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I used to think the writing system was horrible as well, but it actually has a ton of advantages as well. Pros and cons, like anything else.

seems like we could give him the benefit of the doubt in this case, no?

They would. Listen closely to how you and your friends tell stories next time. Race and gender are almost always used to describe people. "My landlord, who's a black guy, <STORY DETAIL THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH BEING BLACK OR BEING A MAN>"

So from a sample size of one, you thoroughly concluded that this was because of democracy vs dictatorship. Just to offset that for you, India is a democracy with pollution even worse than China (although conveniently not often discussed in western media).

The conclusion you came to that China is trying to curb pollution "mostly" because of foreigners visiting during the Beijing Olympics, again do you honestly believe that?

You don't think the CCP, even being one of those "communist dictatorships", cares at all about lowered life expectancy across its population? Why did the CCP lift most of its people out of severe poverty over the last 20 years? What evil agenda was it trying to achieve then?

I find it hard to believe that if you truly sat down and thought about it from first principles for an hour, that you would actually believe that

Wow...

sounds like cha-ye, or tea leaves in Mandarin

So you would rather watch your children eat mud to fill their bellies, slowly starving to death, and keep your freedom of speech?

cool

Just a few - world class manufacturing techniques - world class drone technology - world class civil engineering (high speed rail, bridges) - world class super computers

Haha don't reach for Orwellian buzzwords so quickly =P. A lot of successful Chinese tech companies don't succeed just because competitors were banned. Even when Google was in China, Baidu catered specifically to local needs whereas Google just paratrooper dropped their product in. Baidu was more successful. As for Wechat, given how Facebook messenger has been shamelessly copying Wechat features for years, I highly doubt Wechat was at danger of losing marketshare to Facebook.

Now you know how Chinese people feel when they read any articles written by white men about China, or when they go eat at one of those asian fusion abominations :)

But maybe not, and probably not.

We're hardly above colonizing. Just look at all of the wars America has fought over the last 50 years.

One could've argued that making seafaring voyages in the 1600s requires putting your differences aside. But instead we had a bunch of barbarians going around extinguishing and enslaving the world =P

We definitely avoid talking about large body counts that we cause in the Western world

this sounds like a dream

until we run out of resources, develop a plan to terraform the planet, which is incompatible with the original biosphere, and wholesale destroy all life on that planet.

If it ever got to us vs them, we haven't evolved past choosing us first.

The addendum is that Liu believed it would be very difficult for, if not impossible, for a civilization to hold together across a long enough distance. This was shown when the original interception ships floated far enough and started attacking each other, throwing out pre-emptive strikes when communications broke down and resources were needed.

This is a really great article that lays out a proper implementation of idempotent requests, something that many people (even very experienced developers) regularly mess up. Thanks for sharing

ya, i mean, how could anyone think that those robots from China can think outside of the box right?

/sarcasm

sounds like bitcoin lol

don't believe anything you hear about China, especially if it falls into the "Chinese Government is an evil overlord" bucket, or you'll end up looking like an idiot.

yes you are wrong to think this

judging from history, pretty hard =[

While Lola's story is certainly tragic, it's a tangibly different class of slavery than that which existed in the western world 2 centuries ago. Chattel slavery is far, far crueler and not comparable

Actually Facebook has shamelessly copy-catted WeChat continuously over the last 2 years

More or less agree with your point, just wanted to point out that scaling reads horizontally usually means adding a distributed quality to your system, and not understanding how that impacts the system can have bad side effects

If it's scoped for 3 years, does that mean it'll take 9? =P

Lol +1 here. I guarantee LeoNatan25 that the situation is MUCH more complicated than he/she is giving credit