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737minon The New Smoking (2021)

All true. It’s not free of government involvement however... Notable is the mention of TikTok, which supplies CCP-curated content that differs by country.

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/tiktok-in-china-versus-the-uni...

737minon Fencer Matthias Behr takes in relatives of the opponent he stabbed (2022)

https://www.newsweek.com/stabbed-eye-fencing-sword-accident-...

More recent incident

737minon Spies arrested for tech export, investigation interference attempts

Sorry - dup although better link

737minon US AG Garland announces charges against 13 Chinese spy suspects

More detailed link / dup https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33324948

737minon I help seniors with technology issues

The bigger point is that in case of Lenovo, this “surveillance turf” is part of Xi’s & CCP’s growing digital empire. It’s worse than incompetence and greed, it’s far more serious.

737minon Hollywood: Unmasking informant T-10 (1985)

Very good article

737minon Scientists at US’s top nuclear lab recruited by China to design missiles,drones

That’s fair and I wouldn’t have linked that if not for other parts of the article:

In 2019, a bipartisan Senate report said China’s Thousand Talents Program and similar arrangements were a vector for China to exploit U.S. research.

“Through talent recruitment programs like the Thousand Talents, China pays scientists at American universities to secretly bring our knowledge and innovation back to China — including valuable, federally funded research,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said in a speech in 2020. “To put it bluntly, this means American taxpayers are effectively footing the bill for China’s own technological development.”

737minon Scientists at US’s top nuclear lab recruited by China to design missiles,drones

Not sure how posting mainstream news articles about the top issue in US technology and international relations qualifies as “propaganda machine”. In any case, your comment is borderline afoul of HN rules.

737minon Chinese Communists telling US that Taiwan Strait not international waters

Original too long

737minon Chinese Communists telling US that Taiwan Strait not international waters

Identical was too long, so editing happened but ok

737minon Chinese Communists telling US that Taiwan Strait not international waters

Exactly. History is a harsh but wise teacher.

737minon Chinese Communists telling US that Taiwan Strait not international waters

It seemed like a fair summary to fit, what bothers you?

“ Chinese military officials in recent months have repeatedly asserted that the Taiwan Strait isn’t international waters during meetings with US counterparts..”

737minon I cheated on my Microsoft interview (2019)

Many interviewers would expect the author to own ip to having seen the exact question before. I certainly would prefer to work with people who would say so.

737minon 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests and Massacre

Important day of remembrance

737minon HackerRank (YC S11) DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs [fixed]

The bigger lesson could be that engineering recruiting via automated standardized quiz doesn’t have much of a future?

737minon Study on US-Russia nuclear war: 91.5 MM casualties in first few hours (2019)

In part that’s because large scale ballistic weapon defense has generally been viewed by experts as destabilizing and accelerating the arms race. It’s a little technical why that is so, but interesting to read — regardless of one’s ultimate views.

737minon Study on US-Russia nuclear war: 91.5 MM casualties in first few hours (2019)

Nuclear weapons are widely seen as a stabilizing force by aerious security experts, and while their ultimate elimination is a worthy ethical ideal, it is obviously impossible in the present global environment. This link is from one of the abolishment campaign back in 2019. The world has become more not less dangerous since for France, UK, and US - and their many allies whose territorial integrity is assured by US nuclear weapons.

737minon Chinese inmates had hearts or lungs removed during executions, study says

Notable that this is a professional medical association saying this based on a stufy, not a journalist or blogger.

https://infogalactic.com/info/Serfdom_in_Tibet_controversy

Lots of conflicting perspectives on this topic indeed.

737minon Parents separated from baby as Hong Kong clings to zero-Covid

See updates in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30578163

737minon Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab, but feared debate could hurt

Yes, clear animal reservoirs, viral lineage, old samples from human or animal infections with precursor variants. No position on the question, just answering your question about proof.

737minon First, do no harm: An argument for a radical new paradigm for treating addiction

Not sure that using the CCP police state as the model to emulate for eradication of anything is very appealing. It’s fair to say that radical methods can work - but it’s a self-defeating argument, like 1930’s German train punctuality.

737minon Street Fighter II, Spin when you can't

This was a great read. I highly recommend that “newer” programmers (used to multi-GHz, multi-GB, multi-core) read this and really try to understand the lessons of low-resource optimization.

737minon China will “exhaust all means” to lure global talent – Xi

Will be interesting to see what other governments are doing or will do in the future.

737minon Intel apologises in China over Xinjiang supplier statement

“ We apologise for the trouble caused to our respected Chinese customers..” Andy Grove, a Holocaust survivor, must be turning over in his grave.

737minon “We’re shipping to the US” – inside China’s synthetic opioid networks (2020)

It would be very interesting to understand this part of the story in more detail, although I expect it’s more complicated than the statement above. But someone should really research this properly.

737minon The WHO is seeking a new treaty on handling future pandemics

Very good point. It appears to many observers that it has been subverted by the Beijing regime, so any new initiatives are naturally going to be treated with suspicion by much of the free world.

737minon Artificial Islands in the South China Sea (Arcgis)

For more on their tools, this was also an interesting read https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/10.3/analyze/commonly-u...

737minon Artificial Islands in the South China Sea (Arcgis)

Yeah, thought so too, very good GIS and web execution.

737minon The Seniority Roller Coaster and Down-Leveling in Tech

The key is to get away from engineering titles, LinkedIn, resumes and all this other “levels” stuff. Use an anonymous coding interview platform to hire, and problems of age bias go away. And other kinds of bias...