"Working-conditions in china? Who cares?"
Let's start with you. I assume, you wrote that comment on the computer. There's 100% probability that this computer was manufactured in China. So its you. You do not fucking care.
You do realize you're posting this self-righteous comment from a computer that was in all likelihood manufactured in China, right? I wonder how many tons of coal were burned to manufacture it. I wonder how many western developed nation comforts you're unwilling to give up while you "categorize" people on the internet based on the constructive activities they choose to engage in with their own time and money.
Comments look like a mob lynch. I don't know what commenters expect the author would do, or why he would care.
We've seen stories of chinese corporations blatantly stealing western company technologies and the chinese government doing nothing about it. And here some dude won a national competition on top of OSS and they expect somebody would care?
In essence, a lot of such comments treat CCP as some kind of bizarre imaginary entity that automatically possess any negative traits for the topic being discussed.
Of course, the distribution of positive & negative comments are certainly always mixed.
But boy, oh boy, I never seen a single comment actually showing a decent understanding of CCP's functioning nowadays, in my 10+ years on hackernews.
Is there a reason why almost every single comment you've made in the entire year history of your account on a tech news website involves China politics? In fact, almost every post you've replied to has the word "China" in the title. Almost like your replies are semi automated.
Can you show some of these comments where Chinese people get butthurt because people shit-talk Chinese companies? Are those comments here on HN?
I've been on the Internet many years and see a lot of people getting butthurt when they read about China excelling at things, and generally the Chinese themselves are next to non-existant, at least here on the Western side of the net.
Where are you seeing this? Any thread even remotely involving China is 95% filled with anti-Chinese posts, such as your own. There were a few this week. Heck, look in this very same comment thread -where are the 'fawners' you speak of?
Why shouldn't the largest economy in the world be able to produce high tech microprocessors?
The suggestion that they'd be banning the export of Intel processors is dumb.
The "Hilarious" is just icing. To me the whole comment smacks of racism. What would you call it? I knew I'd get down-voted for saying it, and I've held my tongue in the past. But it's nearly every article about China now. These sardonic off-the-cuff remarks. It's so accepted here, and it shouldn't be. So I'm calling it out.
The comment you're dismissing gave a reason talented Chinese colleagues take themselves elsewhere. (I don't have firsthand knowledge of how true it is.) If true, it's worth knowing, whether or not it's a "reactionary statement".
I have no interest in stealing from or fighting chinese people, except to the extent that profiteers in china have a material interest in stealing from me - which is equally true for local american profiteers. I have no desire to drum up Cold War 2.0 hysteria, or be suckered into it by those who do have a material interest in nationalistic competition.
> How many times have our governments and corporations been hacking by Chinese backed agents to steal blueprints, plans, and valuable information
I simply don't give a shit about american companies have their right to collect more ill-gotten, IP based profits in china undercut by people in china doing exactly the same thing. and if you do care about it, you're either an IP profiteer or a sucker. and either way this is incredibly xenophobic. sorry.
I'm getting sick of the this sort of sardonic racism on HN, and it never gets called out.
I'm from Europe and I can see what's happening. China starts making progress so US starts jeering every twist and turn. Give it a rest already. Same happened way back with Japan and all the jokes made back then.
Here's a story from 2011 about the Chinese building a supercomputer based on its own tech. Name me how many countries have done that? So, can I just ask HN comment people to please stop with the comments like this, it's gone beyond tiresome to annoying.
Okay, so you’re shilling for somebody else’s country. A bit sad, but it’s not for me to judge.
> Also, you're sentences do not make sense. "Why you are doing this"
That’s your sentence, I just quoted it.
>China is a country where people live in fear of publicly expressing their opinion
Just like the US - you don’t have any protections against an employer firing you for something you said in your free time, because it “goes against company values”.
You’re also mistaking freedom of press with freedom of speech, but again, that’s a minor mistake in this context.
"Maybe true in China" is not an argument. I find comments like these not helpful and disturbing. The amount of blind dislike for other countries without a proper argument makes me read less and less of hacker news.
How about people who simply are commenting against what they consider to be bullshit?
I've commented here defending China on some issue a few times in the past. I have no ties with the country (except being on a business trip in Shenzhen for two months), nobody paid or even offered to pay me to do it. It's just I hate bullshit, especially when it becomes popular opinion. Just because China has serious issues doesn't mean it's the Devil and everything it does is evil. It's a country, not unlike Russia or the US.
(Particular things I've been addressing in the past are a) treating a billion+ population as if it was a small country, and b) blaming China for all cheap mass produced crap and its environmental impact, conveniently forgetting that they aren't doing it for fun, but to fulfill orders from Western companies.)
I'm a US citizen working at a tech company. I have a normal HN account with reputation above 2000. These are my own thoughts and opinions. I'm just honestly afraid of being targeted by Chinese hackers for posting sentiments like the above.
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