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How costly is Chinese IP theft?(themoneyillusion.com)
3 points by scarcely 8y ago|7 comments
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by scarcely 8y ago
They always make sure to put a TON of "citations” in their comments too lmao.
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How should we think about the theft of intellectual property? (Scott Sumner)(econlib.org)
2 points by scarcely 8y ago|0 comments
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by scarcely 8y ago
Agreed. It's not for nothing we talk about "thinking out loud". That suggests that there is some kind of vague awareness that thinking and speaking are not fundamentally different activities (compare: "feeling aroused&#x
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by scarcely 8y ago
Unhappiness with my own life causes increased interest in politics and decreased interest in technology, math, philosophy, literature ... I use it as a warning signal.
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by scarcely 8y ago
Though worth pointing out "political" is ambiguous and that this a case of politics in the "office politics" sense not in the "use science to justify policy" sense
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by scarcely 8y ago
Chinese people criticize the government/party all the time when talking to each other. What even was your perception of the situation that would lead you to talk about "outing" lmao
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by scarcely 8y ago
You are what
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by scarcely 8y ago
If you see no difference between the Chinese government and the Nazi government, you should perhaps consider advocating for war (unless you are a non-interventionist)
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by scarcely 8y ago
Why are people so aggressive towards each other on this website lmao
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by scarcely 8y ago
Results about Apache Kafka are of interest only to a subgroup of software engineers. Results about Franz Kafka are of interest to a much larger group of people (Frankly, there is simply no comparison). It's the considerate thing to do.
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by scarcely 8y ago
Because if someone tells me not to do X, yet he himself would do X in the same circumstances, that's reason to think his behavior does not stem from a sincere moral conviction but is a cynical attempt to manipulate me?
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by scarcely 8y ago
It didn't help that "China is locking up Uighurs" is the news title used everywhere.
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by scarcely 8y ago
Given that "China is locking up Uyghurs" is the title used pretty much everywhere, I think you may be onto something. :)
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by scarcely 8y ago
Would you say the same thing about those from Muslim countries who have engaged in terrorist activities against the US? Many of them travelled half of the globe over to carry out the attack and many were willing to sacrifice their own lives
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by scarcely 8y ago
The factor lying at the root of everything is that China's government is fundamentally illegitimate from the West's point of view. Because of this perceived illegitimacy, when a violent bombing/stabbing incident happens, the
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by scarcely 8y ago
Slightly off topic, but I feel that when naming one's technical creation it's best to avoid using the last names of famous people especially when that person has become so famous it's become standard to refer to him/her
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by scarcely 8y ago
When I was little a game I would often play with myself is to switch on the Pinyin IME, keep pressing random keys for a minute or two, and then try to make sense of the ridiculous stuff I typed out. It was a lot of fun because you can alway
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by scarcely 8y ago
I'm sure he's not a monster. Thing is, Americans find it very hard to see us as anything other than monsters. It's exhausting to try and have a conversation when the interlocutor is ready to terminate it at any point because
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by scarcely 8y ago
As a Chinese person the thing I find most dispiriting is that, if this comment had been made in a slightly more subtle and polished way (without a Hitler comparison right at the start, for one thing) it would have received a lot more upvote
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by scarcely 8y ago
As a Chinese living abroad, I censor my internet voluntarily via custom ublock cosmetic filters that kick in automatically upon match of certain regex patterns. I call it my "outer great firewall". Very effective protection agains
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by scarcely 8y ago
Well, presumably the ideas we are talking about are political/social/moral views. To base your acceptance/rejection of them, even in part, on your knowledge of their genesis is already quite intellectually lazy. ("John m
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by scarcely 8y ago
Ah! My bad for not realizing that. I would only add that those who give so much weight to tone/delivery heuristics are also to blame. But I see your point, I feel similarly frustrated sometimes and I can definitely imagine myself actin
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by scarcely 8y ago
You can literally make this argument anywhere. Any good China does for its people or for other nations? That will just serve to legitimize their totalitarian government and encourage imitations abroad. Ergo it's bad. In general it&#x27
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by scarcely 8y ago
they hold different views? (they were born in China? they are brainwashed : no they can't possibly hold different views) It's futile to explain yourself to someone if the person will just declare you "brainwashed" if you
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by scarcely 8y ago
I'm not a programmer, I'm an academic. Topics in my academic specialty routinely get posted on HN. When they do, I browse the comments section, look for users who exhibit many signs of lacking rigor and/or intellectual honest
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by scarcely 8y ago
I don't think the user you are responding intends his comment to be putting forward some watertight argument. It sounds light-hearted to me. It's puzzling to me that you'd pick on this one particular comment to produce a deta
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by scarcely 8y ago
Censorship has its uses. I often open these China threads on HN just to add users to my cosmetic filter.
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by scarcely 8y ago
> and believe me, the later is much worse for a westerner. "Believe me" signals to me that I'm about to hear something shocking, yet it's followed by the anticlimactic "for a Westerner".
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by scarcely 8y ago
Maybe your baby ate the dongle?

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