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Michaelsinodef said:

And like I have repeated many times, but you clearly aren't able to read.
We still can't know if it's actually real
Something which that 'expert' you quoted even wrote in his tweet:



And I repeat, can you actually read:



So those are all suddenly just voodoo claims?

Anyways, @Blitzo @SampanViking @siegecrossbow can we get a check on this guys IP address, to see if he's a former banned member? Seems like one, especially with all that cherry picking and Jai US.

PS. I would kinda say he deserves at least a warning for kind of derailing the chinese economics thread as well.

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ficker22 said:

TBH, I think a city not centered around cars is much more livable and bicycles as such use much less space when in road and parked in some shed.

I know for most of Chinese who grew up in the 70s and see the change under Deng think cars are progress, but the fundamental problem is, China has adopted America style mobility with cars, and we all know how good american style things are.

Glad that China moved to HSR, but non automobile mobility needs to get a push again.

Bro, I will start to stop showering immediately and the only liquid I will consume will be die coke.


Funny anecdote, my Unis HPC department has just finished their 2 PetaFLOPS Supercomputer but now they have struggles powering it because the cooling is limited due to heightend electricity prices.

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Faustshadowdancer said:

He doesn’t have any economic background. He fell for the stuff that economically illiterate small business owners told him when he was mayor of Istanbul. IIRC, they told him that higher interest rates means they end up passing on the increase to consumers which drives inflation, and vice versa. It’s all BS, of course, but he’s stuck with that idea ever since.

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Michaelsinodef said:

Go back some couple pages (I recommend clicking coolgod's name so you can actually go back).

So first all, we still can still not 100% assume it's actually true (the 750 kb of data could be forged, you might think it's too much effort/impossible to do, but not really, moreover if the person was able to scam someone selling it, he could have gotten 10 bitcoins, so like 200k dollars, that's just 1 buyer. With that said, not sure how things are on that website, and if scamming is common or not there).

Assuming it's true, it's only basic ID information for 1.4 billion people (still damning ofc) and case details for Shanghai.

As for 'hacking', well if you go back, the 'rumour' or how it happened is apparantly that someone used to work for the Shanghai police, and he did a presentation where his credentials (that could be used to login the database) got leaked.

This is still incredibly damning ofc, and besides being human error, it also shows a systemic error (so bad cybersecurity).

BUT HERE'S THE THING this doesn't represent cybersecurity for the whole of China.

Just like the rich areas of say Shanghai doesn't represent ALL of Shanghai (there's 'slum'/more poor/dirty areas as well) or like how the rustbelt and 'tent cities' in the various rich cities in the US doesn't represent those cities either.

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coolgod said:

Ignoring sleepy 4.0's troll posts, even with the leaked credentials, someone had to have internal access. I'm betting it was some hanjian in Shanghai who ran to US or maybe CIA operative.

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Sleepyjam said:

Lol so according to your logic the American “Journalist” reporting on China must be true but the American “journalist” reporting on America must be CIA puppet.

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Helius said:

There isn't even a working fusion reactor on the ground, from anybody, let alone launching one into space.



"Think", "hope", "could", "if"...

Yeah, 'nuff said.

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