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Slightly off topic; My favorite clothing brand is made in India; Robert Graham. Allegedly, they were the only place that could make what the founders wanted. He'd been searching fo…

Comparing U.S government to the Chinese government here is ridiculous. The Chinese government has absolute and total control of everything within its borders. It could dissolve a c…

> Chinese culture of copy-catting freely doesn't help. The problem with that, is that it's a vicious circle. Innovation is the foundation for future innovations. It builds on itsel…

It must exist because we still haven't reconciled quantum mechanics with relativity. That matters if we ever want to understand what happens inside black holes, or the moment of th…

His book contains several factual inaccuracies that he either has failed to correct or refuses too (as of last year). It makes me think a lot less of him and his position on string…

Wouldn't it be even more true in China, given the big brother system they have in place? The government (and by extension, the banks) knows more about its citizens than say, the U.…

> pulled their search engine out of China, defying their censorship attempts They didn't pull their search engine out of China because of censorship requests, they pulled their sea…

> The web was intended to be I'm sorry, but this is ridiculous. You cannot say what the web was intended to be because you had no hand in inventing it. You do not know the mind of …

> Chinese govt. could have given preferential treatment How do we know they didn't? They could have just decided "Now that Taobao is up and running, we can get rid of ebay". They'v…

> You act like the US Government hasn't already banned Chinese companies The U.S didn't ban ALL Chinese companies operating in the U.S. Try setting up a coffee shop or computer rep…

> Starbucks is doing very well in China Starbucks is considered extremely high-end/luxury in China. It's not just an overpriced coffee shop like it is here in the U.S. It's conside…

Reddit is the 4th/5th largest website in the U.S according to Alexa (keeps swapping between 4th and 5th). Source: https://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/US Any agency, whether it…

Yeah, people under 33 seem to have a romanticized view of the internet. They believed there was no ads and it was flush with the kinds of content we enjoy today. Nope. Content exis…

> Had we established the first Moon base in 1988 as NASA had on its roadmap in 1970 we would know all about this You say that offhandedly, as if they decided not to move forward wi…

> whole premise is based on one border incursion and some building of roads They used those as examples, but there are more listed on the second page of the article. From the artic…

Does he not remember how much spam we received before those sorts of upgrades? Email spam in the late 90s and early 2000s was insane. And every grandmother who plugged in their PC …

> The internet was built on people writing massive forums posts about completely stripping down Kawasaki motorbike engines You're skipping the birth of the internet and are talking…

And it should be a larger concern for bitcoin proponents, too. Imagine if China decided to wage a covert war on bitcoin. I mean, is it really so hard to believe that China wouldn't…

> Seems to me as though Bitcoin mining is kind of a backdoor way to move Chinese money offshore Which is why China is trying desperately to get control. They limit how much money t…

> Voyager I and II and Curiosity are powered with radioisotope thermoelectric generators AKA a nuclear battery... That's how they're referred to by just about everyone.

It's not baseless speculation, it's fact. > Just look at places where that's currently happening, such as Ethiopia or Zambia. Are you using that as a positive example? You need to …

> No, the narrative is consistently "Japanese imperialism and/or Militarism is evil, there has nothing to do with Japanese people". Except, Japan hasn't engaged in any form of impe…

Those are general opinions about the country itself, not personal opinions. The question they ask is; Do you have a positive opinion of China? The Japanese could be taking the ques…

> As far as she was concerned, the government's description was the end of the story. This is what people don't get about China. " Ooohh yeah, China will take the U.S down a few pe…

> This particular thing 'feels' sort of slimy I was just coming here to talk about how inaccurate the title was. It implies (or leads people to believe) that "nuclear batteries" ar…