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Re: Singapore Government Tech Stack

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I bet the guys taken blindfolded by CIA, questioned in the middle of somewhere, and then brought back, will fully agree how much better the US system happens to be. Naturally the ones that survived the question process.

Ya, that occasionally happens in the USA. In China, however, that’s just a Tuesday.

Nothing to worry about then, just a statistic rounding error of a couple of poor fellows that were occasionally on the wrong spot.

Re: Singapore Government Tech Stack

#102
post #101

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Ya, that occasionally happens in the USA. In China, however, that’s just a Tuesday.

Nothing to worry about then, just a statistic rounding error of a couple of poor fellows that were occasionally on the wrong spot.

Binarism (that there is only right and wrong, and not a large spectrum of gray scale in between) is one of those huge fallacies that allows one to claim that China and the USA are basically the same, when in reality, neither is white or black but one is much closer to black than the other.

Re: Singapore Government Tech Stack

#103
post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nothing to worry about then, just a statistic rounding error of a couple of poor fellows that were occasionally on the wrong spot.

Binarism (that there is only right and wrong, and not a large spectrum of gray scale in between) is one of those huge fallacies that allows one to claim that China and the USA are basically the same, when in reality, neither is white or black but one is much closer to black than the other.

True, yet acting as US is a country that should be a moral example where such things never happen also doesn't help, a country where having the wrong skin colour might be a death sentence when stoped by the police.

Not much different than being stop by the police in more dubious countries.

A scale it is.

Re: Singapore Government Tech Stack

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post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Binarism (that there is only right and wrong, and not a large spectrum of gray scale in between) is one of those huge fallacies that allows one to claim that China and the USA are basically the same, when in reality, neither is white or black but one is much closer to black than the other.

True, yet acting as US is a country that should be a moral example where such things never happen also doesn't help, a country where having the wrong skin colour might be a death sentence when stoped by the police. Not much different than being stop by the police in more dubious countries. A scale it is.

Are we talking about China or the USA? Because having the wrong skin color is also dangerous in China as well (eg being caught African or Uighur in Guangzhou). I get it: the USA is more diverse so ethnic tension is much more common, but China has the same issues, even worse, just papered over a 90% Han majority focused into the east. Frankly, China’s ethnic tensions are a hundred years behind the states.
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