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by paradite 9y ago
Let's not assume everyone likes war, especially Chinese people who lost so much despite winning WW2. China has no interest in starting a war with Japan, with or without USA. Yes there is historical resentment, but people in our generat
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by paradite 9y ago
You make a very good point. I can't really make a judgement now. I am just talking based on my biased experience with the official narratives. I guess we can only wait and see for ourselves.
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by paradite 9y ago
As far as I know, all the places you mentioned are either Chinese territory or disputed Chinese territory. All of them are recognized by most countries (most likely including yours) as part of China. Can you name a sovereign state recognize
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by paradite 9y ago
I am sorry but I fail to see how China being influential (which is already true to a large extent) would cause the world to be a worse place than it already is. You could argue that what's going on in China is bad for Chinese people, b
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by paradite 9y ago
I think it is just one of the millions of possible coincidences. Yes, it's fun, but nothing weird, because there are other millions of equally weird coincidences that could happen.
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by paradite 9y ago
I think you accidentally or intentionally revealed your location by mentioning "woodland".
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by paradite 9y ago
Thanks for the reply. Clearly I am not the intended audience for this piece of essay. Just out of curiosity, can you gauge how many percent of the US population would find such essays engaging? Not to start a flamewar, but I am genuinely cu
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by paradite 9y ago
Okay. Here's something that may or may not be relevant. I'm a non-native English speaker who have been learning and speaking English professionally for 8 years and I had no problems reading BBC or CNN. However, this article was ju
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by paradite 9y ago
> I couldn’t work because I really needed to do job searching full time. This is the part that don't quite understand. To me, the period when you search for jobs is exactly when you should be working as freelancer or working on side
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by paradite 9y ago
Ensemble for the win, I suspect that they can perform better than the combined individual best when sharing training resources and models.
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by paradite 9y ago
> Li Fengzhi, a longtime employee of the Chinese Ministry of State Security who came to the United States in 2003 as a graduate student at the University of Denver, said that the Chinese government did not see the group so much as a spyi
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by paradite 9y ago
I think it should be justifiable for me to downvote this on the grounds of uncivil remarks against the entire nationality. However, I am not going to do so because I acknowledge that this is a common mind sight of a Westerner and it is not
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by paradite 9y ago
Uhm... I think you forgot that ethnic han Chinese are human beings like you, capable of reasoning and driven by self-interest. I don't appreciate being treated as as a mere weapon.
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by paradite 9y ago
So it's like building weapons of mass destruction without being noticed? Sounds really bad.
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by paradite 9y ago
This is one thing that I don't like about HN. When a person from a different background shares his/her differing opinions on a certain issue, there are people who downvotes it for whatever reasons that they might have. Is it unciv
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by paradite 9y ago
Oh, I see. That would also be great.
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by paradite 9y ago
This guide is more for beginners who just joined or want to join big tech companies. But I can see that your suggestions would make a great "power up as beginners" guide.
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by paradite 9y ago
It is actually much complicated than those maps showing only one governing body. Actually those maps show precisely the periods of unity (Han, Tang, Yuan, Ming, Qing) where only one major power governs, as well as the periods of divisions w
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by paradite 9y ago
On the specific issue of HK, it's been part of China for a very long time and only taken away recently. Of course we are not talking about taking back European territories that used to belong to some dynasties briefly. Just those stabl
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by paradite 9y ago
Okay. There are already lots of discussions on politics, so I will contribute something different. I have spent considerable amount of time in China and Singapore (former British colony). I've also travelled to HK. When I read this kin
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by paradite 9y ago
Relax, whoever wrote this, you are not travelling to the US. As long as you are not bringing a world map with Taiwan as a separate color from China, you will be just fine.
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by paradite 9y ago
Yeah. You are right about that. So I am not ruling out the possibility that someone who mispronounces the word was the author. Still the odds are low, considering this is a common phrase and he/she has likely made similar mistakes befo
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by paradite 9y ago
> A number of unique characteristics in the note indicate it was written by a fluent Chinese speaker. A typo in the note, “帮组” (bang zu) instead of “帮助” (bang zhu) meaning “help,” strongly indicates the note was written using a Chinese-l
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by paradite 9y ago
You can in fact fly to North Korea, as thousands of people are doing every year. Or you can see what's happening through others who actually travelled there, like this photographer: https://www.dprk360.com
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by paradite 9y ago
I think it's worth noting that while physical token is needed for adding new payees and changing transaction limits, it is not necessary for online purchases, which only requires sms verification (at least for DBS). I think it's a
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by paradite 9y ago
Side note: You may not want to open this on mobile data. It was downloading at 1mb/sec and I had to force close the browser immediately. Edit: Not sure how big is it in total though. Maybe someone not on mobile can share.
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by paradite 9y ago
As the author noted at the bottom, it's taken from https://rauchg.com (the guy behind now.sh)
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by paradite 9y ago
> Apple's focus on privacy has always been a splinter in the eye of Chinese authorities. So was UK authorities, US authorities, and lots of other authorities, there is no need to single out China in this case. > I strongly believ
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by paradite 9y ago
I think thousands of nuclear warheads are pretty good military resources as a form or deterrence, much more effective than conventional weapons as a defensive measure.
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by paradite 9y ago
I think it is short-sighted to conclude which one (Chinese system/Western system, albeit exaggerated) is better at this point of time, especially considering the current political, environmental and economical circumstances and trends.

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