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You are being way too charitable. The five demands materialized out of one demand ("don't rush the bill") after Carrie Lam made a concession to suspend the bill. Middle-of-the-road…

Two possibilities present themselves. Either the protestors don't know any history, or have learned such a skewed version of history that they internalize the perspective of the 19…

It's a sign that the Chrome team is too large and should be assigned more meaningful work.

A much saner behavior is to hide the URL entirely until focused, not to show a secretly mangled version.

Yes, why not drop URL's altogether then? Why display such "technical" things for the plebes?

I wouldn't take the parent's statement as one of moral equivalency. I see it as a reminder to notice similar trends within and not rely so much on exceptionalism or the existing mi…

I understand the impulse to distinguish the two but there simply isn't as much distinction as you perhaps would like to believe. An apartment or a job aren't strictly financial, an…

Everybody is somebody's terrorist. The US doesn't have a great track record on this. I mean MLK was tracked by the FBI.

If you have a "bad" US credit score you can't get an apartment, a job, a post-paid mobile plan, or any number of things nowadays that ask for your SSN. That's why identity theft ca…

The Big Three credit bureaus started exactly as a social credit system. They'd send snoops to keep tabs on you and collect gossip from your friends.

Correct. In the US, subway stations and buses, elevators, convenience stores etc. have video cameras. Electronic tolling gantries have been used to track vehicles. Red light camera…

It should be pointed out that, with or without AI, the cultural impulses are the same. This is an issue of authoritarianism, not of AI. If it should be feared more universally then…

But the political winds are blowing toward drug liberalization on the basis of libertarianism. That's what I am referring to.

There were horrible problems that derailed progress, it's pointless to deny them. On the other hand, some of the suffering came externally, like sanctions and embargoes designed to…

The Western media doesn't know how to portray China, or any foreign country. Everything is a caricature and taken as a mere curiosity or monstrosity. It remains at the stage of min…

You're giving the wrong impression. Let's parse this a bit. China is "crazier" in that it's different in a way that's hard to explain in Western discourse. In order to analogize fo…

No they are not. First of all, are we talking about manufacturing or trafficking? Because fentanyl is legal medicine, used by hospitals. It isn't illegal to manufacture, use, or ex…

What Americans never learned (or have forgotten) is that drugs affect a whole society, not just the individual.

The Opium Wars began when the Chinese confiscated the British drug contraband (but property to the British) and lit a bonfire with them, as the opium trade was illegal. There is no…

No, it's not. You're doing random pattern matching. Chemical engineering has been outsourced to China and factories there are making/exporting whatever people want to import, inclu…

Way before Napoleon, during the Zhou Dynasty of China, Confucius was already teaching his minister-aspiring students about the role of music in governing, owing to it being a devic…

Paper describing the Agora network: https://agora.vote/Agora_Whitepaper_v0.1.pdf

Before anyone claims they know wtf they are talking about, answer the following real technical questions -- I haven't seen a single one who has (including the so-called "Trail of B…

No one person is making the choice, that's the problem. The decision is distributed over many people and each step is only a tiny bit "rapacious" on average (meaning some steps may…

"A few languages have their own way of talking about tea. These languages are generally in places where tea grows naturally, which led locals to develop their own way to refer to i…