I vote for 1989年4月 as a replacement. It's just a harmless date.
Yes, posting the date for 2 months before Tiananmen Square is clearly going to rile the Chinese.
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Implying that “the Left” and the Communist Party of China are in any way comparable by referring to them collectively demonstrated a remarkable lack of political insight and a remarkable degree of intellectual dishonesty.
On the contrary, but I welcome you to try to make a case instead of an easy claim that an international movement isn’t. BTW: the downvotes without arguments already proved my point.
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> Now, anti-CCP sentiment is growing. I think western people are starting to realize how different we actually are. I don’t think one logically follows at all. The more I study it, the more I think the US and China are vastly more similar than anyone likes to think about.
intresting, how come?
They're both empires of more people than most human beings can hold in their heads as anything but an abstract concept, and the needs of an empire that oversees the welfare and fate of so many people actually tend to converge: they need energy. They need things for people to do. They need relative internal peace to preserve their territorial and legal cohesion.
And both China and the US go to great lengths to achieve their respective paxes, in different directions; China clamps down hard on information flow, the US launches aggressive extraterritorial military campaigns to "fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here." China's surveillance state and incarceration polices may be more overt, but the Snowden leaks revealed the massive extent of passive surveillance of its own citizens the US engages in. China has its problems with "undesired" minorities; the US has a citizen-condoned police state of immense scope and violence... it imprisons more people per-capita than any other country, and has had several high-profile instances of police and "citizens watch" murdering innocent citizens who looked like they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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#994I think a more fundamental problem is a single private company having a near-monopoly on various public communication channels, and having financial interests in various global dictatorships. The Founding Fathers could not have predicted this. Google's "We're a private company" get-out-jail-free card cannot continue to apply.
Here are some numbers to keep you up at night, they are very scary: Google controls 91.89% of the search market [1] G controls 68% of the browser market [2] G's android is on 84% of phones operating systems [3] G has 73% of the search advertising market [4] [1] https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share [2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/544400/market-share-of-i... [3] https://beta.trimread.com/articl…
You're toggling between global stats and US specific stats.
For example Android is ~52% of the US market.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held...
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Actually it's super-easy; barely an inconvenience. Most Western customers really do not care. Like, really-really. The default attitude is "Well, China has its rules and the Western nations have theirs. They can get along." Leaks between rulesets are relatively rare in the sea of regular day-to-day operations. And honestly, I don't think the CCP's goals are as far different from the goals of, say, the US government's…
Proof that China is an Empire? I mean outside of Hong Kong and Taiwan, which are already a part of China.
Scale. China has over a billion people and a significant chunk of the globe as territory. Regardless of what they declare themselves on paper, that much size and that much population brings challenges to leadership that culturally-homogeneous nations with less territory do not face.
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At risk of nitpicking, why do say "controls" rather than e.g. "services" or "handles"? When you say "controls" it's like you're saying Google has some kind of monopoly power that makes it hard to switch. And yet anyone can easily switch to e.g. DuckDuckGo. If that's a monopoly, it's not quite the kind of a monopoly we should generally be worried about. Browsers would be a different issue. In that case, there are netw…
They do in fact control Android. The open headset alliance means Android is open source in name only. Only tinkerers/hackers use ASOP derivatives by itself (or some foreign manufactures that cannot to offer Google Play services .. or Amazon Fire makers). They dominate the software ecosystem. Although it's not difficult to load 3rd party applications, it's certainly not common. Their removal of the Podcast Addicts app…
I think Podcast Addict is back on G Play. Google apologized for the removal.
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They do in fact control Android. The open headset alliance means Android is open source in name only. Only tinkerers/hackers use ASOP derivatives by itself (or some foreign manufactures that cannot to offer Google Play services .. or Amazon Fire makers). They dominate the software ecosystem. Although it's not difficult to load 3rd party applications, it's certainly not common. Their removal of the Podcast Addicts app…
I think Podcast Addict is back on G Play. Google apologized for the removal.
Only reason it worked is because of public shaming (here on HN and elsewhere).
If some less popular app is banned they have little recourse except hope for their story to go viral.
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#1000All: please don't miss that there are multiple pages of comments. Unfortunately the two top subthreads have become so large that they fill out the first page entirely. You have to click 'More' at the bottom to see the rest (there are almost 1000 at this point).
I noticed this is the second thread that you’ve posted this message on within the same week. Why not include some basic, numeric pagination links before comments start? Ex: 1 2 ... 5
Because the plan is to drop pagination altogether and just render entire pages like we used to.