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Is this really such a big deal for Facebook?

Suppose 50000 persons delete their Facebook everyday, then it will just lose 1,825,0000 users one year, not counting new users joining Facebook every year. And Facebook has 2 billion users.

Edit: The number lost in one year is 1,825,0000, not 1,825,000.

Hundreds of thousands Iraqs were kill in and after the war, and nobody is responsible for it, only because the invaders are the most powerful and wealthiest countries in the world.

Besides, Hu's thought is to be put into Constitution after he had stepped down for 5 years. Xi's thought will appear in the Constitution when he is in the middle of paramount power.

Mobike offers seasonly pass of 5 yuan per 3 months in Beijing.

Both of them are heavily subsided by investment. Sooner or later, people will get used to low price or no price, and I don't think they will finally generate profits after the fierce competition between them ends.

Campaign to Drive Out Migrants Slams Beijing’s Best and Brightest(https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/11/world/asia/china-beijing-...)

Why Parts of Beijing Look Like a Devastated War Zone(https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/world/asia/china-beijing-...)

I think stickfigure is trying to say that, with cameras above head, which will result in higher probability of being caught if someone commits a crime, the one who would commit a crime if there was no camera will refrain from committing a crime.

With cameras, the probability of losing life will be smaller than without them.

Sometimes I miss some important emails just because the emails are classified as spam and moved into spam folder.

If you continue to use made in China, your criticizing Google setting up an AI lab in China is just hypocrisy.

Google is a multinational company and its employees come from diverse countries. Although it is headquartered in the US and its founders are American citizens, its core interests may not fully align with the core interests of the US.

If so, they don't need to interact with the government that much like when they offered a search service to Chinese netizens.

I can think some companies that just do this. Hulu has an office in Beijing, although it doesn't offer video streaming service in China. And Grab has an office in Beijing too, although it only targets Southeast Asia market.

If Google first publishes some result X, and Chinese researchers find this result, they are free to use this result to publish some result Y, regardless of whether Google opens an AI center in China.

It helps China cultivate talents, why would China limit its influence.

MSRA accomplishes many things worthwhile such as ResNet in China, and it prospers now. Some researchers enter MSRA, and some leave. They enter or leave not because the government force them to do so, they enter or leave because they can tell where opportunity resides.

Baidu had already been popular in China before Google officially entered China, so there is no 'this is how Baidu got started' thing.

First, Chinese government is not Nazi and Google is not IBM. You can't just say that a government is Nazi just because you hate that government.

Second, even if Google openly broke with Chinese government, it still has offices in China. I doubt that Google opens an AI center in China to "allow its DeepMind technology to be used to spy on Chinese citizens and dissidents", and I do think that Google has a big ambition than you can think in China. And I think that ambition is to advance AI with the help of local talents.

"138KB * 24 * 3600 / 5" should be 2.3287GB per day. And it's 2.3287GB * 30 per month.

Update 2: "For comparison, a 5-minute check would be considered a pretty aggressive checking interval, and would only consume 1,37 MB per month. Instead, TP-Link goes through the same amount of data in just 82 minutes."

This assertion from the article has multiple errors too.

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The whole argument of the author is built on a flawed calculation by the author and the author exaggerated the number by a factor of 10.

715MB/month in the title and the article should be 71.5MB/month according to other information provided by the author.

According to the author, "TP-Link product is using about 138 KB every 5 seconds — or 23,85 MBs per day — on timekeeping."

23,85 MBs per day is not right, because 138KB * 24*3600/5 is about 2.328 MBs not 23,85 MBs.

You can say anything in a democratic country, except when you are forced to shut up.

And I think you can talk with them about China's internal politics through WeChat if they are interested in these talks, if there is not a third person will report your conversations to the authority.

The person in the article is 'jailed', because someone publicizes his comment or reports it to authority.

Is it a guarantee that you will get quality food in a democratic country's prison, like prisons of US?

Do you mean it stops selling its products in China? Or stop assembling iPhones in China? Or both?

According to this page (https://www.macworld.co.uk/feature/apple/where-are-apple-pro...), 'the assembly of Apple's devices is for the most part done in China'.

If Apple leaves China suddenly, I don't think it can build that large an assembly line quickly to satisfy the global demand of iPhones.

And according this document (https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/fy17-q4/Q4FY17DataSummar...), half of Apple's Q4 2017 revenue come from iPhone. So, if the supply of iPhones is greatly reduced, the cash Apple sits on will quickly run out. Then Apple will be in great trouble.

What I want to say is that Apple does not only sell products in China, it also manufactures its products in China.

This is the speech Xi delivered at the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. It contains this sentence. If you skim the speech, you will find multiple mentions of '美丽', all of them environment related.

The other four words are related to other aspects of policies of China.

富强(prosperous) is related to economy.

民主(democratic) is related to politics.

文明(culturally advanced) is related to culture.

和谐(harmonious) which was added to the constitution by Xi's predecessor Hu Jintao, is related to society.

And 美丽(beautiful) is related to ecology or environment.

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富强, 民主, 文明 and 和谐 are the first words of the 'core socialist values' which contain 12 such words and which were laid out at the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, when Hu stepped down and Xi become the paramount leader of Communist Party of China.

'Core socialist values' are taught to students from kindergarten to college. And these words of 'core socialist values' are plastered over walls, buildings and flyovers at every cities in China.

You can see the meaning of '美丽' from this sentence '生态环境根本好转，美丽中国目标基本实现' (the ecological environment has fundamentally improved, and the goal of a beautiful China has basically been achieved).

美丽 is used to describe a China that has clear water, clear sky, green fields ...

It is not that abstract as described in the article.