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> What are the Chinese government so scared of! They have complete control in a way not possible in the West

And they rely very heavily on maintaining that, and vendors of competing ideologies are a threat to that.

> I can’t really foresee how the state would be overthrown by the people there?

If the history of authoritarian regimes being overthrown is any guide, with intense violence by both outsiders and non-top insiders of the current regime against top insiders andnl those who remain loyal to them. The risk per year is much lower than, say, the risk per year of the leadership of a western democracy being replaced, but the lifetime risk is probably reasonably concerning on the absence of active steps to destroy alternate sources of ideology and identity, and the consequences for the leadership should that risk be realized are quite severe.
This has nothing to do with religion or what people believe. This is about control. Religion is another source of authority, which the Chinese government will never tolerate. This is also why there is a campaign to promote the more traditional Confucian values: obedience to your elders and emperor (now replace emperor with government) and be a useful member of a hierarchy.
Credit actually goes to either Ub Iwerks or Max Fleischer

https://www.theymadethat.com/things/ep2/multiplane-camera

Lotte's innovation was a predecessor: https://www.theymadethat.com/things/nj9/multiplane-silhouett...
Not all. I think you are specifically talking about Bitcoin (Proof of Work)
Its possible. I had zero exp with AWS beyond spinning up an EC2 instance and finished all 3 assoc certs in 3-3.5 weeks. However, I wasn't working at the time...
I would have an aneurysm if one of my coworkers or teammates didn’t know how to use git. The documentation is widely available, there are exactly zero excuses available.
For an authoritarian government to work long term they have to be the highest power. This is why the Soviets worked so hard to destroy the church as well as the concept of family, people who value god or family above the government are a threat. In effect the government has to become god.
Cool. Do they type the tone accents or something like it (m`a m'a m-a) or go with numbers (ma1 ma2 ma3)?
> as lived in many multicultural places like Singapore.

Interesting example, since many people claim Singapore’s adoption of English heavily contributed to their rapid economic growth. Lee Kuan Yew himself said, “The key to avoid falling behind the world is English.”
I do not see the issue with this letter to Zuckerberg as suggested by some of the comments here.

I see the issue as one of Zuckerbergs choice of words, how he is portraying the facts.

It was his words in the interview that triggered the letter.

FB has now apologised for Zuckerbergs comment:

https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/companies/2018-04-06-faceb...

Facebook users and others are paying very careful attention to what Zuckerberg says.

Here is a piece that discusses why choice of words can be important, for example when giving testimony before US Congress. There are some provocative examples from past CEOs who have appeared to testify.

https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/2018/04/06/what-to-...

Whether "trust" matters to FB business (selling ads) is another question.

Poll: Does FB need to have trust to succeed in the future?
Also, outside of Europe, the United States (Although church power there is not centralized in any one particular denomination.)
Wheat and Ore early isn't actually a bad strategy either, although a tad risky. It allows you to build your first two settlements into cities quickly, which allow you to gather resources quicker, or at least trade them into brick and wood (with the help of ports) to build roads and more settlements, which can easily be turned into cities since you're already on those resources.

Coming back to the topic at hand, :) It's not surprising how few Christians are aware of the influence of ancient near east literature on the formation of the creation story in Genesis. Pastors and theologians at more conservative and fundamentalist seminaries usually deny, ignore, or try to hide this from lay Christians in fear that they will leave the faith. This fear is actually probably a projection of their own fears, as I don't see this as some sort of evidence bomb that the Bible isn't "true", whatever that word means. It's totally expected that the ancient Israelites would be affected by the ANE literature of their time, and says of the author(s) of Genesis that they were using the stories that they know, and subverting them to tell their own (non-scientific) origin story of Yahweh and the Israelites.
The early internet was shitty. No one is disputing that. Blockchain is also shitty, but the community doesn't know how to fix the problem.
Your attempt to equivocate the internet (and its impact) and blockchain is laughable.
Any Chinese interested in reading a Bible will just download it. Restricting access to the printed version will have very little impact and will likely increase demand, because banning books usually does that.
And the result is that the general population can't fix even simple issues with their computers, and not even reinstall an OS.

Knowledge is great, but ignorance is bliss, I suppose :P
Its worth noting the absolutely insane impact that cargo cult Christianity had on China which arguably caused the Chinese civil war.
That might be some context as to why Christianity has been singled out?

EDIT: why would you downvote this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Heavenly_Kingdom

From the source:

> A self-proclaimed convert to Christianity, Hong Xiuquan ... [claimed] ... that he was the second son of God and the younger brother of Jesus.
Prosciutto and Buscemi are normally pronounced basically right, from what I've heard, setting aside the usual English reduction of unstressed vowels. Italian words typically suffer less deformation than French ones. "Bruschetta" being an exception.
Can't think of anyone that ever take a situation and abuse it, push it too far, do something it wasn't intended to by its initial design... definitely wouldn't consider anyone such as law enforcement agencies or city, state or federal government doing any such thing... because you know, people are reasonable, right? </sardonic sarcasm tag>

I guess abusing loopholes is the monopoly of authority.
To make a bad comparison, not everyone can develop antibodies upon mild exposure to a virus.
How come the wording? Cryptocurrencies are inherently no less fiat currencies than government mandated ones.
If SO not for discussion is there a forum where you can discuss broad software architecture? Something with a spirit like HN where not everything is on topic but usually discussions are respectful and interesting.
Now that the source is published you can go back and fix it! ;)
I don't see a number.
I see plenty of talk here about a "world" or dominant spoken language, and nothing so far about the extinction of viable languages now.. how quick people are to pile on to commonality .. many possible things to say but leave it there for now
Thank you, concision makes it easier for me to understand the process.
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Someone used a throwaway account to share their recent personal experience on this matter at /personalfinance, titled "I just discovered that I owe the IRS $50k that I don't have, because I traded in cryptos."

Original: https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/84huks/i_j...

Update: https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/89ipyu/upd...

They removed the story inside their update, but Google cached it: https://i.imgur.com/0DspXDr.png
A friend of mine has a theory that as China grows in power, it will eventually push its own alternative calendar as an ideological statement, as the calendar we currently use is based on the birth of Jesus Christ, something the Chinese government does not particularly care about.
I've developed packages for ABS before, and it's nice. What nix's model gets you is (a) largely avoiding complex bash scripts, and (b) a pile of tools for working with packages that you don't want to install semi-irreversibly. nix-shell, for example, will put you in a shell inside the build environment, and you can run the build steps yourself and see what the outcomes are. nix-build will build a piece of software and create a symlink to the output, but not install it into your user's package namespace.

One of the nice things is that you can install many things without having to sudo - the build is run by a daemon and sandboxed. nix-shell can also be used to create a shell in which a given package set is installed - you can use that to use a piece of software as a one-off or create a development environment that doesn't pollute your general system. Tools like home-manager[0] can help with managing your home directory in a similar way to NixOS's management of your system, too - I have redis and postgres installed using home-manager to run as my own user on demand under systemctl.

[0] https://github.com/rycee/home-manager
So, this Great Vowel Shift caused most of the pronunciation differences that English has compared to other Germanic languages.

I always thought it was just so odd compared to its siblings, because it had lots of influences from the colonization phase, but that apparently was done beforehand already.
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The stories include a historical person named Jesus who started a new religion after he died and was seen by his followers being alive after he was dead. These followers went on to become martyrs voluntarily.

I think it's pretty obvious why the Chinese government is so afraid of the Bible, since historically, people's lives have been changed dramatically based on what is inside the Bible. The Bible can only lead to instability.
Ditto. By banning something, they just encourage people to seek it. Better to just expose the kookiness of all religions.
You may have a blossoming brotopia at your company
Religion proved to be a strong counter to communism in Eastern Europe. It's no wonder they're scared.
This kindof puts that law requiring a copyright license for taking photos of the Eiffel tower into perspective. You now need a license for taking photos of... the Earth?
I haven't seen that and is starting to believe that might be something typical for the US.
I think your perception of "power" is too narrow. Influence into the behaviors and opinions of people is power. The money they bring in and distribute is power.

And the fact that the Queen of Britain is also the Supreme Governor of the Church of England gives the Church importance - and therefore power - over many other influences.
The government wants to maintain power at all costs, what's best for the country and it's citizens is irrelevant. If a large number of Chinese begin to value the word of god more than glorious leader Xi, that's a threat to the status quo.
Hopefully EC will survive. I used it while living in Germany and I understood the point, there were some that didn't accept anything else, obviously, because of the fees with other payment cards.

German banks were also very accessible for foreigners.
Is this true? I always found it strange that the Kremlin literally has five churches inside of it... I mean Communism and Christianity have a surprising amount of commonality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_communism
A bad comparison indeed.
Do they? Many notable atheists are known for their disdain of Abrahamic religions and how they poison minds of uneducated majority of the world.
There is a great two pay PBS documentary called "China - A Century of Revolution". It's fascinating to watch. It shows how the was just one BS revolution after another, each of them leading to destruction and unfathomable suffering. By the time you get to the protests leading up to the Tianmen massacre you'll go "Fuck no! Not again!" It's incredible to watch that in yourself and leads to greater understanding of Chinese politics. Not saying that what they are doing is right or did be supported, but at least it makes it so you can understand it beyond a "they are just evil and power hungry" angle. Stability looks suddenly very attractive.
I'm really not trying to start a tit for tat who is worse argument as all religions, including mine (Christian/Catholic) has their fair share of atrocities, but certainly many people were murdered and otherwise oppressed under state atheist regimes in Communist countries. It's worth calling out and remembering.
Is censorship even effective? I'd love to see an academic treatment of the reality of censorship minus the obvious moral qualms. I suppose it's probably an impossible thing to measure.
> The church has literally zero power to do anything in the UK.

That's not for lack of trying and a direct consequence of doing exactly that.[1] Also: (edit: Northern) Ireland is very much a part of the UK and the church has a lot of power there.

> We live in secular societies and I cannot believe your statement is provably true.

You don't have to believe it, that's fine by me. Having lived in Romania and seeing a poor country dump 100's of millions, much of it government funds into a church in a city that already has a ridiculous number of churches is one datapoint I have. Having lived in Poland and seeing how much power even local priests have over their subjects (typically more than the local government representatives) is another.

Seeing the German state collect taxes on behalf of the Church is a third.

If you feel that Italy and Spain are free from religious influence that's also fine by me.

As much as I would like to see that we live in 'secular societies' it seems to me that this is not the case based on the evidence before my eyes. Even Donald Trump goes to church to keep up appearances because it is said that no atheist could ever be elected President of the USA.

> No church/religion will ever go up against the power of the Chinese state

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_England
I wonder if, as the Internet matures, it will fracture into a Chinese Internet (already exists, to some extent), a Spanish Internet, an English Internet, etc.
Poland and Ireland yes, but that's because of popular support. The church despite its past popularity as well as its resources has little influence on politics in Spain, Italy, Germany.
Apart from the fact that your statement is simply not true, every value "discriminates" towards opposite values.

In every hierarchy, when you define something as better, you automatically define something else as worse. That's how you make any decision in your life. The alternative is inaction.

It has nothing to do with religion. It's an axiom of every value system.
The leader of your church has the right to dissolve parliament. She can also refuse to grant assent to a law.

That's not zero power.
But don't you have government funded religious schools? As a US citizen, I find that disturbing.
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> "Chinese, too, is great."

What an awkward way to end the article. What does he mean? Is he telling us his opinion of the language with one word, "great"?

Perhaps as an afterthought he added that line in case anyone wondered whether he thought the language was "great" or "not great", so he's kindly cleared up any confusion about that!
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I agree its memorization, but the scenario questions that have compound answers are in there too to get beyond memorization. I'd say the progression of difficulty is Dev (lots of memorization and T/F) --> Solutions Arch --> SysOps. SysOps is by far the more challenging one and is not just simple memorization or T/F.

But yeah they suffer from the fact they are multiple choice exams. But I think they are decent and better than many IT/tech exams. Practical / performance based exams will always trump these...
Chinese languages are actually pretty easy to learn to speak. All the grammatical sharp corners have been knocked off over the centuries.

Chinese written language, I agree, is a challenge for people used to alphabetic languages.
> For an authoritarian government to work long term they have to be the highest power. This is why the Soviets worked so hard to destroy the church as well as the concept of family, people who value god or family above the government are a threat.

The Soviets did that largely because that's part of Marxist doctrine that Lenin didn't explicitly abandon, not because it is objectively useful for authoritarian regimes’ longevity (as evidenced by the fact that authoritarian regimes where the state was unified or allied with religious authority and promoted the value of family have done quite well, and were long the norm.)
As long as the voters are controlled by the church, your church has control of your government.

In the United States, Christianity has obtained government influence to a shocking degree thanks to huge blocks of Christian voters.
atheism is unique in this regard because their intolerance stems from a higher Scientific Truth, so it is ok /s
As other's have commented you've really fallen for it, yet despite your strong convictions, it's not clear that you understand basic biochemistry:

> [Vitamin D] is so important that it is closer to a hormone than a vitamin.

The difference between a vitamin and a hormone has nothing to do with importance. In fact, the article that you linked explains it so plainly that maybe you'll reconsider your authority on the subject and not present opinions so "unequivocally".

> Vitamin D is not technically a vitamin, ie, it is not an essential dietary factor
I would not underestimate the ability of the Chinese government to control what people can access online.
Please don't put words in others' mouths. It's a disgustingly dishonest rhetorical trick, and it doesn't belong on HN.
What live implementations are using POS (Poof of Stake)? It's all academic and likely to be only marginally faster without a lot of risky optimizations.
Excellent project, love the creativity and tech chops! Also biggup for all the 'old school' commodore paraphernalia (Looking at you Datasette!)

This makes my week (end:-)
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It's not quite that simple.. Firstly, it is surprisingly costly and it's getting more so because of several factors (a big one being insurance company regulation around requiring tests to be linked to diagnosis codes. This makes the doctor look bad for giving "unnecessary tests" which in turn makes them not want to give you a test if there isn't clinical evidence to warrant it, regardless of your desire and willingness to pay for it).

Secondly, you need to be tested much more often than once a decade. Levels can vary wildly based on diet in sometimes complicated ways. For example? Vitamin D levels are dropping despite no changes in vitamin D intake (and sun exposure). This turns out to be a calcium deficiency, which is required for vitamin D absorption. The calcium deficiency in turn results from some other condition not necessarily related to diet.

You also need to be re-tested potentially many times after beginning a supplement to determine if you are at the correct dose. In some cases when the supplement can be dangerous at high levels (such as Vitamin B6 or Iron) you need to be tested regularly for a while to ensure you aren't overdosing (especially B6 levels too high can cause nasty symptoms).

Source: personal experience doing exactly this with a variety of vitamins and minerals
I don't think that would be impossible to measure. Would you be more interested in a controlled experiment or more of a study on real world censorship?
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Did you read his question?
Another y-combinator contrarian post of the form "the thing everyone likes is actually crap."

Fortunately for the author I happen to agree with this particular thesis.
Only a small and bitterly disputed slice of Ireland is part of the UK.
Censorship in China is the complementing arm of propaganda and yes it is effective. Control information and you control the people.

https://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/09/what-makes...
Fully agree. But a large for profit company with investors has an obligation to turn profit. There can't be really true altruism within those rules unless what appears as altruism supports for profi goal of the company becuse they for some reason are aligned with your goals. If you are not paying it then its interests are not likely aligned with yours. I don't want to say for profit companies can't do good, because they do. You just have to be constantly vigilant that your goals and the company goals stay aligned.
I always wonder if people that complain about SO being nasty missed out on the shitshow that was programming forums before the current era. I recall some monumental flamewars back in the day on various sites I used to frequent.
Popular overthrow of the government is an integral part of the historiography of China. While China never (except for very briefly) had democracy, ever since its first dynasties there was the idea of the "Mandate of Heaven". Emperors ruled via that mandate but unlike the Western "Divine Rights", the mandate can be lost if the emperor does a bad job. How? A popular revolt. Emperors can rule with absolute power but the people has the "right" to overthrow him. A revolt that is successful is considered blessed by heaven. Most Chinese dynasties are the results of popular revolts. This what gives rise to the dynastic cycle of China. Chinese governments of the past weren't any less powerful in regards to what they can do but that has never stopped them from being overthrown.

The escape from this cycle is a non-violent change of government, i.e. democracy, but China just took a giant step in the opposite direction by getting rid of term limits. So back to the cycles!
I don't think The Streisand effect applies here. It's not that people don't know what the Bible is...anyone who is looking to buy one clearly does.

It's that those who are Christian can't freely practice their religion.

Then there's the whole downloading an illegal book getting you into trouble angle, too.
I'm reminded of this site, AWS In Plain English.

https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-in-plain-english
> every religion teaches intolerance to other beliefs.

Not so. Big difference (and spectrum) between a Buddhist saying "I think my way is better, try it for yourself, or don't!" and a (insert fundamentalist sect here) saying "You deserve to die if you don't think like me." You don't even have to be religious to claim the latter, some political belief systems will also do just fine.
The most common deficiencies are vitamin D, iron, magnesium, vitamin B12, and vitamin B9. Maybe $200-$300 to get them checked without insurance. I think most people shouldn't be concerned about supplements except vitamin D and iron. Just eat a varied diet.
You're being down-voted because your comment can be construed as justification. Which, if it is, is absolutely deplorable.
Crypto gains are taxed on each exchange whether that be btc-eth or btc-fiat or [altcoin]-[altcoin]. That’s what’s so bad because some didn’t withdraw fiat to pay for gains.