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by bllguo 4y ago
You haven't even done basic research. Random sources you pulled from cursory web searches, with origins in _actual_ propaganda funded by the US government, are legitimate to you? You literally cite Adrian Zenz. But Harvard polls on gov
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by bllguo 4y ago
why is the perspective that they are making these investments to secure their economic future against foreign interference less valid than "they are trying to control world affairs"? China has never been interested in pushing its
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by bllguo 4y ago
I am seriously concerned with the rampant paranoia and lack of critical thinking in these accusations. People genuinely think the Chinese government is sponsoring Medium posts for niche audiences and that they have any interest in HN commen
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by bllguo 4y ago
this is ridiculous. It can genuinely believe that lockdown is the best approach, even if said approach turns out to be the wrong move. Which is hardly even a settled point. In fact, it seems like the height of arrogance to think China is ma
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by bllguo 4y ago
Do we have any reason to believe this "common knowledge," or are we just projecting from Western imperialist tendencies? China has a _long_ tradition of being insular.
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by bllguo 4y ago
yeah the problem is that these are obviously the wrong questions. You behave like a doctor treating the symptoms rather than the root cause. Why not ask "_why_ did Russia invade Ukraine?" The answer is that nobody wants to deal wi
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by bllguo 5y ago
shame what happened to pebble. article is on point for my personal experience; I had both the original and a Time and preferred the original. the new capabilities were not compelling and the aesthetic was worse imo.
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by bllguo 5y ago
1984 was "billions of masses"? None of your examples show the majority will being crushed. Obviously a small movement on the scale of thousands cannot (and should not) overthrow a regime. The point is there is no problem. You&#x27
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by bllguo 5y ago
> In short, although things are pretty good for residents of China at the moment, IMHO the risk of the whole country's becoming a hellscape is much higher in China than in India. that's the tradeoff. In a democracy you intentio
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by bllguo 5y ago
Yet even with the utter disasters of the great leap forward and the cultural revolution, China is _still_ leaps and bounds ahead of India. How does that figure into your calculations? Outside of China, all the East Asian Tigers achieved the
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by bllguo 5y ago
> We tend to think of propaganda as loudspeakers and silly posters more generally, people fall in the trap of thinking of propaganda as "messaging that goes against my positions" or "propaganda is what my enemies use"
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by bllguo 5y ago
1. the history of democracy is very short, it's no foregone conclusion that it is the best option regardless of pithy quotes from Churchill or what we would like to believe (and yes I know that "best" and "worst" ar
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by bllguo 5y ago
hey to clarify, not accusing you of hostility. was a general statement. i dont dispute that authenticity can be hard to nail down at times but there are plenty of situations where it isn't, so why does the whole concept need to be toss
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by bllguo 5y ago
who is saying you can't eat unauthentic dishes, or that there's something wrong with experimenting? they are saying hey, can you not call this X if it's not authentically X. this is not a lot to ask and I will never understan
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by bllguo 5y ago
indeed, predictable and disappointing how the discussion devolved into pedantry. should have been obvious what the author meant (plus it is clarified at the very beginning of the article). I'm not sure if this is a ML practitioner vs.
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by bllguo 5y ago
here's one: https://charlesreid1.github.io/circe/Digit%20Classification%...
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by bllguo 5y ago
maybe the wording is not precise, but the meaning is clearly training on the top principal components instead of the whole data anyway in general i dont think the boundary between feature selection and dimensionality reduction is that sharp
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by bllguo 5y ago
practically speaking i have never had a reason to do this with PCA, but i find this reaction very weird. i have encountered the concept of using PCA to reduce the dimensionality of your data before training many times, including in universi
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by bllguo 5y ago
it's far more believable than amazon being in cahoots with scammers. whether you think this is "better" or "worse" wasn't really part of the discussion
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by bllguo 5y ago
Absurd, of course there is a "true face." Whether the country has stayed the same or not has nothing to do with it, this is a discussion about how the US is perceived internationally. We have been flooding the rest of the world wi
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by bllguo 5y ago
yeah it's complicated, "Britain would have instituted constitutional democracy in HK but China opposed it" is just too reductive. After all there was (and still is) opposition among HKers themselves to the idea, too. And ther
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by bllguo 5y ago
1950s: >Grantham convinced London to scrap all plans for political reform on the basis that it did not "interest the British electorate". Later, when confronted by the Hong Kong public, he blamed London. 1980s: >British Fore
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by bllguo 5y ago
As another recommendation, Distill is higher level, and has less topic coverage, but their article quality is fantastic: https://distill.pub/
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by bllguo 5y ago
but excessive empathy is crippling for future progress. this is literally the root issue in the US system - way too much consideration for special interests. look at housing as an example.
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by bllguo 5y ago
at least you're honest, most people don't get this far. but doesn't make your stance moral, I cannot justify keeping poor countries poor because of petty concerns like "we must remain #1"
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by bllguo 5y ago
what do you propose? because this all just sounds so naive. obviously the methods are horrible but there is no feel-good response to terrorism. can you really blame a nation for taking a zero-tolerance approach? "international condemna
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by bllguo 5y ago
I think understanding of the Meng case is overly colored by reporting at the time. Looking at the wikipedia summary now, it's a bunch of law enforcement misconduct, questionable practices, and critical legal commentary. Hell the Canadi
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by bllguo 5y ago
this is overly reductive. the post didnt ask why we aren't building more libraries, it's asking whether we would build them today if they didn't exist. just like it's not ambiguous that libraries are a net positive, it&#
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by bllguo 5y ago
can you flesh this out, why exactly does a larger population mean more efficient construction projects? i don't follow seems to me other factors like economics and government structure are more important, don't think a 4x larger U
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by bllguo 5y ago
> When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along with an FM broadcast of the overture to Rossini’s ‘The Thieving Magpie,’ which has to be the perfect music for cooking pasta. Look I haven&#x27

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