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Wow.. the liberty fighter strikes again.

Hope you enjoy your democracy while it lasts and stop being naive one day.

I literally have nothing to say to anyone who actually believes China would launch invasion against Taiwan.

Jordan Peterson isn't exactly a friend of communist parties

I never said JP would embrace any communist ideology. I was merely pointing out that you should see and think before you make ignorant claims without any actual data or seeing things with your own eyes.

Xi's bullying of Taiwan

I don't understand why you keep saying bullying. For a tiny little island still holding claim to the mainland, China is being extremely nice. (Imagine Mexico government still holding claims to States that U.S. has taken by force, how would U.S. government react to that?) All I see around me is Taiwan business taking advantage of Chinese market and Taiwanese employees enjoy the fruit of China's development. There may be frictions, but it certainly wouldn't come near to the level that U.S. is exploiting it's neighbors in the continent.

Hope you would stop being a hypocrite before pointing figures.

Taiwan wouldn't need weapons were it not for the unacceptable bullying from China.

I see that we would never convince the other at this point. But I do hope that you open up your eye one day and don't give into those radical left ideology.

I don't know if you are living in either China or Taiwan to know the dynamics of this complex situation. If not, your source would be only from your parents and biased narrative of west media. And those people most likely don't understand it either.

Watch more Jordan Peterson video maybe. Be a good citizen of the world.

加油。(wink, wink)

Wow, 50c party members trolls on HN (see [1])?

I like how quick you label people as soon as they share different political view.

Could you elaborate on this wild claim?

Taiwan enjoyed a short period of economic boom only thanks to China opened up its market to Taiwan and had policies encouraging business from Taiwan to do so. This almost has nothing to do with their political system.

And now things have turned around. Taiwan's democratic system is a drag on their economy and prone to foreign influence. (Buying outdated weaponary from States? Continuous internal political struggles?) Whereas China has a much more unified vision under a strong leadership and on track to seek total economic dominance.

Taiwan is living proof that Chinese culture and democracy mix perfectly well

On the contrary, Taiwan is the proof that Chinese culture and democracy don't mix well. In fact that is why CNP lost in the first place and retreated to the island. China will always need a strong federal government to lead, or it would just break into smaller counties like EU.

My bad. Somehow I was under the wrong impression.

Taobao is owned by Alibaba, which also owns the South China Morning Post.

Interesting. I am wondering how they update their posts. Because scmp.com is actually being blocked in where I am staying at. Maybe some state sanctioned services? I have been using aliyun services and never had any issues.. yet..

Wonder if there is a potential block-chain based business opportunity for reviewing stuff, where all information would be transparent.

Why having freedom of speech, independent judicial system and accepting human rights as common values has to be the prerequisites of being a global power? Technically if you are rich and powerful then you are a global power.

Edit: sensing lots of incoming downvotes. Point is that democracy may not be the only way to global power.

That's the beauty of the legal system. The point is not that you are not breaking any laws. It's the process will exhaust you and force you to sign a deal or something. You always lose in this case.

For goodness sake this thing is older than half of people on HN.

Are you saying that half of HN are younger than 19? I would have thought the average age on HN would be somewhere around 30. I would expect the average HN person was a kid or teenager when Starcraft was released.

Maybe its a metaphor? A game of 19 years old could be say of 60 or 70 human age considering how fast game iterates.

From about 2005-2009 I founded a hotel reservation platform in direct competition to CTrip and ELong

So it's hotels only? No flights, cars etc?

Just watched a video giving some quick background on fusion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZsaaturR6E

Informative and concise.

Thought it was extremely hard to do though...

Some liberal view on the issue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGSzj7ztszI

Though, the video sort of failed to elaborate more on science evidence than just death tolls etc.

Go through the comments of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGe4uWEvwe8

People were literally bizarred by youtube, saying they were there by recommendation. (I have this video in the recommendations also...)

I remembered an article on motherboard about a guy's house raided by FBI for running an exit node. Now that article rendered a 404. Not sure if publicly claiming to run an exit node is safe.

But you claim such defects have "always been a problem" in science fiction.

I wasn't referring to sci-fi in general. I was talking about my personal experience. I specifically had "when I read sci-fi story" in the original comment.

So, it is ordinarily bad, yes; but it is particularly bad for being Chinese.

Yes, all politics behind this particular piece winning the award is my speculation, but I wasn't saying that "it is particularly bad for being Chinese". It would be hard for someone who doesn't familiar with Chinese netizen culture to comprehend such speculation. Go through comment section of the link provided by rabboRubble (https://read.douban.com/reader/ebook/20769128/). Like PR measures described in "Century of the self", <Folding BJ> is covered a lot in the news and planting fabricated idea among certain groups. Most reasonable Chinese sci-fi readers come to the same speculation as me (top review/most voted) while other lesser minds fail to see it, thus the chaos in comment section mentioned in the above link.

Okay. I just finished reading the whole thing. Still a lot of the things don't add up. A lot of the things don't feel right. I can't put it into exact word. But in the link provided by rabboRubble (https://read.douban.com/reader/ebook/20769128/), it seems that most reasonable Chinese sci-fi readers think the story is lame if you read the top review. And that's about how I feel.

--Spoiler Alert--

The whole story actually doesn't seem to have anything to do with sci-fi at all. The plot is evolving around a man delivering letter? What? Is it in Victorian or is it in the future? All sci-fi elements are just stuffed in there and has no actual meat. I think for a good sci-fi, the author should first think through what technology exists in that world and then develop story that is confined to the setting. Not like this story which sci-fi only served as some convenient facts for author to exploit reader's emotion.

Edit.

And wow... thanks for all the down votes, guys. Hope all you've down voted read the whole folding BJ already.

--Spoiler alert---

After reading the first chapter and beginning of the second chapter, to me, it seems not a good piece at all. They had the technology of building a folding city for god sake, yet the protagonist is doing some heavy labor dealing with the city's trash. You would imagine such work would long have been automated. Actually, this always has been a problem when I read sci-fi story, some setting are just fabricated to make the plot more emotional but never really fit the common sense of, at least to me, the development of technology.

I certainly hope this whole Chinese writer winning an award wasn't some political move to attract attention.

Like Feynman said in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMFPe-DwULM, when trying to explain how magnate works to the reporter.

I think it's hard for someone else to actually understand the problem when you two are not in the same knowledge framework. Cause then she/he will be perpetually asking the why and how question and being not satisfied.

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The ruling isn't that powerful at all. On the latest development.

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/198...

I have an idea about why you did not find a job in America.. consider,

I worked as a programmer in States for 2 years. I decided to go back on my own will.

If existing H-1B holders are not measurably adding enough value to the American GDP, then there's no reason to increase the number given out.

And I am not complaining the number of H1-B visa. In fact, I think the current policy works okay.

What I was suggesting was that people cheated their way out of U.S. colleges would most likely spend zero effort looking for jobs in States. Their goal was to get the degree so that their parents could have reasons to put them in some position back in home.

All in all, both group (kids in [1] and kids in the article) were doing very poorly academically in China. And all their struggles wouldn't be such a big deal if they just learn their places in the society.

Good Sharing. I come from a tier 1 city in China. The struggle people in [1] have seems very distant to me. I think they are good people, but they are just too naive to think they could get decent office jobs with such low grades. (At 5:37, it mentioned the girl only got 388 points for National Entrance Exam. It was terrible.) They might be better suited for a blue collar job or a service sector job (waiter/waitress etc). Those jobs might just pay much better.

And yes, I probably have better resources than those unfortunate. But guess who had paid the price? My great grandparents. They came to tier 1 city in 1900s, lived a hard life and did low skilled work like ironing cloth so that my grandparents could settle in city. The kid at 45:47 whining about how things were unfair to him was just making me sick.

For me personally, I don't think it is worth it. But if I hadn't studied abroad, it wouldn't have killed my interest to do so.

I said "those came back to China". Most undergrad went back to China eventually. Just compare the number of Chinese students given in the article and the number of H1-B visa issued every year. Do the math.

U.S. universities offer an easier way to get ahead, with a quality education and better job prospects.

The better job prospects part might not be true. Those came back to China for jobs will get their current position with or without a U.S. degree.

Then what is point of, say, Math class? You still remember much of the Math formula?

Personally, I think in this information age Programming is a much relevant subject to be taught in school than traditional ones like Math, Chemistry, Physics and etc.

The "rock" is actually located in East China sea.

I would say that Japan has mostly behaved in a similar manner to Germany on the topic

Are you sure on that? I doubt Japan's neighboring nations would agree on that.

I bet even during WW2 Japanese civilian life was peaceful too, but that doesn't prevent Japan's brutal invasion into other nations. Your personal experience doesn't matter much. Also I don't think Asians reveal their true thoughts to foreigners easily. Besides what matters is Japanese government's take on the history. If Japanese government continue to deny their wrongs during the war and worship their war criminals in shrine, then it is a major problem to the neighbors.