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by xster 7y ago
> American workers gained workplace protections through unions and the threat of a communist revolution, which forced the government to relinquish the use of its coercive powers against strikers And gun battles[1][2][3][4][5]. But now we
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I'm actually pretty curious how this could niche cultural phenomena like electric skateboards or mechanical keyboards hobbyists where it's all about low volume customized shipping from Shenzhen. Maybe this will force consolidation
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<in my mind>There's still humans in postal sorting centers?</> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjdpz05u2DY omg...
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Big +1. This sounds hyperbolic but I really do think that our best chance for world peace is resting on us reading primary sources. If there are editorials, fine, but don't just confirmation bias and move on. Read the primary source.
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Can you share the source?
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HN is turning into r/china these days
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I think this might have been shared in HN at some point in the past but https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/demolishing-the-ca... was a super fascinating article depicting local zoning as a social shaping tool al
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Li Kai Fu - AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order https://www.amazon.com/AI-Superpowers-China-Silicon-Valley/d... Despite unclear connection from the title, it's actually a good contextual
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This is a fascinating stanford prison experiment level social experiment spearheaded into the mainstream by twitter, facebook, youtube. I guess religious wars takes away the burden of petty intellectualism we've been trying so hard to
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I think the magic here is just about the 1% media controlling elite getting better at breaking up the remaining 99% into infinitesimally small factions so oxygen is sucked up from talking about real issues. When we turn the narrative of eve
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Not sure there is much analysis to be done here besides interpretive fan fiction. The primary source https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/public-policy/m... is a lot more opaque than Twitter's announc
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> perception is that Hong Kong do not have a decent judiciary or legal system, it works at the whims of China (again a perception created by few). So the actual discussion no one wants to discuss or hear. That's actually a bit surpr
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Well it's the official state apparatus with 1.2 billion viewers with 10x the viewership of BBC. There's tons of ways you can criticize it but sockpuppetry is probably not the best one to go for.
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+100 I've only lived in HK for a short amount of time so this might be unfounded. But I would opine that it's not the people of Hong Kong that have drunk the neoliberal kool-aid but that that's the intent of the colonial poli
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I think that's sensible. Though reporting by omission, disproportion or passive aggressive submissions are inherently political in nature. Suppose for a moment that all the front page China articles are other 'tech news' such
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I'm just a guy, so it's just one perspective. I'm also not that well read so I'm likely to be mistaken so I apologize ahead of time given the sensitivity of the topic. First, as much as I think the internet is a great kn
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Did you mean that HN isn't accessible through VPN? i.e. it only tunnels domains selectively?
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> So, its a state where the people living inside have all the benefits of being Chinese, with few of the downsides. I also don't agree with that point but probably for different reasons. Hong Kong was simply straddled with a half ol
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Semi-tangential, but many Chinese tech companies just have a perma-VPN company wide and use GSuite and Google search by default. And Hacker News is a tech-leading forum (though it's not that big of a thing in China AFAIK).
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Thank you for treating your authority and influence with diligence and respect. It's perhaps unsatisfactory and laborious but the world is better for it. Thank you.
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That's a common myth. The British ruled HK for 156 years and HK was never democratic. Movements toward democracy had some momentum after WWII for fear of HK joining the decolonialization or communist movements but was put down. Mass ki
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Ya, all excellent points. Thanks for being analytical when so much discussion is a direct jump into dogma these days. It’s pretty much exactly what this HK lady says as well https://youtu.be/WgplCDxvXN4 (sorry, it’s in cant
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Google Translate isn't banned in China.
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Right. And since it's all about the dogma of Hong Kong these days, no one spends another analytical moment beyond dogma to look at the fact that Hong Kong 'press' is a monopoly too [1][2]. And such is the political nature of
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Oh ya, he absolutely does. Like I'm stating above, both the legco and the governorship/chief executive setup is a sham. But you're just criticizing the queen of england. The situation is basically like someone kicks down your
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Ya, excellent points. I'd probably still make minor pedantic arguments about whether brave new world or 1984 is easier to defeat but I generally agree otherwise. i.e. if the people's lives are going down the tube, you know there&#
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Why do you think the US has a free press? The number of US media conglomerates just went from 6 to 5 this week and they all have the same advertisers. I don't see anyone having an iota of care about that.
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Oh jesus, TIL. Thanks for sharing.
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This has so many layers mental gymnastics and fiction applied it's hard to know where to start. The US overthrows the Iranian democratically elected government to maintain BP's regional dominance because the government threatened
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Another part of the story that's extremely hard to find in the corporate news. We've been wiping out Latin American farmers by dumping subsidized agricultural products for the past half-decade and yet we call everyone else a dumpe

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