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by gbog 11y ago
Aya. Do you think "they" would send the tanks or what? Many things are forbidden by law, and many people do them anyway, because they know it is not /that/ forbidden. And not only in China, it is the same in France for e
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by gbog 11y ago
That's not really sensible to call a Horror-show the very writing system upon which one of the longest and most fertile culture on Earth has been built... But it is also right to say that the difficulties of learning Chinese makes it a
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by gbog 11y ago
> incomplete understanding The first act of ratio (reason) is to assert its own limits. Many things are outside the scope of science, for example no science will ever explain why a novel or a painting is good, why someone love another. F
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by gbog 11y ago
> 10 pounds of celery > an abundance of fiber You seem to be misinformed. 10 pounds of celery is most probably a very bad idea. There is no such thing as "good food" if you push it to the limits and eat too much of it. Celer
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by gbog 11y ago
I think Chinese are even worse: they not only "live to eat", but also talk, think, write almost only about food. Especially true in Sichuan: there food is the only conversation topic available. In Beijing it is possible to talk al
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by gbog 11y ago
> if you are original and independent thinker You equate art with originality, but Knuth do not, and most arts except "Contemporary Art" did not either. Just turn your eyes to Quattrocento or Chinese landscapes: these artists a
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by gbog 11y ago
People usually don't believe these advices until they get bitten. I'm all the same, and got bitten: a hasattr was hiding a deeper error and it is a nightmare to debug, one couldn't even know where to start.
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by gbog 11y ago
Economic news is propaganda anyways, just don't trust that. Information is power, scepticism is the defense of the weaks (us) against this power.
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by gbog 11y ago
Well, to me it shows one main point: China and most other countries, and actually anyone or any entity, will do better not listening to the "advices" and "suggestions" from the newspapers. This reminds me of "The Mi
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by gbog 11y ago
When China consume too many ressources she is draining the world, but if consumption weakens she is "rattling" the world.
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by gbog 11y ago
Expanding on the battle we civilized humans (US + EU + China) need to fight together: this is not a battle for tanks, drones and helicopters (if it was, the US would do it well enopugh), it is a fight where the weapons are words, values and
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by gbog 11y ago
You took Houellebecq too seriously.
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by gbog 11y ago
Yes it's a road bump, yes China is back in the front row, yes they're hungry. But once the U.S. has accepted this reality that its not a solo play anymore, there should be no need for Europe to choose, because the battle we will h
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by gbog 11y ago
Much much longer experience?
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by gbog 11y ago
> it's taken away from the world. Well, it the case of Bowie this is especially untrue: he let a lot for us to read and listen. It is acutally much sadder when someone unknown dies young, before having the time to leave a deep enoug
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by gbog 11y ago
> Naysayers have been predicting the demise of China for the past thirty years. Yes. They even use the same sentence and arguments every six months since 30 years. I live in China and keep my eyes open, and what I see here is that people
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by gbog 11y ago
Not sure what Asperger is. I am very sensitive: I cry at almost all movies I'm watching even the silliest ones, when the guy kiss the girl, or the father finds his son back. Maybe I'm weird, or just too influenced by Eastern philo
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by gbog 11y ago
Well if it is so, it shows that in the U.S. the bankers have the power to fuck things up and the government has the money, while in China it is the opposite. I wonder if Chinese way could actually be closer to what should be expected from b
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by gbog 11y ago
Not sure about Picasso, but I remember reading somewhere that Tolstoy tried to be good for his wife, but she was too superficial and egoist, and manipulative. He tried to act generously, giving to the farmers a part of the result of their l
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by gbog 11y ago
The japanese bonzai derives from chinese "penjing" but it is not quite the same: the chinese (and vietnamese) do much more of the full landscape-on-a-plate kind, where the trees are only a part of the work. This, to me, is closer
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by gbog 11y ago
"You're losing a lot of expressiveness and subtlety in the process." Well, er..., Chinese classic poetry is the quite subtle and expressive, I have heard. And, not sure for your native language but for mine, if I read or hear
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by gbog 11y ago
You need to open your mind to differences. For me as a French, raising the flag and singing national anthem for no reason at school is also weird, but I heard it is common in the US. Now that I have lived in China for >10 years I can tel
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by gbog 11y ago
> take down the entirety of marketing and advertising as an industry What would be wrong with that? Anyways, I agree that there is no use asking the State to stop the marketters. It is not efficient. The State can only constrain people u
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by gbog 11y ago
Guanxi really just mean "relation". In this context, it means long term business relations alloing for trust and mutual respect, where each part knows that the other part will return favors and keep the relation balanced. It also,
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by gbog 11y ago
Yes, I happend to have a strong mathematical background. the difference in our points of view might be that I work on a code base with some ten million lines of code. Anything in there that is not purely flat stupid python, anything clever
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by gbog 11y ago
Yep. But even more: as any piece of code may have to grow and become more complex, any list comprehension except in throwable scripts should be rewritten as a for loop. Of I think 95% of the list comprehensions I wrote have been refactored
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by gbog 11y ago
Well they did spend quite some time discussing the trinity and the virginity of Mary. Also there was this problem with stillborn babies: but baptised, they wouldn't go to the paradise, but how could they go to hell if they didn't
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by gbog 11y ago
The basis of political and legal system in Latin Europe is Roman jurisdiction, as far as I know.
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by gbog 11y ago
Not sure I agree. In many domains of science, politic and arts, not only middle ages didn't surpass the ancient times, they were even a regression. Some domains that come to mind: sculpture, architecture, mathematics, theater, law, ph
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by gbog 11y ago
Certainly, for example Tang dynasty was a golden age in China.

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