hangonhn

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by hangonhn 8y ago
Oh that's a pretty much accepted history in China. You can't hide that because so many people witnessed it and so many of today's leadership in China were also victims of it. Xi Junping's own family suffered greatly duri
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by hangonhn 8y ago
People who grew up under such regimes are fairly ingenious about getting around censorship. The more the government tries to clamp down, the more people want to know and they will find ways around the censorship. People talk. My grandmother
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by hangonhn 8y ago
That's a very valid question and from their documents, it looks like they define journalist as someone who does it professionally as a career: "The term "resident foreign journalists" means career journalists who are dis
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by hangonhn 8y ago
But the government doesn't block itself. I'm sure the Chinese government can access the open Internet.
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by hangonhn 8y ago
It's not that hard. When you apply for a visa you must state if you're a journalist or not. After that, a quick Google should suffice, especially if the articles written by her became popular.
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by hangonhn 8y ago
Oh that's a very interesting perspective. I didn't even think about that. Yes there is a sense of "mind your own business" in China and that may be a more recent development. What I was referring to is more along the lin
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by hangonhn 8y ago
I give him credit for even trying China. China is the opposite of libertarianism both culturally and politically. Even without the party, personal liberty and worth doesn't factor in much in China or anywhere where Confucianism took ro
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by hangonhn 8y ago
The downside to China's way is that driving is A LOT slower because you have to assume no one is following the rules. I've been a passenger in China where there were multiple near misses but was averted because the actual driving
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by hangonhn 8y ago
Oh wow. That's super interesting. I see how they go around the problems I mentioned. Their AI don't need to do any crazy maneuvering because it's really stealthy so it's avoiding any sort of dog fights. All the actual fa
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by hangonhn 8y ago
Hang on. Has there ever been a high performance fighter drone? All the UAVs I've seen aren't particularly agile nor fast. A remotely controlled drone might be limited in its performance by the lag time in input and output (first r
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by hangonhn 8y ago
But the science of emissions is considered solid among sane people and not a point of contention. It's the economics of emissions that people debate over. So wouldn't it make sense to take on the more economic/political view
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by hangonhn 8y ago
That number sounds really, really outlandish. China, officially at least, spent about $130 billion on their defense in that same year. I highly doubt they would spend that much on some research project which will bear fruit in the distant f
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by hangonhn 8y ago
Do most non-institutional/non-professional traders even know how to price options other than some gut feel? Are they familiar with Black-Sholes and the Greeks? From my personal experience most of them don't. Plus to properly model
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by hangonhn 8y ago
Also, the paid vs. unpaid is a BS argument. Even if you were paid, it's not the complaining user who's paying you so how can they feel entitled to your time? Some people... That said, when someone open sources something there isn
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by hangonhn 8y ago
Watch something you normally wouldn't watch if you had a choice but might find interesting. It's a good way to force yourself out of your comfort zone.
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by hangonhn 8y ago
Reminds me of this Physics Girl episode on the Magic Russian Diamond: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bS7p3e6Lb4 Sounds like they're doing something similar but with lab grown ones?
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by hangonhn 8y ago
I think one idea is to produce good, healthy food closer to where people are instead of producing it from far away and then having to deal with transportation and preservation of food. It would allow urban dwellers cheaper and more availabl
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by hangonhn 8y ago
You may be surprised... when I worked at a hedge fund, there is always an insider trading training and one of the examples of such cases involved relatives. The thing is that this scheme is so obvious and almost brain dead. Investigators wi
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by hangonhn 8y ago
Your tone sounds mildly apologetic but what you've cooked up (pun intended) is overflowing with pure hacker audacity and just mad nerdiness. You are a hero!
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by hangonhn 8y ago
In violent agreement with you and I love your comparison! This is precisely the trap the Chinese are falling into as they reverse their democratization and remove the guardrails put in place after Mao. People are attracted by the "glam
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by hangonhn 8y ago
Precisely. This is why China started out with a few special economic zones with Shenzhen being the most successful example.
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by hangonhn 8y ago
A market based system and an authoritarian regime are not mutually exclusive. Singapore is very capitalistic but its political structure is basically a dictatorship. The same family has ruled it from the beginning. The Singapore model is ve
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by hangonhn 8y ago
Not sure if you know but the American industrial revolution was largely kicked off with stolen IP from the UK and would later overtake it. I'm not trying to condone a wrong with another previous wrong but rather to point out that such
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by hangonhn 8y ago
Can you expand on that a bit more?
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by hangonhn 8y ago
What's the reasoning behind the philosophy?
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by hangonhn 8y ago
One question I've never been able to figure out with this concept is what happens when this fast moving launch vehicle hits the stationary air. Would it be like hitting a wall? I'm a bit physics ignorant.
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by hangonhn 8y ago
No. It's not that easy to move. Factories don't work in isolation. One of the major advantages of China is that all the suppliers are located very close to each other so you can get very fast turn arounds. Some people have the mis
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by hangonhn 8y ago
I think that's the difficulty of being rational and prudent. A few lucky people will get lucky through chance alone. It doesn't mean the process was a good idea and the same is true of the reverse: you can have a great plan but so
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by hangonhn 8y ago
Can you elaborate more on this statement? "On the other hand I think DDG is the Sprint of search engines." I've been interested in switching to DDG for a while but as a former Sprint customer, that statement scares me but may
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by hangonhn 8y ago
I think it's a question of enforcement. You can enforce direct influence in the US because it usually happens on US soil or via US companies but indirect influence via tariffs is nearly impossible since foreign countries largely get to

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