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by PakG1 9y ago
Sorry, to be clear, I said that Mandarin is basically the Han dialect. It is true that a lot of people interchange the names Hanyu, Guoyu, and Putonghua, though they are not exactly the same thing. Just asked my co-worker about this to
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by PakG1 9y ago
Judging from the populism happening in the US and various European countries, it seems that Western countries currently lack the latter too. See Trump's base, anger leading to Brexit, anger in Greece, etc.
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by PakG1 9y ago
100% this. Violent incidents in China pale in comparison to the US in terms of both scale and frequency. Take into consideration proportion of population? No comparison at all.
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by PakG1 9y ago
>> I think you're vastly overestimating China's cultural homogeneity. 30% of the population (so, a greater number than the population of the U.S.) doesn't even speak Mandarin. Mandarin is basically the Han dialect of
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by PakG1 9y ago
Haha, I guess I'm also not publishing my email address anywhere as much as I can? I imagine that eventually the "secret" will get out, but at least I'll no longer have random generators using my email address? Don&#x27
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by PakG1 9y ago
This is the primary reason why I switched to using Fastmail with a custom domain. Sick and tired of other people using my email address for stuff, or worse, their friends regularly emailing me to organize get-togethers.
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by PakG1 9y ago
Standard economic theory would say that if there are egregious margins, new players would enter the market and competition would bring down the price. That appears to happen now and then and then Luxottica buys up the players, keeping the p
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by PakG1 9y ago
I've never read Dan Brown. I do remember a friend reading The DaVinci Code and thinking the book was garbage. I have watched the movie Angels and Demons and thought it was ok, but nothing special. Now I stumble on a discussion of a bun
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by PakG1 9y ago
There are people who don't care to build their own Ikea furniture? How strange! I've always enjoyed building my own Ikea furniture! :)
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by PakG1 9y ago
So I'm guessing foreign social media won't be tracked, or will there be bridges between each country's intelligence agencies where they track their own country's apps? There's already intelligence sharing among tho
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by PakG1 9y ago
Honestly? This warehouse where I was repacking lumber. The lumber would come from the sawmill on a big flatbed truck. However, the lumber would be stacked in a formation that made it impossible to fill up the shipping containers optimall
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by PakG1 9y ago
China's Century of Humiliation started on the eve of the opium war. The current Chinese government has a goal to never let China ever experience anything like that ever again. I visited their museum of Chinese history in Xian, really e
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by PakG1 9y ago
The average Chinese person did not experience this. In 1997, China was nowhere near where it is now in terms of the average Chinese citizen's exposure to global markets, bubbles, and crashes. Even now, their ability to invest is suprem
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by PakG1 9y ago
Wearing a power pack on your back with a cord to the head would be quite fine. The only thing to be careful about is batteries that get too hot. But in a weird way, that's better on your back because I think if people were forced to ch
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by PakG1 9y ago
I don't know how it is in other places, but in Vancouver, if you cohabit for a number of years, you are subject to the same stuff as if you were married couples. I can't remember the details, forgive me, busy work day.
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by PakG1 9y ago
My immigrant mother was talking with her immigrant friends about how kids these days have it all backwards. They say you fall in love with the one you marry, not marry the one you love. I was lucky to get it both ways with my wife though, a
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by PakG1 9y ago
I recall reading an economic study on polygamous societies in the Middle East that concluded the same thing about why women would be ok with it. Financial security. Edit: I find it annoying that I'm getting downvoted for just saying I
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by PakG1 9y ago
The fact is that the employees wanted Travis to quit. Whatever the truth is about Travis or anyone else supporting Trump, that's what happened. And this new guy didn't quit. Those variables therefore matter. The capable of what th
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by PakG1 9y ago
I suspect that you're getting downvoted for saying something that may not have a lot of credibility. Thiel doesn't carry a lot of responsibility for putting Trump into office. To say so overestimates the pull he, an openly gay man
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by PakG1 9y ago
The interesting question is whether Musk himself portrays himself as the founder. I don't think he does? There are lots of stories though of how people take a business and make it huge, and take credit for being the founder when they
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by PakG1 9y ago
Yup. https://gwydionwilliams.com/99-problems-magazine/why-chinas-...
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by PakG1 9y ago
I think he was hoping the lots could be rezoned to sell for some kind of construction development when the lots were no longer useful.
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by PakG1 9y ago
A big reason why QR codes caught on in China is because everything else was really bad. In america, credit cards were 'good enough' compared to what was in china, so QR codes didn't catch on that quickly. Also because it&#x2
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by PakG1 9y ago
It has no predictive aspects. While economics has issues, this is an unfair assessment. Entire nations base economic policy based on much economic theory. That is as predictive as you can get, betting with real stakes. Some nations succee
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by PakG1 9y ago
You're considering the supply side, but not the demand side. If the business major required a certain GPA to stay in, the competition among students could kick someone out, especially if grades were calculated on a bell curve. Someone
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by PakG1 9y ago
That's funny. I remember not being allowed to go to Chuck E Cheese's or play carnival games that offered prizes for the same reason, parents didn't want priming for casino visiting. I guess the more things change, the more th
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by PakG1 9y ago
Because XP patches only worked on valid licenses. A ton of XP in China is pirated. So Qihoo 360 created custom patches for all those pirated versions of Windows. Weird Alice in Wonderland situation. https://www.engadget.com&#x
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by PakG1 9y ago
Except in countries that used XP extensively like China. Non-Microsoft parties had to create and release patches that protected against wannacry.
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by PakG1 9y ago
If the brain is just a computer, its machine learning algorithms for image recognition at a busy intersection are believably currently more accurate than any image processing software run on any computer that Tesla puts in its cars.
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by PakG1 9y ago
Unless you're good at technical thinking but not good at sales.

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