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> By my count, the country has produced two cultural works over the last four decades since reform and opening that have proved attractive to the rest of the world: the Three-Body Problem and TikTok.

I think a lot of people simply cannot wrap their head when they view from the Western angle. As a result, they sometime just fixate on some main-stream idea without realizing that those views are from limited exposure to the ground.

It's true that China has not produced much other attractions than 3body and tiktok, even 3body is heavily influened by US SF writing, and tiktok is originally produced in US by musically. The point is that these productions are easier to be accepted by the Western socieity, because they themselves are linagage from the western tradition, with a more tainted cultural identity than the indigenous stuff.

In reality, China have produced enourmouse amount of culturally diverse and innovative work for the domestic audiance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWdkAyt9Q2A I'll give you one example of a recent production of a Cantonese opera mixed with modern filming tech of the classic Bai She Zhuan. And Pop star signing Song Dynasty Chi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t9VT9Dwiqg.

Of course, these color productions are very distant from the Western cultural heritage, and people from the West simply cannot appreciate their wonderfullness and depth.

I think at least for me, before working at an early start-up, the wrong idea is that pivots are exceptional.

No, pivots are what startup do.

They are born out of pivots, since the founder(s) could not find a way to implement their ideas in other venues.

So all startups pivots, and all successful had pivoted successfully.

jvns.ca has been a solid source of high quality and deep technical information that I and my colleagues have thoroughly enjoyed. The contents have always been direct, clear, and deep. Very enjoyable.

The sign of corruption is that reputation is no longer an irredeemable asset.

I totally agree crypto 99% is scams and ponzi.

> If you wiped away that entire industry, would your argument still hold weight?

There are plenty of industry are created by startups. Like internet search. Social network. etc.

The core thesis of any startup remains the core principle of capitalism: use the capital to serve the customer needs better than competitors. One of the mechanism under this principle is to build product for the ones who really need them. Nowadays most of the glamar is given to so called disruptive startups. Which for all things considered, are net negative to the world. For example, crypto...

Agree here.

Emotional detachment to engineering solutions is one of the hallmark of the maturity of a senior engineer. Senior here means in general being separated from new and inexperienced engineers, not to particular title.

Then another level beyond senior is that engineers start to be able to have emotional attachment to engineering problems. It's like back to the beginning when someone is new and inexperienced. The difference is that the attachment now is about the joy of learning, instead of the frustration of feeling not be able to solve the problems easily.

I don't know. I am not zuck.

Btw, if there is any way that one can use to even know if a strategy is optimal in stock trading. Let me know, I'll offer 1billion dollar for the exclusive ownership of that method.

> I'll encourage you to take another look at the whole situation and decide for yourself if CCP model and its behavior towards other nations and even its own minorities is really the right model for any country, let alone China.

Yes, I did that every single day. This is just what I currently feel. My perception might change. BTW, I am a Chinese living in US.

Is this report some kind of mental manipulation on behalf of Zuck? The stock sale is part of the disclosure of corporation governance. No method is going to be free from criticism. It's purely a goal optimization under the regulatory framework.

So first, Taiwan is not sovereign nation. Under international law, Taiwan and mainland is one nation. So there is no such concept of Taiwan airspace per international law.

And, the so-called incursion is to Taiwan's air defence identification zone. That zone covers majority of Fujian province. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Defense_Identification_Z... Literally, mainlanders are intrusion Taiwan adiz constantly. That's how ridiculous the western media repotting has been nowadays. They'll refuse to even acknowledge an obviously physically impossible situation, and blame on China...

Well, as a matter of fact, any independent news organization is a problem for any modern government. CCP and US establishment are equally fearful of independent news organization. For example, Assange and wikileak.

Even a fictional character, Paul Atriades, knows that religious zeal is a beast that cannot be contained. I am more inclined to believe that as a skilled politician erdogan should be well versed in history and politics to see that danger. And I believe that he indeed is a believer of Islamic religion.

That country is Russian, right? Or Saudi Arabia?

I am not very familiar with Syria situation. Purely a honest question.

> Evidence that you have failed to explain beyond claiming a grand “media conspiracy”. This is textbook misdirection.

No, the original evidences from Adrian and some Australian reports were througly debunked by normal youtuber like Daniel Dumbril

https://youtu.be/E00Xtf2ITzU

https://youtu.be/67pU0Ybovnc

They are allegations based on western media reports, which themselves are based on dubious evidences.

Everything so far regarding Xinjiang are all one-sided news rehashing from a few individuals, while the US intelligence with its cutting-edge spy satellites, field agents, cannot find any concrete evidences. Just coincidence?

I have friends visiting Xinjiang and talked with local people, Uyghur and non Uyghurs. There is no evidence that supports the 1M number. You can watch a lot of YouTube video of people visiting Xinjiang and the local people. Make your own judgement.

Juicy rumors. CCP officiers now become the hot target of actresses. Wow... Not sure what's going on here.

But I suppose it's OK to respect people's privacy?

I literally wrote: "CCP is bad in different way than any other political organizations."

When did I say they are the same as US government?

> How can welding front gates shut be protecting human life?

No this is not.

But it's neither protecting human life by calling "Chiense virus" "Kunflu". Enough said.

> VPN

https://zh.vpnmentor.com/

> Why don't you post to your WeChat groups "佟丽娅嫁给中宣部副部长," reputed marriage of an actress to the vice minister of Propaganda Ministry and take a screenshot? You cannot even search it in Baidu, and you have the gall to say the Internet in China is constantly watched.

Dude, what is this thing? I have no idea what's going on with this "佟丽娅嫁给中宣部副部长,"?

> do you discuss how millions of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang province were (are?) detained in concentration camps [0]

We discuss that. That was viewed as a western media propaganda. I.e., no hard proof from any reputable organizations (UN for example).

> All that is needed is a search engine on top of indexed WeChat message

I know far worse things the local government did using their information monopoly. You don't need to educate me on that.

What I replied is that the OP wanted to paint a picture of a dystopian monitoring in China, that's not what happens.

> Your most recent comment as of right now attempts to cast doubt on this fact.

These are reports, not facts. I dont believe these reports, because these media shows some incredible buntant manipulation. I simply cannot trust people like these. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS8EceIa1MQ&t=115s

> Her four "guests" are Chinese government cadres who lived in her home for 10 days every month for two years before her family fled, she said.

Well, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS8EceIa1MQ&t=115s, this certainly could be true, but I just cannot fully trust media photoshops trees to extend a narrative.\

> But while equal on paper, in practice Han Chinese are largely spared the abortions, sterilizations, IUD insertions and detentions for having too many children that are forced on Xinjiang’s other ethnicities, interviews and data show.

LMAO

My mother, a Han people, was subject to forced abortion. I was born in a different city than my hometown to evade that.

Stop painting racial conflicts, when there is none.

The lies can go on for a while, but they cannot last forever...

> there's really no excuse for what China is doing to Uyghurs atm.

First make sure everyone agrees upon what happened to Uyghurs first.

China is closed to foreign examination in the sense that they do not want to show all the details. But BBC and western media decide that that's a legitimate excuse to allow manipulative reporting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS8EceIa1MQ&t=101s

You are not going to get people to be honest, if you try to force that with lies.

What's the connection of this to the parent?

High power is always corrupted. Even today we have Kennedy assassination, Eperstein, Assange. Desmond Shum is connected to Wen Jiabao. No 2 in China at its time. You think dealing with these people is not dangerous?

CCP is bad in different way than any other political organizations. That does not make China unique in any significant way at all.

None of these can be attributed to authoritarian, or some form of CCP brutality, when moderate amount of scrutiny is applied ...

> - You cannot travel abroad (no passport for average citizens, except for those that study/work abroad)

This is of course because of China's CVOID policy, which is 0 tolerance. That's a rational decision of China's high-density population, and manufacturing-based economy. I do not think it's inherent anti-human-rights, as the death count is fractional to open-co-existence policy. Life itself is a human right, and probably the most precious one.

> - You cannot go beyond China's intranet

VPNs are legal in China. You just need to be technically-sophisticated enough to find the correct VPNs, and make sure it falls in the boundary of Chinese law.

> - You cannot transfer money out of country legally, pretty soon can't invest in other countries's stocks

This is just not true... You can use various services to transfer money out. The only issue is that they are subject to certain limitations, which are far more restrictive than US. But again, US dominates world financial system, there is a view that financial imperialism is a key part of US capitalist exploiting Chinese workers. Thus the financial limitation. I doubt that anyone other than the rob-barrons are affected by this. I personally know a lot of Crypto super riches, trust me, they are absolutely a net negative force in society.

> - You cannot watch Spiderman, BTS, squid games, porn and many many more things legally

You can. VPN to netflix. And a lot of pirated content. They were just not allowed to go through the official channel. Of course, CCP is wrong here. But let's not paint a picture that Chinese people are sheeps.

> - You have very little rights as LGBT

Not sure what you are talking about. LGBT is not discriminated officially in any form in the CHinese society. Society still holds stigma over these people. One primary reason is that these groups are associated with higher chance of sexually-transmitted diseases.

And dont assume me a CCP associate, I have a good friend who is gay. He is my college friend. He is pretty happy.

> - You have to work 9-9-6. Which is why many citizens are lying flat

This is probably what forced upon by the private firms. These are punished heavily by CCP recently. Jack Ma and Alibaba are the defender of 996...

> - You are constantly watched, monitored, "invited" to police station for tea, banned for posts that contain any words that are on the growing banned list

This is not true. I have several wechat groups discussing serious political issues in China. None of the 50 people ever had any sign of being bothered. I mean, there is no way that one is constantly watched in China. If that's true, China either already have an AGI, or what we bought everyone are not actually made in China, because there are simply not enough cheap labor to produce them in the first place, and most of them are employed in watching others.

> - You should not get rich (1/3 of billionaires have died or disappeared)

1/3 of billionaires have died or disappeared...

First, the number of billionaires are unknown. Chinese society had a tradition of the rich become victims during the terminal phase of the dynasty. So the rich is very well aware of this fact, and they hide. Do you know that Mr. Deng Xiaoping's son is astronomically rich, but you'll never see anywhere his net worth is published?

Second, please give a citation... To engage this discussion is putting legitimacy on this ridiculous claim...

> - You have little recourse as a woman who is abused by men in power

Come on... This becomes ridiculous... Gender equality in China is pretty high. Ranked 38th out of 157 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_inequality_in_China I mean it's not spectacular, but your statement is just outlandish...

> - You are constantly subjugated to idiotic mass testing/lockdown

What do you mean? I said a lot of bad words about CCP. I was not distant by my family or friends...

> - Oh and there's the yearly flood + crashing economy + crashing real estate + aging workforce + factory jobs leaving + dictatorship

If you read western media, then these are what they said. But these are not true according to what I hear from my friends and family.

The issue of this behavior is that CCP built an apparatus that information flow is managed across the whole country. As a result, one can no longer trace this document on any official channel. Since there is no public trace of this document, one is impossible to pinpoint the chain of evidence.

So block chain has been touted as an advanced tech by Xi, you'll notice that it's adoption is never free. The line that crossing would result into hard to predict consequences is itself intractable.

Education gilded one?

These are excellent indicators of team negator type of employees. I'll be using this to find them and fire those depending how bad the committed these activities...

Total number of Chinese students about 370k https://fortune.com/2021/08/16/us-universities-international...

Your link shows: The CSC funds approximately 65,000 Chinese students studying abroad in a given year, and the same number of international students in China.[1]

Does Chinese government pay the tuition for these students? That sounds like too good to be true.

> I see tennis players in China being incarcerated for speaking out

Who is this?

> I saw recently a video of a guy trying to report about Uyghurs concentration camp

https://youtu.be/zZCq7wLgpEc This? This guy is using this to seek political asylum in US. I watched his previous videos on Chinese website, this guy had been planning this for a while. The validity of the video is up to you to assess.

>All this spotlight on NK, China, Russia

If you look closely at all the spotlights, then you actually can find that most of them are minor issues. Even human rights violation are less diabolical: uygurs are put into rededication camp, while Afghanistan/Iraqian/Syrians were blow to pieces...

Bot of course, one might believe putting into rededication camp is worse than being blown into pieces.