anthonyleecook

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by anthonyleecook 9y ago
Some other disturbing signs from China: increasing military budget https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/03/06/china-splash-us175-bil... , kidnapping relatives of the reporters in other countries that exposed the ui
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by anthonyleecook 9y ago
There's censorship, and there's kidnapping/threats against citizens in other countries "After U.S.-Based Reporters Exposed Abuses, China Seized Their Relatives" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03&#
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by anthonyleecook 9y ago
A reddit post from a student in China. “ It's been 4 days now. I look around, everything looks the same, but I know, it's not the same world anymore. He choose to become a dictator officially maybe means nothing to most foreigners
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by anthonyleecook 9y ago
Here is another post “’m studying in a university in China rn and holy fuck I thought I entered an alternate reality, my classmates were all talking and worrying about the issue on the internet few days ago before they were censored out but
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by anthonyleecook 9y ago
> Native American > 150 years ago Are you seriously whataboutism events from a few hundred years ago? Wow. Just wow. People in China cannot speak. We have to speak for them somehow. Here is a snippet from a reddit post from a student
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by anthonyleecook 9y ago
We need some investors to band up and recreate the hardware environment in Shenzhen. There would be a lot of money made that way too so not sure why there wouldn’t be one in Nevada or Arizona or something.
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by anthonyleecook 9y ago
I know there are a lot of clamoring here about ‘oh we are becoming this too and that too’. And it’s a natural reaction: we feel like we cannot change anything about China and how it governs its people, so we try to stigmatize our own gove
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by anthonyleecook 9y ago
Are you seriously whataboutism events that happened few hundred years ago???? Wow. And you work for google. God help us all
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by anthonyleecook 9y ago
If we look back to WW2 and Nazi, US did still conduct trade with Nazi Germany, but the trade volume fell between 1929 to 1938, when US started putting up protectionist policy (soooo eerily similar to China today). when Nazi invaded Czechos
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by anthonyleecook 9y ago
But with the (official) dictatorship in China, is this concentration camps reincarnated? Nazi reincarnated? Xitler is a real thing?
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by anthonyleecook 9y ago
I would need my European/Asian food.....(especially great sushi and some Michelin caliber restaurants), easy beach access, good weather most of the year, and some tech meetups to go to. Probably not for me.
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by anthonyleecook 9y ago
interesting!! will take a deeper look
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by anthonyleecook 9y ago
I saw it here: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-average-starting-salary-fo... On second thought, this might not be accurate as there's no direct references. Indeed says senior software engineers is around $187,000 h
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by anthonyleecook 9y ago
It's no wonder that high-earning individuals are moving into California. A few numbers I ran across on the web: - Bay Area economy is growing 3X (!!!) faster than average in US. - Santa Clara region has an income average of $98,000, t
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Chinese censors move to block ridicule of 'Emperor' Xi Jinping's power grab(telegraph.co.uk)
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China’s web censors go into overdrive as President Xi Jinping consolidates power(techcrunch.com)
195 points by anthonyleecook 9y ago|230 comments
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China's Xi could rule for life, as two-term limit set to be scrapped(washingtonpost.com)
48 points by anthonyleecook 9y ago|29 comments
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by anthonyleecook 9y ago
Like you mentioned, the problem is that China promised an open market 15 years ago to wto. What we got instead is forced local 50/50 “partnership” and tech transfers. With the Chinese state enterprises winning at the end.
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by anthonyleecook 9y ago
It’s not that big of a market compared to us or eu. Wouldn’t make sense giving up your secret sauce so you can lose in us and eu as well.
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by anthonyleecook 9y ago
You are talking about something eons ago, before we had wto, which arbitrage against intellectual property theft.
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by anthonyleecook 9y ago
Nintendo, Microsoft Xbox
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by anthonyleecook 9y ago
It’s interesting that companies are willing to risk losing their lead to a copycat chasing a 10T economy when us + eu + japan is 40T.
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by anthonyleecook 9y ago
Google, Facebook, Twitter, github, Pinterest, rakuten, slack, Dropbox and many others are all doing fine without China.
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by anthonyleecook 9y ago
Exactly! Actually this should be more of a big deal. This is a MASSIVE accounting fraud, the kind that brought down Enron in 2000
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by anthonyleecook 9y ago
Beijing’s air is better because that’s where the emperor is ;). (Or what my Chinese friends call him, Xi baozi - xi dumpling)
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by anthonyleecook 9y ago
China's advantages to a booming economy in the early 2000s are all withering away, however. Demographics: China is actually projected to have less than 800M population by 2100. Foreign direct investment: leaving to higher growth area
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by anthonyleecook 9y ago
If we assume 20-30% of gdp claim from most of the provinces in China are fake, then that reduces their overall GDP from 11.2T to probably around 9-10T, only about double Japan's 5T, and about half of US's 19T and way less than EU&
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by anthonyleecook 9y ago
actually you are correct; local governments in China have been known to fake air data https://medium.com/@shanghaiist/officials-use-mist-cannon-to... and this year, Shanghai's air pollution has been worse than Bei
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by anthonyleecook 9y ago
"In Liaoning Province tax receipts and income from various fees were padded by 20-30% according to counties and cities during the period of 2011-2014. Inner Mongolia has said that 25% of the fiscal revenue stated for 2016 were actually
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by anthonyleecook 9y ago
There are quite a few ways this government is similar....cases in point => China 'holding at least 120,000 Uighurs in re-education camps' https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/25/at-leas

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