noirchen

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by noirchen 2mo ago
Actually I think it is better to show a random poem. Novels are long, and opening lines can easily trick you to think that you "know" the works. But poems, on the other hand, can be short (and long), with more vivid language in ju
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by noirchen 4mo ago
It looks that not many talked about the fact that there is a lot Chinese investment in Poland, bringing in manufacturing and management experiences.
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by noirchen 10mo ago
There once were news about Fitbit or Garmin displaying workout records for users near classified military bases, and some workout routes were suspected to be in the playground of the bases.
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by noirchen 1y ago
Banning books is not something new, but I think Florida has some 'unique' criteria when banning certain books. One example I know is Jackson County, FL. once banned 1984 for being "pro-communist". In most places of the w
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by noirchen 1y ago
In China, particularly in Tibet and Qinghai, plague still occasionally occurs, because a wild animal, the Himalayan marmots carry it and people may get plague from them. After the CCP took over Tibet, antibotics were gradually used to cure
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by noirchen 1y ago
This reminds me of the so-called "heartless couplet" (无情对) in Chinese. Every pair of words in the couplets are synonymous or anonymous, and yet the meanings of the couplets are completely unrelated, often in a humorous way.
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by noirchen 2y ago
AI is good if you use it wisely. There were reports years ago about using AI in SoCal to detect wild fires, but in the end we see insurance companies using AI to withdraw from areas of high fire risk. Quite competent AI, isn't it?
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by noirchen 2y ago
I would not jump to the conclusion solely based on isotope signatures. A decade or so ago, a prominent Chinese professor Weidong Sun specialized in geochemistry analyzed the ancient bronze artifacts dated back to the Shang dynasty and found
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by noirchen 2y ago
That's nonsense. Searching for "广告拦截" on Baidu returns hundreds of thousands of webpages and tutorials telling users how to install and turn on ad blockers, and Chinese smartphone brands often boast that their products perfor
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by noirchen 4y ago
I still remember when I bought my first sony vaio in about 2004, running on Windows XP in Japanese, I was just appalled to find that a whole family of useless crap softwares pre-installed. There was an app that notifies me when the battery
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by noirchen 4y ago
It is celebrated by quite a lot of people in China, Korea, and even in Japan. Yes, Japan. For many Japanese people, the Abenomics did not really revive the economy, and their lives haven't really improved. If you understand Japanese, y
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by noirchen 4y ago
I would say it's not an issue about democracy or bureaucracy, it's because the responsibility is diluted. Someone is not happy with this? Great, it is now not because we do not do it, it is because we take every complaint seriousl
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by noirchen 4y ago
From the viewpoint of people outside the US, Americans probably believe that gun violence is just a mild condition, and decide to live with it. Just like the covid, sure it kills some people, like 10 in 100000, but for the rest 99990, at le
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by noirchen 4y ago
https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=%E5%9F%BA%E5%8A%AA%E9%87%8C%E7%BB... https://www.baidu.com/s?ie=utf-8&f=8&rsv_bp=1&rsv_idx=2&tn=b... I suspect that this time reuters got tricked to publish this w
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by noirchen 4y ago
In the past the big multinational corporations did not give a shit about ethics. IBM happily sold Hitler machines to categorize jews gipsies slavs and gay people. Now programmers 'protest', or more accurately, attack what they con
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by noirchen 5y ago
I am not sure whether this is disinformation, but in Feb there was this news https://thebulletin.org/2022/02/us-official-russian-invasion... So either Russians are very quick to come up with this whole thing and w
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by noirchen 5y ago
Some people really need to see what the other parts of the world are thinking. Why would India take a stance in this war? When the border dispute between China and India broke up Russia still signed a huge military contract with India despi
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by noirchen 5y ago
I am really interested in India's stance on this. Russia is India's largest source of arms, and even now Russia still has arms worth blns to be delivered to India. The last two years saw some border dispute between India and China
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by noirchen 5y ago
Biden said that US is not going to war, but in fact there are many ways to slow down the Russians. You could have a voluntary army from western countries geared with weapons and supplies, like during the Spanish civil war in 1936 or eastern
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by noirchen 5y ago
Do you watch Taiwanese political talk show? Basically guests from both sides in the shows agree that the next election is going to be important. They do openly expressed their anger over the position of the Biden administration. At least fo
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by noirchen 5y ago
I feel it amused that people here are discussing what and how Lithuania and the west can do to 'confront' China, but everyone in east Asia knows that before the next Taiwan election in 2024, China will do something to achieve some
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by noirchen 5y ago
Perhaps Biden administration has no reaction because Apple Daily (and its boss) was very active in spreading misinformation about Hunter Biden https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-hongkong-politics-idUKKBN... I am not su
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by noirchen 6y ago
Yes evidence, more evidence, just like the good ol' time that US had evidence from Nayirah, and Powell wielded a tube of wash powder in UN claiming that was WMD. I do believe that President Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, because w
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by noirchen 6y ago
You have to outnumber for security. From the videos in Hong Kong, I noticed that the journalists in shiny PRESS vests were usually WAAAAAY more than the number of police, many of them only holding video-taking cell phones.
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by noirchen 6y ago
Initially Chinese people treated it as flu, then they freaked out finding it to be SARS-like, and Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore set temperature checks. During the SARS outbreak, Asian countries run totally unprotected for months with only
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by noirchen 6y ago
There are discussions on which Mongolia (Mongolia or Inner Mongolia) is the true descendent of the Golden Horde. Mongolia usually claim that they directly descend from Genghis Khan, but genetic analysis suggest that Inner Mongolians are muc
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by noirchen 7y ago
There is one issue with Uighur people in your statement that if you dig into history, Han Chinese have been living in Xinjiang much longer than the Uighurs. In fact, Chinese people have been in Xinjiang even before the Han dynasty, and inco
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by noirchen 7y ago
Nylonkong are getting more attention with Trump, Brexit, and the protests. When was the last time you read an in-depth news about some under represented region, say, Nigeria? For a country experiencing population boom and worsening interna
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by noirchen 7y ago
Our leaders are the finest men, and we elect them again and again.
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by noirchen 7y ago
I can read Chinese and it looks to me that both sides are attacking the other side. And most are using simplified Chinese so they are all from the mainland. I'm not surprised because just as Americans have heavily polarized opinions to

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