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by balola 6y ago
The problem is, modern Chinese food rely too much on MSG(or its alternatives, along with chilies), it has its justification that Chinese are only relative rich recently, that people needed a way to make cabbages and other non-meat stuff tas
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by balola 6y ago
Is it "recruiting"? If so it starts at higher education, "good" students can apply for party membership, which is a prerequisite for lush and comfy gov jobs. And any org that employs 3+ party members shall set up a party
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by balola 6y ago
Any person with Chinese lineage is considered "our guy" obligated to do good to the homeland, or else they are traitors even if they never touch on Chinese soil. This sentiment is not limited to lineage and nationality but also su
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by balola 6y ago
ISPs in China is almost exclusively NAT now, you have to specifically ask for "public network IP" and provide a reason.
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by balola 6y ago
I think the difference here is that is this of "everyday people" or just high-earners, Costco only has several stores in China and remains a high-end exotic market, drones are still expensive "toys" here, new iphones oft
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by balola 6y ago
Americans just love to spend, I heard drone makers in China say Americans have money and leisure, they buy anything.
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by balola 6y ago
I recently learned that Etsy actively terminates sellers based in China, seemingly indiscriminately, the message is quite clear that they just don't want to do this kind of business, unlike Amazon.
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by balola 6y ago
You simply can't do that, Yuan is nowhere near a freely convertible currency, it's a fundamental difference. Once foreign money enters China, it's very hard to get it out, the CCP has a ministry dedicated to the control of it
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by balola 6y ago
It's not uncommon, there are various scams esp around e-commerce review boosting gigs that trick you into paying upfront but into different accounts/scan alternate QR codes, once the money is transfered, it's very hard to get
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by balola 6y ago
You don't have to, it's just the way banking is done in China, sounds ridiculous? Well, having banks blocking you transaction, and asking what it's for is it legitmate, or Paypal terminating accounts at will is ridiculous in
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by balola 6y ago
The big diffrence is debit card-based and credit card-based, Ant and Chinese banks take no responsibility of these one-off domestic transations and offer no consumer protection, while western banks need to worry about money-laundering and t
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by balola 6y ago
It's not, the banks lend their excessive cash to a big tech company, Ant then use that money to make small/short-term loans with "big data" credit ratings to individuals unqualified for low-interest bank loans.
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by balola 6y ago
Americans markets have been booming for the past 10 years, relatively robust and "policed", it also has something to do with the dollar dominance, so they kind of can take these bets? But it's not the case for Chinese domesti
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by balola 6y ago
Its gigantic valuation most likely will face a harsh test, one that the fragile domestic market can hardly afford, a risk that worries the administration who has been desperately propping it up that also hopes it can fund China's tech
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by balola 6y ago
It's an unusual move, but the whole IPO is odd. IPO at its relative late stage with a gigantic valuation, leaving little for retail investors to gain from. And its whole IPO process is preferential treatment at its finest, almost looke
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by balola 6y ago
This reads like slut-shaming.
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by balola 6y ago
Try find something negative about CCP leaders on any Chinese website.
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by balola 6y ago
Form my experience, mostly government and state-owned companies, which account for a big part of China's paid software market. Even some Shanghai government systems support only IE6 to 8, some only love IE11. Most state-owned banks too
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by balola 6y ago
I guess using a really old model helps avoid it.
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by balola 6y ago
Foreign Chinese, usually rich and connected, are more often than not considered "traitors" by the masses, increasingly viewed with disdain, they are not even welcomed to visit China. >Trapped Abroad, China’s ‘Little Pinks’ Reth
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by balola 6y ago
It's easier to work around than you think, it didn't stop Chinese from installing banned VPN tools on iPhones afterall, all you need is shared or registered foreign Apple IDs.
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by balola 6y ago
WeChat isn't at all successful in the US, and it's known for its censorship even inside China, average Chinese are more concerned about iPhones and WeChat inside China. Tiktok on the other hand is a completely seperate product des
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by balola 6y ago
Hikvision, a effectively state owned company.
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by balola 6y ago
Guo has come out with almost no credile exposé anout the CCP despite repeatedly promising never-before-seen mega ones. Some of his followers did provide sensitive infos to him and quickly landed themselves on national television and jails.
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by balola 6y ago
QQ has gone mobile since the WAP era.
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by balola 6y ago
The thing is, there's hardly anything outside GFW that an average Chinese would want, local alternatives often are feature rich and considered "more advanced", outside news are dismissed as "obscenely fake and hostile&qu
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TikTok Deal Is Complicated by New Rules from China over Tech Exports(nytimes.com)
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by balola 6y ago
AWS is pretty much blocked in China, the China version and Azure's are what can best described as locally owned franchises.
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by balola 6y ago
Most OLED displays use PWM, as the color dots are hard to control, PWM has no issue in this regard.
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by balola 6y ago
Lots of laptops and OLED phones flicker in low brightness, using this actually make it worse as your eyes strains quickyly from the combined effect, at least for me. I'm currently using Iris Pro in max brightness, in which the display

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