akfanta

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by akfanta 2y ago
Western democracy is treated like a religion these days. You either adopt it or die. Seeing people claiming China should be destroyed because it's a totalitarian country is amusing to me, it reminds me of the christian crusades. In rea
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by akfanta 5y ago
You don’t see any Russian propaganda probably because they were all filtered out by western media. Same probably goes the other way in Russia. Propaganda machine is definitely going to be running non-stop during war times. That’s why it’s i
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by akfanta 5y ago
> Mac are not friendly to a developer. And they never were. The only reason why developer use them is because they need to program on iOS and thus need XCode (that is a terrible IDE) and the iOS toolchain. That's just wrong on so ma
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by akfanta 5y ago
Politics are the modern day religions. You are either with the cult or you are the enemy. Really is a funny circle.
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by akfanta 5y ago
> It has been a decline for a while now. What? Where did you get that information from? Their total units of sale is definitely not declining. And market share remains steady according to this: https://www.statista.com/st
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by akfanta 5y ago
Didn't know we are are Commerce News.
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by akfanta 5y ago
I have been using this app for 9 years because of its polished UX. I don't even mind paying for subscription model because of it, but this is killing its top selling point for me. Bye bye 1p.
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by akfanta 5y ago
> Chinese government is afraid of people getting smart and saying screw this totalitarianism You people can really spin anything China related to a conspiracy. The Cold War propaganda machine has worked really well. Get a grip.
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by akfanta 6y ago
> like nothing has been going on Because nothing happened. So many westerners are so brainwashed on any China related topics that conspiracy theories are accepted as fact without any sort of filtering. If you think CCP is going to make t
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by akfanta 6y ago
What would Salesforce gain from this acquisition?
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by akfanta 6y ago
"With tiktok and the chinese government's explicit approach of combining public & commercial interest..." You got to be kidding me for blaming the Chinese government for combining public and commercial interest in this co
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by akfanta 6y ago
I am pretty sure she was arrested for selling/profiting exotic sex content. Agree with it or not, selling pornography is illegal in China. I think her sentence has more to do with explicit sex content itself rather than being lesbian&#
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by akfanta 6y ago
> China is a great place to be if you've got the right connections This might be true for the majority of China, but for big cities like Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen, no, connections mean far less even comparing to western world.
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by akfanta 7y ago
> Chinese citizens and migrants who didn't leave China for political reasons. According to whom?
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by akfanta 7y ago
> People subscribe to overly simplistic thinking - if something is not perfect, it must be the worst. Sometimes I think this is a result of information explosion. People gets overwhelmed by the amount of available information, so as a se
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by akfanta 7y ago
You are being downvoted because you are talking nonsense. > Reddit is overrun with pro-PRC shills and trolls I challenge you to link one example in any popular post. My experience is that if you dare to say anything remotely pro-China, y
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by akfanta 7y ago
> I tried to buy my $2.50 Old Spice deodorant in Shanghai. The price tag when translated to dollars was over $8. This particular case is likely because the usage of deodorant is not a thing in China. The majority of East Asia doesn'
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by akfanta 7y ago
> I only see Chinese netizens appear in huge angry voting brigades, spamming threads with proclamations, denunciations and flimsy claims. You will never see it anywhere on the internet, because from the very beginning your decision has b
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by akfanta 7y ago
> He didn’t create a very valuable company. It’s deeply in the red (the opposite of what you are claiming). Unfortunately, in this day and time, sometimes company's value has very little to do with profit or even revenue.
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by akfanta 7y ago
not even remotely the same feature set, display quality and size. Garmin doesn't have magic batteries. It's all about trade off.
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by akfanta 7y ago
> He was Cantonese What does that even mean? He's a dialect? Sun Yat-sen is widely regarded as the founding father of modern China(as apposed to Qing dynasty). This is beyond political differences. That's why he's highly r
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by akfanta 7y ago
"Unfortunately, we know that people are literally paid to post pro China activism on the internet." It really goes both ways. You don't see pro-government support from western media because it doesn't fit their narrative
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by akfanta 8y ago
> I totally understand why big aircraft (A380, 747, etc) are disappearing commercially but I will miss them. Just curious, why do you think they are disappearing? I thought they still have lower cost/passenger, especially for long h
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by akfanta 8y ago
Calling Tencent a Chinese censorship powerhouse is a bit of a stretch. Might as well call every Chinese IT company a censorship powerhouse because they are all censored by the Chinese government.
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by akfanta 8y ago
> divvy, textual Neither of these are freeware?
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by akfanta 8y ago
> It works on every database known to humans Except any non-relational DBs.
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by akfanta 8y ago
Docker performance outside of Linux is always going to be a problem since it will need to rely on VM. There is a big thread of discussion here for docker on Mac: https://forums.docker.com/t/file-access-in-mounted-volume
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by akfanta 8y ago
That totally depends on who you pissed off, see Snowden.
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by akfanta 8y ago
Disclaimer: Although I come from China, I never worked for a Chinese company. All of my opinions were gathered from internet and friends. And definitely not all companies are like this. One of the reason that they need to work long hours is
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by akfanta 8y ago
> the vast majority of people didn't receive higher edcation and doesn't want to read serious articles > Nobody care if it's original, they just want entertaining, explosive and easy-to-consume content. This is hardly a

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