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by idra 10y ago
> They are indeed bloat ware, horrendous privacy invader, outright money seeking in their features, etc. Those cannot be taken granted as evidence of their overall horribleness. Really? > Chinese game players are such a huge popula
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by idra 10y ago
> QQ is far more advanced than any IM softwares outside of China. Really? Full of ads, automatic censorship, scummy monetization strategies, a ton of bundled bloatware. And it is an ICQ ripoff anyway.
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by idra 10y ago
> have played great Chinese games with impressive graphics, deep historically-informed game worlds and references to poetry, literature, art, philosophy Can you please name some examples? I'd love to check them out. > I also t
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by idra 10y ago
Great post that sums up the concept very well. A very good and realistic, although slightly exaggerated example of the things written here is the book "Party Members" by Arthur Meursault [1]. It has quite a few fantastic scenes de
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by idra 10y ago
Easy answer: because they suck. Players in China are used to outright horrible software (QQ, Qihoo 360, and in fact the majority of Chinese-produced software installed on a Windows computer of a typical user), bland repetitive art, bugs, gr
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by idra 10y ago
It's not about being well-connected. As a company you can actually apply for a state-sanctioned VPN service that would be given the green light and won't be throttled even in the worst of times. If this wasn't the case, how d
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by idra 10y ago
Problems with dealing with chronic health conditions seems to be more of a trait of modern Western medicine, which in a lot of cases is about treating symptoms only. In a first world country with free medical care it is very hard to actuall
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by idra 10y ago
Haven't noticed that anyone is talking about the fact that just a week ago, the Chinese government issued a press release about "legalizing" ride-sharing apps [1][2]. Article 21 of the new law, which should take effect this N
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by idra 10y ago
In the same way that having sex with children is a "cultural issue" [1]. Chinese culture still has many elements that are absolutely barbaric and primitive. The concept of "face" is one of them too. [1] http:/&#x2F
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by idra 10y ago
So true. "Every time I go in the subway, I die a little bit inside" - a friend of mine used to say this when we lived in Beijing. Can't remember if I've even been to the Shanghai subway, but the feeling inside in Guangzh
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by idra 10y ago
> China doesn't have a brain drain problem Oh really? China has a disastrous brain drain problem. http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21701651-chinas...
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by idra 10y ago
Well, if the ADHD drug in question is Adderall, which is an amphetamine, the mechanism of action and effects are largely similar. And Desoxyne IS meth. Methamphetamine actually metabolizes into amphetamine in the body.
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by idra 11y ago
The article is poorly written and they seem absolutely clueless, have too much money (most likely from a trust fund set up by daddy) and too little sense. There's nothing nice to say.
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by idra 11y ago
There are also things like "you wouldn’t be able to breath" that make you wonder if they are typos or actual spelling mistakes.
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by idra 11y ago
By whom?
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by idra 11y ago
This market not only exists, but is quite saturated already with plenty of foreigners based in China making a living out of it. I've done this kind of work before and it's only fun the first time, then when it's time to actua
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by idra 11y ago
I have the same question as another poster - why would the US government want to do it?
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by idra 11y ago
Ok, thank you for the clarification.
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by idra 11y ago
Yes. The links you've posted have nothing to do with China and are irrelevant to the conversation. "The US and Britain have done bad things, so China can do them too" yet again.
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by idra 11y ago
There's nothing about it in the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Anyway, this is noted and I won't do it again for the sake of civility, but the the claims made by the poster are so abs
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by idra 11y ago
Even the official stance of the Chinese government, the one being taught in schools these days, is that "the disaster was 30% due to natural causes and 70% by mismanagement". With the tendency of the CCP to invent any numbers that
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by idra 11y ago
Well, the "50 years" claim is simply not true, the whole lifting out of poverty thing started with the opening up and the influx of foreign investment to use cheap Chinese labour after Deng Xiaoping took power in 1978. Before that
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by idra 11y ago
These prices are simply not true. 1000 USD per month in the US will get you much more than a 1000 RMB in China. For 100 RMB you can only find a roach and mold infested hole in a tier 3 city, there are no hotels at this price in cities like
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by idra 11y ago
This rule is one of many that make Hong Kong better for visiting mainlanders and worse for the actual locals living there. For decades the escalators ran perfectly. Nowadays, it just takes one yokel with a suitcase to block an entire escala