Is "communist" not a description of the economic system? How "communist" was Pinochet? He had total 1-party control, after all. Is North Korea a Democratic Republic? That's what they call themselves, after all. You…
It's not a personal attack, you're still calling China communist and don't seem to understand how things work there. They're something else. There's more small business than america, by a lot, the biggest internet…
US politics have had a "big bad" for 80 straight years now, it's basically a reflex.
I'm all for securing domestic chip manufacturing but can we stop with the vanquishing? It sounds like you're talking about an army of orcs.
I did say I was out on a limb.. Anyways, you've made clear that your reference point for understanding China is Soviet Eastern Europe. If you check a map and a calendar, you can see some places where that reference…
> You don't know the first thing about my information diet. You've given some pretty strong hints about it in fact, and tripled down in this comment. I'll go out on a very specific limb, tell me I'm wrong: Moved to the…
In the book we're discussing, the Cultural Revolution is presented as a catastrophe where the heroes are well-meaning scientists who's neutral observations of nature are twisted into being counter-revolutionary. The…
This thread started under the topic "believe it or not, Chinese people are actually pretty happy with their government given the record over the last few decades". Can you think about what would be persuasive to such a…
Do you even know who Deng Xiaopeng is? Changing systems without a massive, disruptive loss of life is actually a huge accomplishment. No other nation has transitioned out of communism smoothly. It had the side effect of…
The third book is good, almost as good as the second imo. Manages to become completely insane while still feeling believable at each step.
Germany's an ally. We don't try to beat them up over hitler, and it wouldn't make sense if we did. For basically the same reasons, so good choice of analogy I guess.
I don't know if you read the books but there are some pretty severe consequences.
Can you name the dates and major events within the Great Leap forward or Cultural Revolution without googling and reading wikipedia? I'm not trying to assert authority here but you could look at the last 500 years, the…
Apparently the evil alien robot in book 3 is waaaaay more Japanese-sounding in the Mandarin version.
What's happening in India is that farmers were/are going to be screwed, and they're really mad about it. What has happened in China is that a billion farmers are massively, undescribably better off. You literally cannot…
I didn't get that from it at all. The theme of the last book is a conflict between values and survival. What's the point of survival if you sacrifice all values to do so? Liu is Chinese just like most of HN are American…
Expert programmers should write 'low quality' programs if that's what the situation calls for. Most of us are solving business problems, and lateral thinking can be worth more than perfect engineering or fancy…
Absolutely right, and I should have written that :) That said, seems like the easier narrative for the NYT to go with as well -- they don't have to own up to their editorial failures up the chain that way.
It's concerning that that's the lever, though. Break every rule of your profession and publish a bunch of BS? We'll give you another chance. Gave an inappropriate backrub 10 years ago? You're out! He should have been…
If the UK is banning Chinese 'State Media', the BBC is a pretty natural target for a clap back..
Which society should they demographically match, America?
They have a lot of experience in every part of the car except the drive train. And once you have the battery, the rest of the drive train is.. pretty easy? I think? You're just hooking 2 motors to 2 wheels? Someone tell…
The whole point is the immature shit-for-brains act. It's funny on multiple levels when mashed up with analysis of equities. You don't have to dig the humor but the public square is not "your house".
Not OP but it's the grown up subset rather than the Abbie Hoffman set. Hilarious pranks are hilarious but sesame street is more widely and subtly influential.
Kill a hundred thousand Yemenis and nobody bats an eye, but you bone-saw one little washington post reporter and now it's a crisis.
Is "communist" not a description of the economic system? How "communist" was Pinochet? He had total 1-party control, after all. Is North Korea a Democratic Republic? That's what they call themselves, after all. You…
It's not a personal attack, you're still calling China communist and don't seem to understand how things work there. They're something else. There's more small business than america, by a lot, the biggest internet…
US politics have had a "big bad" for 80 straight years now, it's basically a reflex.
I'm all for securing domestic chip manufacturing but can we stop with the vanquishing? It sounds like you're talking about an army of orcs.
I did say I was out on a limb.. Anyways, you've made clear that your reference point for understanding China is Soviet Eastern Europe. If you check a map and a calendar, you can see some places where that reference…
> You don't know the first thing about my information diet. You've given some pretty strong hints about it in fact, and tripled down in this comment. I'll go out on a very specific limb, tell me I'm wrong: Moved to the…
In the book we're discussing, the Cultural Revolution is presented as a catastrophe where the heroes are well-meaning scientists who's neutral observations of nature are twisted into being counter-revolutionary. The…
This thread started under the topic "believe it or not, Chinese people are actually pretty happy with their government given the record over the last few decades". Can you think about what would be persuasive to such a…
Do you even know who Deng Xiaopeng is? Changing systems without a massive, disruptive loss of life is actually a huge accomplishment. No other nation has transitioned out of communism smoothly. It had the side effect of…
The third book is good, almost as good as the second imo. Manages to become completely insane while still feeling believable at each step.
Germany's an ally. We don't try to beat them up over hitler, and it wouldn't make sense if we did. For basically the same reasons, so good choice of analogy I guess.
I don't know if you read the books but there are some pretty severe consequences.
Can you name the dates and major events within the Great Leap forward or Cultural Revolution without googling and reading wikipedia? I'm not trying to assert authority here but you could look at the last 500 years, the…
Apparently the evil alien robot in book 3 is waaaaay more Japanese-sounding in the Mandarin version.
What's happening in India is that farmers were/are going to be screwed, and they're really mad about it. What has happened in China is that a billion farmers are massively, undescribably better off. You literally cannot…
I didn't get that from it at all. The theme of the last book is a conflict between values and survival. What's the point of survival if you sacrifice all values to do so? Liu is Chinese just like most of HN are American…
Expert programmers should write 'low quality' programs if that's what the situation calls for. Most of us are solving business problems, and lateral thinking can be worth more than perfect engineering or fancy…
Absolutely right, and I should have written that :) That said, seems like the easier narrative for the NYT to go with as well -- they don't have to own up to their editorial failures up the chain that way.
It's concerning that that's the lever, though. Break every rule of your profession and publish a bunch of BS? We'll give you another chance. Gave an inappropriate backrub 10 years ago? You're out! He should have been…
If the UK is banning Chinese 'State Media', the BBC is a pretty natural target for a clap back..
Which society should they demographically match, America?
They have a lot of experience in every part of the car except the drive train. And once you have the battery, the rest of the drive train is.. pretty easy? I think? You're just hooking 2 motors to 2 wheels? Someone tell…
The whole point is the immature shit-for-brains act. It's funny on multiple levels when mashed up with analysis of equities. You don't have to dig the humor but the public square is not "your house".
Not OP but it's the grown up subset rather than the Abbie Hoffman set. Hilarious pranks are hilarious but sesame street is more widely and subtly influential.
Kill a hundred thousand Yemenis and nobody bats an eye, but you bone-saw one little washington post reporter and now it's a crisis.