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Comment Re:Resistance (Score 1) 161

The real problem is that the HK tycoons and the HK government control the real estate market in HK, making the average people lives miserable as most of them can't even afford a dinky apartment. That's the real issue but the average HKer are instead mostly brainwashed by the media to realize that's one of their root cause of the suffering. So the standard of living already for most of the low/middle class already sucks (despite whatever "standard" you see in some fancy report), it remains to be seen whether China can tackle the issue of HK real estate.

Comment Tell me that these rioters aren't violent? (Score 0) 123

Typical western fake news; I hope one day the sheep wakes up and fuck you over. I won't be holding my breath though, given how pervasive that MSM try to push their Anti-China narrative.

Tell me this is a peaceful protest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

They even attack an old man who just happened to pass by: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Or a random report who happens to be Chinese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

By large, the original protests in 2014 were pretty peaceful and initially the protests started fairly peaceful but it has definitely descended into riot/violence later on. But let's just pretend all these are fake, and reality and fact doesn't matter. Keep drinking your Kool-aid.

Comment Wrong assumptions (Score 3, Insightful) 132

At not that distant past, most of humanity lived in small tribes/villages where anonymity did NOT exist AT ALL. Only at some point in the last 1-2 millennia did human started to live in large enough city where there was any form of anonymity, even though it was still the exception than the norm until recent recorded history.

Comment Problem lies with concept of an Encycloped itself. (Score 1, Interesting) 379

The idea that there is only one version of "truth" in an Encyclopedia; written by someone is the actual issue; as we fully know that at any given moment on any remotely controversial topics that they will always be biases. For most of history, what we know as history has always been written by the victors. With the age of Internet, we no longer need to be subscribed to a single version on any given story. It will be up to you to discern what you write is the actual truth, or whether it's just someone else version of the truth. Human affairs will always have biases; I would rather that we collectively own up to these biases.

Comment I welcome this news but.. (Score 2) 110

As an (one of the few?) Ubuntu LTS user; I welcome this. I am on 16.04 and had to look up that support ends at 2021; which by then I am fine with upgrading to another LTS version (next-next LTS of 20.04 would be out by then). So I think while 10 years support sounds good; in practice the current 5 years cycle is more practical and quite adequate.

Comment Re:Why not let the actual users decide how long? (Score 2) 110

While I agree in theory with you; I think in practice anything greater than 10 years is not practical. Providing support has a definite price to pay in terms of resources and providing for a decade is an extremely long time. Just think back to what the computing landscape by going back every 10 years ago will make this obvious.

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