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by HeavenFox 5y ago
A few years back some enterprising merchants in China were selling these to kids in elementary school to do their homework. After all a significant portion of homework is literally copying characters / passages over and over again. The
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by HeavenFox 5y ago
Backblaze has S3-compatible API and they have free data transfer to Cloudflare
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by HeavenFox 5y ago
It is very useful in the context of Chinese grade school. There are a lot of exam problems that require factorization, and calculators are banned. Having a list of primes memorized comes really handy.
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by HeavenFox 5y ago
When I was a fifth grader in China, we were required to memorize all prime numbers below 100. Curious if that is common in other countries?
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by HeavenFox 5y ago
A dose of Moderna has significantly more genetic material than a Pfizer one to begin with.
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by HeavenFox 5y ago
It's a problem of phrasing. Back then, for an average person, there wasn't much to do on the Internet, except online games and chatting with friends, both of which are considered a waste of time. As a result, Internet itself was d
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by HeavenFox 5y ago
About ten to fifteen years ago, “Internet addiction” was perceived to be a big problem among the youth in China. Kids would skip school and play video games in Internet cafes. Someone opened an “Internet addiction treatment center”. Parents
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by HeavenFox 5y ago
It is cultural. In Confucianism, the relationship between a father and a son, a superior and their subordinate, a state and its citizen are considered equal. Therefore it is considered normal for the state to be paternalistic. Also, collec
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by HeavenFox 5y ago
I thought so too; isn’t it part of Near East? However Wikipedia suggests people have began to use the term Middle East to cover that part of the world too apparently
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CureVac’s Covid-19 Vaccine Disappoints in Clinical Trial(nytimes.com)
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by HeavenFox 5y ago
If you have a management company chances are they don’t allow you to Airbnb your apartment in the first place
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by HeavenFox 5y ago
Tone aside, she is not wrong though. At this point, there are only two groups of people who are clearly incentivized for the Olympics to happen: the IOC, which would lose all the revenue; and the athletes who would "age out" for t
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by HeavenFox 5y ago
One of my pet peeves is that Coursera uses .org domain. A YC-backed billion-dollar-valuation public company.
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by HeavenFox 6y ago
This seems like the worst outcome for Japan and best outcome for the IOC. Japan incurs all the cost of hosting the Olympics while reaping none of the tourist yen, while the IOC gets paid the broadcasting fee. At this point the optimal outco
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by HeavenFox 6y ago
...except the latter will (likely) be covered by insurance, whereas you are on your own for the former.
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by HeavenFox 6y ago
I think the U.S. basically won by the Soviets' "forfeiting". If USSR landed on the moon second but soon after, say, landed a man on Mars, and the U.S. unable to accomplish the feat, we would say the Soviets won.
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by HeavenFox 6y ago
Many schools in China require girls to cut their hairs short, so they don’t spend all their time on it and can study instead.
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by HeavenFox 6y ago
Looks like there’s an administration fee which your insurance pays if you have one and government pays if you don’t, so yeah basically free.
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by HeavenFox 6y ago
That isn’t unique to schools though. In older buildings outside of gated communities, they are extremely common in first floor and second floor apartments too.
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by HeavenFox 6y ago
...whereas three years of service in French Foreign Legion allows you to apply for citizenship, or immediately after you are wounded in battle ("French by spilled blood")
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by HeavenFox 6y ago
IIRC Sapphire Reserve was considered a loss leader to attract higher income folks to Chase so they can cross sell more lucrative banking products. You can see how they tried to cash in on the Sapphire brand with Sapphire Checking, which is
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by HeavenFox 6y ago
Absolutely. Even a small inexpensive reflector telescope like the $200 AWB OneSky is sufficient to see Saturn's ring or Jupiter's moons, and it's a sight you won't forget.
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by HeavenFox 6y ago
I think universities err on the caution side. I read once that someone at Stanford filed FERPA request for some innocuous reason and found in horror a log of every time he swiped into a building on campus.
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by HeavenFox 6y ago
I am actually surprised any sold at all. Who on earth is paying $75k for a car that is neither fast nor luxurious, and only has two doors? Even at $50k there are much better options out there...
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by HeavenFox 6y ago
Actually, Bermudians can as well :)
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by HeavenFox 6y ago
This is basically the frequentist vs bayesian debate. Looks like you are firmly in the former camp :)
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by HeavenFox 6y ago
If you are a tourist visiting multiple destinations a day that is probably already the case. Bay Area and LA are both spread out enough that rideshare fares quickly add up. Rideshare has always been more for convenience for me - not having
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by HeavenFox 6y ago
The flip side is if you lost your card AND the thief guessed your PIN, it might be a lot harder to convince the bank you didn't authorize the purchase.
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by HeavenFox 6y ago
Citation needed. Looking at Form 990 for several top private research universities: Harvard: $1,462M tuition vs $592M government grant Yale: $680M tuition vs $528M government grant Princeton: $369M tuition vs $293M government grant Stanford
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by HeavenFox 6y ago
Foreign students typically pay full tuition. Rather than being subsidized by the U.S., they are actively subsidizing U.S. domestic students.

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