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by gbog 13y ago
Do you think that Chinese are that stupid? They all know their wealthy elite send kids and wife to the US, why would they do that if China was better?
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by gbog 13y ago
I don't think so. China has so many problems, it's government always preferred the status quo, anything new like this is considered a threat to political stability: imagine if a few Chinese decided to go Snowden way?
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by gbog 13y ago
Well, I'm not agreeing with you and other yellow peril things at all. Was just trying to show you that since the dawn of time the "other" has been considered dangerous, evil, etc. by many people. And you reflect very well th
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by gbog 13y ago
I think the Chinese government would have preferred no such story, because in the long term it will reinforce awareness of privacy issues, increase the toolset, and it may give whistleblowing ideas to some Chinese.
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by gbog 13y ago
You mean polluting rivers is a deliberate public policy in China? You have some proofs, I hope. If not, your claims are just in the same vein as those a century ago telling the world about how those evil (pagan) Chinese hated babies and dro
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by gbog 13y ago
More likely they will not even bother to fix broken balloons and just launch new ones.
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by gbog 13y ago
I second this, writing good documentation is harder than writing code. I can do both with music I already know, however, but I will sometime go for a walk or a cigarette, both help a lot.
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by gbog 13y ago
You give way too much importance to the visual part, the reason for some apps to be ecosystem exclusive are technical or legal limitations. Writing this on a rooted Android phone with third party keyboard, through a vpn...
729.
by gbog 13y ago
I read this in his Antifragile book.
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by gbog 13y ago
About these supplementary pills I think the advice of Taleb is very good: - When there is a very strong reason to medicate or do surgery, do it immediately. - When it is just for convenience, don't do it. The long term risks are unknow
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by gbog 13y ago
Yes. This should be a part of education. Maybe it is already in some parts of Europe that are more sensitive with privay breaches than US (France? Germany?). Anyway, I live very far from my youngest brother, and have only few occasion to ch
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by gbog 13y ago
I have my stashes listed in the status, and drop them when needed. For me committing requires a good name and needs to be "somewhere", so it is a deeper action, while I can put any kind of crap in a stash instantly, and drop it if
733.
by gbog 13y ago
Why? I stash often and it has been quite reliable for me.
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by gbog 13y ago
Douban, where I work, has no real equivalent outside of China, even if obviously everyone in China is looking closely at new things from the US.
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by gbog 13y ago
5/10 junk mail in paper form! My God, such a waste... No way to stop that?
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by gbog 13y ago
You mean the circle shaped plastic toy at the bottom? That's not the same purpose, it will not block the crying orifice as do the pacifier.
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by gbog 13y ago
Why, I don't mind your kid or any other using pacifier. I mind a bit the "pacifier by default" implied by its presence in the US baby box. Also, if you can get a kid to control emotions early, it is all the better, and pacifier may postpone
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by gbog 13y ago
It's inconvenient and better avoided. Toddlers cry, that's the normal thing. Some are unbearable and then a pacifier is ok but they become addicted and you're easily in deep shit if you travel and forget them or lose them (I had one in each
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by gbog 13y ago
In China there is.
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by gbog 13y ago
Not sure that the pacifiers are a good idea, do they have them in the Finland box?
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by gbog 13y ago
Knowing a bit about the Asian way to handle conflict, I think it is possible that the bombs gave a good pretext (not the best word) to end the war. It would mean that many in Japan headquarter knew it was foolish to continue the war but it
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by gbog 13y ago
Ahem, emails are not broken yet, from last I tried
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by gbog 13y ago
> Disturbed individual or hero? No, just yet another human being with contradictions, light-heartedness, courage, blindness, dreams, and sins. Just a unique destiny. One should refrain from judging him. Who are we to judge a Japanese ol
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by gbog 13y ago
Many comments underline the fact that learning philosophical theories is not philosophy, and thinking by yourself is better, and all this stuff. I think it is very arrogant of we contemporary people to think that 17 something kids can think
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by gbog 13y ago
> pollution regulations > government gets corporations under control China has got its growths because government did (partially) lift their control over private interest. Narrow sighted people (including NYT) tend to forget it and
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by gbog 13y ago
Exactly. I suppose that Turkish gov is too harsh but you cannot know what is the real best interests of Turkish people right now and what would be their well pondered decision about the issue. In 68 in France we had major unrest, and fight
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by gbog 13y ago
Same with vim, if you add every fantastic and absolutely necessary tweak you read on the blogs, you get somethin much slower than eclipse in a week.
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by gbog 13y ago
That's a good example, I have seen it and many other. It is not about basic first order security, it is more about second order precaution principles. In fact the precaution principle might be a factor paralyzing European economy right now.
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by gbog 13y ago
"We"? And no, working practice are not tremendously unsafe in China, even if they are less safe than in the west in some industries. Chinese people have a much deeper relation with mother nature than in the west in many regards, their art a
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by gbog 13y ago
I think it is a good thing that wealth is rebalanced between countries, and that these wealth transfer are not UN donations, but the result of commerce and labor.

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