taiwanboy

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by taiwanboy 7y ago
In the ideal world, both posts would be on the front page. No echo chamber. Being able to hold opposing thoughts in ones head. Etc etc
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
I think it’s quite telling about the bias of hacker news users that this posting is alive and well on top of the first page, whereas a posting about US having the longest economic expansion in history, that was on the front page a few hours
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
Careful there with the personal attack. I put purported there for a reason. Han promised riches for citizens of kaoshung, went to visit China right after the election, and yet haven’t done a single thing yet to improve the city, before runn
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
Tech/media related issue here is that 1.) There are many media companies in Taiwan that have taken subsidies/investments from the Chinese government. For example, the richest Taiwanese, Tsai eng-meng, currently lives in Shanghai,
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
Safari needs a killer feature to woo mainstream users from chrome. Privacy isn’t going to cut it
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3721753 After China tariffs, Trump should recognize Taiwan, the Pentagon likely agrees
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
You know who isn’t naive? CCP. Any slight acts of aggression against a democratic Taiwan will mean economic sanctions against China from US and its allies (EU, Japan, etc). China’s economy will go back to the stone ages. Those US, British,
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
Not sure what your point is, CCPs legitimacy just crashed when Carrie Lam, a puppet of CCP, just bowed to the pressure of 2M protestors in Hong Kong.
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
I am proud of our democratic cousins in Hong Kong; this is just the beginning. Who knows what kind of country China will be in 2047, maybe there is hope for democratic China or 50 more years of democratic Hong Kong, who knows. As for Taiwan
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
I think the venture capitalist conveniently forget that a way to maintain or increase household income...... Is to not let millions of job leave the country in the first place. And preferably not to countries that abuses human rights.
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
So for the political conflict, it’s loss for xi for the moment because the trade deal was rejected by the old guards. For the internal conflicts, Hong Kong is a wildcard and I wouldn’t count out how powerful a shutdown of the Hong Kong econ
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
I have an opposite view: once US and China disentangle via the complete tariff on all Chinese goods in June, China will become inward focused and isolationist, part of the protectionist trends around the world. It will have way less trade
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
Good pickups on the other wars. I would actually say China is the midst of its own Great Depression right now. I think their strategies to wait out trump is misguided. By the time he leaves office, most of the manufacturing will have alrea
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
I think if you are a businessman/woman that have significant assets in China, you must be aware that the current Chinese government is fighting 4 wars right now: 1.) political conflict between xi jing Ping the new guards, and the old g
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
I wouldn’t worry, China is no shape to start a war with US. It is currently facing 3 wars: political leadership - with Xi faction vs the old guards. Internal population, with unrests in Xinjiang, Tibet, Hong Kong, and economically sufferi
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
It seems like once the old guards in the CCP rejected the reformist trade deal in late May that the inevitable path for both countries is disentanglement. Thus the 25% tariff hike on all Chinese imports possibly starting June 24. Thus the c
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
I am curious why the media seems to romanticize the country life and eschew city life, when the growth of cities and mega cities are continuing trends of the last 70 years. It seems that for the people with less resources, cities with their
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
My problem with slack or discord is that once you join a group, there are just too many channels and sub channels to follow.
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
Yes and when China signed up for WTO they also promised to fully open their markets up. And no state support for their firms.
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
Please don’t. Trump is one of the few people standing up to China, and China is threatening to invade my country, Taiwan. China is building up its naval forces and artificial islands nearby. Xi jing Ping has said unification is ultimate go
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by taiwanboy 7y ago
If you want to see the future of cooking as a service, no place better than to check out the night markets of Taiwan. Every kinds of cuisine, from Taiwanese to Japanese, Italian to Mexican. Every kind of meat from oyster to crab to lamb.