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by yaix 15y ago
I don't think it's optimistic. If a civilization, by the time it develops weapons of mass distruction, is overly agressive, it will likely destroy itself and not evolve into a space traveling civilization. Any intelligent live that manages
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by yaix 15y ago
Americans and their glorification of war. :( Losing the massacre in Vietnam seems not to have had any negative impact on the freedom of Americans though (it only had on the lives of millions in south east Asia).
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by yaix 15y ago
With the advantage of phonetic languages, that you can read new words that you have never seen before. Impossible in Chinese. (Probably the reason that everybody but China has made the switch from symbolic to phonetic at some point in the p
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by yaix 15y ago
Yep, it would be good to show that this kind of data is not reliable and easily manipulated. But probably it will not happen.
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by yaix 15y ago
>>Ability to write PHP code using the beautiful Haml templating system; >>Ability to write CSS stylesheets using the awesome Sass syntax [...]; >>Ability to write Javascript logic in Coffeescript; Some may like that,
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by yaix 15y ago
Are we talking about nodejs.org? I am in China an can access it. And you can check for yourself here http://viewdns.info/chinesefirewall/?domain=nodejs.org
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by yaix 15y ago
That is only partially true, I know of websites that have got themselves unblocked by doing exactly this. But honestly I don't want to discuss that with somebody starting his/her post with "Lol".
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by yaix 15y ago
False alarm. I live in China. Just turned off my VPN and I can access the site, download the source and docs. Sometimes there are regional blocks in some provinces, that may be the case, can't test it. But they are not targeting simple numb
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by yaix 15y ago
"poshmoda.ws" has a hidden domain owner. But the "toll free" phone number on their shows the obvious +86... Chinese copycat. While I don't approve the methods they use to go after the Chinese copy industry, I also dislike a lot how China ha
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by yaix 15y ago
There are so many illegal things the US gov't has done in the past 10 years, one more doen't really matter. At least this time it didn't involve killing people.
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by yaix 15y ago
"...decoupling of currencies from governments..." Yeah, because it worked so well when we let the banks just do whatever they wanted during the past 15 years.
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by yaix 15y ago
"Art is anything you get away with" is my favourite definition. The artist should have used the valuation usually claimed by the media companies when dragging young kids to court and he'd have gotten a valuation of somewhere in the billions
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by yaix 15y ago
But that's only asuming JS is enabled.
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by yaix 15y ago
"... but your passport might not bear up to scrutiny..." Not that it would really matter.
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by yaix 15y ago
What you describe and what shocked you is daily reality in most developing countries--poverty is ugly. During the next 2 years will be the handover of gov't to the next president and it will be up to him where China goes: the way of Brazil
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by yaix 15y ago
Economic growth makes a few rich, and those can do whatever they want, especially in a society with low ethical standards. The executive or judical powers are neutralized with money (a.k.a. corruption).
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by yaix 15y ago
I can't block them, there is no way to do that reliably. But if I had a brick-and-mortar store, I also wouldn't hand out free products to people who tell me "I may pay the second time".
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by yaix 15y ago
You're not. I never used and never would use an ad blocker. If I open a web site with annoying ads, I simply hit the back button or close the browser tab.
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by yaix 15y ago
Opt-out here: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp Or disallow cookies from ad networks, so they can't track.
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by yaix 15y ago
Glad you found out that just because a small minority is abusing the system, its not a good idea to destroy the income stream of all sites. I would love to block people that block the ads on my sites. I respect my users by placing only rele
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by yaix 15y ago
We don't even disagree on this. In the 1990s China privatized many areas of its economy and that triggered the development of private companies and businesses. The coal mining in Shanxi is an impressive yet frightening example what happens
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by yaix 15y ago
Most likly he was lucky to get a connection with some gov't official, that's the usual way you rise so quickly in China. Without Guanxi you will never get anywhere here. But of course he'll never tell about that part. And the Western journa
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by yaix 15y ago
Having been to Wenzhou just a few weeks ago, I just can say that it is a very ugly city, even by Chinese standards. Wenzhou is not succesful because of less gov't involvement, but because there is a well connected network of overseas Wenzho
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by yaix 15y ago
Ugh! What did they do to the nice Wave UI? And what is this "Toolbar" doing there besides cluttering up my small netbook screen? Not good :(
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by yaix 15y ago
Cool, registering now. What I most like is the old Google style on the login page. Even after months(?) of using G's new layout, I still dislike it. BTW: What is a "cancel" button doing on the signup form?
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by yaix 15y ago
The DNS has to stay being controled by one or more democratic countries. As much as I like international organizations within the UN framework, but giving control of the DNS to a UN committee would make it too easy for China to just give a
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by yaix 15y ago
Surprise! I did WHOIS lookups on some of the domains, and ALL were from China. Sometimes there is no name or address data but a phone number, and that is Chinese of course (+86...).
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by yaix 15y ago
Here in China? 5 Yuan in any electronics market. Usually with Office and Photoshop included (and probably some spyware).
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by yaix 15y ago
Saw it yesterday on China Daily, which is not the most reliable news source, btw. Looks like this is just an old laptop wrapped into a shiny shell with a touch screen attached. Nice gift for his girlfriend but hardly worth a news story. Wra
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by yaix 15y ago
That is not "personalized" but going with the crowd. Here in China they all do that, the cheaper the device the more glitter is glued onto it. Tastes are different, so whatever.

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