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Uyghurs who are devout Muslims impede development and are generally hostile to the Han Chinese. Redditors in America, on the other hand, literally have zero effect on China, so the party doesn't care what they think. Sowing discord might make sense, but it definitely wouldn't come in the form of defending China on internet forums.
> Uyghurs who are devout Muslims impede development and are generally hostile to the Han Chinese i really want to know if there's any legitimate reason why the uyghurs are being imprisoned and "re-educated". Do they actually post a threat? Media coming out of both sides (US and china) are untrustworthy. The US media paints it as a nazi concentration camps. China calls it reeducation because they want more conformity…
How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B people?
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Re: How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B people?
#322Earlier quoted context omitted.
At the very end author compares hong kong island to langkawi portraying lankgawi as some unatractive island and that hong kongers should be happy they are connected to mainland. This is where I started look more critical at the whole article having been in those islands before myself - it was a great reality check that you have read everything very critically these days. I recommend everyone not only to check google…
I'm majorly surprised you needed to read until the end to figure that out. To me it was and is impossible to read from the beginning without having my propagandometer going off-limits nearly instantly. I wanted to take parts and comment here to substantiate my claim, but the post is too extreme and long. It's obvious. The linked post is outright /r/sino material.
The quora question is "How mainland Chinese feel about protests in Hong Kong", and the answer IMO is same as the reality of how mainland Chinese really feel about it.
Re: How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B people?
#323Yeah sorry - that answer is the sort that glosses over a huge amount of facts to present a clean a-b-c dependency tree along side a decent heap of sino philia. So in particular the point on fish farms- fish farms are hard , the fish need many different things to be happy and not sick or affected by parasites. This means medicines, treatment and more - further this is only viable if you have transportation, refrigerat…
The dalai lama is upset because their old way of life is no longer possible. Whether or not that old way of life is preferable for most people is debatable. Under old Tibetian rule, slavery was rampant and mutilation is the go-to punishment for disobedience.
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> being forced to do something that is perceived as for their own good is seen as a good thing I sometimes wonder if Los Angeles commuters would actually be better off and happier if the government (somehow) had the legal right to force us all to use buses and rail instead of individual cars.
The government(s) were the ones who built the roads and mandated minimum parking lots.
Absolutely, you're right. I'm just wondering what would happen if the government reversed course.
Re: How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B people?
#325The author has made no efforts to hide the fact that he's a China apologetic and CCP propagation puppet. The fact is that the majority of the country's rice and corns are imported (from SE Asia or N/S America), which are Chinese main calory source. Another often overlooked fact is that China has built a vast crops storage network across the nation, for the fact that a small interruption in food supply chain could cause huge humanitarian disaster, and the new crops will rotate out old stale crops, which are barely eatable but sure, they're better than nothing. Most Chinese even have no idea of this, that their daily rice supplies are usually 5+ yrs old, unless you pay a premium to buy them from Whole Food equivalent super markets in China.
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The subcontinent, and especially India and Bangladesh, have ridiculous amounts of arable land. India has more than any other country in the world.
besides the US
According to Wikipedia[1] the title goes back and forth. In 2012, the latest year for which the article has numbers, India had more. Despite being 1/4th the size of the US.
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A slight sea level rise will cripple farming in a large part of Bangladesh. I'm not optimistic about their future.
What can we do as computer scientists to best militate this risk and protect human life?
Ask yourself in Bengali: "Dil ki doya?" (Translated: Is there mercy in your heart?)
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> It's hard for me to emphasize enough how little typical Westerners understand about Asia. I bet the typical human knows very little about life and culture outside of their specific environment. A typical city-dweller knows little about rural life even in their own region, and vice-versa. It's weird how easily we fall into a trap of saying "look how ignorant x people are". I mean, of course, it's a big world, and we…
That is sort of the thing. It isn't so much that people don't know as that it doesn't register as important. Hans Rosling ended up devoting much of his life promoting a fact based view of the world after learning first hand that some of the absolute top students in Sweden had an obsolete world view. The West is used to being "the first world" were most important things happen. But increasingly we are the ones "on the…
> In most of the West large government programs aren't on the table, so that doesn't register as important to us. I am not even sure there is much that can be done about it. It is literally history in the making really.
Well said....I'd agree that not much can be done based on the current nature of both political and public/personal discourse, but can the quality of this discourse not be improved? From where I sit, this is quite literally the biggest problem, and I see very little initiative from any camp to improve it. On the contrary, there are plenty of people who are in positions where they could make a difference, but seem to be completely unable to even consider the idea that there is even a problem in this area.
History in the making indeed!
Re: How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B people?
#329Yeah sorry - that answer is the sort that glosses over a huge amount of facts to present a clean a-b-c dependency tree along side a decent heap of sino philia. So in particular the point on fish farms- fish farms are hard , the fish need many different things to be happy and not sick or affected by parasites. This means medicines, treatment and more - further this is only viable if you have transportation, refrigerat…
> Voting behavior and soft shilling of the poster in the thread is also pretty odd
I'm not sure if you're talking about the HN thread, but such insinuations break the site guidelines here. Experience has shown that the vast majority are imaginary.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I've written about this a great deal for anyone who wants more explanation: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Re: How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B people?
#330The author's answer to the question 'How do mainland Chinese feel about the protests in Hong Kong on the extradition law amendment?': https://www.quora.com/How-do-mainland-Chinese-feel-about-the...
"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The last thing we need is for a thread about food production to get sucked into the nearest black hole, which is precisely what comments like this one invoke.
https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...