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by zachguo 7y ago
TBH, as a Chinese expat, all these utilitarian arguments give me Deja Vu of how the Chinese government defended GFW.
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Mark Zuckerberg: “People Should Decide What Is Credible, Not Tech Companies”(deadline.com)
5 points by zachguo 7y ago|3 comments
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Zuckerberg Warns China’s Censored Internet Could Still Win Out(bloomberg.com)
10 points by zachguo 7y ago|1 comments
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Mark Zuckerberg took on China in a speech defending free expression(theverge.com)
2 points by zachguo 7y ago|0 comments
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Brave New World Revisited (1958)(huxley.net)
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by zachguo 7y ago
Hundreds of thousands of highrises were built there, one collapse doesn't mean much.
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Still Manufacturing Consent: An Interview with Noam Chomsky(fair.org)
559 points by zachguo 7y ago|302 comments
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by zachguo 7y ago
duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21207690
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by zachguo 7y ago
And it was flagged to death.
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by zachguo 7y ago
Because the sales are done top-down(via executives) rather than bottom-up(via actual users who are picky about the UX).
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Dealing with China Isn’t Worth the Moral Cost(nytimes.com)
357 points by zachguo 7y ago|261 comments
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Why do prime numbers make these spirals?(youtube.com)
2 points by zachguo 7y ago|0 comments
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by zachguo 7y ago
It should be exoplanets rather than planets in the title.
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by zachguo 7y ago
It may not be a total loss for mankind if there's another space race.
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by zachguo 7y ago
The world is not working that way. In terms of geopolitical interests, the EU doesn't align with the US well.
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by zachguo 7y ago
These two excerpts probably explain what 'Eternal Return' is referring to. > To the opponents of democracy, Nietzsche says, in essence: Just wait. Liberal democracy will devour itself, creating conditions for authoritarian rule
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by zachguo 7y ago
So the word 'attack' has a new meaning now?
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by zachguo 7y ago
More surprise for you. Government can be sued too. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1434836/hebei-man-be...
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by zachguo 7y ago
I'm not talking about this specific case. As to what you bring up, how platforms determine what real accounts are is a black box, we don't know how biased their machine learning algorithms and human reviewers are.
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After India, TikTok Bans Paid Political Ads in US and EU(thenextweb.com)
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by zachguo 7y ago
That's also why I gave up pursuing a Ph.D. in psychology and shifted my focus from experiment design to computational analysis & modeling. I failed to replicate a few cornerstone experiments with modern equipment and a more diverse
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by zachguo 7y ago
Is it really appropriate to let platforms determine what is propaganda or not?
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by zachguo 7y ago
This is utterly false. They are usually compensated 3 times the market value. Simply ask common people in China, everybody wants their houses to be torn down by the government. Sometimes the government cannot afford it, that's why you
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The Global Disinformation Order [pdf](comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk)
2 points by zachguo 7y ago|0 comments
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by zachguo 7y ago
https://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archiv... Just a replay of history with the country name replaced.
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by zachguo 7y ago
Out of curiosity, why did you omit the word 'possible' from the sentence you quoted.
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The Great Anti-China Tech Alliance(foreignpolicy.com)
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by zachguo 7y ago
Once I asked a company how they calculated the conversion rate of a billboard ad, I was told they got data from smart billboards reading car plates and linking them to people's online presence.
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by zachguo 7y ago
China should scrap the GFW and unleash them all, I guess the English-speaking world would have to build a GFW to fend off all Chinese netizens then.
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by zachguo 7y ago
You are confusing yourself by using per capita GDP. Simply use PPP GDP.

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