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by PakG1 7y ago
If I wanted to do something like this, how would I find the orphans? I honestly don't know any grown-up orphans myself. There's definitely a matchmaking problem for finding certain people. Would I put up an ad on the Internet o
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by PakG1 7y ago
Yes, probably so. But I've lived 9 years in China now. I have friends across a wide spectrum of society. Anyone who actually doesn't like it still only say things like, "He should have known he would be punished for it. Y
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I don't think that's the case. That's a very teleological perspective. China is a very deontological society. I get the impression that many people in China would agree with the punishment in these instances. It's ve
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by PakG1 7y ago
It was this guy, check out his listed papers on this page, many of them have to do with this topic: http://cba.snu.ac.kr/en/faculty?memberidx=60582&major=6&mode...
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by PakG1 7y ago
I was able to partake in a series of seminars at Seoul National University earlier this year where one of the lectures was from a finance professor giving advice to the South Korean government how to reform their capital markets. The amoun
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by PakG1 7y ago
This is not unique to the US. I see similar partisan issues causing division around the world. Same pattern, no constructive dialogue, no way to move forward, just constant conflict. I think people were either better at dialogue before,
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by PakG1 7y ago
Funny enough, I think you and I are very like minds on this subject.
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by PakG1 7y ago
I find that I am like most people in these threads and find it difficult to not provide advice on how to solve unsolved problems in other people's lives. That being said, when more "socially normal" people are the recipients
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by PakG1 7y ago
I wonder what J.K. Rowling and any authors with really complicated plots would have to say about that. http://blog.paperblanks.com/2013/05/j-k-rowling-book-outline... Not that I know how the mind of a great autho
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by PakG1 7y ago
The bad news for cats? They lack this muscle. As a result, cats’ stares can look cold and unfriendly, and two cats staring at each other can often be a prelude for fisticuffs. But a slow blinking stare – one that your cat probably gives to
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If this is true, then how do people get charged more than 10%? That's simple webform input validation on the listing process.
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by PakG1 7y ago
Your comments and parent's interpretation of your comments aren't necessarily in conflict with each other.
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All those things require certain skills and whatnot though. If someone has a good thing going and doesn't want to plunge into the abyss, I'd say good on them. The abyss is full of pitfalls and ways to lose life savings and go in
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by PakG1 7y ago
If you just look at the jobs going away, you're missing the other side of the picture, the jobs being created. I don't think Yang is missing the other side of the picture. He's saying that society sucks at getting displace
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If tech companies reach their holy grail of what they want to do with self-driving, last-mile delivery jobs won't exist. And as I already said, yes, that's a big if. But it's something the tech companies are aiming to achie
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by PakG1 7y ago
In a 2018 paper, UC–Berkeley sociologist Steve Viscelli suggested that in the most likely scenario, long-haul truckers, who tend to make middle-class wages, will be replaced by poorly paid drivers tasked with steering autonomous vehicles t
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by PakG1 7y ago
Until they can't. https://blogs.wsj.com/cmo/2014/06/23/how-marissa-mayer-fell-...
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by PakG1 7y ago
You need to read it in the context of onion2k's original post and how onion2k's post relates to the article. There is a question of responsibility in that context, whether we like it or not.
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by PakG1 7y ago
How many companies out there are serious about long-lasting quality though? I find most companies are more into planned obsolescence these days.
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The best way forward as a business that must operate in China to stay competitive is to hire lots of Chinese employees and send them to the company's "Western" country of origin in hopes that they'll learn our preferenc
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> That's just good order execution. The movie Margin Call makes an excellent depiction of what is just good order execution. Skilled sellers know if they're selling at the top. Should the buyers in the movie not have been u
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by PakG1 7y ago
How many people do you know who frequently took flights right at the time when this was all happening? If I were not an avid reader of the news, I'd have no clue. Before this, I also would not have cared to check what airplane my fli
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by PakG1 7y ago
When you become big, famous, influential, anything like that. Then people can register your domains and misrepresent you or just use your namesake as a platform to attack you (write bad things about you at best, do some really nasty damage
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by PakG1 7y ago
Are SpaceX salaries lower than average then?
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by PakG1 7y ago
I'm curious what's the difference between India and China in that it seems like there have been world-class R&D that has been done in China using local talent for a number of years now (from Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent, etc), but
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by PakG1 7y ago
So... was my joke completely not clear or are state actors not liking me? Not sure which it is...
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How can anyone provide a citation if the person has been systematically erased from history? ;)
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Social commerce would be different from MLM though. MLM has incentive to recruit salespeople and then profit off of the salespeople you recruit, usually several levels down. This creates immense pressure on those at the bottom, as their rev
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Those protestors never got violent. 2014 Umbrella Movement was all about love and peace.
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Recalling memories of how Ethan Hunt first communicated with Max in the first Mission Impossible movie.

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