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   by analyst74 8y ago

   I mostly agree with your points and sentiment, although I do want to offer a few things I observed to compliment your post. China evolved from generally pro-west in the 1990s to mixed pro/anti western camps of today. The early pro-west
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   What I get from the article: 1, foreigners are less worshiped in China than before, giving them less advantage over locals, and in many cases a disadvantage if they have not forged strong connections 2, businesses founded on exploiting chea
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   The content creation space is extremely competitive and audiences are fickle. On top of that, Hollywood is a very self-reinforcing system, where industry connection is super valuable at getting funding, securing talents, rights and other th
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   Just because there is a job posting doesn't mean there is position open.
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   There is also monetization, are you going to sell the content by piece? subscription? ads? All those things require engineering, sales and/or other technical know-how.
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   by analyst74 8y ago

   Maybe contrary to the trend, but I've never hated facebook, it provides a utility for me to stay connected with friends, especially new ones I would have lost track of in my phone contact. I tried really hard to understand why some peo
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   by analyst74 8y ago

   > Maybe because the barrier to access online advertising was lower, both in terms of cost as well as to the medium itself You mentioned about this offhandedly, but this is one of the main reasons for current landscape. For companies with
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   by analyst74 8y ago

   The field of psychiatry is actually undergoing a lot of changes and improvements. With progress in understanding how our brain works at chemical level, and newer drugs to balance the chemicals when they are out of balance. Many of the previ
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   by analyst74 8y ago

   > the ability to select other users whose tastes are similar to mine that Yelp would then use to influence the ratings I see. Google maps started doing this a while ago, I don't think their algo is perfect yet, but the personal matc
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    by analyst74 8y ago

    I'm a little confused, the article mentioned that > The offering will support text-only conversations between matches in an effort to minimize "casual encounters" by building long-term relationships instead But then showed
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    by analyst74 8y ago

    What I realized as I get older and have met many different people, is that, everyone, is, judgmental. Of course, different people value different things. Some judge by wealth, some by looks, some by height, skin color, hobby, manner, educat
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    Those 900 dollars don't just stay in everybody's bank account, they get spent, and start circulating the system and eventually consolidated into fewer hands, who in turn buys properties or other assets.
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    by analyst74 8y ago

    Not marketing professional here, but I'm surprised at how almost all of the budget went to payroll related expenses. I would have imagined higher percentage spent on advertising spot, online and offline.
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    by analyst74 8y ago

    I'm actually kind of sympathetic to Apple here. One of the company I worked for once received request from a news outlet about potential rumor around us, and bullied our CEO into an interview to disprove that rumor. Then the journalist
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    Chinese government is not this monolith entity with a single will. All major firms operating in China will have to have some sort of government connections who champion for them, otherwise its competitors will use their influence in governm
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    by analyst74 8y ago

    The audio space has been going through extremely cutthroat competitions and consolidation. Even today, most of the major players are operating at loss. SiriusXM is still one of the largest revenue-wise, and possibly the only profitable comp
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    by analyst74 8y ago

    I used to not give a damn about how others think, and just did whatever fancied me at the moment. But now I'm older and wiser, I actually do care about what others think. What I realized, after living in many different places and cultu
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    by analyst74 8y ago

    I like the lessons here. But just to provide a contrarian perspective on #4, one of my previous jobs was at a company that did both, where we have dev department that built the software, and a growing and profitable consulting arm that help
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    by analyst74 8y ago

    Anti-cheating was incredibly strong in my experience, my mother taught middle school in China, and there has not been any widespread cheating scandals that she was aware of in her circles. Rich and powerful generally "cheat" by bu
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    by analyst74 8y ago

    Same as you, I moved to Canada for college, and for a while detached myself from "those lowly Chinese" still stuck in China. But eventually it occurred to me, people also judge me with those stereotypes. Looking at myself and othe
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    by analyst74 8y ago

    Personally the only times when I got back-stabbed at work were by Canadians, but I don't go around making conclusion about Canadian culture being backstabby. If 1 in 10 Chinese you met are manipulators, that means 9 out of 10 are NOT h
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    by analyst74 8y ago

    I don't think you realize how racist this statement is. I'm also surprised you've never met manipulative people who are not Chinese, like, are you living in rural China?
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    by analyst74 8y ago

    You are conflating cultural difference with class/mental health. It sounds like your parents are raised by grandparents with addiction problems, and either in poverty or in unstable financial conditions. So they put an extremely high v
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    by analyst74 8y ago

    I also feel this narrative has a strange tone about praising the caucasians of being "rooted into the city and were an integral part of the community", and softly blaming the immigrants for lagging behind in community development.
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    by analyst74 8y ago

    That's one of the many techniques journalists use to create false perspective without out right lying.
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    by analyst74 8y ago

    That's hilarious! And it is exactly how I feel sometimes about people ostracizing certain obsessions.
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    I've been addicted to games and now addicted to playing soccer, albeit less so probably due to being older with more responsibilities. And I see lots of similarities between the two very different kinds of games and the "addiction
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    by analyst74 8y ago

    China actually is in the process of establishing immigration agency and relevant laws/policies to encourage immigration. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/21...
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    by analyst74 8y ago

    Many countries have gone through a period when they used unconventional means to catch up, because they had nothing to lose. If US and allies punished China with tariffs in 1970s, it would have no effect because China just came out of being
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    by analyst74 8y ago

    Keep in mind that this story happened before taobao was launched in 2003, when eBay was the most dominant e-commerce player.