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by infinity0 5y ago
The author makes an incorrect assessment without considering the appropriate context for China. The gaping hole in his assessment of "Chinese cultural exports" is the failure to account for China's population and GDP per capi
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by infinity0 5y ago
If you a "business owner in Hong Kong" then you should be able to see with your own eyes whether Hong Kong is "just another Chinese city" or not, rather than believing the anti-China propaganda that western media regurgi
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by infinity0 5y ago
> paranoid presumption There is no "paranoid presumption", that's literally what the comment I'm replying to was doing. So, look at reality instead of sitting on your high horse, believing that all defenses of China a
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by infinity0 5y ago
My direct experience contradicts your direct experience. I'm Chinese, grew up in China until I was 5, and visit it every now and again. > I have been told over and again (by Chinese people) that China is Han. You are either selectiv
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by infinity0 5y ago
You should always compare the data against other countries before jumping to hasty conclusions based on your own prejudices and confirmation biases. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:China_single_age_populati... -
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by infinity0 5y ago
You seem to have a bit of sour grapes that a non-Western country dares to talk positively about their own policies. You should understand that translations often lose some cultural context, so when you have a prejudice against the English w
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by infinity0 5y ago
China is not a totalitarian regime - you shouldn't believe all the propaganda out there, you should actually go there yourself and you'll find that you can live your life quite normally and happily. China's identity isn'
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by infinity0 5y ago
I'm not the person you spoke to but I can answer this question from my own perspective: I'm Chinese, grew up in the UK, but I do consider moving back to China as a long-term option that I'll have to think seriously about. The
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by infinity0 5y ago
The problem today is that you have these nice laws to protect the media, but they themselves are not taking responsibility for their own actions, instead they pander to the prejudices of their readers. They have failed to realise that &quot
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by infinity0 5y ago
I do not believe there is any systematic suppression of the Uighurs in Xinjiang (where they are a majority), this is not consistent with Chinese history. As far as I can make out, a very small minority of people are being held for anti-extr
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by infinity0 5y ago
This methodology is biased towards a western perspective on how democracies "must" be run. Taken literally, a democracy is a direct democracy, but no country today is a direct democracy because everybody recognises that it has fla
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by infinity0 5y ago
Haters gonna hate, I predict a TSLA.
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by infinity0 6y ago
From the slew of negative nitpicky comments here, it seems that Hacker News has been taken over by MBA and not technical types. Yes the nerds you looked down on in high school are doing way better than you, no hard feelings. :) I agree with
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by infinity0 6y ago
Whatever scenario you imagine where some $bigtech benefits from using the software, there is some identifiable chain of events from where the software was produced, which can, with some effort, be defined and specified in a general way in t
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by infinity0 6y ago
No, "source available" does not generally allow one to distribute and sell your own modifications. This license would be exactly like today's FOSS, except to force large tech companies to the negotiating table to share revenu
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by infinity0 6y ago
> it doesn't magically hold third-parties responsible Whatever scenario you imagine where some $bigtech benefits from using the software, there is some identifiable chain of events from where the software was produced, which can, wi
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by infinity0 6y ago
That's simply not true. ">X revenue a year" would affect nobody except the largest tech companies. Apart from this, it would strictly benefit existing users, because it means the projects that are properly contributing to
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by infinity0 6y ago
That license is specifically targeted in favour of small businesses for some reason, omitting individuals etc. This potential FOSS license I am talking about would only target against big tech companies.
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by infinity0 6y ago
> what about companies which aren't controlled by the larger corp? Include these companies in the definition? > What do you do? Generally, there will be situations that are hard to define in a license, as is the revenue sharing p
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by infinity0 6y ago
I wish there was a FOSS license with a clause along the lines of: - if your company makes >X revenue a year, give us some of it. Ofc, they (FSF/OSI/DFSG) would have to relax their FOSS definition(s), but with more projects dyin
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by infinity0 6y ago
Like laws, definitions change with changing times and circumstances. I am a Debian Developer and very happy to discuss this with other members of the community. Why is it important to you that such a license is not recognised as FOSS?
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by infinity0 6y ago
I wish there was a FOSS license with a clause along the lines of: - if your company makes >X revenue a year, give us some of it. Ofc, they (FSF/OSI/DFSG) would have to relax their FOSS definition(s), but with more projects dyin
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by infinity0 6y ago
Sure, the license would have to figure out how to share revenue with major contributors too. > contributors are generally not going to help a for-profit project without themselves getting paid. Contributors already contribute to for-prof
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by infinity0 6y ago
I wish there was a FOSS license with a clause along the lines of: - if your company makes >X revenue a year, give us some of it. Ofc, they (FSF/OSI/DFSG) would have to relax their FOSS definition(s), but with more projects dyin
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by infinity0 6y ago
Why are certain techies obsessed with human-manipulated format? Did you grow up with 1980s computers? CalDav/CardDAV is widely supported by lots of FOSS tools, and https://packages.debian.org/sid/radicale is very
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by infinity0 6y ago
> Lockdowns are not supposed to stop Covid-19 China
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by infinity0 6y ago
> TikTok is controllable by the CCP It's extremely ironic that the Trump administration (& their supporters) justify their control over US people and companies, preventing them engaging in normal everyday activities with Chinese
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by infinity0 6y ago
And lots of companies are run by Republicans, what's your point? The sheer amount of head-in-the-sand hypocrisy is incredible.
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by infinity0 6y ago
I checked the sources - they are either inaccessible or don't go into technical detail, and basically just repeat what the sentence on the wikipedia article says. So no, they are not sufficient to actually get to the details of the cas

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