ashwinaj

> maybe nobody cares about watching Netflix if we can now have holodecks that become fully immersible experiences that allow for educational training and, to your chagrin, entertainment as well

I don't see why billions of dollars should be spent, for say, less than a low single digit percentage of the rural population who want to stick a machine to their head for educational training.

It's infinitely cheaper, a more sane and healthier decision to move to the location where they can sit in front of the instructor, if they value this education.

1. Chattanooga, TN isn't exactly "rural"

2. How large is each "diagnostic medical image"? I can't imagine this being in the order of TB

    a. An existing 5G/LTE or satellite internet is perfectly serviceable for even GBs of medical images

    b. Let's assume the images are in the order of TBs, does this justify spending billions for one person (or tens) in a "rural" area?

Contrarian opinion: What exactly is the point of "fast" internet?

Most people use the internet for entertainment, people can survive watching Netflix at 1080p/720p, it isn't debilitating. If I'm wrong in my assessment, give me use cases where you require fast internet in a rural area.

If the question is cost, I don't see how laying fiber and equipment for hundreds, if not, thousands of miles is a solution to reducing cost (unless it's subsidized by the government).

Spending billions on mostly "entertainment" is a waste.

There are tons of Youtube channels and Reddit threads dedicated to clones. My protocol is, if the originals sell at outrageous prices, I go for clones. They are good enough for me.

Lol, same here

> Online is how you reach the largest audience

So? Is this going to cause any change in the government's behavior: No.

This is the literal definition of a paper tiger.

> In my WeChat feed, I've seen a lot of panic

This is the problem, everything is hush hush or online. No one has the _____ to stand up and say this is not right. I'm only contrasting this with democratic govts. (However flawed the system is) have a voice to stand against a govt. This is non existent in China.

I am talking about Chinese citizens criticizing the Chinese govt. __in China__ the same way as American citizens can criticize the American govt. in America, if it wasn't obvious. And by criticizing I mean openly criticizing in public, not hiding behind some pseudonym online

Sure, but people can openly criticize the US govt and it's policies. Can they do this in China?

A sense of national pride should not trump objectivity.

> Chinese social media has been awash with anger over the death of the whistle-blower

How about going out to protest? Oh wait, you can't...bravo for your virtue signalling.

Doesn't matter what his ethnicity is, if he doesn't produce (whatever that definition is: stock price, technology output, new market etc.) he'll be kicked out. At the CEO level, nepotism does not work (unless he has a golden parachute, does he?). Why the hell will he hire his "buddies" who are not productive?

So comparing him to low-mid level Indian managers who are fighting over scraps is comparing apples to oranges.

Yeah right. I was in Beijing last week, how in the world is China ranked alongside India in terms of English proficiency? I could hardly find anyone even at the Beijing Capital airport to speak a coherent English sentence, let alone grammatically correct.

> You’re not unmotivated. You’re not lazy. You’re not bored. You are afraid.

Well put. Being afraid of failure is the root cause.

You can nitpick.

But I'm pretty certain most, if not all, African Americans who worked for racists were fired if they found out that they were part of the civil rights movement.

As Jordan Peterson says, clean up your room before you go fixing the world. Go up from Shoreline towards 101 and see the number of homeless people; what exactly are these enlightened Googlers doing for them other than ignoring them and driving away with their expensive Maserati's, Tesla's etc. and complaining about how expensive it is to live in the bay area. How about NIMBY laws? The list goes on and on..