JDShu

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by JDShu 13y ago
Being in HK for the summer, I honestly don't get the impression that anybody here cares about this particular issue.
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by JDShu 13y ago
For the purposes of this discussion, I don't think it's correct to be comparing the current Singapore with the current Turkey, since the premise is that Turkey is on the way to becoming like Singapore. So from this perspective if you examin
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by JDShu 13y ago
I honestly don't understand your criticism here. The entire point of the post was that Singapore is a great place to live as long as you do not try to exercise a political freedom. Singaporeans (or at least the ones who are left) happen to
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by JDShu 13y ago
As a high school student, Ap Liu Street/Golden Computer Center was my favourite hangout :)
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by JDShu 13y ago
I think you are right. Shenzhen is located in one of the wealthiest provinces in china, is less than an hour's train ride from Hong Kong, and is designated a special economic zone. That probably gives it several advantages over other Chines
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by JDShu 13y ago
"The standard way to avoid all such problems is to let one person cut the pizza in two halves, and the other person choose who gets which half." Unrelated to the intellectual pursuit of the problem, but this algorithm is a bit of a silly so
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by JDShu 13y ago
"Yes, the client should change their software and infrastructure to better suit your product..." The person you quoted isn't even a developer as far as I can tell.
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by JDShu 14y ago
Even if you don't know how to pronounce a word, you might subvocalize (I do) using an incorrect pronunciation.
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by JDShu 14y ago
Prediction #3 is the only one which I can't see being interpreted as being reasonably accurate. Anybody care to explain why it might be correct?
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by JDShu 14y ago
The US opened this can of worms and created an imbalance in the world. North Korea is surrounded by nuclear enabled countries (China, Russia, South Korea, and Japan). That's irrelevant. NK gaining nukes would clearly be a negative develop
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by JDShu 14y ago
What? I thought the bad publicity was caused by Applebee's firing her, not the other way round.
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by JDShu 14y ago
Agreed. People should use what they want to use. I personally hate KDE. I find that particular UI to be the most insane and ugly mess I've ever used. That doesn't mean I go to KDE related thread and talk about how the KDE people don't get i
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by JDShu 14y ago
The dismissals have nothing to do with the quality of the radeon graphics drivers, as described by the last paragraph in the article.
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by JDShu 14y ago
I think there's an opportunity cost as well. Standardized tests shift the focus of classroom time from teaching students math concepts to getting correct answers in the next test.
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by JDShu 14y ago
Also, poor people in Dorchester shouldn't complain because they have it much better than people in the developing world. Obviously it's a matter of degree. The poster is complaining about a real phenomenon.
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by JDShu 14y ago
Yes, what Piketty and Saez did was a more sophisticated operation on IRS data to get a time series so that we can measure exactly how the top 0.01% etc. did. Here's the link to the paper if you want the details. http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~s
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by JDShu 14y ago
No it doesn't, that's the point. The IRS publishes the top 1% and I believe the top 0.1%, but it does not cover the top 0.01% which you cited.
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by JDShu 14y ago
Saez's contribution to economics was a novel way to measure income inequality of really small percentages (top 1%, 0.1% etc.) of the population. That's why it's hard to find other studies. He wasn't "being a hack" he was doing research in a
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by JDShu 14y ago
While I do have problems with the simplistic portrayal of China in this article, I agree strongly with the first section: The nationalism that the Olympics typically brings out in people, is disgusting. It's an event that is supposed to bri
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by JDShu 14y ago
Nowhere in the article does it say that the child was kidnapped or otherwise taken from her parents without consent. At best you can infer that the parents are being shut up by the government, but then that means you've already decided what
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by JDShu 14y ago
Outside the Quake series, I think Left 4 Dead 2 would be the most impressive game ported to Linux to date.
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by JDShu 14y ago
I think what the grandparent was implying is that only landowner families would have had the means to take the exam and become a government official, so it wasn't a fully meritocratic society. Of course, these things are all relative and th
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by JDShu 14y ago
OK, I have to ask. Where are you getting your confidence from?
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by JDShu 14y ago
I was spanked (lightly) as a kid, but I don't remember what I did to deserve it, although I'm pretty sure I did...
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by JDShu 14y ago
Wait, what? There are radeon drivers within the open source ecosystem, and AMD also supplies an alternate proprietary driver, bad quality as it is, for those people who find 3D support essential. You can make the argument that nVidia Linu
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by JDShu 14y ago
Phoronix seems to be playing a kind of Pascal's wager here. There is no way that it can be definitively proven that Steam will never arrive for the Linux desktop, but if it does then they can feel smug satisfaction that they knew all along
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by JDShu 14y ago
Like for many other things, people who bought a prime account will probably rationalize to themselves that they made the right decision.
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by JDShu 14y ago
Sounds like the classic free rider problem.
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by JDShu 15y ago
On the one hand it makes sense, but on the other hand isn't it agreed that cursing brings a certain context or atmosphere? How would the advice here apply to, say, a Quentin Tarantino movie?
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by JDShu 15y ago
For your Walmart example, wouldn't that violate section 2 of the Sherman Act? In principle, it isn't a strategy the United States government allows.

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