Wow.. the liberty fighter strikes again.
Hope you enjoy your democracy while it lasts and stop being naive one day.
I literally have nothing to say to anyone who actually believes China would launch invasion against Taiwan.
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Hope you enjoy your democracy while it lasts and stop being naive one day.
I literally have nothing to say to anyone who actually believes China would launch invasion against Taiwan.
I never said JP would embrace any communist ideology. I was merely pointing out that you should see and think before you make ignorant claims without any actual data or seeing things with your own eyes.
> Xi's bullying of Taiwan
I don't understand why you keep saying bullying. For a tiny little island still holding claim to the mainland, China is being extremely nice. (Imagine Mexico government still holding claims to States that U.S. has taken by force, how would U.S. government react to that?) All I see around me is Taiwan business taking advantage of Chinese market and Taiwanese employees enjoy the fruit of China's development. There may be frictions, but it certainly wouldn't come near to the level that U.S. is exploiting it's neighbors in the continent.
Hope you would stop being a hypocrite before pointing figures.
I see that we would never convince the other at this point. But I do hope that you open up your eye one day and don't give into those radical left ideology.
I don't know if you are living in either China or Taiwan to know the dynamics of this complex situation. If not, your source would be only from your parents and biased narrative of west media. And those people most likely don't understand it either.
Watch more Jordan Peterson video maybe. Be a good citizen of the world.
加油。(wink, wink)
I like how quick you label people as soon as they share different political view.
> Could you elaborate on this wild claim?
Taiwan enjoyed a short period of economic boom only thanks to China opened up its market to Taiwan and had policies encouraging business from Taiwan to do so. This almost has nothing to do with their political system.
And now things have turned around. Taiwan's democratic system is a drag on their economy and prone to foreign influence. (Buying outdated weaponary from States? Continuous internal political struggles?) Whereas China has a much more unified vision under a strong leadership and on track to seek total economic dominance.
On the contrary, Taiwan is the proof that Chinese culture and democracy don't mix well. In fact that is why CNP lost in the first place and retreated to the island. China will always need a strong federal government to lead, or it would just break into smaller counties like EU.
Interesting. I am wondering how they update their posts. Because scmp.com is actually being blocked in where I am staying at. Maybe some state sanctioned services? I have been using aliyun services and never had any issues.. yet..
Edit: sensing lots of incoming downvotes. Point is that democracy may not be the only way to global power.
> Are you saying that half of HN are younger than 19? I would have thought the average age on HN would be somewhere around 30. I would expect the average HN person was a kid or teenager when Starcraft was released.
Maybe its a metaphor? A game of 19 years old could be say of 60 or 70 human age considering how fast game iterates.
So it's hotels only? No flights, cars etc?
Informative and concise.
Thought it was extremely hard to do though...
Though, the video sort of failed to elaborate more on science evidence than just death tolls etc.
People were literally bizarred by youtube, saying they were there by recommendation. (I have this video in the recommendations also...)
I wasn't referring to sci-fi in general. I was talking about my personal experience. I specifically had "when I read sci-fi story" in the original comment.
> So, it is ordinarily bad, yes; but it is particularly bad for being Chinese.
Yes, all politics behind this particular piece winning the award is my speculation, but I wasn't saying that "it is particularly bad for being Chinese". It would be hard for someone who doesn't familiar with Chinese netizen culture to comprehend such speculation. Go through comment section of the link provided by rabboRubble (https://read.douban.com/reader/ebook/20769128/). Like PR measures described in "Century of the self", <Folding BJ> is covered a lot in the news and planting fabricated idea among certain groups. Most reasonable Chinese sci-fi readers come to the same speculation as me (top review/most voted) while other lesser minds fail to see it, thus the chaos in comment section mentioned in the above link.
--Spoiler Alert--
The whole story actually doesn't seem to have anything to do with sci-fi at all. The plot is evolving around a man delivering letter? What? Is it in Victorian or is it in the future? All sci-fi elements are just stuffed in there and has no actual meat. I think for a good sci-fi, the author should first think through what technology exists in that world and then develop story that is confined to the setting. Not like this story which sci-fi only served as some convenient facts for author to exploit reader's emotion.
Edit.
And wow... thanks for all the down votes, guys. Hope all you've down voted read the whole folding BJ already.
After reading the first chapter and beginning of the second chapter, to me, it seems not a good piece at all. They had the technology of building a folding city for god sake, yet the protagonist is doing some heavy labor dealing with the city's trash. You would imagine such work would long have been automated. Actually, this always has been a problem when I read sci-fi story, some setting are just fabricated to make the plot more emotional but never really fit the common sense of, at least to me, the development of technology.
I certainly hope this whole Chinese writer winning an award wasn't some political move to attract attention.
I think it's hard for someone else to actually understand the problem when you two are not in the same knowledge framework. Cause then she/he will be perpetually asking the why and how question and being not satisfied.
edited.
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/198...
I worked as a programmer in States for 2 years. I decided to go back on my own will.
> If existing H-1B holders are not measurably adding enough value to the American GDP, then there's no reason to increase the number given out.
And I am not complaining the number of H1-B visa. In fact, I think the current policy works okay.
What I was suggesting was that people cheated their way out of U.S. colleges would most likely spend zero effort looking for jobs in States. Their goal was to get the degree so that their parents could have reasons to put them in some position back in home.
All in all, both group (kids in [1] and kids in the article) were doing very poorly academically in China. And all their struggles wouldn't be such a big deal if they just learn their places in the society.
And yes, I probably have better resources than those unfortunate. But guess who had paid the price? My great grandparents. They came to tier 1 city in 1900s, lived a hard life and did low skilled work like ironing cloth so that my grandparents could settle in city. The kid at 45:47 whining about how things were unfair to him was just making me sick.
The better job prospects part might not be true. Those came back to China for jobs will get their current position with or without a U.S. degree.
Personally, I think in this information age Programming is a much relevant subject to be taught in school than traditional ones like Math, Chemistry, Physics and etc.
Are you sure on that? I doubt Japan's neighboring nations would agree on that.