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by felipe 14y ago
The point of my post was the censors allowing a movie that challenges the government. Regarding your comment, you could read more about the Wukan protests: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wukan_protests
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by felipe 14y ago
Actually, ironically, knowledge of the Tiananmen Square WAS indeed suppressed in the west. What we know is the single guy standing in front of the tanks. What we in the west did not know is that, in fact, the great majority of protesters
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by felipe 14y ago
> China isn't as horrid as how Western media portral them. There's definitely a misconception in the west in this regard. I've lived 2 years in China, and I was surprised to learn how much freedom the common Chinese citizen has, in some
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McAfee in Miami, buying shirts and talking to reporters(miamiherald.com)
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by felipe 14y ago
Sarah Silverman's talk is not in the list: http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=ci5p1OdVLAc
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by felipe 14y ago
I suspect Apple will replicate what they are already doing in Brazil, where Foxconn locally built a factory to manufacture specific Apple products to the local market. Note two things: 1. I suspect this would be a Foxconn factory, not Apple
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by felipe 14y ago
I am Brazilian, and I can confirm everything is well with Google and YouTube over here :) Brazil does not have the centralized capability to shutdown sites. Having said that, the decision might not seem that crazy once you know more about t
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by felipe 14y ago
This comes from the author of this fantastic book, highly recommended: http://www.amazon.com/Bootstrap-Lessons-Learned-Building-Suc...
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by felipe 14y ago
Not buying software does not mean that they won't buy anything. It simply means that particular business model (selling software licenses) does not work in China. But that's not the only possible model available, for example if you can pack
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by felipe 14y ago
Your assumption on #2 is not correct. Americans living abroad get a tax credit (almost $100k currently), so in practice average-income US professionals living abroad are US tax-exempt. Above that, there are many rules designed to prevent do
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by felipe 14y ago
http://www.techinasia.com/tag/china/ http://technode.com/ http://www.shanzai.com/ http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/category/technology/
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by felipe 15y ago
Try Al Jazeera English: http://www.aljazeera.com/ AJE fills a void, which is a focus on developing countries (not only middle-east, but also Latin America and East Asia), together with an "old school" kind of journalism (factual, in-depth
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by felipe 15y ago
Pretty interesting and creative way to pitch the project: They created their main web site [1] as if the product already existed, giving the potential donor a good feeling about the end goal. [1] http://ninjablocks.com
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by felipe 15y ago
Actually Google decided A was a mistake, and has switched to C: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-24/google-china-busine...
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by felipe 15y ago
What I mentioned was not simply a mistake. They fully knew what they were doing (i. e.: plagiarizing an existing solution), and then they "fixed" it only when they actually got caught.
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by felipe 15y ago
Blame a third-party! It wouldn't be the first time they do it: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/07/04/08/1824210/google-faces... http://www.pcworld.com/article/130502/google_admits_using_ou...
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by felipe 15y ago
You bring up an excellent point, which most people in the "developed" countries fail to realize: The human cost in the producing end of the chain. Yes, it's horrible to think of people getting addicted and all, but how about the violence
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by felipe 15y ago
Actually what Portugal did was much more profound than just changing the law: They reformed their system to treat drugs as a health issue rather than a criminal issue. That also changed the perception of the society towards the issue. In th
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by felipe 15y ago
Former Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso made this issue his "post-presidency" flag. There's an excellent documentary called "Breaking the Taboo" [1] that follows him examining successful efforts around the world (including Port
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by felipe 15y ago
It's "complete bullshit" because the Chinese government uses the same argument used by the US on the war on terror, yet no one accuses the US of genocide. Also, it's not the first time the Weekly Standard distorts the facts in favor of some
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by felipe 15y ago
> I am glad Google is a company made up of humans and not uncaring robots That's exactly the problem. Google is notorious for providing horrible customer support, so why some people get personalized help, while the rest of us are stuck
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by felipe 15y ago
What's most ironic is that the so-called "free" world is incapable of producing a truly free computer.
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by felipe 15y ago
I developed a project in China using OSM and it's certainly not blocked there (i. e.: The host is accessible). The problem of OSM in China is its limited data-set. For example, in the city I developed the project OSM had only the major stre
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by felipe 15y ago
That happened to me too. I was testing an idea with AW and was banned for life, without having any chance to talk to a real person.
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by felipe 15y ago
Richard Dreyfuss is an outspoken civics activist and scholar. I believe he even lectures at Oxford. And it's no coincidence that he played Dick Cheney on Oliver Stone's W.
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by felipe 15y ago
"being a capitalist" is a catch-all accusation used when employers are trying to remove benefits from employees. It's the same as calling someone "greedy" in the west. There is still tons of protests and criticisms led by employees in China
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by felipe 15y ago
> "While businessmen and professors applaud the $300 house, the urban poor are silent, busy building a future for themselves." That's for me the most telling sentence of the article. As someone familiar with the realities of developing
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by felipe 15y ago
Very well said. In fact, blind nationalism is the very same strategy the 50-cent party uses (referring to the parent comment).
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by felipe 15y ago
I wonder if he would have accomplished everything he did throughout his career without that Stanford degree (and the connections that come with it)?
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by felipe 15y ago
Ironically, his experience would be totally different in China itself, where the tenant regulations are non-existent in practice. I had to deal with a number of landlords in two different cities, and I have to say that his principle ("[...]

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