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by hkai 8y ago
You probably shouldn't. I'm in a similar situation and although back home there are all these fancy cafes, relaxed and familiar environments and great people, the significant differences become apparent only in crisis. When it com
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by hkai 8y ago
Fucking-great-advice.ru
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by hkai 8y ago
It's entirely possible if Taiwan has an even more pro-democracy government than it has now. I can imagine China can easily sacrifice the entire trade with Taiwan if the sensitive issues are concerned.
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by hkai 8y ago
Could US be the first in a few years? Given the outrage when Taiwanese president visited a Taiwanese coffee shop in LA last week. European countries appear to be content to please the Chinese government, be it on trade or in academia.
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by hkai 8y ago
I think it is reasonable to expect China to topple foreign governments in the near future. It has a powerful military, a highly nationalist government and an ambition to own at least everything within the Nine Dash Line, or more. And that&#
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by hkai 8y ago
Some Russian people I know started a project that gives random obvious advice, along with a profanity to make you pay attention. Examples include: - change your damn passwords! - reset the damn cache! - say no to your damn project manager!
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by hkai 8y ago
Sounds great, although scary. Under the pretext of saving lives, governments may deploy drones to track and arrest undesirable people. I imagine videos like this will encourage broad support for drone surveillance.
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: I 'fully admit' our bias is 'more left-leaning'(thehill.com)
2 points by hkai 8y ago|1 comments
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by hkai 8y ago
There's an unrestricted internet link to Hong Kong that you can rent. My company's office was paying 35000 USD but it's a big office, around 300 people.
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by hkai 8y ago
I am skeptical about Chinese tech scene in the sense that Chinese government views tech as a way to reinforce dictatorship, repression of minorities and expand totalitarianism overseas, rather than to achieve something good. Think AI to det
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by hkai 8y ago
Yes they can and they are. It's hard to find at least a partially working VPN and using VPN is highly illegal. You can use data roaming though on your foreign SIM card to access the real internet.
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by hkai 8y ago
Today was the news that Alibaba wants to share users social credit score with immigration authorities in foreign countries to prevent unreliable people from going abroad. Is this bad enough or can we do worse?
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Jack Ma wants to share users' social credit with Malaysian immigration body(m.scmp.com)
9 points by hkai 8y ago|1 comments
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by hkai 8y ago
He is the first top-level official that I heard advocating for drug reform. Well remembered.
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by hkai 8y ago
What did the Qatar Airways have to do with it? Wow.
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by hkai 8y ago
It's regrettable that you have to put a man like this into confinement.
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by hkai 8y ago
You are correct that banning them from platforms limits their exposure, but why do you think it's desirable? Why defacto monopolies should decide who is allowed to exercise speech and who must be silenced? Do you feel this practice wil
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by hkai 8y ago
Hmm, correct me if I'm wrong but vue.js seems to have less than 2% market share among reactive frameworks?
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by hkai 8y ago
I think no one here on HN finds this definition hard to understand, even though not everyone agrees with it. I think the most contentious point is that "prejudice without power" has become a socially acceptable phenomenon while a
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by hkai 8y ago
No.
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by hkai 8y ago
What I read from his thread is that he wants to make the world better by censoring Twitter users. While I don't doubt his good intentions, I can envision many ways of how it will go wrong.
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by hkai 8y ago
Google has done nothing so far to substantiate any trust in them. The "don't be evil" motto was abandoned. It is a business that relies on collecting data, monetizing it, and using it to further reinforce its position.
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by hkai 8y ago
I'd argue that there is no significant difference in the way that totalitarian governments silence democracy activists, Muslims or just random people protesting against government actions, and the actions of Facebook, Apple, Google and
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by hkai 8y ago
Odesk and upwork is the same website. They rebranded.
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by hkai 8y ago
Interesting distinction. I approach comments on the internet more like comments on TV, which you broadcast to the entire world and can reasonably expect everyone to hear and comment on. Perhaps this is not how most people approach conversat
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by hkai 8y ago
How is the hot summer in Europe indicative of a long-term climate change more than Donald Trump saying "see, it's snowing outside! I told you there's no climate change!"
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by hkai 8y ago
Nice job, we know it's you.
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by hkai 8y ago
Where do you draw the line? My grandma was once contacted by a scammer who offered to "optimize" her laptop, and she ended up paying roughly the same as the price of a new laptop.
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by hkai 8y ago
That looks pale in comparison to the Chinese employee tracking app Dingding. And it's becoming crazy popular. Your employer's mistake was working in the call center business, they should've sold your system instead.
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by hkai 8y ago
Has anyone contacted you yet with the explanation of the word "pygmy" and the tremendous harm that you're causing? Wikipedia: >In anthropology, pygmy peoples are ethnic groups whose average height is unusually short.

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