bgee | 5 years ago | on: What Chinese looks, feels and sounds like when you're from Korea or Japan (2009)
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bgee | 5 years ago | on: What Chinese looks, feels and sounds like when you're from Korea or Japan (2009)
玉 was a variant of 王 (king)[0] thus king in walls (国), it's definitely NOT "only jade".
bgee | 5 years ago | on: What Chinese looks, feels and sounds like when you're from Korea or Japan (2009)
Saying Simplified Chinese makes less sense in terms of etymology while only providing a handful of examples is cherry-picking, since over two thousands characters are simplified[0].
I can provide a few examples where characters are more "etymological" in Simplified version vs in Traditional: 國 vs 国，黨 vs 党
[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20131007231820/http://news.xinhu...
bgee | 5 years ago | on: Impossible Foods raises $200M in fresh funding
Gluten-based food? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_gluten_(food)
Edit: judging from this food nutrition label, the protein/calorie ratio is quite extreme...[0]
[0]: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61D08CfuRzL...
bgee | 5 years ago | on: India bans PUBG, Baidu and more than 100 apps linked to China
That Redmi has 8 cores (cpu released in 2020) compared to the Samsung with 4 cores (released in 2017).
On Antutu benchmark, the Redmi is almost 5x higher [0]. So I don't think they can be considered "similar".
[0]: https://gadgetversus.com/processor/mediatek-mt6739-vs-mediat...
bgee | 5 years ago | on: Blanked-out spots on China's maps helped us uncover Xinjiang's camps
Thank you. I consider it a badge of honor when I'm getting attacked simply because of the topics of discussion I choose to engage.
As a non-native English speaker, it also feels content to hear my writing is on par with the state-of-the-art NLP model.
> all the posts are about China
This is materially incorrect. This one is not [0].
bgee | 5 years ago | on: Blanked-out spots on China's maps helped us uncover Xinjiang's camps
That scene is at ~12:00.
For the record those police officers said people can't accept interviews without approval, which is obviously BS.
bgee | 5 years ago | on: Blanked-out spots on China's maps helped us uncover Xinjiang's camps
> you need a license/approval before you can interview someone
[citation needed]
> Many western youtubers came under scrutiny for it.
came under scrutiny by whom? Their audience or CCP?
Disclaimer: I'm a China national.
bgee | 5 years ago | on: TSMC plans to halt chip supplies to Huawei in 2 months
> months before WW2
What's the definition of WW2 here? US supplied oil and metal to Japan until 1941 [0], 3 years after Japan invaded China [1].
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Events_leading_to_the_attack_o...
bgee | 5 years ago | on: One woman's stolen identity exposed a system of exam fraud
Discrimination against any culture or race is also a form or bias.
"Raw objectivity" would be this instance says a lot about the common nature of human beings, the consequences of lack of accountability and oversight etc.
Drawing conclusion on Chinese people requires either strong empirical evidence, or prejudice.
bgee | 5 years ago | on: One woman's stolen identity exposed a system of exam fraud
This is the reverse Chauvinism that I often see online; no I don't think this says "a lot" about the general attitude of Chinese people.
I'm also Chinese.
bgee | 5 years ago | on: Signal app downloads spike as US protesters seek message encryption
In Korea I think the de facto IM is Kakao, LINE is only third (after FB messager) [0][1].
[0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/898254/south-korea-most-...
[1]: https://www.quora.com/Which-is-the-most-popular-messaging-ap...
bgee | 5 years ago | on: Bell, Telus to use Nokia and Ericsson, not Huawei, in building their 5G networks
> If govs knew, they wouldn't publish it to avoid straining already strained relationships. But would do behind-the-scenes work to keep Huawei out of critical infrastructure.
I don't follow; the Western world has put sanctions on China in the past [0], I don't think they would avoid straining their relationships with China in a situation like this.
> Canada is happy to share data with USA and vice-versa.
I don't think sharing is the same as being spied on... Or you mean Canada and America are sharing the information obtained via spying? That would make sense.
[0]: https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/04/opinions/tiananmen-sanctions-...
bgee | 5 years ago | on: Bell, Telus to use Nokia and Ericsson, not Huawei, in building their 5G networks
Disclaimer: China national working for the American company behind Android; opinions are my own.
> But if Huawei is a Chinese spy
Has Huawei been caught with a smoking gun? Is Huawei worse in terms of security compared to other telecom suppliers?
If (national) security is really Canada's top priority, it seems the most needed ban is on American consumer products/websites [0]?
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
bgee | 5 years ago | on: Tesla has already started making cars again at its California factory
> how the Chinese government shutdown its cities and lied about the virus
Can you elaborate a little on what you mean by "shutdown its cities"? From my impression this was to contain the spread of the virus.
Disclaimer: Chinese national here.
bgee | 5 years ago | on: We Chat, They Watch
Disclaimer: mainland Chinese here.
> most major domains outside of China are blocked
I don't think this is true; GFW works in a disallow-list fashion and domains have to be explicitly blocked (which is why people do keyword attacks[0]).
bgee | 5 years ago | on: Zoom Acquires Keybase
The emphasis is on entirety, please see my other reply.
bgee | 5 years ago | on: Zoom Acquires Keybase
I don't think it's true that Zoom has its "entire dev team in China"; doing some research myself reveals Zoom definitely has engineering operations in the US[0][1].
I'm not disagreeing with you on the implications of having engineering teams in China, I think you would like to put that paragraph in your original post to give some context.
[0] Tech job postings in US: https://zoom.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Zoom/0/refreshFacet/318c8...
[1] H1b filing on engineering positions: https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=Zoom+Video+Communications+...
edit: better formatting and grammar
bgee | 5 years ago | on: Zoom Acquires Keybase
> communication company that has its entire dev team in China
citation needed
Also, what are you trying to imply by this assertion?
bgee | 6 years ago | on: Google's Chief Internet Evangelist: 'privacy may be an anomaly' (2013)
Vint Cerf has been infected with COVID-19 [0], btw.
[0]: https://twitter.com/vgcerf/status/1244636584508604417?lang=e...
I think we have done exactly that[0], it's just not part of the 1986 proposal in PRC.
[0]: https://zh.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%9B%AF