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by analyst74 5y ago
Isn't the new wording more morally consistent? It still means they are against slave labor, including those in Xinjiang, but not blindly banning anything from the region.
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by analyst74 5y ago
I'm not old enough to read mainstream news during the 80s, but learnt that there was a period of anti-Japanese fear mongering due to Japan's rising economy. It caused riots, burning of japanese products, and street violence to peo
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by analyst74 5y ago
> China's astroturfing for example has gotten so bad, that the "50 cent army" meme has become pervasive and well-known to mostly anyone that spends time online Just because a meme got popular on the internet doesn't m
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by analyst74 5y ago
Some companies adopt micro-services to turn impossible problems into merely hard problems; some companies adopt micro-services to turn simple problems into hard problems.
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Google Chrome users urgently warned to delete browser(the-sun.com)
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by analyst74 5y ago
Overpaying for a house is not a problem in an appreciating housing market. If you overpaid for a house, just wait for its actual market value to catch up and voila, no loss. The reason you fire-sale that house at loss, is because you believ
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by analyst74 5y ago
He was stuck between the rock and a hard place. It's like your daddy wants you to take the neighbourhood bully's toy, so you stole his toy, and now the bully came and took two of yours. What are you supposed to do?
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by analyst74 5y ago
like drugs, prostitution, and myriad of other small time victim-less crimes?
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by analyst74 5y ago
Re: fossil fuel I have been following oil news closely for a better part of a decade now, the oil industry did not reduce capacity due to renewables. They respond to price, especially higher cost productions like fracking and oil sand. Cons
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by analyst74 5y ago
I have a theory, all the "high quality" hobbies are challenging in one way or another, thus require some level of will power to push yourself to do it. If you've been pushing yourself hard at work all day, then you have likel
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by analyst74 5y ago
Central banks definitely have demonstrated their willingness to print. However, the Fed's mandate also includes managing inflation, meaning they're unlikely to continue the printing if that contributes higher inflation.
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by analyst74 5y ago
It seems hypocritical to me to value truth and transparency, aka journalism and dislike how the internet made everyone journalist.
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by analyst74 5y ago
As an employee, if you consistently deliver measurable and outsized impact, you get high ratings and promotions that will increase your pay dramatically. And as freelance developer, how do you know you're not underpaid? For example, a
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by analyst74 5y ago
Agreed, American highschool dynamic is quite unique in many ways. I think partly due to American culture, partly due to lack of authoritative figures in school.
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by analyst74 5y ago
> racism is almost never the first thing anyone mentions, even if they're talking about America Sadly that's not the experience of Chinese expat and immigrants, especially those in the States. Many people can face criticism, bu
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by analyst74 5y ago
It's partly due Chinese brainwashing, and partly due to American brainwashing. Imagine whenever an American expat talks to a foreigner, which happens daily, someone mentions racism in US. Very soon people will get really sick and tired
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by analyst74 5y ago
AI simply replicate existing bias the data already has. The downside is that it could amplify the bias if not done carefully; the upside is that now we can analyze the algorithm's bias and fix it, which is much harder to do to people w
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by analyst74 5y ago
Message queue (i.e. RabbitMQ) sounds like a more natural fit for your problem. What is the peak and avg QPS you need to support? High peak QPS might force you to introduce distributed workers and makes locking impractical. Another considera
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This is the way
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Isn't it better to just hire them, so they bring you all their years of technical and operational knowledge? Of course, it requires the new external hires be given enough influence and autonomy. It remains to be seen if Chinese firms a
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by analyst74 5y ago
I wouldn't consider higher wage for engineers and scientists the same as bribing. I mean, one of silicone valleys key strength is the ability for companies to poach from competitors in order to catch up, this cross pollination of ideas
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by analyst74 5y ago
> US is already blocking them from exporting to China This might actually be a good thing for China. In a "necessity is the root of invention" kinda way. Ultimately this might be good to the world too, competition is generally
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by analyst74 5y ago
I think their elite school preference is only for new grads, the experienced pipeline has always been open to people with less pedigree.
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by analyst74 5y ago
From historical perspective, another side effect of "elite overproduction" is that as "elites" grow in number, they take an increasingly larger slice of the pie, eventually leading to peasants rebellions when enough peop
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by analyst74 5y ago
Isn't USDC printed out of thin air with no backing? Similar to how private bank money was printed before modern banking regulations. What are the guardrails to prevent bankrun like the wild west days of banking?
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by analyst74 5y ago
It's unclear at this point how effective is her style of giving. But it seems like she is aware of the potential of corruption, and by moving nimbly and only giving one-time donations, it might help reduce the patron-charity dynamic. A
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by analyst74 5y ago
I don't disagree with the article, but the bigger picture with job security is that sometimes it's out of your control. Shifting political winds, bad manager, bad company direction, bad economy can all cause you to lose your job.
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by analyst74 5y ago
Exactly, gp's argument is quite sinister by choosing a timeframe from 1970s till now. US started cutting emission in 1970s, while China only started developing from an extremely impoverished, pre-industrial state that can barely feed i
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I'm not sure if people prefer Amazon's PIP culture. That's what it'll lead to if companies hire more loosely and have to fire people more frequently.
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FIRE, or any retirement strategy tend to rely on smart investment to generate income, and investment only makes the difference between how much worker is getting paid and how much they generate. If we all become full time investors, who do

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