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by idra 10y ago
I did... too bad. Nice timing though
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by idra 10y ago
China and HK are completely different entities and cannot be compared. I was also talking about fights, not homicides.
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by idra 10y ago
I knew this would come up, but Whatsapp is still miles ahead of Wechat regarding privacy. And especially regarding invasions of privacy where the Chinese government is involved, which I am pretty sure Whatsapp is safe from. First, Whatsapp
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by idra 10y ago
Unfortunately, the problem with stats from China is that they are most certainly fake. Even if I had those, they would arguably be worse than anecdotal evidence. I provide fake economic stats as an example, since it's something the res
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by idra 10y ago
1989 is also modern China ruled by Deng Xiaoping and in no way Maoist China.
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by idra 10y ago
No it's not. There's Whatsapp for starters, which isn't blocked in China. There's always email. If your Chinese friends are ignorant about privacy, it doesn't mean you need to sacrifice yours. > the utility of us
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by idra 10y ago
Lies. Fights are very common, especially in the north-east. Foreigners are often assaulted for being foreigners. Last year, a foreigner-Chinese couple was attacked by a sword-wielding man for being a foreigner-Chinese couple in one of the b
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by idra 10y ago
What a silly comment, complete with the mandatory "it's worse in the US" passage that mysteriously appears in half of the comments to China-related articles on HN. Yes, the governments owns telcos etc. Yes, they probably have
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Chinese VC: We don’t invest in female CEOs(techinasia.com)
13 points by idra 10y ago|1 comments
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by idra 10y ago
react_on_rails is even better.
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by idra 10y ago
Modern Chinese culture in a nutshell.
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by idra 10y ago
Nobody eats dim sum in Beijing. It's a Cantonese thing.
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by idra 10y ago
The majority don't care. Those who do use VPNs, they are common knowledge there.
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China’s new cybersecurity law is bad news for business(techcrunch.com)
1 points by idra 10y ago|0 comments
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by idra 10y ago
Because you miss out on death, which is arguably the most important event in our lives.
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by idra 10y ago
Best way: find a mentor, someone who already knows how to DJ and hopefully has worked as a DJ professionally. What would take you weeks to figure out yourself or from "tutorials", you will learn in mere hours. If you don't ha
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Didi’s first change after acquiring Uber China prevents foreigners from using it(qz.com)
1 points by idra 10y ago|0 comments
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by idra 10y ago
Communism/Marxism =/= tyranny and brutal dictatorships. They aren't mutually exclusive, but one doesn't imply the other. There was Marxism and tyranny in the Soviet Union, modern China only has tyranny.
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by idra 10y ago
The modern Chinese regime has nothing even remotely close to neither communism or Marxism except the imagery.
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by idra 10y ago
> The problem with this happening in China is that, given the rampant corruption, authoritarianism, lack and transparency and lack of rule of law in China, the system is pretty much guaranteed to be expressed in the worst possible way: u
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Long March to China(technologyreview.com)
1 points by idra 10y ago|0 comments
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by idra 10y ago
There are many reasons. The biggest one is that they will steal any technology they can get their hands on and use it for any purpose they please.
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Yinchuan: The smart city where your face is your credit card(edition.cnn.com)
1 points by idra 10y ago|0 comments
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by idra 10y ago
Push notifications have been broken on iOS for over a year already. You don't receive them unless the WeChat is open in the background.
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by idra 10y ago
Hong Kong as we've all known it from before 1997 is being eroded and destroyed. People in Hong Kong hate the Chinese Communist Party and strongly dislike mainlanders, and this sentiment is fuelled by savage behaviour of mainland touris
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by idra 10y ago
China got rich due to massive foreign investments eager to exploit cheap Chinese labor after Deng Xiaoping's "Reform and opening" [1]. During the last three decades, using the foreign money, China has been building an impress
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by idra 10y ago
> It's pretty well-known fact that African people live in Guangzhou have been treated preferentially You've lost your last ounce of credibility. And, for your information, preferential treatment based on race is also racism. Yo
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by idra 10y ago
> If anyone needs to brush up on reasoning, it's you. I think you really need to look up what "whataboutism" means :)
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by idra 10y ago
> There are interesting statistics about Americans placing major countries on maps I think you need to look up what "whataboutism", or "appeal to hypocrisy" means: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by idra 10y ago
They're actually good games.

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