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by bgee 6y ago
> months before WW2 What's the definition of WW2 here? US supplied oil and metal to Japan until 1941 [0], 3 years after Japan invaded China [1]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Events_leading_to_the_attack_o.
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by bgee 6y ago
Discrimination against any culture or race is also a form or bias. "Raw objectivity" would be this instance says a lot about the common nature of human beings, the consequences of lack of accountability and oversight etc. Drawing
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by bgee 6y ago
This is the reverse Chauvinism that I often see online; no I don't think this says "a lot" about the general attitude of Chinese people. I'm also Chinese.
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by bgee 6y ago
In Korea I think the de facto IM is Kakao, LINE is only third (after FB messager) [0][1]. [0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/898254/south-korea-most-... [1]: https://www.quora.com/Which-is-th
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by bgee 6y ago
> If govs knew, they wouldn't publish it to avoid straining already strained relationships. But would do behind-the-scenes work to keep Huawei out of critical infrastructure. I don't follow; the Western world has put sanctions
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by bgee 6y ago
Disclaimer: China national working for the American company behind Android; opinions are my own. > But if Huawei is a Chinese spy Has Huawei been caught with a smoking gun? Is Huawei worse in terms of security compared to other telecom s
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by bgee 6y ago
> how the Chinese government shutdown its cities and lied about the virus Can you elaborate a little on what you mean by "shutdown its cities"? From my impression this was to contain the spread of the virus. Disclaimer: Chinese
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by bgee 6y ago
Disclaimer: mainland Chinese here. > most major domains outside of China are blocked I don't think this is true; GFW works in a disallow-list fashion and domains have to be explicitly blocked (which is why people do keyword attacks[
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by bgee 6y ago
The emphasis is on entirety, please see my other reply.
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by bgee 6y ago
I don't think it's true that Zoom has its "entire dev team in China"; doing some research myself reveals Zoom definitely has engineering operations in the US[0][1]. I'm not disagreeing with you on the implications o
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by bgee 6y ago
> communication company that has its entire dev team in China citation needed Also, what are you trying to imply by this assertion?
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by bgee 6y ago
Vint Cerf has been infected with COVID-19 [0], btw. [0]: https://twitter.com/vgcerf/status/1244636584508604417?lang=e...
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by bgee 7y ago
Update: It's never indicated on whether the marks were tested under KN95 or FFP2; saying they used the wrong specs and blamed on China was probably too early or wrong.
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by bgee 7y ago
Good point on the the mystery of testing standard, let me update my comment.
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by bgee 7y ago
It really boggles one's mind that a mask would be referred as FFP2 repeatedly and somehow be tested under KN95 that only existed in China* and was only recently approved in the Netherlands. But it's all just speculation at this po
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by bgee 7y ago
The NOS article clearly mentioned FFP2 rating in the second paragraph (from Google Translate): "This concerns almost half of a batch of 1.3 million so-called FFP2 masks, 600,000 pieces. " Am I missing something?
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by bgee 7y ago
KN95 is not the same thing with FFP2 due to KN95 can not filter oil particles well. Dutch government bought KN95 and tested it against FFP2 and claims it's defective. Updated to have better sentence structure.
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by bgee 7y ago
This is incorrect; Chinese government kicked out American journalists to retaliate Trump expelling Chinese journalists that work for state-run news medias [0]. As a China national, I'm disappointed to see Trump's action someho
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by bgee 7y ago
tl;dr: This is misinfoformation; Netherlands tests masks against the wrong specification and blamed on China. KN95 marks that are bought by the Dutch government are not resistant to oily particles (the N stands for Not resistant to oil)[0];
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by bgee 7y ago
> we just have a lot more hospitals per person than China does. I don't think this is true, do you have evidence to back this up? Hospital beds per 1000 people is probably a better comparison though: China 4.05, US 2.77 [0] [0]: ht
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by bgee 7y ago
> That is because in China, only the very ill are getting diagnosed at all. I don't think this is true, considering China has built new hospitals just for patients who are tested positive but have light symptoms [0]. China also sent
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by bgee 7y ago
When battling with SARS, large dose of steroids was used as part of the treatment to suppress immune system [0]. But there are many side-effects (e.g. lots of SARS survivors in China need hip replacement [1]). [0]: https://www.nc
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by bgee 7y ago
Worth pointing out that the Reliant Robins on Top Gear were modified so that they flip (more) easily [0]. [0]: https://jalopnik.com/clarkson-reveals-bombshell-top-gear-mod...
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by bgee 7y ago
By "no head count" I meant was it could happen that the head count they are conducting interview for was lost by the time the package reached its final stage. Giving Google's extremely long hiring process, I imagine this happ
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by bgee 7y ago
Minutes of recorded audio make a lot of sense, thanks!
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by bgee 7y ago
Please see my comment above. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22079448 Recruiter would not know if you have passed, I assume you mean your package was sent to the hiring committee? If you did not receive an offer after
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by bgee 7y ago
Googler here. Recruiter would not know if you passed or not. IIUC, Google recruiter would send your package to the hiring committee if your interview result isn't bad (this is at their discretion); the hiring committee has the final sa
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by bgee 7y ago
Just curious: $1/min sounds like quite a bit of money, are you paying for some professional to do this? If so have you compared with using Mechanical Turk?
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by bgee 7y ago
As a tech worker (game industry or not), what should I expect when/if I join a union? A 3-minute googling only gave me very vague answers like higher salary and better workplace safety. Is there a potential pro and con somewhere? e.g.
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by bgee 7y ago
ha, thanks!

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