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by mamborambo 6y ago
Perhaps the most remarkable outcome of last year's protest was this: a government can lose all credibility and social support, and still use law and civil institutions to prop up the hated regime. Isn't this proof that democracy
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by mamborambo 6y ago
The problem is that Beijing has a strange definition of what is National Security. It include suggestions (even if constructive and well-meaning), and also journalism (when the facts do not paint a pretty picture). Where other jurisdictio
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by mamborambo 6y ago
A good question! Just like the CD is just a vehicle for music delivery, the university format is a dated system for delivering advanced education.
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by mamborambo 6y ago
Somehow I don't think China care much about the people, so long as they can lay their hands on the wealth. The way they trample over the HK system, most of the elites and international connections will evaporate in a matter of months,
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by mamborambo 6y ago
Carrie Lam is a Quisling -- people who become enablers for an invading regime, like when the Soviet forces trying to take over Finland and were able to use the Finnish politicians. Why do they do it? Probably a combination of having dirts
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by mamborambo 6y ago
Although HK appears to be the direct casualty of US change of trade status, the reality is that China is one who will bleed once the HK trade window is closed. For too long China practised a kind of hostage diplomacy where it solves its pro
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by mamborambo 7y ago
The original goal of the Internet's design was a network that can survive even the nuclear war, and that is why TCP/IP has multiple routing and redundancy. Why is the modern Internet so easy for authoritarian governments to contr
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by mamborambo 7y ago
A README.md in most Github repo is already a statically published page, easy to author and easy to access. Even most PWA festures can be added to this setup with just Jekyll configs. Am I missing something in the question?
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Ask HN: What health features can be designed into next generation mobile phones?
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by mamborambo 7y ago
Reading through the article the appeal process was shown to be highly fuzzy and uncertain even for a group of highly trained legal experts. This Kafkaesque situation is similar to the way the legal process works inside a totalitarian state
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by mamborambo 7y ago
The "Buy it for life" movement would absolutely need to flag software-dependency as an anti-feature. My recent smart TV purchase is regrettably tied to a fixed China-hosted domain name to fetch the main pages, and despite many ca
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by mamborambo 7y ago
An important side story is that CCP's active political interference of Taiwan's participation in World Health Organisation and other international coordination effort in the past few years, can affect Taiwan's ability to cont
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by mamborambo 7y ago
The risks of government abusing Internet is omnipresent, but this risk is out of control in countries where the constitutional courts are weak and lawmakers compliant. It shows that tech disruption is ultimately still less powerful than po
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by mamborambo 7y ago
The hopeless situation of Carrie Lam fronting the CCP and having to execute its policy, is what drove Hong Kong into the people's revolution of 2019. Under the CCP, local administrators do not need ideas, just obedience. Carrie Lam&#
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by mamborambo 7y ago
The idea of "digital republic" is fascinating. Politically it may be controversial, but technically it deserves further study. As the world shifts to the nomadic, post-industrial, cloud-based societies, countries like Estonia wi
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by mamborambo 8y ago
But once past initial audience discovery, the recurrent billing of patronage donations is just pure service. So logically creators should only use FB for access to new audience, build a relationship with the newly acquired audience, and piv
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by mamborambo 8y ago
But pas
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by mamborambo 8y ago
Writing this from Hong Kong, the danger of being surveilled and having secret dossiere compiled without one's knowledge is always at the back of one's mind. I guess once you buy into using Wechat, Alipay, face id etc you will gra
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by mamborambo 8y ago
So much truth in this article. We closed down our hobby business, a dance studio, after 10 years of trying to make it work, and finally come to the realisation that we can do much more without the anchor weighing us down. The truth is a pa
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by mamborambo 8y ago
The One China issue has long ago morphed from a rational point of consensus, into an irrational point of oppression. The attitude has changed drastically, when all the original members of those discussions have been replaced by next generat
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by mamborambo 8y ago
Scary shit here! I just finished the gsuite trial period and started my first paid month, and then to read this horror story is.... I activated Gsuite because it is the best price/capacity value for cloud storage (at the moment) and a
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by mamborambo 8y ago
China (PRC) culture suffers from two systemic weakness: the selfishness created in one-child, post Cultural Revolution, and the cha-bu-duo (nearly good enough) attitude of rapid modernization. In Asia many consumers think of Japan and Kore