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by paradite 9y ago
No, I am not talking about someone being jailed for being activist. On that front, HK has its own laws and I respect that, the same way I respects US law and law in mainland China. I hope you would also respect the HK law being applied to H
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by paradite 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13203027 This summaries my points on the relationship between people and the government.
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by paradite 9y ago
Well, yes, I agree that Chinese people are somewhat lacking in critical thinking since so much policies are straight from the government and people just follow. It is very different from HK and US. In fact I think that's the main reaso
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by paradite 9y ago
I thank you for having good intention, but please do research properly, understand the bias and perspective from each article that you read, and make a judgement only after you have considered all sides of the argument. Do rush to spread in
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by paradite 9y ago
As a Chinese citizen, I would appreciate if you stop thinking about "helping" us. Even if you are genuine, it would come across as condescending. Majority of people in China are happy with their lives, we certainly do not see the
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by paradite 9y ago
> Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that." https://news.ycombinator.com/n
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by paradite 9y ago
The problem is, as a traveler, I now have to choose between my privacy and reduced chance of getting entry into U.S.
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by paradite 9y ago
It's also implemented for visitors, in fact earlier than this. http://fortune.com/2017/06/01/u-s-border-social-media/
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U.S. To Collect Social Media Data on All Immigrants Entering Country(nytimes.com)
239 points by paradite 9y ago|240 comments
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Doublethink(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by paradite 9y ago|0 comments
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by paradite 9y ago
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=border%20us%20nytimes&sort=byD... https://hn.algolia.com/?query=border%20enforcement%20nytimes... https://hn.algolia.com/?query=china%20nytimes&sort=byD
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by paradite 9y ago
> In addition, making a claim from a fresh anonymous account conveys the message that you do not actually stand behind it, giving it zero credence. Let me do it instead then: Why is Nytimes so concerned about China while failing complete
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by paradite 9y ago
Wechat = WhatsApp + Facebook + PayPal Unless you mean Facebook and PayPal are nothing, you are wrong.
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by paradite 9y ago
The fact that this article is written and distributed with medium (web app) invalidates everything the author says. It's working fine, you are using it, and millions of other people are happily using it. Web is great for users because
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by paradite 9y ago
I think you misread the meaning of my comment, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15318245
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by paradite 9y ago
Ah, now I understand why the downvotes. I mean "not having ID and going through identity verification process" is considered an exception by TSA when boarding the plane, not a norm. I didn't mean to say "not requiring an
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by paradite 9y ago
I agree with your points, but I don't think you are replying to the points that I made directly. I was specifically referring to the TSA rule on verifying identity without ID and its intention, not on car, trains, or how prevalent the
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by paradite 9y ago
Well that is an exception to the rule rather than the norm. In China, you can also get temporary ID from train stations and airports if you misplaced it. It is really funny for me to see comments like this used to show US being better than
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by paradite 9y ago
Wrong, and wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_the_Unite... http://gking.harvard.edu/files/gking/files/censored.pdf?m=14...
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by paradite 9y ago
I wrote a very basic script to rank hacker news stories based on comment/score ratio, found it to be pretty interesting: https://github.com/paradite/hn-ratio The idea is that stories with high ratio would mean act
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by paradite 9y ago
Good points on large numbers. It took me very long time to get used to saying 6000 as six thousand but 6500 as sixty-five hundred. I tend to say sixty point five thousand. Same with money, instead of six fifty, I would say 6 point 5 dollars
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Bilingual Numbers(paradite.com)
3 points by paradite 9y ago|1 comments
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by paradite 9y ago
That is exactly working as intended. You need to install WeChat and use the app to scan it to go the official account of the tourism office.
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by paradite 9y ago
Yup, I've been using them since forever ago. > Standard ECMA-262 5.1 Edition / June 2011
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by paradite 9y ago
I think it is in a similar situation as JavaScript. It is not strictly better than its competitors, but it still manages to attract an entire community of people[1] to contribute actively to the project and its popularity. [1] https:/
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by paradite 9y ago
Instead of pixelated graphics now we get high-res images and 1080p videos. What a sad, sad world we find ourselves to live in.
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Google taps Xiaomi for its most powerful Android One phone(engadget.com)
3 points by paradite 9y ago|0 comments
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by paradite 9y ago
> China does not want the reunification of the Korean peninsula if it creates a single, larger American ally on its border. So no, China does not oppose unification, it only opposes one modeled by the US, pretty much the same approach as
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by paradite 9y ago
A universally applicable phenomenon where lack of ownership leads to uncivil behavior got caught in China due to its sheer scale of sharing economy and NYT says "Great material for China bashing. Make sure we get a good title to reflec
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by paradite 9y ago
Not sure if the requests are faking clicks or sending tracking information. We had similar incidents before where the requests are for analytics firms to track you: http://donw.io/post/github-comments/ https:&#x2

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