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Actually might be closer to the The Google Pay Spot Platform instead, which supports PWA:

https://developers.google.com/pay/spot

What's stopping me from putting a PWA in a webview and call it a app clip? Is that possible? From the app clip docs it seems like they didn't prohibit that.

paraditedcon An alternative to using Google Analytics on your website

Let's be honest, many things in life (especially quantitatively measured) are done to feed the ego. There's no need single out website views.

paraditedcon Launch HN: Berbix (YC S18) – Instant ID checks to fight fraud and stay compliant

Actually it has became standard practice in where I live to have government ID check as part of KYC process for these new fintech companies, usually accompanied with a live photo capture.

Maybe it is not the case in the US? Interesting.

paraditedcon Launch HN: Berbix (YC S18) – Instant ID checks to fight fraud and stay compliant

How is your service different from the KYC service providers out there targeting fintech startups?

paraditedcon China Set for Coal Expansion in Threat to Climate Goals

I looked into a few websites tracking climate change progress. They seemed to show that China is doing relatively better compared to others, in terms of climate change goals.

Here is the summary that I posted on my blog:

https://paraditedc.com/2019/11/22/pdc-10-chinas-real-progres...

paraditedcon Huawei Unveils High-Performance ARM-Based CPU

paraditedcon Learning China’s Forbidden History, So They Can Censor It

It sounds a lot like communism so I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be censored.

paraditedcon Learning China’s Forbidden History, So They Can Censor It

What about 大越进 or 文化大革命? At least in my textbook they were attributed as CCP and Mao's mistake.

paraditedcon Learning China’s Forbidden History, So They Can Censor It

I agree that there's much propaganda in the textbook, but how was it related to "extremely unfree"?

paraditedcon Learning China’s Forbidden History, So They Can Censor It

Were you taught using 人教版 or 北师大版 history textbook? I'm pretty sure 四人帮 and 大跃进 were inside 北师大版 and called a mistake. Well at least for my year. Maybe they changed it, or you didn't pay attention in class.

paraditedcon Learning China’s Forbidden History, So They Can Censor It

As far as I recall, everything else that is negative, except 1989, was taught in secondary school history class.

paraditedcon Learning China’s Forbidden History, So They Can Censor It

> China is one of the most un-free countries on earth in nearly every measure.

Sorry if it is too personal, but if you don't mind, I would like to know if you have actually visited China.

In my opinion, only people who have actual experience living in China are qualified to make such statements.

paraditedcon Learning China’s Forbidden History, So They Can Censor It

Luckily this was just recently discussed on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18816040

paraditedcon Learning China’s Forbidden History, So They Can Censor It

Totally personal, but I notice that you have a lot of insights on China and I would love to connect with you somehow. You should be able to find my contact pretty easily.

paraditedcon Learning China’s Forbidden History, So They Can Censor It

Post "XYZ is a nigger" or "I hate gays" on your Twitter and I will concede.

Edit: Seems like I have crossed the line on HN. Moderators, feel free to moderate this comment. And apologies for unintentionally starting this long and boring thread.

paraditedcon Learning China’s Forbidden History, So They Can Censor It

People know things are being censored, well, as least of my age.

There is a term and a meme for it on Chinese internet. You can Google-translate these pages that explain the term:

https://zhidao.baidu.com/question/1882528841530933188.html

https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E6%B2%B3%E8%9F%B9/10292878

paraditedcon Learning China’s Forbidden History, So They Can Censor It

Practically speaking, Chinese nationals enjoy freedom to exchange ideas on whatever they want, except politically sensitive topics in public.

On the other hand, people in US enjoy freedom to exchange ideas on whatever they want, except politically incorrect topics in public.

So basically in both cases, people are just hiding what they truly know/think in their minds instead of speaking them out.

paraditedcon Learning China’s Forbidden History, So They Can Censor It

As a Chinese national, somehow this article does not come across as negative to me. Weird.

paraditedcon My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror (2018)

TLDR. Judging from the comments, it's basically the same as Chinese government and state media?

paraditedcon China lands Chang'e-4 on far side of Moon

I don't blame you, but next time you go to a foreign website, you can look out for icons that resemble national flags or EN.

There is usually an English version of the website available for important government websites (as with this case, the button is on the top right corner).

paraditedcon Xi Jinping says Taiwan “must and will be” reunited with China

Here's the really long background info:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Civil_War

paraditedcon China Thwarts U.S. Effort to Promote American Culture on Campuses

It is worth noting that:

- Some people have spent considerable time and effort writing an entire long wiki page for "Criticism of Confucius Institutes".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Confucius_Institu...

- The "Reception and controversies" section of main wiki page for Confucius Institute is considered not neutral.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius_Institute#Reception_...

paraditedcon Spain will soon overtake Japan in life expectancy rankings

Perhaps the missing point is that the TCM approach to illness or health is dramatically different from Western medicine.

Surgery or modern medicine (injection, pills) focuses on one particular manifestation of illness and targets a particular illness.

On the other hand, TCM is not targeting a particular illness, but rather, it sees illness as the symptom of something deeper going off track in the body. Hence it tries to regulate and balance the body so that it can correct itself, without too much intervention.

It's not something that you can quantitatively study easily and get concrete results, as it is more long-term and therapeutic rather than short-term result driven.

paraditedcon A list of lists of interview questions

Are you recruiting public speakers or software engineers?

paraditedcon Spain will soon overtake Japan in life expectancy rankings

The fact that nobody in the West bothered doing in-depth research into TCM does not mean it's ineffective or bad.

Chinese people have been practicing it for thousands years and we are doing just fine in terms of life expectancy, actually better than US.

paraditedcon Spain will soon overtake Japan in life expectancy rankings

Please educate yourself with the term TCM (traditional Chinese medicine, 中药) before making such condescending comments. It's a very specific branch of medicine, not related to the generic English term "traditional medicine".

Your argument, to a Chinese person, is equivalent to "JavaScript is old because Java is old." It makes no sense at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_medicine

Edit: It's also worth noting that in Chinese, TCM is simply 中医, which literally means Chinese medicine. I'm not sure who decided to add the "traditional" in front, but it's not actually how it's called in China.

> Traditional medicine is distinct from modern medicine only by virtue of the parts that don't work.

If you say it this way, then maybe we should stop using the term TCM and just call it its original name "Chinese medicine" so we can both be happy.

paraditedcon Spain will soon overtake Japan in life expectancy rankings

That not what "traditional" means. Traditional dance or traditional costumes don't become modern no matter how "effective" they are.

"Traditional" simply means TCM hasn't changed much over the years.