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by tepidandroid 7y ago
They are mentally filed away, so I don't have them off-hand sorry :) But it was largely due to their lack of credibility on China that I had to unsubscribe. Open up any Economist article on China and you'll quickly see what I mean
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by tepidandroid 7y ago
Thanks for sharing your perspective. A few disagreements: > As I mentioned in other comments, the protestors know that the real pressure is from the “Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019”, which China cannot ignore. As a sove
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Nakama: Distributed server for social and realtime games and apps(heroiclabs.com)
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Golang GraphQL Server Benchmarks(github.com)
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by tepidandroid 7y ago
And The Economist. Can’t forget The Economist’s constant and sustained death knelling over China’s economy over the years. I just file all these away along with the other 8447372 similar articles predicting the imminent collapse of China.
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by tepidandroid 7y ago
Fair point. My comment was only in response to GP's sentence about quelling protests on the Mainland. I doubt any such tactic would be effective in a highly educated and already distrustful population like that of HK.
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by tepidandroid 7y ago
The One China policy states that there is one China, either under the PRC or the ROC. The PRC claims that Taiwan is a Special Administrative Region of the PRC while the ROC claims de jure sovereignty over all of China. There are significant
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by tepidandroid 7y ago
I understand the point you are trying to get at, and it definitely applies to other countries/dictatorships. Present-day China, however, actually has a very efficient mechanism (relief valve) for dealing with massive public dissent, wh
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by tepidandroid 7y ago
There is no need for Xi or China's establishment to do anything here. They will simply wait it out. Hong Kong is and always will be wholly dependent on its relationship with China. There is no end game where democracy and freedom wins
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Juniper-from-schema: Generate Juniper code from your GraphQL schema(docs.rs)
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by tepidandroid 7y ago
There's a feature matrix here [1] comparing YugaByte to CRDB, TiDB, Aurora, CosmosDB, Spanner, MongoDB, FoundationDB, Cassandra and Dynamo. No idea about performance characteristics though. [1] https://docs.yugabyte.com&#x2F
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by tepidandroid 7y ago
I've responded above.
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My point is that the situation is much more grey than you're painting it. From what I've read about the situation, it was the Vanuatuan authorities themselves who arrested the six suspects. The Chinese government merely filed a co
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by tepidandroid 7y ago
> China just sent its police force into Vanuatu to extract 6 people (mostly Vanuatu citizens) who they claim broke Chinese law. The title for one of your sources says that they were Chinese nationals: > Secrecy veil over deportation
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by tepidandroid 7y ago
Thanks for providing your perspective. I have to disagree with the first part of this following sentence: > the Chinese are being every bit as colonial as we were, they're just being a bit less greedy. Colonialism is not only evil w
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by tepidandroid 7y ago
If you are in agreement with the parent poster that the Africans receive tangible benefits from Chinese infrastructure development, can you help me understand why you characterize the Chinese plans as "insidious and evil"?
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by tepidandroid 7y ago
This is my understanding also.
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by tepidandroid 7y ago
I find the lack of tooling the annoying part actually... the necessity for 3rd party frameworks like Apollo, tac-on modules like Dataloader... the lack of up-to-date, feature-parity server implementations besides the canonical Javascript
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by tepidandroid 7y ago
No, I think it's a very telling thing that there are people out there who comment authoritatively about a place whose name they can't even spell. There are multiple examples in this thread.
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The PRC maintains Taiwan is part of their territory and the ROC maintains the mainland is part of theirs. The US has traditionally used Taiwan as yet another military foothold in the Asia-Pacific to project and exert its own influence in th
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by tepidandroid 7y ago
Likely both. I'm no expert in this domain, but from my perspective, due to the nature of cyber warfare, it's all but impossible to have any kind of concrete evidence or smoking gun. Cyber security firms are deliberately very caref
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by tepidandroid 7y ago
You’re making a distinction between cyber industrial espionage and cyber geopolitical espionage and I’m not. I would classify all of these actions under the broad umbrella of cyber warfare. In this context, the OP’s assertion that Europe an
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by tepidandroid 7y ago
My assertion is that all advanced nation states engage in cyber warfare against one another, sometimes for the purpose of industrial espionage, sometimes for the purpose of achieving geopolitical goals (regime change, influencing elections,
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by tepidandroid 7y ago
Your fundamental assumption is that all nation states do not engage is such cyber activities.
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by tepidandroid 7y ago
Curious: what graphql implementation are you guys currently using server side? Something in-house? The non-javascript based options seem to be lacking compared to their js counterparts.
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by tepidandroid 7y ago
> You would expect the censoring to be less instead of more as the country develops. This has been the hope of the rest of the world as well -- that economic growth, higher education level and stability would usher in the transition away
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by tepidandroid 7y ago
Thanks for the genuine comment. I don't think I've pushed the notion that re-education camps are a social good nor innocuous. They are objectively pretty bad. Forcing anyone to do anything against their will is pretty horrible.
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by tepidandroid 7y ago
> This is one of the most frequent arguments by Chinese excusing the actions of CCP. Keep in mind that this is the party that started the cultural revolution, which resulted in 5-10 million deaths due to famine and state-sanctioned purge
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by tepidandroid 7y ago
From my own observations, financial centres typically act as gateways into more heterogenous or poorly understood regions... like an API gateway of sorts for countries. London acts as a financial centre for many businesses seeking to do bus
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by tepidandroid 7y ago
Which part of my comment constitutes demagogy and goalpost movement specifically? Especially the “demagogy” part. I will be more than happy to address each offence point by point.

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