tonylinn80

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by tonylinn80 7y ago
Agree! I'm so glad that I don't live in US anymore
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by tonylinn80 7y ago
The second amendment is much more ridiculous than this
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by tonylinn80 8y ago
She's traveling under either a normal Chinese passport or a Hong Kong passport
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by tonylinn80 8y ago
Plenty of democratic countries are also poor, hostile and struggling in all aspects. China, for example, are doing much better overall compared to democratic India, and arguably Taiwan at this point. India has been democratic since long tim
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by tonylinn80 8y ago
The target is making them look older, because images created long time ago usually have less quality and resolution. It is similar to antique furnitures being made to look old and crappy
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by tonylinn80 8y ago
As a regular Chinese citizen, freedom of speech is at the bottom of list of things I care about, and I would happily sell that for profit if it is sell-able. I lived in US for quite some time and travel to US regularly. But seriously, I fee
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by tonylinn80 8y ago
'cause it has no reason to copy what US government would do
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by tonylinn80 8y ago
Can't agree more
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by tonylinn80 8y ago
They're indeed also very biased, just in the opposite direction. You just can't get unbiased views.
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by tonylinn80 8y ago
Well, when it comes to stories about China, you can rarely find English articles that are NOT extremely biased. I also suspect someone from hackernews are manually promoting such content
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by tonylinn80 8y ago
Not surprising at all. I've been actively logging into Google and confirming my visits at various restaurants. I've been using it to track my past activities, and I hope it can provide more accurate restaurant recommendations for
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by tonylinn80 9y ago
So, even though most people cannot understand some southern dialects when they hear it, they can fluently understand other dialects without explicitly learning to do so when it's written down. Even when you explicitly write down exactl
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by tonylinn80 9y ago
Sure, I love the fact that I can speak many languages. Why not. If you don't like the translation form 方言 to dialect, should I just call it fangyan or 方言? Or is there a more precise linguistic term for that? Our definition for "La
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by tonylinn80 9y ago
It's funny to see how westerners talk about dialects in China. Western propaganda worked pretty well I guess :) And yeah, most Chinese are bi-lingual by default. Now I know I can speak tons of northern Chinese languages. That's a
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by tonylinn80 9y ago
I speak a branch of Wu myself, and it's ABSOLUTELY not a different language from other dialects of Chinese. There are small parts (also commonly used) of the dialects that's dramatically different from Mandarin, but most parts are
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by tonylinn80 9y ago
A few dialects are unintelligible indeed, and they're mostly spoken in southern parts of China. But most people can understand dialects spoken in central and east (north of Changjiang river) fairly easily even though they cannot speak
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by tonylinn80 9y ago
This is off-topic, but since you strongly encourage using grids for layout. How do you deal with browser support issues? I found even IE11 is still very buggy in supporting CSS grid properly.
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Angela Merkel set for 4th term after Social Democrats OK coalition(usatoday.com)
3 points by tonylinn80 9y ago|0 comments
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by tonylinn80 9y ago
Plenty of comments on HN are posted by green accounts :) and I stand by all my comments
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Musk: China’s progress in advanced infrastructure is more than 100 times faster(mobile.twitter.com)
2 points by tonylinn80 9y ago|0 comments
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by tonylinn80 9y ago
I believe you're right. What I am against is really just pushing China towards American style democracy right now, at this moment. As one of the reasons, the danger of "elect me and we'll take Taiwan back by force" right
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by tonylinn80 9y ago
What you said is also true. The opinions of Chinese immigrants differs a lot based on when they immigrated out of China. Was it 70s, 80s, or 90s? People immigrated out before 90s tends to be more pro-democracy. (At least from my impression)
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by tonylinn80 9y ago
I'd totally support that if it's working as designed. Having a level of indirectness is very different from having everyone vote for who becomes president. NPC has thousands of members, and I'd expect them to be much more edu
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by tonylinn80 9y ago
The way Chinese government is supposed to work, is actually another form of democracy: People elect representatives to become "National People's Congress", which is supposed to have highest power in China, and decides who the
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by tonylinn80 9y ago
It'll take too much time to talk in details. Democracy in general in better than totalitarian in general, i don't disagree with that. However, establishing American democracy in China at this moment, most likely won't bring a
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by tonylinn80 9y ago
lol, it's not a long history anyway. I'm glad you read. I came to read tech news mostly and didn't feel the need to create an account to post comment until a few days ago
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by tonylinn80 9y ago
democracy, to begin with... at least American style of democracy
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by tonylinn80 9y ago
You'd be surprised how many people in China are seriously pro-amendment, and agrees that Xi should have a 3rd term or more. Though it's probably also true that tons of people are shocked by the news
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by tonylinn80 9y ago
Not surprising at all. In fact, many of the Chinese expats (visitors of mitbbs.com) are pro-china in general. They become less agreeing to western values after spending years in US. (I am one of those examples myself)
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by tonylinn80 9y ago
I'm not denying China doesn't have problems. It has tons of problems in fact. Aggressive blocking is annoying. But let's take a break and see: Do you think you have to be super careful if you are in China and not to call Xi &

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