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by xster 7y ago
Right. Protests are a means to an end and the people should be clear about what the end is. That's the whole point of not being administered by China in the first place, where you would just voice your discontent and let the 'tech
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by xster 7y ago
I agree and I support their struggles for economic fairness. But what does it have to do with CCP/Beijing? The CCP didn't put in a taxation system that protects the monopoly of the real estate tycoons.
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> "The fastest-growing period of Hong Kong has already passed, so the young people there find no way to climb up the social ladder. They feel choked in an environment of expensive housing, sweltering climate and a neighbour [the mai
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by xster 7y ago
I do agree that Hong Kong has its own sub-culture, though I think you would be better off arguing the civil/political aspect of it rather than the cultural part of it. The language seems like a confirmation bias. If you turned the corp
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by xster 7y ago
It's also a rather disingenuous to treat this like some sort of novel idea or some authoritarian ploy. Plato has been arguing that if you don't select your surgeon or carpenter based on that person's popularity in making publ
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by xster 7y ago
This is a great point. Also thanks for being neutral on this topic, especially given how hard it is to do so on Hacker News these days on this topic. I'm typically highly critical of America but I think Asian cultures have a lot to lea
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by xster 7y ago
If only the workers at those 'much bigger' 350 companies would also have a compensation increase...
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by xster 7y ago
I get your general sentiment. I'm just not sure why everyone keeps using the iPhone example. China's value-add part in the iPhone building process is about 1%. Having iPhone built with China's manufacturing efficiency is a lo
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Are there sources?
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by xster 7y ago
Looks like the article went out of their way to reference France24 and Nikkei Asian Review as the source to the source to the information but didn't link to what that source is.
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by xster 7y ago
I think we only have a partial historical experiment. I don't know what the server market share would be today if Windows Server 2000 had Windows Subsystem for Linux. context: it sounds like there's a modular Linux kernel in it to
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by xster 7y ago
> • We know nothing about the internal governance procedures of the trade union committee. We do not know who the committee members or other trade union leaders are, or how they are selected. Well Huawei is pretty specific about the inte
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by xster 7y ago
> most informative comment I’ve heard about Chinese business So it seems like the whole comment is a repackaging and a commentary on someone else's opinion. I think it's an interesting thought exercise but it's also hard t
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by xster 7y ago
Ah, I see where you're coming from. I mean retraining just seems to make sense and we all want it to work, but pragmatically, they just don't https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/01&#x2
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by xster 7y ago
Right. Using perhaps right-wing friendly terminologies, Yang is closer to the equality of opportunity end of the spectrum and Sanders is closer to the equality of outcome end.
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by xster 7y ago
Ya, rereading what I wrote, I might have missed a part of what I was trying to address. I don't think anyone is proposing that humans then do nothing and watch VR porn while being tube fed for the rest of their lives. There is indeed a
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by xster 7y ago
Right, and the next logical follow-up question is did we just define 'providing' wrong. Right now, that definition is commercial GDP value, but even that metric's inventor warned us that it's a bullshit metric [1]. Old p
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by xster 7y ago
Right (and slightly orthogonal, back to the mode of production topic), I think we can treat it in 2 ways: 1- We recognize this Bonds villain plan, we stop it and go back to our happy pastural life and everyone lives happily ever after; or 2
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by xster 7y ago
> Sometimes I think folks who think like this really need to get outside more. Yes, a lot of things are being automated, but (a) consider the janky quality of automation, because it's really not mature yet even in purely-software en
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by xster 7y ago
That's still a classic Sanders vs Yang mentality to the problem. I'm not saying that the public forcing more competition isn't good, but it's orthogonal. If we broke Uber into 1000 Uberlets, it still doesn't change
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by xster 7y ago
I think this is what worries me about the "mainstream" debate that might be incorrectly framing the whole problem altogether. Here, the rise of the gig economy came from automation. Not in the caricature sense that there are robot
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by xster 7y ago
That's almost like saying asset swaps and mortgage backed securities and all non-cash financial transactions are returns to a barter system.
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by xster 7y ago
Well my point is essentially that unless Saudi Arabia is willing to sell you oil for Bitcoins or that Venezuela wouldn't get 'humanitarian regime changed' for selling oil in Bitcoins, it's all kinda moot.
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by xster 7y ago
I think the reverse question is probably more appropriate. That derivative civilizations from the mediterranean maritime trading cultures have a higher geography driven disposition to sanctifying contractual agreements since that's how
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by xster 7y ago
The entire premise of the post-Bretton Woods neoliberal world US currency is based on an agreement with the Saudis to sell oil in US dollars for military support and on threats to bomb countries who sell oil in non-US denominations. And Chi
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by xster 7y ago
Ummm that's a really good point. Though numerically, the numbers are probably debatable. Taking for instance a full-frame Canon 5D II and something like a Huawei P30 Pro on the back of a napkin. A full-frame sensor is 864mm2 and a 1&#x
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by xster 7y ago
They brought it up themselves too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xozVBAWo8XI (not dubbed unfortunately) where their users would accuse them of being antiquated for not doing any server sync'ed messages but it's a
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by xster 7y ago
Tony Ma's daughter better not go to any of the Five Eyes countries at this point.
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Another department I doubt these traditional Japanese companies can catch up on is computational photography. I can take 5s handheld night time photos with adequate quality on a bunch of phones these days. There's still no way of getti
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by xster 7y ago
This sounds like Monsanto seeds being blown in from the neighbour's field and getting sued by Monsanto.

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