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by b6 9y ago
> Don't bother learning the local language. Don't bother hanging out at local cheap bars. Don't bother paying a fair price for things. My friends and I study Thai. We love cheap bars where local people hang out. We don&#x2
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by b6 9y ago
The people you ask will likely give very different answers to a stranger than to someone they know well.
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by b6 9y ago
> They blame the old corrupt elite. Hmm, I hope that's true. But there's also the "century of humiliation" thing going on, which, to my mind, is an attempt to divert blame away from China itself (basically Mao -- the
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by b6 9y ago
> The insane gun ownership in this country could be a benefit. I'm sorry, it's hard not to be a little snarky here. Yes, the guys who wrote the original rules for the country considered gun ownership so essential that they plac
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by b6 9y ago
Sorry, when I look back at my comment, it was overly broad. China is very diverse and every city is different. Part of my time in China was spent in probably one of the worst areas for that kind of behavior, at least towards foreigners: Sha
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by b6 9y ago
I like to study languages and this happens to me embarrassingly often. I call it hyperhearing. Overhearing a fragment of speech, I'll mentally force it to be some language I'm studying, only to find out upon hearing more that it&#
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by b6 9y ago
No, what I mean is that in China, anyone who comes up to me, especially if they are speaking English, intends to lie to me and maybe lead me to some place to be defrauded, and this is their job. It's not the same in the US or many othe
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by b6 9y ago
Man, it's a strange article. Fraud of every kind is endemic in China. When I'm in China, it's reasonable to assume anyone who initiates conversation with me has some kind of scam in mind. Strangers are very wary of each other
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by b6 9y ago
I really sympathize with anyone who has looked into Buddhism and found it puzzling or even annoying. I felt the same way for many years -- if the Buddha had realized something really important, I'm listening, why not tell me what he re
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by b6 9y ago
Regarding bad reviews, I feel for you. I am close to someone who is a good person, but seems unable to stop himself from leaving scathing reviews. If it's any consolation, I really believe that 1) trauma he experienced at a young age c
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by b6 9y ago
Well, police cars are driving around all the time. Tireless electronic eyes look out of the vehicle for plates, and records of every single one are made: timestamp, location, etc. The vast majority of the data collected is on people who are
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by b6 9y ago
> Illicit querying of NCIC should be a crime I'm not disagreeing with this, but I don't think we can trust people to make a system that, e.g., automatically collects and stores the locations of all cars with plates visible to a
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by b6 9y ago
I think you're missing something if that's what you got out of qmail. The main idea I internalized was, if you find yourself making programming mistakes, take some time to write an API that does not allow you to make that kind of
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by b6 9y ago
> If you think incitement should not be a crime and likely think libel and slander should not be a crime, where do you draw the line if fee speech trumps all? What about lying under oath? I don't think libel and slander should not b
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by b6 9y ago
Is inciting people to violence really anything other than expressing the opinion that violence is a good idea, and trying to persuade others to agree? Expressing any opinion should be allowed, and trying to persuade anyone of anything shoul
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by b6 9y ago
> Hitler rose to power by manipulating people's sentiments with language. He created scapegoats and convinced people it's okay to channel their hate and frustration towards those scapegoats. People should have the freedom to be
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by b6 9y ago
Suppose you have problems in your life, and you're suffering. You could drink alcohol or take opiates, and they might make you feel better for a while. But the effect wears off, and you're back in the same situation, except now ma
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by b6 9y ago
Absolutely not. Having lived outside the US for two years (so far), I halfway expect to encounter suspicion when I return. I absolutely will not stand for this. I will not cooperate and I will resist as much as possible, short of violence.
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by b6 9y ago
Wow, I'm struck by the similarities to Buddhism. Renunciation, solitude, reflection, nothing to fear or hope for, unmoved by worldly events, at peace. Some of this stuff is like what I would expect to hear from someone like Thich Nhat
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by b6 9y ago
> Your life (well, chance at ever being happy again) is effectively ruined by the death of one child I think the sentiment here has a lot of truth, but it's just a bit too strong. My parents lost my sister when she and I were young.
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by b6 9y ago
I can't lay that much blame on society. Have you tried to take care of a mentally ill person? It's common for them to make it extremely difficult. Schizophrenia often seems to cause its sufferers to be absolutely certain they ar
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by b6 9y ago
> Do we really need an OS too complex for any one person to completely understand? I think the answer to this is yes. But at the same time, I think we're kind of messing up because children today don't have the same kind of sys
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by b6 9y ago
> Computer was usually in boy room and boys were heavily praised for every tiny thing they knew and expected to deal. Their sisters largely aware that it is for boys Among my friends, it was the opposite. I have two close male friends wh
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by b6 9y ago
> My lack of words or explanation for this I wouldn't feel bad about this at all. I'm comfortable that there are many very important things that can be understood but cannot be conveyed to others using language. You can tell so
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by b6 9y ago
Are we having a market failure, or a failure to have a market?
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by b6 9y ago
> It started to increasingly seem like an arbitrary choice, and if we were going to make one such, why not go for the best and the top? So you picked San Francisco? Not London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore, etc? Why not pay everybody as i
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by b6 9y ago
I understand what you're going for, but I think this idea would just reinforce the imaginary walls we use to group humans. The underlying idea is that X-people understand X-people, where X is some arbitrary group, but non-X-people lack
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by b6 9y ago
Ubiquitous music bothers me, too. I tend to work in coffeeshops just to get out of the house, and I'm not aware of a single one without music. I never enjoy the music. I just endure it, or I defend myself with louder music of my own ch
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by b6 9y ago
Have you lived in China? Your suggestion, if taken seriously by a lot of people, would just further harm ordinary Chinese people who are already being harmed by a parasitic government over which they have no control.
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by b6 9y ago
Wrong and criminal aren't necessarily the same. If the NSA is out of control it is our right to shut it down (hopefully without violence).

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