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by tonylinn80 9y ago
lol, interesting read. I used to work on a graphics project with a state machine at its core, and user actions are defined to trigger state transitions
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by tonylinn80 9y ago
I've lived in China, Singapore, and US for a long time. And I have to say Singapore government is apparently the most reasonable one out of the three. It most likely also have highest approval rate.
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by tonylinn80 9y ago
Both Xi and communist party wants stability and economic growth, and they cannot get that if they can't keep most of the people happy. Even with media censorship, the Chinese government has to react to people's comments (and a lot
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by tonylinn80 9y ago
How is removing hard limit on two terms "crossing that gap"? It'd be a much greater leap if Xi wants to rule indefinitely. Xi (and the communist party) wants stability, and he has to answer to what the people want to keep sta
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by tonylinn80 9y ago
There're certainly other government forms outside western democracy and pure dictatorship
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by tonylinn80 9y ago
Why does it have to be voting
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by tonylinn80 9y ago
The concept of "Party" works in very different ways in China as it does in western world. When people in western governments started to form conflicting opinions, they'd say, let's create different parties and compete wi
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by tonylinn80 9y ago
Or something like public support rate. Doesn't have to be a vote.
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by tonylinn80 9y ago
Is the hard term limit really something can't be abolished then? Obama spent years of efforts building something and Trump spent its term tears it down. Can the government achieve anything meaningful like that?
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by tonylinn80 9y ago
Whether Taiwan's democracy is "functioning" is very questionable
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by tonylinn80 9y ago
Sure, what do we label Donald Trump?
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by tonylinn80 9y ago
Worry about that after 30 years then. I don't pretend i can predict what's going to happen at that time frame. Isn't AI supposed to take over everything by then?
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by tonylinn80 9y ago
That's primarily an excuse foreign companies use to explain their failures in China. They want to run their business in exactly the same way the do in their own country, they expect the users to behave in the same way as their existing
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by tonylinn80 9y ago
The current credit systems in China works very, very differently from what the western media describes. Major commercial systems like "Zhemaxinyong" are actually way more transparent than US credit system. You get to see a lot of
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by tonylinn80 9y ago
"no one worries about US activists the same way they do about Chinese ones"? You have only heard one sided stories from western media so far.
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by tonylinn80 9y ago
Why do Assange and Snowden needs to hide then? Of course US don't need to do anything sketchy, they make them illegal and lawfully send them to jail
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by tonylinn80 9y ago
Apple got some good number with iPhoneX launch it seems, after several years' of decline in market share. They're no where close to getting killed though. The fact it's moving servers to China is most likely going to have pos
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by tonylinn80 9y ago
Whichever way, it doesn't matter that much. At least where Apple wants to put their server makes no difference. It's not that we are "unaware" of anything, we just don't feel the same way about privacy (and many oth
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by tonylinn80 9y ago
Totally agree! I would have already switched if I hadn't bought so many iOS apps.
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by tonylinn80 9y ago
Yeah, other iCloud services are just widely unpopular in China, they're basically irrelevant. Need to store photos? Baidu disk and tons of other services provide much larger space with no cost, and much more affordable paid version. Wa
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by tonylinn80 9y ago
Well, I do live in China and I don't see anyone feeling any fear about this... Seriously, you can easily turn off keychain if you don't trust a cloud service to store all your passwords. And if i decide to use such a service, I&#x
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by tonylinn80 9y ago
Exactly, top Chinese engineers are also much more likely to choose to work in China now. The local IT industry is booming