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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by DonaldPShimoda on Thursday October 04, 2018 @01:24PM (#18141816)
> You're starting to realize that not all cultures are that great.

What measures a culture's greatness? How can this value be empirically deduced?

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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by alex_anglin on Thursday October 04, 2018 @01:51PM (#18142049)
Honesty and trustworthiness could be two such measures.
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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by dwaltrip on Thursday October 04, 2018 @02:34PM (#18142344)
There are many important and worthwhile discussions that our empirical tools are not able to significantly contribute to.

That's not to say that there is a such thing as single-dimension "greatness" metric. However, outlawing value judgments is going too far in the other direction. Of course, such things can be quite sensitive, and should be done thoughtfully.

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Re:The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Am... by SOMABOFH on Thursday October 04, 2018 @01:58PM (#18142097)
breadth, quality and equal application of civil rights.

the value of civic participation and honesty

trust

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