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by hker 3y ago
https://archive.ph/nmoqt
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China's GDP Surprise Partly Due to Revisions, Economists Say(bloomberg.com)
4 points by hker 3y ago|1 comments
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Amazon eliminated plastic packaging at one of its warehouses(theverge.com)
2 points by hker 3y ago|0 comments
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Kids Online Safety Act Will Censor the News(techpolicy.press)
4 points by hker 3y ago|1 comments
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China to hold nationwide survey on population changes as birthrate plummets(theguardian.com)
7 points by hker 3y ago|1 comments
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Does employer have to tell if they're spying on you through your work computer?(theconversation.com)
28 points by hker 3y ago|65 comments
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China's wealthy move cash out of the country amid economic uncertainty(markets.businessinsider.com)
11 points by hker 3y ago|1 comments
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by hker 3y ago
Foreigners need to worry about the new Chinese anti-espionage law instead [1]: at least 17 Japanese nationals have been recently accused of spying in China [2], and a US citizen jailed for life [3]. The German car industry is worried [4].
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by hker 3y ago
Some context which may be relevant: many local governments in China are in heavy debt, and they need more income: police have been collecting more and more fines, causing some outrages [1]. There are reports that many civil servants are unp
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by hker 3y ago
To name a few: Chinese Foreign Ministry https://twitter.com/foreignchinese?lang=en Xi's Moments (official news of Xi Jinping and China) https://twitter.com/XisMoments
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by hker 3y ago
Beware when using VPN to breach the GFW. Recently a Chinese netizen had to pay over 1 million yuan (>145K USD) for using VPN [1][2]. Before this incident, only VPN service sellers were prosecuted [3]. Beware when doing this casually. [
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Chinese Netizen Fined over 1M Yuan for Using VPN(here.news)
114 points by hker 3y ago|150 comments
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Commoditizing Your Complements in the Cloud Era (2021)(matt-rickard.com)
2 points by hker 3y ago|0 comments
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How Scary Is China’s Crisis?(nytimes.com)
6 points by hker 3y ago|0 comments
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by hker 3y ago
Possibly related: We need scientific dissidents, discussed at [1] and archived at [2]. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37095302 "We need scientific dissidents" [2]: https://archive.li/6vn
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by hker 3y ago
> This is about maintaining long-term leader position in military technology of which AI is a big part. Yes, but this is part of the strategy to contain CCP while competing with it, deterring it from trying to take over Taiwan, preventin
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by hker 3y ago
> > the sole reason why... > Strong disagree. > 1. The USA's current stance toward Taiwan is largely a continuation of its historic stance, which had absolutely nothing to do with semiconductors. > The USA currently main
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by hker 3y ago
A key point about the actual word, missing in the linked article, but present in HKFP [1]: In a gaming competition with the China team, the Hong Kong player used a name which included the two Chinese characters for “Liberate,” accordi
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by hker 3y ago
> “Sustainability, equity and security are all at risk in the rush to break China’s dominance over their production.” Chinese dominance of rare earth production is not sustainable, either, using lax regulations to externalize environment
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by hker 3y ago
Some possibly related discussions on the Great firewall and its circumvention (VPN): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36531485 "How the great firewall of China detects and blocks fully encrypted traffic [pdf]"
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Gen Z and millennials are leading ‘the big quit’ in 2023(cnbc.com)
8 points by hker 4y ago|1 comments
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by hker 4y ago
> The recent Sha Tin to Central Link dropped a station in Central to save money, and the new stations were only built to handle 9 cars instead of the rest of the line’s 12 cars to save money. One speculation is that, it is harder to move
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by hker 5y ago
Not to disagree, but if we go down this direction, we need to then ask [1]: - What about search? (Baidu vs Google or Bing) - What about news agencies? (CGTN and Xinhua vs BBC and The New York Times and The Guardian) - What about the Interne
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by hker 5y ago
Just sampled a repo on the list: https://github.com/xi-yu-yan-kai-fa/Xi-Yuyan I find it interesting that the Chinese government wants to take down such a repo, because it is very much harmless. Some observations: - The
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SpaceX Starlink Internet Now Live in Ukraine, Says Elon Musk(teslanorth.com)
16 points by hker 5y ago|4 comments
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by hker 5y ago
This HN post? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29661475 "Spamouflage: CCP-Aligned Disinformation Campaign on Facebook Twitter YouTube"
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by hker 5y ago
Let me add some nuances to this claim. Even if “every step is observed” is exaggerated, the surveillance system in China is pretty extensive: it can target journalists and international students among other “suspicious people”, and can comp
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by hker 5y ago
The level of propaganda (censorship and sponsorship) of the West (BBC, CNN, etc., if that could be called propaganda) is nowhere comparable to the level of propaganda in China (CGTN, CCTV, etc.), and this is the reason that generally the We
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by hker 5y ago
> a bunch of links of people on YouTube walking around this same area and not seeing anything like this. There is heavy tracking and surveillance in China [1], especially in Xinjiang [2][3]. Hence any reporting of Xinjiang, including the
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by hker 5y ago
> any research that use Zenz as starting point... A research could be inspired by Zenz, then went on to find independent evidence supporting the same conclusion (forced labor in Xinjiang). Getting inspired by Zenz does not make subsequen

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