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by majia 7y ago
In low end manufacturing sector it's really hard to know your end customers. The products are highly standardized and can go though multiple middlemen. Also the sheer volume, most of which are legitimate, makes it very difficult for go
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by majia 7y ago
Roads, bridges, forests, power grids, water pipelines, solar farms, as well as indoctrination camps and mass surveillance network.
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by majia 7y ago
What if Moray says something to support Palestine freedom and human rights? Would NBA support Moray or Israel?
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by majia 7y ago
What seized were not fentanyl, but some chemicals could be used in the fentanyl manufacturing process, as well as many other legitimate use. If you want to stop fentanyl, the best thing to do is to figure out what chemicals are used exclusi
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by majia 7y ago
> Wouldn't be surprised if they were overstated, so as to keep citizens in check. This is a little stretching. Most Chinese audience can’t or won’t watch BBC.
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by majia 7y ago
Gov is more likely to be schemed than VC because those who make investment decision don’t get as much reward/punishment. However, for the same reason, gov can also invest in projects with long term benefits. So gov is not intrinsically
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by majia 7y ago
What you said about Huawei is more applicable to Boeing, which sells weapon systems instead of telecom gears. You may want to look at how US companies are involved in arm sales to Saudi. It’s fair that US wants to contain China’s leverage i
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by majia 7y ago
I know we all have an impulse to take the easy path. But please think about what if you happen to be wrong, how a person would feel if he’s labeled a liar/paid troll for having an account that looks suspicious to some, and what meaning
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by majia 7y ago
If you think OP is smearing, you can refute his argument with facts and flag his comment. It’s a human bias to think someone whom we disagree with has a malicious agenda. Democracy can survive the worst oppression, but will perish if we fai
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by majia 7y ago
It is Trump who called it a riot.
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by majia 7y ago
We have to assume good faith precisely because it's impossible to tell the difference you mentioned. If a real propagandist tells a lie, we can refute it with facts and flag the comment. But if a honest user is labelled as 'paid t
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by majia 7y ago
Being substantive means replying to the actual argument instead of questioning the credibility of the person who makes an argument.
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by majia 7y ago
Please follow HN guidelines and refrain from personal attack. Assume good faith and be substantive.
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by majia 7y ago
SCMP still publishes a lot of anti CCP articles and is banned in China.
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by majia 7y ago
It's more likely that the protest causes huge damage to HK economy, and HK people start to get tired of it. At some point people may decide to take economic incentives from Beijing and become another city in China with some superficial
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by majia 7y ago
Why is Guantanamo camp still open? Can Snowden speak openly about NSA hacking? In China there are some checks and balances, but they are just ineffective and often ignored too. In the USA there are stronger due processes, but there are also
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by majia 7y ago
If Crimea was unwillingly annexed by Russia, then the sanction is punishing the victim instead of the criminal. If Crimea people genuinely supported the unification with Russia and received sanction for that, then it is a blatant attack on
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by majia 7y ago
China oppresses its own people, while US oppresses people in Iraq, Yemen and elsewhere. US being perceived as a lesser evil doesn't make its chips more secure than Chinese chips. Security comes from rigorous research and evidence, not
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by majia 7y ago
If this happens in HK, everything is on the table for Beijing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2009_Ürümqi_riots
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by majia 7y ago
This is mostly rhetoric and political posturing. Chinese government has so far refrained from taking any action. Beijing is not an benevolent actor, but is smart enough to leave Hong Kong people alone and let Hong Kong people see for themse
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by majia 7y ago
Please don’t assume US companies are stupid. They know what they are selling and whether they are paid enough. In most cases it’s just about giving away some about-to-be-obsolete tech for some big money.
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by majia 7y ago
The report says that Huawei devices have unsafe functions like “memcpy” and "strcpy". Is this a coding preference or dangerous practice? To what extent can these examples reflect on code quality?
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by majia 7y ago
what’s after CCP could be worse.
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by majia 7y ago
“I have to kill you in order to save you” logic.
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by majia 7y ago
No. Chinese people overthrew many kings and dictators far more oppressive than CCP in its long history. China is stable because CCP delivered economic results, lifting hundreds of millions of people out of extreme poverty. So a stable but o
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by majia 7y ago
Americans always have someone to dislike. It was Soviet from 50s to 70s, Japan in 80s and early 90s, terrorists in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya in 2000s, and now it's China. I'm not sure if it is a coincidence that Americans always
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by majia 7y ago
No. Fedex is not saying it can violate the law; it's saying as a private company it should not bear the responsibility to interpret or enforce the law. The ban was originally designed to target a small groups of well identified 'b
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by majia 7y ago
> you want to protest it without going to jail you can do so legally by telling people it's a stupid law - while complying with it. Isn't this what Fedex is doing? Complying with a stupid law but challenging its legality in a
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by majia 7y ago
I’m pretty sure Facebook backend is a lot more sophisticated than Magic Leap. I’m using Facebook as an example so that our judgements won’t be biased by the current sino-US tech climate.
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by majia 7y ago
Lessons learned from Magic Leap: don’t sign a non-compete agreement with your employee; you have to pay and it’s legally not enforceable in California. Ask your employee to sign a board confidentiality agreement and sue him if he works for

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