mazerackham

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by mazerackham 8y ago
I used to think the writing system was horrible as well, but it actually has a ton of advantages as well. Pros and cons, like anything else.
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by mazerackham 9y ago
seems like we could give him the benefit of the doubt in this case, no?
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by mazerackham 9y ago
They would. Listen closely to how you and your friends tell stories next time. Race and gender are almost always used to describe people. "My landlord, who's a black guy, <STORY DETAIL THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH BEING BLACK
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by mazerackham 9y ago
So from a sample size of one, you thoroughly concluded that this was because of democracy vs dictatorship. Just to offset that for you, India is a democracy with pollution even worse than China (although conveniently not often discussed in
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by mazerackham 9y ago
I find it hard to believe that if you truly sat down and thought about it from first principles for an hour, that you would actually believe that
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by mazerackham 9y ago
Wow...
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by mazerackham 9y ago
sounds like cha-ye, or tea leaves in Mandarin
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by mazerackham 9y ago
So you would rather watch your children eat mud to fill their bellies, slowly starving to death, and keep your freedom of speech?
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by mazerackham 9y ago
cool
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by mazerackham 9y ago
Just a few - world class manufacturing techniques - world class drone technology - world class civil engineering (high speed rail, bridges) - world class super computers
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by mazerackham 9y ago
Haha don't reach for Orwellian buzzwords so quickly =P. A lot of successful Chinese tech companies don't succeed just because competitors were banned. Even when Google was in China, Baidu catered specifically to local needs wher
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by mazerackham 9y ago
Now you know how Chinese people feel when they read any articles written by white men about China, or when they go eat at one of those asian fusion abominations :)
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by mazerackham 9y ago
But maybe not, and probably not.
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by mazerackham 9y ago
We're hardly above colonizing. Just look at all of the wars America has fought over the last 50 years.
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by mazerackham 9y ago
One could've argued that making seafaring voyages in the 1600s requires putting your differences aside. But instead we had a bunch of barbarians going around extinguishing and enslaving the world =P
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by mazerackham 9y ago
We definitely avoid talking about large body counts that we cause in the Western world
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by mazerackham 9y ago
this sounds like a dream
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by mazerackham 9y ago
until we run out of resources, develop a plan to terraform the planet, which is incompatible with the original biosphere, and wholesale destroy all life on that planet. If it ever got to us vs them, we haven't evolved past choosing us
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by mazerackham 9y ago
The addendum is that Liu believed it would be very difficult for, if not impossible, for a civilization to hold together across a long enough distance. This was shown when the original interception ships floated far enough and started atta
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by mazerackham 9y ago
This is a really great article that lays out a proper implementation of idempotent requests, something that many people (even very experienced developers) regularly mess up. Thanks for sharing
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by mazerackham 9y ago
ya, i mean, how could anyone think that those robots from China can think outside of the box right? /sarcasm
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by mazerackham 9y ago
sounds like bitcoin lol
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by mazerackham 9y ago
don't believe anything you hear about China, especially if it falls into the "Chinese Government is an evil overlord" bucket, or you'll end up looking like an idiot.
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by mazerackham 9y ago
yes you are wrong to think this
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by mazerackham 9y ago
judging from history, pretty hard =[
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by mazerackham 9y ago
While Lola's story is certainly tragic, it's a tangibly different class of slavery than that which existed in the western world 2 centuries ago. Chattel slavery is far, far crueler and not comparable
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by mazerackham 9y ago
Actually Facebook has shamelessly copy-catted WeChat continuously over the last 2 years
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by mazerackham 9y ago
More or less agree with your point, just wanted to point out that scaling reads horizontally usually means adding a distributed quality to your system, and not understanding how that impacts the system can have bad side effects
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by mazerackham 9y ago
If it's scoped for 3 years, does that mean it'll take 9? =P
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by mazerackham 9y ago
Lol +1 here. I guarantee LeoNatan25 that the situation is MUCH more complicated than he/she is giving credit

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