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Well, in the case of Chinese, most of people learned and are used to stop questioning/exploring/discussing/thinking/caring almost all of the unfiltered information. There is little room to be picky about the food tailor-made and there are even a lot of candies in the past few years. Why bother caring something you can not change/do/affect and sometimes may hurt yourself? More candies brings stronger heart beats and bigger bodies, too.

What you observed is exact how we set the goal and play the game. As a Chinese, I think your observation is very insightful to point to the model/structure of these kind of advance measured by normal ways. But most people follow the normal fact checking measurement. That's one of the powerful way to manipulate people's perspectives by improving on some facts. In the end of the day, we all react to some signals.

I only used SnapChat a few times. From what I saw, it is a virtual message channel to make funny/silly face style communication with others, which is what many 10-19 yo need. And I actually did a simple analysis to explore some fundamental needs for that age group based on where their activities happens. And the communication method SnapChat and similar services offer fit what they want perfectly when being used as a massager. As long as they can hold that ground tight, they still have chances.

Also, Tencent just acquired some portion of SnapChat's equities. It has very strong and long track record and experience to make a lot of money from that age group, though in a different culture settings. It might be a 50/50 bet. Unfortunately, I'm too poor to buy in their stocks now and bet on the mid term.

I'm new to React. From what I read, isn't React only the View? I thought its structure was more like pure view layers glued by light logic to form a higher level view. It seems I was wrong now.

https://youtu.be/sJciRIZQTg4 TVC on YouTube, in case you are interested. I found it on the bottom of the webpage (just a little logo).

I watched a TV program almost 10 years ago regarding some kind of yellow sea dog like robot and a senior lady's strong attachment to it. It made me a bit sad. And I would reach that age one day...

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I specifically mentioned that analogy was not accurate. I have to add that it's the kind of feeling that directly reflects teenager's physical growth, taller, quicker, faster, stronger, etc. Perhaps my original analogy led you to relate to the emotional side more. Especially in western societies, that can turn to more physical impact. Teenagers in China actually have that kind of things as well, but there is simply less room for them.

Another thing is, in a world with several nuclear weapon equipped states, can two such nations simply confront with each other? Look around east Asia, you have to play very carefully.

So I guess there should have been more context to put in to have a better idea of what I was trying to deliver. If some big and vague words can explain, yeah, it's cultural difference, too.

Good to know. But I bet Xi is able to hide a lot of his real thoughts and feelings from many, esp. someone is in the US. I would suggest to read some information about his father's experience in those movements(运动). And you'll have a better idea why many of his family are outside of China. And how strong and capable he is to be able to reestablish everything from the bottom.

If you are aware of the movements(运动) in the ruling party's history, the effort to cleanse is nothing new. But we did not see that for a while.

Today is tomorrow's history. Compared with yesterday, today is not that different from yesterday. But history does not simply repeat itself, either.

AFAIK as a Chinese, the 1938 incident is known to many since it was said to be Jiang's decision. As of Changchun, I saw that topic a few times in some forums 10+ years ago.

The things people want to know change over time as well. Now, China is feeling its power and strength like a growing teenager (not very accurate, but you get what I mean), so the glory of the past, now and future is what people want to know. Zhanlang 2 (War Wolf 2)'s phenomenal financial success (close to 1bn usd box office maybe?) is a recent strong signal.

Hopefully so.

Apple under Jobs showed polished deliverables to customers. Without him, Apple demoed prototypes more, talked about plans and fields they worked on more and tried to pumped up confidence by giving out information more. It's been like this for a few years. Not a short time in the tech world.

They did regroup and formed a new foundation that is quite strong. Positioning at product and service for privacy alone has no competitors in the near future. And they have everything needed to make customers believe in them (on the other hand, do customers really have other quality and trustworthy alternatives?).

The best product after Jobs from Apple, to me, is AirPods. That's the only product makes me amazed and satisfied.

I'm actually a big fan of Apple's approach on making product and an iOS developer myself.

Apple has to push something new (but iOS apps with AR were there as late as around 2011) and major "next big thing" to play catching up. Apple as a creature is done. It is just following the phenomenon momentum founded by Jobs to maximize profit. Once the day it goes past the max profit tipping point, what is real will show up. Money is the quantitive fact that few would go against, once this fact changes, opinions will soon emerge. My personal thoughts.

Notes are data. We need ways to input and store it fully under user's control. And we need a much better way to get insight from our own notes.

Education is about doing things at scale. Learning is about individual gain on delta. I believe better personal tools for learning could do a better job for individuals on average.

I think "from mainland" or something similar is correct instead of mentioning "culturally Han". The current culture difference was mainly formed over the process of having different rulers for both places in the 20th century. "Han" is a way broad notion for us Chinese. A fair amount of Chinese derived from "Han", an ethnic group.

The reason I want to point this out is "Han" means a lot more than the current status quo, which was transformed badly after the ruling party dominated the main land.

No one would care when that kind of emergence happened. People are used to only thinking of things that they can do and have positive consequence for themselves.

It's more of a message/signal to the government. Their core products are not going to be allowed in that market in the way most of us think of. And I believe FB is aware of this fully. There are various ways for FB to do business in Chinese market. So sending a message here to make a point to help on the whole agenda. Nothing more.

Until those so-called activists don't have to looking for funding from sides with their own agendas, or more clearly, having stable and large cashflow, they are fighting for their own fames and interests instead of the people living on that land.

For outsiders, they are icons/symbols. For most of insiders, they are someone unrelated to their life. In events like this, both sides can consume the news and get what they want without anything really meaningful happens.

This is a kind of hopeless in the real world.

Icons get selected and pushed to their directions and have no means to actually do anything useful.

As an average Joe, the best thing to do is reducing this kind of consumption, taking care of yourself and, hopefully, not getting involved in/caught. This can somewhat explain, from one dimension, why there is no truly strong and cohesive Chinese community in the western world.

More money only spoils unrestricted kids even more. They don't settle down for the progress they gain, just want even more. That's a DNA in the core of the whole system and affects people within.

There is nothing to look for, just strong dark currents.

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Yes. It's a nice conversation with you.

I understand even there are more quality information, the noise out there is probably even greater. And I still believe the more quality information, the better, to a point I think its the foundation for something greater (of course, this is from my answer seeking through all those years' experience living in two different systems, mostly in the "worse" one). I guess that's the main difference of how we look at the same thing from different angles.

Complex system is a nice model to think about all this. Ordinary individual's effect can vary in different state of the system. Hence, their feelings are different.

Well, I'm fully aware of this. You can look at another comment I left under this topic. Most of wishes are not realized. My original reply was trying to oppose the parent's dismiss of the importance of the foundation. I lived in a society painted by a lot more fake/manipulated/restricted information till I were 30. So people from better systems would easily underestimate its real effect (and I know it's hard to really get it). People usually focus on things short-term and close by and take the macro surroundings for granted.

Right, but you only mentioned half of the story. Eventually, the foundation is something you simply have to have for all wanted things above it. The way worse is a potential part of the process, not the final outcome. So it seems we all agree on what is the foundation that can not be ignored here;)

But the GP's comment is still valid since that's the foundation of everything to build upon. Or things will go way worse.

This is the exact reason many Chinese don't think we Chinese in mainland could have democracy. I guess there are more people think that way than a decade earlier. Because middle and upper class there are really enjoying the party, and most of the rest are trying their best to rush to the party.

I believe it's not a question of chicken and egg. It's all about part of the system starts to be able to have the environment to support the iteration of new generations better prepared for that (Not sure it has to be democracy, I don't believe it's foundation for many good things, but at least some system people are more fairly treated.).

However, given rulers are fully aware of this and how the system is currently structured, there is no way to have this kind of thing even in just a tiny part of the system. The best chance is after the collapse of it, but people would suffer and there is no guarantee it would emerge, spread and prevail. And my life span is too short. So there is no real hope for this.

IMO, each generation faces different landscape of software and hardware infrastructure and end-device. The existing social net work and communication solutions can't meet the delta of this generation's needs against previous ones, hence there comes the big unmet needs from the emerging generation. However, solution builders have to be close to this generation enough to have enough sense/instinct of the delta to build products that can actually cover those delta.

Just my observation and not being described accurately and clearly enough here. But I hope you get what I'm trying to say.

I have to bring hand-check up here again as a routine for this type of conversation. Now offensive players with the ball have more chances to face the basket and launching the shot just a more efficient option. Even the best guards in NBA were forced to protect the ball with their back outside 3-point line. GP was very fast and had top tier quickness (there are plenty of his clips on youtube). His back faced the basket a lot. If a player had to turn around first to face the basket, 3-pointers are less the best options.

Just try to provide another opinion on this. And I know there are endless conversations regarding this under many youtube clips.

It's all about what are allowed for the defenders to best contain the offensive space and what offensive players' best option is in this case.

The master player in one type I was talking about is someone like MJ. He pushed the expectation so high in both quantity (from data's point of view) and quality (all those master level moves only rooted from unreal fundamentals). There is basically zero chance to have someone better than him in the short and mid run. And the league had to change how the game is played to create space to expect another master player in another type. In this process, before the true master player emerges and matures, there is also some time for the fans to speculate who will be the master in each generation of players till that final one arrives. In short, better versions of a certain type of heroes keep coming and attracting more fans and pushing the expectation higher. It somewhat resets the product and let the new dynamics evolve so that it keeps the cashflow flow in strongly and can last for quite some time.

Of course, just my observation.

edit: added the product and dynamics analogy and corrected grammar.

I skimmed through it three times to try to understand what it tries to say and find the answer for the title. But I still feel lost. I was thinking my English reading was too poor (not my native language).