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Nobody Knows Anything About China(foreignpolicy.com)
33 points by vincvinc 9y ago|3 comments
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by vincvinc 9y ago
In case the significance is not immediately obvious: this means things have officially been set in motion to keep Xi Jinping in power for the rest of his life, which will mean a continuation of his style of Chinese policies for the foreseea
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China Seeks to Repeal Presidential Term Limit(bloomberg.com)
233 points by vincvinc 9y ago|267 comments
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by vincvinc 9y ago
You can use Window's built-in Snipping Tool to do that more quickly than with paint (still love paint though)
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China Tells Carriers to Block Access to Personal VPNs by February(bloomberg.com)
6 points by vincvinc 9y ago|1 comments
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Liberated(economist.com)
3 points by vincvinc 9y ago|0 comments
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by vincvinc 10y ago
Can I respectfully disagree with Dang's changing the featured link? As someone who is not informed on Orwell, the previously featured article actually helps me understand what it is trying to say. It also gives me crucial basic informa
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by vincvinc 10y ago
The 3 problems listed are (in my experience) not the most important ones you need to know about when you're making a bot. I'm not sure how this got to +100 points here on HN so quickly, since there are plenty of more informative b
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Never fading, always accessible (2001)(youtube.com)
1 points by vincvinc 10y ago|0 comments
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Ow Putin Weaponized Wikileaks to Influence the Election of an American PresidenT(defenseone.com)
1 points by vincvinc 10y ago|1 comments
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A new polysyllabic character(languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
1 points by vincvinc 10y ago|0 comments
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by vincvinc 10y ago
This. You cannot consider Tokyo as an example of (successful) urban planning without understanding the role of the railway companies.
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China’s angry investors leap the Great Firewall(qz.com)
2 points by vincvinc 10y ago|0 comments
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Bots Are Hot (1996)(wired.com)
121 points by vincvinc 10y ago|47 comments
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No, WhatsApp did not just release a desktop app(botboys.com)
5 points by vincvinc 10y ago|0 comments
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GreatFire activist urges western firms to help end Chinese censorship(theguardian.com)
1 points by vincvinc 11y ago|0 comments
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by vincvinc 11y ago
If you prefer the spoken version, here is the actual talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpfdtgW6_oI
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Beijing is banning all foreign media from publishing online in China(qz.com)
501 points by vincvinc 11y ago|263 comments
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by vincvinc 11y ago
You don't have to go back 2000 years . . . the situation you describe (no or unused kitchen, going out or delivery for every meal) is the usual situation in large parts of modern asia. Why would you feel that someone who makes your foo
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by vincvinc 11y ago
I've read over and over that 'haskell is difficult', but why exactly is that? Its mathy syntax? Its unique concepts? The practical side (installing, configuring and libraries can still be troublesome)?
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Beijing Independent Film Festival 2015 opens without films(facebook.com)
1 points by vincvinc 11y ago|0 comments
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Airbnb Seeks to Expand in China with Local Help(cn.nytimes.com)
1 points by vincvinc 11y ago|0 comments
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China Unveils New 100-Yuan Note in Bid to Stop Counterfeiters(blogs.wsj.com)
1 points by vincvinc 11y ago|0 comments
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by vincvinc 11y ago
Is this an OK question to ask? Should I value firms according to which nationalities they hire?
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by vincvinc 11y ago
Maybe a bit out of left field, but I'm using Telegram (that open source messenger app) to share pictures with family. It was on a whim; once when I was at my parents place, I just set up Telegram desktop on both their PC's, the ap
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China rates its own citizens – including online behaviour(volkskrant.nl)
202 points by vincvinc 11y ago|155 comments
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New Chinese Cyberattacks: What’s to Be Done?(chinafile.com)
29 points by vincvinc 12y ago|25 comments
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Beijing to Shut All Major Coal Power Plants to Cut Pollution(bloomberg.com)
249 points by vincvinc 12y ago|101 comments
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Anti Great Firewall mirrors under DDOS following WSJ article(twitter.com)
3 points by vincvinc 12y ago|0 comments
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by vincvinc 12y ago
Just wondering: why not spin off a separate company to continue the service? Because they don't want to lose the engineers working on this? I guess that seems more important to the company?

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