply chains [1], is very happy to throw its economic weight around to punish countries for d
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by 07d046 8y ago
It's not just about economics. The China-watching community seems to be generally cautiously supportive of action against China, although not necessarily the action taking place, and certainly not some of the rhetoric around it. Overal
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by 07d046 8y ago
Thanks, I'd seen that before, but completely forgotten about it.
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The Zuckerberg for president talk was before the Cambridge Analytica thing blew up. HN has been critical of FB for a very long time, but it was only then that Zuckerberg's public image really took a beating. Bezos has a much lower publ
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by 07d046 8y ago
I've wondered about making the opposite, that is, a view that sorts by controversy. There are quite a few things that get posted here that quickly get votes, quite a few comments, but are soon killed/massively down-ranked by flags
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by 07d046 8y ago
It's more like if there was a communist revolution in the US followed by a civil war, with the anti-communists ending up holding Texas or California and establishing their own government there. The Chinese Communist Party has never rul
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by 07d046 8y ago
If you read through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_status_of_Taiwan , there are a lot of issues, like exactly who Japan surrendered to, and the status of the governments of China and Taiwan given that they wer
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by 07d046 8y ago
As someone on Twitter said, this is like taxation, but he pays less, and gets more credit for it.
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The article mentions this: > In many cities, cashlessness is so common that panhandlers and street musicians use WeChat and Alipay QR codes to ask for change. But these anecdotal cases obscure some of the class-related issues that cashle
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by 07d046 8y ago
It's arguing that China could leverage Google's Chinese market access to influence how Google behaves around the world, sort of like how almost all airlines around the world now say Taiwan is part of China: > Once Google’s new
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Indictment of North Korea for the Sony Hack Shows How Cybersecurity Has Evolved(buzzfeednews.com)
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by 07d046 8y ago
Yep. See also: Clinton versus Trump. Trump was the perfect clickbait candidate.
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I thought this NYT article gave some good context. Didi promoted the ride sharing service as a way to meet people and for hooking up: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/technology/china-didi-chu... >
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by 07d046 8y ago
Okay. I'm very intellectually curious about China, and I hope other people are too. I mostly comment on these sorts of topics because, relatively speaking, I know slightly more than the average HNer, but I'll take this into consid
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by 07d046 8y ago
Chinese New Year can be political. Why is it celebrated under that name in Western countries, rather than Tết or Korean New Year or just Lunar New Year? And then add Chinese money funding the events for some soft power propagation...

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