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by cbilson 3y ago
Thanks a lot for posting this! I actually used to live in a rented "house" in the place the article is about, probably around 1994-1995. Most of my neighbors were very old veterans, with a handful of NTU students who were rarely s
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by cbilson 3y ago
If the CCP were so concerned with COVID why did they have a victory concert in August 2020[1]? Obviously the virus is still deadly, but it seems at least inconsistent for CCP COVID policy to be “we did it!” in August 2020, then lock downs i
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by cbilson 3y ago
They are absolutely not. The author is clearly confused from drinking too much 雄黃酒 even while claiming the contrary.
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by cbilson 3y ago
> I think "Stealing IP" phase finished for China a long time ago. https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2023/04/05/...
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by cbilson 4y ago
What is a “lockdown state”? Is it a state where there were government mandated mask requirements in schools during a global pandemic? I’m in one of those and at no point in the past two and a half years would have used the term “lockdown” t
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by cbilson 6y ago
Even though I am an employee of a so-called “hyper-scale” cloud vendor, I really am rooting for Oxide. There are actually a lot of hard problems in this space, and Oxide are inherently more agile than a big cloud vendor. As long as they foc
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by cbilson 6y ago
Actually, this is more like: “In other news, you are in China now.” I don’t care that much about how Chinese citizens let their 共肥 party censor them, but it’s not ok when I am being censored for speech that could be considered offensive t
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by cbilson 15y ago
Some girls might actually like the new legos. Some _boys_ might even. What's the big deal?