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by tatrajim 6y ago
Incorrect in the case of Apple. The government first approved their iBooks Store and iTunes Movies, then six month later, in 2016, shut them down, in what the NYT called a "startling about face". Apparently the Chinese authorities
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by tatrajim 6y ago
Then as a private company let them take full, legal responsibility for their editorial decisions. No reason why the federal government should grant them special status to support a partisan business model.
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by tatrajim 6y ago
> As we innovate more than SK Not in my field, where superannuated faculty members in the late 70s rehash ideas from their postdoc days. Nobel laureates are few, but every tenured faculty member can hang on forever. The pace in SK and th
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by tatrajim 6y ago
Unbelievable for me, an avid user of USENET in the 1980s who gloried in its sheer freedom to say anything, to see the tech world now cheerleading censorship. The parallel to the steady stream of articles that disappear on Weixin daily in Ch
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by tatrajim 6y ago
And note, too, that the rule change made decades ago in the US, banning universities from imposing a mandatory retirement age on faculty members has had a devastating impact on the development of younger scholars and the funding of new idea
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by tatrajim 6y ago
Not sure how T_D was ever considered "racist". Candace Owens and John James are heroes of the pro-Trump community, and every skin shade is welcome. It's a different vibe entirely. Reflexive critics probably never bothered to
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by tatrajim 6y ago
We’re a long way from the halcyon days of Usenet. Couldn’t have imagined in the 1980s the embrace of censorship by the tech world. It almost makes me physically ill.
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by tatrajim 6y ago
Personally over the past few decades investing in US equities, I have found arbitraging information found in Asian-language tech sites and real-world locations such as Shenzhen surprisingly profitable. My best example was a tip I garnered i
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by tatrajim 6y ago
Enjoying the lectures and notebooks. Highly recommended.
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by tatrajim 7y ago
You might do well to visit the Flying Tigers Museum in Guilin to get a sense of what the U.S. did in China to save the Chinese from Japanese invasion. https://visitguilin.org/things-to-do/guilin-attractions/flyi...
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by tatrajim 7y ago
Why not mention the rest of the story: that the U,S. and Great Britain engaged at the time in two bitter wars? Are you claiming that China is justified is stealing U.S. IP because the two nations are at war currently?
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by tatrajim 7y ago
Note how all comments citing US industrial espionage fail to mention that the young U.S. was at war with Great Britain from 1776-83 and again in 1812 when the Brits burned much of Washington, D.C. is the contemporary parallel that China is
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by tatrajim 7y ago
The “wealth tax” exists already at the local level as real estate taxes. The introduction of a federal wealth tax is tantamount to a future national real estate tax, surely inevitable as over the decades the limit on wealth taxed drifts eve
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by tatrajim 7y ago
Ming-chi Kuo single-handedly reveals most of the Apple hardware surprises in advance. I fail to understand why Apple can't limit the leaks to him.
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by tatrajim 7y ago
Being able to film video simultaneously from one phone with with two different perspectives was impressive.
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Koch network throws its weight behind Silicon Valley in regulatory battle(cnbc.com)
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by tatrajim 7y ago
It's baffling to me how SV, which created USENET, likely the freest forum for speech in history, now cheers on censorship. Free-thinking and wide exchange of heterodox views strike me as a necessary accompaniment to creativity in the t
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by tatrajim 8y ago
In China now the goal is the make surveillance omnipresent. Already in premier universities, including Peking University, classroom lectures are routinely surveilled to monitor inappropriate discourse.
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by tatrajim 8y ago
And note, historically, that under earlier Korean dynasties from 958 CE Korean elites like their counterparts in China vied for official posts through a grueling set of state exams, collectively known as the "gwageo". The median
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by tatrajim 8y ago
May I polititely suggest that your assertion of equivalence between South Korea and North Korea in terms of political freedom during the Park and Chun years is overwrought nonsense. Just ask any South Korean who lived through this period or
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by tatrajim 9y ago
All the hallmarks of classic Bloomberg FUD.
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by tatrajim 10y ago
Wired loses my respect and readership.
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by tatrajim 10y ago
Concerning the California La Raza Lawyer's Association (Judge Curiel belongs to the San Diego branch) and inflammatory comments by its founder: http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2016/06/09/whites-go-bac
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by tatrajim 10y ago
Concerning the California La Raza Lawyer's Association (Judge Curiel belongs to the San Diego branch) and inflammatory comments by its founder: http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2016/06/09/whites-go-bac
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by tatrajim 10y ago
This Australian news report investigates one such enclave in Sweden, said to be one of dozens such zones across the country. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42jpuXJPk0w
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by tatrajim 10y ago
Just to provide another perspective, I'm an American anglo who has lived off and on for over 30 years in South Korea, speak the language near fluently, have worked in a variety of Korean institutions from a rural health center to a top
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by tatrajim 10y ago
Actually, his positions on important issues have remained quite consistent over time. Donald Trump's anti-NAFTA position in 1993: https://i.sli.mg/0HYlvv.png His assertion of the need of Japan and Saudi Arabia to contr
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by tatrajim 10y ago
Right, the notorious peak group of 14 Foxconn suicides was in 2010, but still being referenced as if they happened yesterday. This compares with a national suicide rate in China of 22 per 100,000. Given the ~ 1 million workers at Foxconn,
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by tatrajim 10y ago
Trump may be a raging narcissist, but he has a long history of kindness to strangers. Probably the most famous example is his 1986 rescue of a widow's family farm in Georgia, about to be sold after the husband had killed himself in des