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by dnomad 7y ago
Comments like this are especially funny and dishonest because you, like most Westerners, likely have absolutely no idea what's happening to the Uighurs. Reports of "millions" being forced into camps are pure propaganda. And w
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by dnomad 7y ago
HN has gone completely off the rails. See my comment above. It's been like this for more than a year now. This sort of outright racist hate speech is now completely normal on HN and is eagerly embraced.
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by dnomad 7y ago
What a bunch of pure bullshit. 1. None of those links provide anything like evidence or support of your accusations. 2. It's absolutely remarkable that Huawei had somehow committed all these crimes and yet nobody has ever managed to pr
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by dnomad 8y ago
Yeah, this kind of blind racism and ignorance of what's actually happening in China is always a bit shocking. A lot of people are going to look back on the US from 2001 to 2030 and ask themselves how people be so totally blind and stup
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by dnomad 8y ago
> In what free market does a government subsidize a company The idea that the Chinese government subsidizes every Chinese company is nonsense. This is just something that Americans need to believe because they don't want to admit ho
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by dnomad 8y ago
This rhetorical maneuver, where you simply declare a system you don't understand to be totalitarian is no different from shouting Nazi at anything you don't agree with. Even a cursory analysis would show that the defining characte
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by dnomad 8y ago
Sure. In a thread absolutely full of baseless rants my comment, which does provide an explanation and a link, was the one that jumped out you. Though it is aways interesting to see people like you can rationalize your censorious actions. It
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by dnomad 8y ago
> China is unique in that it's been all about oppressing and abusing the population as heavily as possible, without pause, ever since the first emperors gave the country its foreign name. This is such complete nonsense. I think it&#
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by dnomad 8y ago
> At the end of the day, you have a company with strong links (down to its founder) to the military This sort of pure propaganda just undermines your case. The founder of Huawei was never more than a low level engineer in the military,
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by dnomad 8y ago
This isn't really about spying. The reality is that Huawei's equipment is the best in the world for the money. It's not even close. Given a free market (remember that?) there's really no doubt that Huawei will go on to c
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by dnomad 8y ago
If you think that demonstrates a legitimate security concern then every telecom manufacturer is a security concern. Spend some time comparing the known security issues with Huawei routers to Cisco's routers for example.
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by dnomad 8y ago
No, there's absolutely no evidence that Huawei equipment is a legitmate security concern. In fact it's just the opposite. Huawei equipment has been extensively and continuously studied by the best security researchers in the w
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by dnomad 8y ago
Ah, I see, the endless diarrhea of anti-China propaganda is totally deserved because it's China is untrustworthy. And how can China dare demand access to IP, they're Chinese, their job is just to be dumb cheap labor right? What is
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by dnomad 8y ago
This is pure bullshit. The idea that Chinese companies and the government are somehow fused has no basis in reality. But it's remarkable to watch people push this sort of conspiracy theory. The exact same people will, when the governme
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by dnomad 8y ago
At this point there's so much blatant China panic and propaganda that it's descended into farce. Look at this thread. We've now reached the point where the less evidence behind some baseless anti-China claim (an unecrypted
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by dnomad 8y ago
Such furious goal shifting. Demand evidence and then assert the evidence doesn't show rampant thievery. It's absolutely shameless.
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by dnomad 8y ago
> I think a more plausible explanation is status envy. Elon Musk could announce the cure for cancer tomorrow and many would decry it as a "PR Stunt." Philosophers deploy the term "ressentiment" [1] to describe this co
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by dnomad 8y ago
It's not the human mind, it's a particular ideology. What's at work here is an ideology that must find enemies, the more heinous the better, in order to justify its own heinous actions.
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by dnomad 8y ago
> This appears to be actually true in Xinyang? According to what evidence? The entire story is based off remarks from an anonymous UN official on a random UN committee. [1] In classic style remarks from anonymous and highly partisan so
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by dnomad 8y ago
How would it be insane? This is a very common pattern. American media publishes outlandish stories and the only evidence is "anonymous sources" and highly partisan agents. Iraqi soldiers killed babies in incubators. Iraq has 10_
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by dnomad 8y ago
The psychodrama Musk causes is far more interesting than anything Musk does. The guy is just a widget maker but his name is enough to summon outraged hordes all desperate for his failure. This kind of naked ressentiment is something that, u
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by dnomad 8y ago
> I don't think the US government is the best judge, but it's a lot better than the alternatives (such as the PRC or Russia). It's also a better judge than the people it tries to kill, such as Osama bin Laden, Saddam Husse
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by dnomad 8y ago
I'm even more curious where this wacky idea that a variety of views is better than a single expert view came from. What's the name for that? It's an oft-repeated "truism" in the West but it's also... crazy. I m
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by dnomad 8y ago
> because a person can't read millions of lines of source. But a person can read millions of lines of source code. It's perfectly possible given enough time and with a solid team you can do it in 90 days. Trust is not the pro
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by dnomad 8y ago
CNN only "looked bad" to people who are already hopelessly biased. Investigating sources of government propaganda is exactly what the media should be doing to any sane person. It's unfortunate though that CNN chose to give th
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by dnomad 8y ago
Pretty much this. Ziroom is pretty much the future of real estate. Real estate will be virtualized like every other illiquid asset. This means: * Ownership of real-estate gets rolled up into REITs. REITs are experts at building, buying and
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by dnomad 8y ago
I guess this is what crypto people tell themselves to resolve the cognitive dissonance. I don't think this assumption applies to reality. We've observed in the historical record several instances of mining majorities unilaterally
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by dnomad 8y ago
> If a majority of miners were not representing the interests of the users, the users would find a way to push those miners out and will carry on as before. And how would the users do that? Do you imagine all the users getting together a
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by dnomad 8y ago
No they wouldn't. People would follow the mining power if they actually want to have a secure chain.
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by dnomad 8y ago
You can see very clearly what's happening here. The evidence is out in the open. There's a strong desire by the media and the government to control the tech companies because they all understand very clearly that they absolutely n

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