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by huahaiy 10y ago
Of course reading classic Chinese requires extensive training, that's what their middle and high school educations are for. I don't know who you talked to, but if they are in college, they have passed that part of the training. Th
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by huahaiy 10y ago
Did you even read your cited stackoverflow answer? The first answer said exactly the same thing as I said: the understanding of classic Chinese is part of the modern Chinese education, and is enforced by the state administrated college entr
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by huahaiy 10y ago
These students are college aged people in US. They are not what I call "educated Chinese people". The way the classic Chinese was written has always been different from everyday vernacular Chinese. This has been true for every gen
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by huahaiy 10y ago
Don't know why this is down voted. Why is it so hard to learn some fact that may be contrary to your imagination?
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by huahaiy 10y ago
I was merely questioning the claim that modern Chinese cannot read ancient Chinese. I made no claim whatsoever on Italian as I have no knowledge on that matter. However, I have first hand knowledge that modern educated Chinese can read anci
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by huahaiy 10y ago
I would. You must be joking.
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by huahaiy 10y ago
I think the Chinese case is different in that they have never lost their majority status in term of population. Consequently, the invaders were either eventually assimilated into Han Chinese, be driven out or became one of the many minority
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by huahaiy 10y ago
Not really. Ancient Chinese poems as far back as 3000 years ago are still required materials for recitation by Chinese school children. Any educated modern Chinese can read and understand ancient Chinese text.
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by huahaiy 10y ago
Not really. Modern Italians are similar to their neighboring countries in term of people, i.e. Most of them are not direct descendants of Romans, but of the invading Goths, Lombards, and so on. They did adapt Latin as their language though.
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by huahaiy 10y ago
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by huahaiy 10y ago
Isn't that information part of the discovery process of the case, and is subject to the analysis of both Oracle and court's experts? Oracle lawyer was merely quoting those experts to establish the fact that Google did profit from
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by huahaiy 10y ago
Languages with immutable data structures?
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by huahaiy 10y ago
International Law of the Sea regulates issues related to the seas, not lands (including islands). Countries signed the treaty on the understanding that the treaty does not cover sovereign claims of islands. What creative about this new arbi
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by huahaiy 10y ago
This recent ruling is absurd in that it redefines the concept of island. For example, the largest island in South China Sea, Taiping Island, which has natural fresh water, and is continuously populated by Taiwan since WWII, is no longer con
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by huahaiy 10y ago
Taking glance at the map is exactly the wrong way to look at this. If that works, how would you explain Hawaii and Alaska? What about taking a glance at the map of Greece vs Turkey, with Greeks taking all the islands offshore Turkey? Guess
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by huahaiy 10y ago
I think he has a point.
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by huahaiy 10y ago
This is the thing. With the same background and education, I am a nobody when I am Han, and I am speaking for myself, not representing anyone. That would not be the case when I am Tibetan. I would be given a platform to broadcast my dissati
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by huahaiy 10y ago
If I were a Tibetan and had earned a Ph.D. in US. I probably would have been a member of the Tibetan elite, I would not be writing in the HN comments section here, but in the NYT opinion section to condemn the Chinese government by now. Wo
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by huahaiy 10y ago
Nah, if Tibetan Buddhism is willing to reform itself, or reforms under pressure (like Catholics did in the face of Protestant), it will still be there for thousands of years. In that land, it is just hard not to believe in something superna
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by huahaiy 10y ago
Of course we were told how those rebellions were subdued in the end, because the evidence was in plain sight. There was a ruin on the mountain across the river where we lived. I was told that it used to be a monastery. Some rebellious monks
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by huahaiy 10y ago
Not really. Chinese in Korean is in a foreign land as a minority. Tibetan carries weapons on their own land as a majority, minority Han there do not carry weapon on their body (but they do keep firearms at home, especially officials).
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by huahaiy 10y ago
It should be obvious that I am Han. I agree that this analogy would give some people an impression that I considered Tibetans savages. But no, that's not how I saw it. The way I saw them is not unlike the way Jon Snow saw the free folk
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by huahaiy 10y ago
Nah, I grow up there. I knew the people. Using a Game of Throne analogy, Tibetan people are like free folks (or wildings) and Han people are like people south of the wall. When I was there growing up, every male Tibetan carry weapons (inclu
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by huahaiy 10y ago
Chinese govenment's justification in Tibet is mainly legalistic, as follows: Tibet was a part of the Qing Empire. Qing handled over all administrative power peacefully to Republic of China. People's Republic of China overthrow Rep
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by huahaiy 10y ago
Not far from Kangding. You will pass Kangding if you go there from Chengdu.
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by huahaiy 10y ago
Allow me to share some of my perspectives. I grow up in Seda County in the late 70 and early 80s, and am intimately familiar with culture there. Tibetan Buddhism is not what people in the west think what it is. It is actually quite repressi
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by huahaiy 10y ago
AR-15 is needed because that is what Second Amendment requires. Currently, police and military use them as the most common personal weapon, hence the militia (as defined as all the able bodied adult male citizen by law) needs to use the sam
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by huahaiy 11y ago
These are not. But they belong to the same unit of those amphibious light tanks, so used the same camouflage. During a landing operation, these long range rockets are likely deployed on the decks of flotilla as artillery support for the bea
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by huahaiy 11y ago
In the sea. When conducting a beachhead assault, these amphibious light tanks will come out of some giant amphibious assault ships, which are typically parked far away from the beachhead so enemy on land cannot see them. So the effect will
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by huahaiy 11y ago
Those are amphibious fighting vehicles, used for landing from the sea. The sea, as we know, are blue colored.

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