It's getting kind of ridiculous where this guy gets Patreon every month now..
[0]: http://sexycyborgisaliar.blogspot.com/2017/05/naomi-sexy-cyb...
Here's that same argument again: Isaac Asimov wrote a lot of stuff, then he stopped. Around the same time he stopped, I started writing a lot of stuff. Therefore...
To the more pointed criticisms given by 'Brianna Wu' or Timaz or whoever, I'm just going to disclose I'm an editor for Hackaday, I know Naomi, and all that entails. So:
"The grammar and formatting are well beyond a lot of even native English speakers" -- Yes, because we edit her posts (top link to this submission and [0]). Additionally, Naomi has said she has a team (maybe of expats?) that edit her work for grammar and idioms. Also, if you follow her twitter, she's really locked in on Internet culture, which would give her a leg up on the memes and idioms.
"While we are talking about China. The Chinese government blocks sites like YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram." -- Yes, and the Chinese government also blocks Hackaday. Luckily, our readers in China are the type who know how to get around that. Which gets into the next point...
"Strange that she doesn't have the same online presence in her home country as she does in the West. " -- I'd keep a low profile in my home country if I were her.
"How much do you think this stuff cost? RE: her lab" -- it's actually pretty cheap. Her lab is in Shenzhen, so I'm assuming the price for tools would be even cheaper than what Harbor Freight is selling them for. Additionally, it's not that much gear. It's a 3D printer, and I think a miter saw. Not expensive equipment, even in the US. And especially attainable if you're working remote, which Naomi is.
I'm just going to tell you, OP, and everyone who agrees with you right now: fuck off. There's nothing inexplicable about a woman being able to use tools. The fact that your comment was voted up to the top in this Hacker News submission says a lot about Hacker News itself. Go feel shame, because you deserve it.
[0]:https://hackaday.com/2017/03/28/source-parts-on-taobao-an-in...
>I'm just going to tell you, OP, and everyone who agrees with you right now: fuck off.
This kind of debate shutdown is better suited to Facebook political groups, not HN.
Jeri is one of those rare people who thinks things through from first principles. She does mods few people would think to try - changing the frequencies of crystals through vapor deposition, spin-coating her own wafers, and converting a satellite receiver to a radar transmitter by reversing a transistor in the low-noise amp.
Her work is more geared towards education, and Naomi's is more geared toward entertainment. I think there's a place for both.
Of course the blocks don't always stay the same, and sometimes they depend on your internet provider, but from my point of view, it seems like you haven't stirred the ire of the regime yet.
I can echo this. Over the years i have been taken as being American because of how i write. But back in school my english grades sucked.
It was only after got online and thus had to regularly practice that my writing picked up. But if i have to try to speak the language, i will butcher it in a myriad of ways.
Regardless of what your opinion is of anyone on this forum, using profanity is inappropriate and uncalled for.
From the guidelines:
> Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say face-to-face. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
The main thing I take issue with is someone literally parading a girl around in less-than-underwear for their own profit.
Low profile in their home country.. like showing your face and naughty bits on camera and attending conventions?
Like I said, this really makes no sense when you add things up.
Tools are cheap in China for the Westerner, but not for the average Chinese person (much less that of a girl). Do you know how much a "good" job makes in China? Someone working in a government position with a pension and all makes maybe less than $1000 USD a month.
And a flat in ShenZhen of that size? Also really expensive for the average Chinese to afford.
Edit: I'd love to be proven wrong on this by the way. Bucking this stereotype of Chinese girls all being face-deep in WeChat and food pictures is what China needs.
Why is it that women in tech aren't allowed to have intermediate technical skills without copping shit for it? "What, you had help? Such a fraud!"
> Bucking this stereotype... is what China needs
Perhaps one way to buck it is to not try on every little excuse you can find to discredit someone, birther-style?
I do ALL of my builds myself and keep cameras running from beginning to end to prove it. What other technical help I get is always disclosed in the presentation and build log.
There is no proof I can offer that will be accepted and he harder I work, the more evidence I offer, the more I study and try, the angrier they get. Now this shit- I write a reasonable article and they jump in to try and discredit builds that are not even relevant to the discussion.
There's also a subreddit I found regarding this, but it also devolves into comments on her body.
> I'm not the owner of that blog.
https://www.reddit.com/user/SexyCyborg/comments/?sort=top.
She admits to getting help with english editing here:
> *As always when my English gets native I had help proofreading and editing. This applies and yes I get frustrated sometimes. Words are still mine. Lots and lots of people have met me in person and verified I am me.
https://www.reddit.com/r/cosplaygirls/comments/4ufyy0/sexycy...
She also admits to needing a lot of technical help from other people:
> You know how overseas Chinese students in America all copy each others work to get answers? This workflow scale. How we work when older too. So if I have a question I open up QQ and have a few hundred friends. We all help each other with whatever. Many are engineers or work in factories here in Shenzhen. Most of the electronics in the world are made here and a lot of them designed and engineered here also. So easy to get very very professional help. This network has been called gongkai. Also why so many hardware startup here.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY/comments/3c9l2m/my_diy_underlit...
But I think it's just an interesting cultural difference. It's not really "cheating" to ask for help. I don't know if we want to start calling everyone using stackoverflow merely "mascots" or "ghost writers".
It's interesting how people would rather dream up a conspiracy theory rather than believe that a woman can accomplish something technical.
I don't really care about the provenance of the work; it's a well-written article on tech in China. If it's a team of a western engineer and a local Chinese person (who happens to be far more attractive/better presenter, probably), I'm fine with that.
I'm ok with the article being presented better, but I do think profiting off it bears ill-will. One of my favourite benefits of the internet is the ability to hide yourself. Pretending to be someone else more attractive and making up a story crosses the line for me.