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by cltsang 7y ago
To clarify, in China, one could get "disappeared" for the rest of his/her life, just because of befriending CCP's "enemies", or speaking up against the official rhetoric. I don't think the two countries ar
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by cltsang 7y ago
This is just my personal guess, but it's likely China flexing again after the protest escalation yesterday in Hong Kong. A few weeks ago Telegram was attacked by China [0], and Hong Kong protesters used Telegram to communicate. This ti
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by cltsang 7y ago
1. The legislative council is controlled by the CCP for a number of reasons. 2. Last time the people tried to do organize a vote, China performed the largest DDoS attack at the time, trying to bring down the vote system backend. 3. Also mos
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by cltsang 7y ago
If you are implying Donald Trump is my president, that is incorrect. It's dangerous to make assumptions when you are not keeping a level head. If requesting social network identity is not being more conscious, what is it? It is not a b
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by cltsang 7y ago
Did I claim "all just Chinese propaganda"? I was taught in mathematical induction lessons that necessary condition does not equal sufficient condition. I don't disagree with the rest of your statements. But I think even after
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by cltsang 7y ago
How did you get that impression? From what the article says America is only getting more conscious about foreigners from China, not foreigners in general. They are quite different. This is hardly a surprising move considering the recent rea
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by cltsang 7y ago
Freedom and democracy are vital to open and honest discussion, which in turn drives innovation. Sense of safety and security on all fronts let people concentrate on ideas and execution, rather than things.
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by cltsang 7y ago
Reading this official Xamarin Forms document https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/cross-platform/desk... It's really hard to tell how the 2 offerings from Microsoft differs. It looks like Xamarin For
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by cltsang 7y ago
Every revolution starts small. Just because it's a baby step doesn't mean we shouldn't take it to move forward.
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by cltsang 7y ago
With the current trend that cities are becoming mega cities, and the price of physical space in the central business area of those mega cities are going up, I think there will be demand to shift white collar workspace to the virtual world.
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by cltsang 8y ago
This comparison is just like comparing apple to orange to me. When a company blocks you, you could just voice your opinion on another platform. It's an open internet afterall. But if it's the government, the center of all power, t
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by cltsang 8y ago
I don't doubt that money is one of the major driving motives of almost everything we do. My point is I fail to see how your comment, regardless of its truthfullness, adds value to the discussion. If there already exist murderers, is it
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by cltsang 8y ago
Kenya is part of China's belt and road initiative. I wonder if this is aided by China to lay the groundwork to push the country to be authoritarian. Just like how ZTE helps Venezuela tighten the control of her citizens. https:/&#
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by cltsang 8y ago
This is mostly true. However, there are also signs of change as they are starting to enforce the digital border. https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/2180960/chinese-vpn...
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by cltsang 9y ago
I think by outsourcing to China or entering the Chinese market, those companies are making a conscious decision to accept the risk, which is that what is perfectly legal and fine today can suddenly be illegal and hated tomorrow. Also, you c
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by cltsang 10y ago
I've been trying to port an existing .NET 4.6 ASP.NET project to .NET Core. So far there are 2 major problems: 1. entity framework core code first does not support table per type inheritance, which makes database migration necessary 2.
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by cltsang 11y ago
Well, that's what out and ref parameters are for