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I didn't play the race card. I pointed it out.

He could have used the terms "propaganda" or "astro turfing" instead he used the very ethnically charged (and derogatory) term "wu mao". Which is specifically Chinese, which is specifically NOT Singapore.

You are saying I'm rude for calling a spade a spade. Sorry, but making generalisations about "Asians" (which grouping Singaporeans and Chinese) is racism.

But you are right, it is a side track, and the more interesting discussion does centre around the "Is a good dictatorship better than a bad democracy?" or something of the like.

That's a pretty rude response to a fairly moderate comment.

So what's wrong with the dictatorship if it is "completely benevolent, non-brutal, and very business-oriented"?

I realize that "all asians may look the same"[1], but Singapore isn't China[2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigotry

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party

A plasma TV has really LOW PPI... Like it's 50+ inches with only 1080 pixels down the screen... That's like a factor of 10 worse than retina displays...

That states the occupants of the car die. Not some random (innocent) member of the public (as the GP stated).

> After the police give up the chase, a member of the public is almost invariably killed at an intersection within 30s, since the offender is still driving at high speed but there are no longer any lights and sirens to warn the public.

i call BS, citation?

sitting at a table messing on a computer in your hand used to be socially unacceptable.

I don't think he's saying that at all. Could you be viewing it from a place of judgement rather than compassion?

Do most buddhist monks depend on other people to feed them? More so than the rest of us?

Talking about Buddhism as though it's just one belief is crap. That would be like grouping up Islam, Judaism, and the various Christian faiths and calling them the same. [1] Sure they all share "Buddha" in common, just as those above share "God" in common.

> This post, in its entirely a quote (or pair of quotes, I can't quite tell), succeeds only in telling us that the things we think we ought to do don't matter at all and we should instead concentrate on... something, and that something isn't even hinted at, let alone defined in a meaningful way.

You don't think the context of the heavy overtone of buddhism helps answer that "something"? Perhaps the article is hinting for you to make a conscious effort to find that "something" rather than just defaulting to what life throws at you. Or perhaps it was a more explicit effort to get you to explore buddhism?

I'd reread the article with the idea that it is just giving you information to reflect on, rather than just information to respond to.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism#Schools_and_traditions

with 8.3T GDP... are you serious? Could you describe the scenario where China has an economic collapse?

If such a scenario were to happen... it'd would be pretty catastrophic the world over. GIven how tied the US and China's economies are tied, I don't think the US would allow a USSR style collapse... :\

Why was the contest only between Romney and Obama?

Why do you have to be uber wealthy to run in a country ruled "by the people"?

The U.S's primary problem seems to be that it has transformed into (or perhaps always was) a corporate run oligarchy. Except it walks around saying it's a democratic republic...

The newspeak runs so deep, that what I say is controversial, despite being quite factual... it's very saddening (if you care about such things).

Well the play store could be classified as Not a "Google Service for Android".

Much like Gmail, and search are... I don't know how google would play it. But they could do a number of things.

No other country is as prolific (in modern day).

But that aside, I'm pointing out that saying "our government is better (for you!)" is complete BS. Countries in general shouldn't push their values on each other. Just because some do, doesn't make it all of a sudden a good idea.

> ....it's still better than almost any government outside Western Europe, and is in some ways better than governments in Western Europe (e.g. with regard to free speech), though worse in others.

Only from an American view point is that true, lots of differing view points come to lots of different conclusions about which govt is "better". That is entirely the point with why the US insists on pushing it's value system on others (by force if neccersary).

Google Play Store... is an android app.

Samsung's Tizen can run android apps.

Erm.. propaganda is a very powerful tool, when combined with extreme violence it is easy to oppresse a great number of people.

Your argument that "Given north koreans haven't revolted, might mean they don't mind", would be similar to saying "Maybe the jews didn't mind the holocaust, else why didn't they just overrun the prison camps"

You seem to just be trolling this whole article. There are number of accounts of how bad NK is from people who have escaped the country. There are a number of independent media groups who have made very compelling unbiased reports of what is happening in NK. There are a number of journalists who have been imprisoned while reporting in and around NK.

That coupled with the very public (false) propaganda that is produced by NK itself. Paints a very compelling case that NK is ruled by a single family that is controlling the entire population through miseducation (propaganda) and violence.

Could you show some evidence that suggests it is just media hype?

Handling credit card payments in person is a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT problem to being an online payment processor.

Other than paypal, no one offers BOTH services... Paypal seems to have done it, purely as a response to square.

Banks I guess do it, but they don't do any of it well.

So which problem are you refering to that groups In person payment with online payment? Because it feels much harder to frame them together than apart...

Is nationalism a good thing though? By thinking your own country/people is great, aren't you creating a dichotomy where you think less of another country/people. (i.e. racism...)

Maybe I'm over thinking it.

I'm not sure this is completely correct.

Browsers do multiple requests at once, so trying to squeeze everything into as few requests as possible could make things slower as you lose the parallelism.

I would think it would be better to try and make all your requests a similar size. 3x100kb will probably be faster than 1x300kb

What do you mean "off limits to foreigners"? I travel to china regularly, and have never encountered an "off limits" section of any city. *

* I am very obviously a foreigner in China.

> To the best of my knowledge

I think you you need to improve your knowledge then. Or provide a citation.

Without damaging anything? Do you mean lock picking? Or you live in a neighbourhood where people leave their doors open?

Source for huaweis bid being more expensive?

There are ways to verify, surely, checksum builds/roms etc.

They are different cultures, it's not about polish. They think differently, thus they act differently.

You are talking like the British/Romans spoke of themselves in the empire days... We are a bit past that now. No one needs your civilisation or your manners... They might need your money though. ;)

Apple manufacture in china.

Samsung manufacture in china.

Designed in California doesn't mean made in America.

BYD in my mind would be the one of the pinnacles of Chinese goods, but they only sell locally. As far as I know

What are those concerns exactly? Does Chinese hardware to prime factorisation faster than others?

This is just an outright racist rant... I don't even see the point you are making...

Most Asian companies... Just from your experience with one.

You seem to just be a bigot. :(

Just remember, there is always a worse code base than the one you are working on, and on the flip side no matter how good you make your code base, someone will encounter it, and think it's a "poorly written mass of code".

:-)

When bias (like gender, or race) is so prolific. It is institutional change that is required.

You are arguing, just make it a level playing field and the hardworking woman will eventually show up. But that takes generations for change to happen.

In a lot of our eyes, that is not good enough. Change needs to happen now. Quota systems may deny an opportunity to a deserving person (as the quota is full). But it is morally equivalent to being denied an opportunity due to some other kind of bias (i.e because you are a woman).

So really, quotas is just a new (not prejudicial) form of bias. The only difference is, it will eventually change the whole system (for the better). Where as prejudicial bias just makes the system worse.

I would say that by keeping the status quo (i.e. 90+% men in tech) you are poisoning the system.

Do the Chinese govt regularly seize money from their citizens?