atr_gz

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by atr_gz 7y ago
Again, she wasn’t charged with trading with Iran. Since you can’t seem to understand that simple point, I don’t see this conversation as productive any longer.
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by atr_gz 7y ago
That doesn’t make sense to me. Of course if you do business with the US you are subject to US law. And if you travel to somewhere with an extradition treaty with the US, well, it shouldn’t be hard to guess what will happen. If I defrauded a
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by atr_gz 7y ago
Isn’t the core of the issue more that Huawei defrauded some US banks by promising not to use their money to do business with Iran, then went ahead and did it anyways, leading to the banks in question being fined by the US? Your characteriza
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by atr_gz 7y ago
Alipay just started allowing foreign credit cards! Wechat will probably follow suit soon, if they haven't already. https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3036457/foreign-t...
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by atr_gz 7y ago
Thanks for your comment. I don’t see why Macau would have a stronger cultural identity than Hong Kong, but I haven’t been there, only to Hong Kong a few times. It seems to me that there certainly is a distinct cultural identity in Hong Kong
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by atr_gz 7y ago
But people in China can't really cross check things with sources that aren't controlled by their government. I've been in China for the entire duration of the Hong Kong protests, and unfortunately I often have to watch CCTV n
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by atr_gz 7y ago
Independence is not one of the demands of the protestors. Please provide a source for that claim.
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by atr_gz 7y ago
Except the SEC has given Chinese companies an exemption from normal oversight. I agree that there shouldn't be a blanket ban - but the companies should have to follow the same rules as everyone else. https://www.chinalawblog
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by atr_gz 7y ago
No, it wasn't there from the start. The no electronics policy only started within the last two years. I know someone who has been there and has the pictures on her phone.
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by atr_gz 7y ago
I remember someone posting her thread about Lambda School. I didn't find it very convincing. Definitely not convincing enough to justify her now calling it "trash".
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by atr_gz 7y ago
Going back to traditional characters was a strange addition to the list. But why would the other things there be going backwards? I don't see how those are mutually exclusive with economic success.
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by atr_gz 7y ago
No, it sounds like he knows what result he wants but doesn't know how to get there.
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by atr_gz 7y ago
The internet isn't blocked in Hong Kong - this doesn't affect them (yet).
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by atr_gz 7y ago
It's too bad, this was my go-to site if the VPN wouldn't connect. HackerNews is read surprisingly widely here. I've met Chinese people (who work in tech) who read it. But the strangest thing I saw was a random older relative
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by atr_gz 7y ago
Yes, the ownership situation isn't great. But as someone following the Hong Kong situation, I have to agree with Animats. They have the best coverage so far - it's really quickly updated and pretty balanced.
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by atr_gz 7y ago
I think at this point new Chromebooks can all run Linux software natively - so might as well just use normal emacs. Actually I have emacs running on Android as well. I don't really use it often - but it works fine. Maybe if I bought a
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by atr_gz 7y ago
If you already know all that stuff, why are you saying that flyer is wrong? It's all true. I assumed you didn't know about it because you said it was lies. I don't think it's literally as extreme as the book 1984, but ye
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by atr_gz 7y ago
Things aren't always that bad in China, but all of the things on the signs have happened and continue to happen. You're simply wrong that those are false accusations. If these things have happened even one time, they can happen ag
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by atr_gz 7y ago
Interesting. I can promise you I'm not being disingenuous, even if I'm wrong. And I think "brigading" is more of a Reddit thing - it usually means when people from an opposing subreddit mass downvote a post. I definitely
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by atr_gz 7y ago
Okay, maybe you're more reasonable than it seemed at first. I understand some paranoia about foreign opinions. But, how often does the news need to talk about the Opium Wars? I would say there are plenty of long-form articles talking a
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by atr_gz 7y ago
Wow, you only read the thread title of the first link I gave you. Obviously you aren't interested in learning anything. If you change your mind, read a little further. You claimed that it's impossible to read about the Opium Wars
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by atr_gz 7y ago
>Citation needed. Here ya go (he has further citations at the bottom if you're really interested): https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/... Regardless of whose fault i
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by atr_gz 7y ago
I'm curious why you're all over this thread pretending that China didn't block the UK from making Hong Kong democratic for over 60 years. Which is something I learned about in the Western media, by the way, and that it would
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by atr_gz 7y ago
Yeah, and it's not taught in a heavily biased way like Tiananmen is taught to Communist Party members. At least in my school, it was taught as unequivocally wrong and one of the biggest mistakes the US government ever made. The focus w
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by atr_gz 7y ago
Non-Chinese business must operate with a Chinese partner to do business in the mainland. I see this repeated a lot on Hacker News, but it's no* longer true. Search WFOE (wholly foreign-owned enterprises). *Fixed a typo - thanks to be
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by atr_gz 7y ago
The person you're replying to must have thought it was this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/19/business/deutsche-bank-tr...
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by atr_gz 7y ago
Not true - when products go on sale the brand is giving the store a kickback per unit sold or a discount on the cost of goods. The store often makes more on sale items.
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by atr_gz 7y ago
The shape of your mouth and tongue position isn't really about tones. It's more that Mandarin has a bunch of sounds that aren't used in English. It's difficult to even hear them at first. For example, x versus sh, j vers
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by atr_gz 7y ago
Yeah, weird that you have so many problems. I've never experienced any of that. Those delivery times I gave above are from the time I ordered the product. I've never spoken with any seller.
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by atr_gz 7y ago
I use Taobao weekly as well. It's not nearly as bad as you're saying. I've never run into any of those issues. That said, the shipping times definitely aren't as consistent as Amazon (although I've only used Amazon

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