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v2.5? It doesn't on my iPhone 6 plus.

Exactly, I bought Flex, Force, Aria and I used to love Fitbit as a company. All the recent shit they pulled off made me very disappointed. Not gonna throw another cent at them.

> Tencent - Non-copy cat company, crazy amount of innovation and market penetration

Wait, what? This is a terrible example. Tencent is anything but innovative. They are notorious for copying ideas from local startups.

With that internet speed, it could take days to do anything. :D

Reading that comment made me really wish someone paid him to do that. Otherwise that was just too pathetic.

> orders of magnitude

I am not sure if you understand what that means.

There is a huge difference between a sports watch and a sports edition of a watch.

This is pretty ridiculous comparison. The Apple watch is clearly not targeted to any serious runners/triathletes. I don't recall anyone claim it's a "sports watch".

> In general, there are always two sides to the coin

This exactly. Media blames China for everything that went wrong on this planet, and people believe it without thinking twice. It's funny because as a Chinese, I thought we were supposed to be the only one that got brainwashed.

I am not sure where you are going here. China didn't claim all the ocean either, they want the islands.

> To the west if you found a piece of land and lived there for 100 years, it's yours - that's how the US was founded after all

Some say the genocide of the natives also helped a lot. These kind of logic just can't be applied to the problems in Asia, where the territory disputes trace back to hundreds of years ago. It's not a west vs east thing.

On the side note, people need to stop doing benchmarks on a freaking watch. The spec war on smartphones was ridiculous enough, and now they are bringing it to wearables.

> someone mentioned me about the (lot of ) empty buildings in china (or big cities).

In some smaller cities, yes. The demand is always higher than supply in the big cities like Shanghai/Beijing/Guangzhou/Shenzhen.

> Banks lend to people with the right connections (it's otherwhise impossible), they get an easy loan with the building as insurance.

Having the right connections will make your bank loan a lot easier, but if you are qualified, you certainly can still get one without connections.

Great answer but I think you are overselling the importance of HuKou. For one, HuKou certainly doesn't get you "the highest paid jobs in both the public and private sector". Your degree/profile/experience are the deciding factors in big cities like Beijing/Shanghai. That along with many other factors are the reason why tens of millions of "Waidiren" chose to live those two cities. As for "often a large network of friends and family members in local government", I think you are mistaken HuKou with Guanxi (network). Having a Hukou doesn't grant you the pass to people in local government. You still need to know the right people.

What HuKou means to the general public is more about access to local education system and better healthcare. Most of the time it really doesn't mean much when you try to get a job, especially in the private companies.

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> So Russia is known for having a strong propaganda machine.

This may shock you, but every country has a strong propaganda machine.

Yep, because nothing good will ever come out of China. /s

"very cheap" - There is no need for the quote. The real estate price in China, especially in Shanghai has been skyrocketing in the past decade. The average apartment price in the city is close to 10k USD(per square meter) now.

"Today, China's borders are wide open. Almost anybody who wants a passport can get one." What's wrong with this?

@djrogers

"It is absolutely horrifying that you would compare the violent rioting, looting, arson, rape, and general mayhem of the '92 LA riots with the peaceful demonstration in Tiananmen Square."

"I was living in Los Angeles during the riots"

did you live in Beijing during the Tiananmen event?

"It is very hard to figure out what happened exactly" - This is exactly the reason why I am very skeptical about all these articles. Growing up in China, I first learned about this on Wikipedia back in the days when it was not blocked. I was furious about it back then. The fact that I had to learn this from Wikipedia for the first time just made it even worse. I tried a lot to collect more information about this. Most of the stuff I found was pointing fingers at the government and military. Being young and naive, I full-heartedly trust every single piece of it.

Now I live in Canada and have stayed outside of the Chinese censorship for almost 6 years now. My opinion have changed quite a lot. I used to believe the idea of communism brainwashing, but now I have a feeling that this sort of brainwashing and censorship goes both ways. Remember the famous tank man? It's one of the important icon of this event and was marked as a symbol of the Chinese government's oppression and brutality. That image/video was widely spread in the western medias. The majority of the public believe he was rolled over by the tank, because you know, Chinese government are evil. The full video was posted earlier on Reddit. Many was shocked to find out that the tank tried to drive around him and eventually stopped until the tank man was pulled away by someone else. Why the mainstream media never showed the full video to the public? Because it contradicted with the brutal image of Chinese government/military that they were trying to portrait to the public. Propaganda is a funny thing. Bearing stereotype and ignorance, both side will hold a strong belief that they are right.

I am by no means saying Chinese government is innocent. They pretty evil imo. I am just trying to say is that it is very hard to figure out what really happened now that both sides are extremely biased and ignorant towards the other end. I personally believe there were students killed and injured during the military intervention, but I am strongly skeptical against the massacre claim as there was no solid evidence so far. The truth probably lies somewhere in between the stories.

Whenever they release a new gadget, they make the announcement and then make you to wait. Their online shop has this queuing system which is super hard to get in whenever they make a new release. And it usually get "sold out" in a matter of minutes or even seconds. The majority of the consumers won't get hand on it months after its initial release. And interestingly, when this happens, usually the component price has dropped quite a lot where the price/cost ration is far less impressive. However, they still get to keep the reputation that they sell "quality" stuff at an insanely low price.

The whole process sounds like a shady business to me, but apparently they grow super fast with this kind of strategy. So yeah, I guess what do I know.

or even better, $10 for 1TB per month. I would jump in a heart beat. Superior desktop client and widely adopted API is the two major reasons I am gonna stick with Dropbox.

- Total government expenditures are nearly the size of China's GDP

Total government expenditure of USA 2013: 3.45 trillion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_United_States_federal_budg...) GDP of China in 2013: 8.3 trillion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomin...)

If I am not mistaken, the federal spending budget includes military spending as well.

I am so tired of this kind of ignorant bullshit. Do you folks still think countries like Vietnam are still like what they were thirty years ago? Like it or not, that part of the world has changed a lot.

Despite all the plaintext password nonsense, I still can't wrap my head around the fact that there is an API call for getting passwords. What legitimate use could it possibly be?

You must be fun at parties.

Are you suggesting that all non-Western countries civilians are living in fear for their life? This is a new level of ignorance. Even if you just meant Vietnam, believe or not, a lot of things have changed in the last few decades.

I did my co-op in a big bank. The stuff you said is exactly the reason why I am working at a start-up now. Or maybe it's just banks that suck?

This may shock you, but some don't live/work/study just for money.

- "foreign enemy"

Not saying you are wrong. But this sort of brainwash usually goes two ways. You might not see it, but China, in a way, could well be the same type of foreign enemy of your country.