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And there are still USans saying China or Russia is authoritarian state. LOL What do you call a country where you can't even clap for the previous speaker?

same experience here, jailbroken Kindle, installed KOReader, tried it and returned back to default viewer, don't exactly remember the reason, maybe overcomplicated? (especially since it's de…

It comes down to your definition of hobby. For instance some people consider listening to audio books as "reading books" or riding e-bike with hardly any pedaling as "cycling". I c…

Have you lived in China or you just parrot some US propaganda? In years of living there I haven't noticed any of my Chinese family/friends being opressed in any way. And if you mean by opres…

Discussed already here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49082060

TLDR they think it's bad for business since users would have no motivation to install and pay for Threema, if they could contact their users from Whatsapp for free

I guess it's about volume, I am also reading tons of articles or discussions per day and I would not say it's as good as reading books.

Do you read books on phone? There you have your answer. I am also assuming you are not a child from 3rd or 6th grade, so not exactly sure how is your comment relevant to study about kids with phones. …

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Obviously reading improves reading and if kid has phone it doesn't read (books), but plays games or watch videos. Though study found one benefit - if kid is non-native speaker they can improve th…

Why do you need 3rd party app and middle man to show you QR code for instant SEPA payment? All Decathlon had to do was show QR code with payment details which you will scan with ANY APP you prefer to …

police sure, but I was talking about racism in general in whole society and potential preferential treatment China in general for anyone would be safer than US regarding street crime, not so sure abou…

Beijing/Hebei, I've done paperwork/lived long term only in these two regions, worked on business trips in more provinces, but don't have any experiences with bureacracy over there …

Obviously, if you do your research you will not go as black (partly also brown) person to China/Japan/East Asia unless you have any other option (though I guess students from poor African&#x…

> In the past I've felt the same way in China. At a macro level there may be a lot more restrictions there. But when it comes to day-to-day life, it seemed like people had much fewer regulatio…

No, as someone who lived in China for years (as foreigner) and visited also last year after many years I WOULD BE SURPRISED if this happened when travelling to China, since China is clearly more free …

I was not impressed when I was sent there on business trip, from what I remember their subways were not as big as in Beijing or other CN places and I hit there my head, obviously anything is better th…

Nobody in China cares about your phone/laptop.* *Unless you are (well) known dissident/journalisy/politician. US is much more totalitarian than China. Lived in China for years, had mult…

yeah, same thing happened to my daily driver T480s, so I took precautions and now I use magnetic adapter on TB port since if that's gone whole computer is gone I despise these new USB-C ports, ne…

I don't understand the point, why you need special payment system when you have instant SEPA bank transfers with QR code with any bank? Slovakia made this mandatory recently, every shop must offe…

I would refrain from using people considering some of them may (become) controversial or are controversial depending on a country, there will never be agreement on someone who is not controversial at …

for starters when I browse reddit in new interface after short scrolling it tells me to install app and I can';t read further comments, no such issue with old.reddit though I have also Continuum …