PakG1

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by PakG1 8y ago
I was surprised by how bad Microsoft's CSV support is in Excel. So much that I use Numbers or text editors for everything CSV, never do I use Excel. Excel is still great for a basic level of intensive data analysis though, so can&#x2
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by PakG1 8y ago
I understand you now. Sorry, it wasn't clear to me before. Looks like we're actually completely on the same page. I got completely twisted in the logic. Ignoring ra1n85 (it seems the 3 of us are probably on the same page), my o
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by PakG1 8y ago
If it had been used first, then the story would be true, not false. Jedi72's original thought experiment is no longer a thought experiment, and there'd be no point in asking what are the implications if the story was fake, nor wh
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by PakG1 8y ago
I'm not sure you're following this thread. Let's look at the whole conversation again. Jedi72: Posits possibility that the story could be fake and planted by the US as a propaganda tool for their trade war. steve19: Posits
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by PakG1 8y ago
In the parent's scenario, the initiator would be China. How would you make China pay the bill for the audits? By achieving the goals of the trade war, which was supposed to happen even without the audits? If China really pulled the lon
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by PakG1 8y ago
Give it a few decades.
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by PakG1 8y ago
I would call it sarcasm, except it's too funny for me to simply label it sarcasm.... Not that sarcasm can't be funny, it just sometimes has such bad connotations.
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Unless you're really lucky, that puts you at the peril of sociopaths who will just take advantage of you without rewarding you or giving you credit. Easy path to bitterness, unfortunately. People need to be able to stand out from the
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by PakG1 8y ago
Articles listed in order of what I felt was most educational, useful, and enlightening, with most educational at the top: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17493303 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15
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by PakG1 8y ago
Hey, some of us truly clueless people have no idea. Like I'd been searching for years for an article to explain to me why people get emotional, as there seemed to be no utility for it to me. Finally someone posted a couple to HN that
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by PakG1 8y ago
It's better for you to reply to the parent, rather than me. I was simply discussing the absurdity of being depressed at missing out on the future, not the validity, ethics, or consequences of modifying intelligence.
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Humans today are vastly superior in intelligence to humans centuries ago. Physical fitness, maybe not. Anyway, why be depressed? Would Columbus be depressed to know that if he had lived a few centuries later, he could have just flown aro
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by PakG1 8y ago
It is interesting to note that Japanese popular fiction (especially various anime) often has human genetic modification as a central theme. Non-Japanese popular fiction does as well, but my perception is that it's not to the same exte
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Last Jedi: strategic politicization of pop culture via social media manipulation(researchgate.net)
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by PakG1 8y ago
I believe parent lacks faith in humanity and basic human nature to use that new tech properly to properly solve the new problems.
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by PakG1 8y ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." Upton Sinclair
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by PakG1 8y ago
An appendectomy might be easier than procuring the necessary antibiotics in a deep rural area, depending on how rural....
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by PakG1 8y ago
Really? When I complained about Firefox performance on macOS, I was downvoted by a lot of people. It almost made me consider if the problem was PEBKAC (problem exists between keyboard and chair). I am glad I'm not the only one. I w
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by PakG1 8y ago
Learned that the hard way. :( Unfortunately can't be said enough. Managers have to learn how to deal with bad apples. Tried too hard and long giving benefit of the doubt that the apples were actually good inside in some situations.
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by PakG1 8y ago
Reading the comments here, am I the only one who had the problem of writing too much and trying to figure out how to fit within the required page limits? :P Still trying to figure out how to not be so verbose. :(
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by PakG1 8y ago
Out of curiosity, what was the DeLorean moment? I know DeLorean didn't succeed in the long term. But what was this "moment" you're talking about? Google gave me nothing.
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by PakG1 8y ago
1. You have no power. You really don't have the freedom to change salaries, you don't have final say on promotions, you often don't have final say on work commitments, often a lot of work needs to be done that simply isn&#x2
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by PakG1 8y ago
What if the manager only takes care of minor things that are not on the critical path? That being said, given how busy managers can get (it's a totally different world that many subordinates would not appreciate, don't blame them
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by PakG1 8y ago
It's always personal preference how much you spend on food. But even cooking for yourself can be expensive. My wife bought a portion of shrimp to cook lunch, the shrimp alone cost 40 RMB, and that was from a local grocery (big shrimp a
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by PakG1 8y ago
7.5k for a bachelor is not enough for a bachelor partying hard. Paying 5k for a 60 square meter 1 bedroom apartment right now in Shekou in Shenzhen, and that's on the cheap end of the scale without living way out in the boonies; searc
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by PakG1 8y ago
Seems I should apologize for being one of those gmail people who never ever tried out Inbox. :) Sorry, everyone.
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by PakG1 8y ago
No doubt. I still preferred the name Raptor to Gecko, too bad it couldn't stay that way.
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by PakG1 8y ago
Actual book title, look it up on Amazon: The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: *God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison
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by PakG1 8y ago
Recently, they've started new laws and process for foreigners to get permanent residence (green cards), which would allow foreigners to do everything that citizens do, including even buying apartments. Not sure what the uptake is thoug
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by PakG1 8y ago
I believe those days are long gone. I once opened an Alipay and WeChat account without bonding my bank card to it. Eventually, I couldn't use them unless I bonded my account.

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