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by bigpumpkin 6y ago
So are they going to boycott the 2022 Beijing Olympics? Are they also going to stop exporting agricultural products to China? Talk is cheap.
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by bigpumpkin 6y ago
Most people (60%) don't care because they find everything they need on the Chinese internet anyways. 25% of the people find it a nuisance, but don't speak out against it. 5% of the people actively use a VPN to circumvent it. 5% of
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by bigpumpkin 6y ago
One thing he didn't talk about was capital gains tax. If I wanted to bet on the election, I would first have to realize my short term capital gains.
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by bigpumpkin 6y ago
2021: Clubhouse: $100 million to $1 Billion valuation Agora: $4 Billion to $10 Billion valuation What does Agora offer that is better than its alternatives?
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by bigpumpkin 6y ago
Would love to hear more from Thea Fischer, who the WSJ quotes extensively.
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by bigpumpkin 6y ago
I just opened up my margined account on Interactive Brokers and it shows a large negative cash balance (exactly equal to what I borrowed on margin). I guess an inexperienced trader could've mistaken the negative cash balance as having
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by bigpumpkin 6y ago
Yep. The returns on capital is much higher than the return on labor. On net, more people trading is reducing income inequality.
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Kuaishou shares rise nearly 200% in IPO (~$165B valuation)(cnbc.com)
1 points by bigpumpkin 6y ago|0 comments
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by bigpumpkin 6y ago
The NSA needs to hack into everything. Huawei everywhere makes it difficult to do so. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jan/27/nsa-hacked-...
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TikTok owner ByteDance sues Tencent in China(engadget.com)
1 points by bigpumpkin 6y ago|0 comments
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by bigpumpkin 6y ago
Exited its bet doesn't preclude it from re-entering into a similar one a day later
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by bigpumpkin 6y ago
This. China may have more factories but its focus is on industry not spirituality. India will achieve Religious Victory by 2050.
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by bigpumpkin 6y ago
Would love to see "trending" stocks that see the greatest increases in popularity over the last 24 hours/ week, etc.
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by bigpumpkin 6y ago
' She found that whilst Milgram's originally published article mentioned some forty participants, of which some twenty-six proved to be obedient, some seven hundred naive participants were actually "tested" in various ex
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A Scientist Is Arrested, and Academics Push Back(nytimes.com)
8 points by bigpumpkin 6y ago|1 comments
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by bigpumpkin 6y ago
Only people in the US can become a birdwatcher, yet they can influence the whole of Twitter. Sounds like more recipe for centralization of discourse. If they open it up to foreign countries, then Congress will complain about foreign influen
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by bigpumpkin 6y ago
I wouldn't call the distinct African-American culture "Anglo-Saxon". It is instead rooted in the historical experience that black people have had. The black identity was already formed during the slavery period and incorporat
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China Overtakes US as World’s Leading Destination for Foreign Direct Investment(wsj.com)
15 points by bigpumpkin 6y ago|3 comments
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by bigpumpkin 6y ago
Facebook should not ban accounts unless they are doing things that are outright illegal. They should instead algorithm downweight those content.
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MIT faculty members draft letter against investigation into Gang Chen(twitter.com)
3 points by bigpumpkin 6y ago|0 comments
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by bigpumpkin 6y ago
If I started a small news aggregator app, would I also have to pay these sites or is it only for large companies.
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Google threatens to remove its search engine from Australia due to new law(theverge.com)
4 points by bigpumpkin 6y ago|3 comments
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I Lost My Appetite Because of Covid. This Sichuan Flavor Brought It Back(nytimes.com)
3 points by bigpumpkin 6y ago|2 comments
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by bigpumpkin 6y ago
I just want to say I support your views, which are obviously true to anyone remotely knowledgeable about China. Although that is apparently a rarity.
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Ask HN: What are the best tools to aid working memory?
2 points by bigpumpkin 6y ago|0 comments
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by bigpumpkin 6y ago
Too bad the government can't ban a communications platform under the First Amendment. Just give the offending companies huge fines (billions of dollars) instead.
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Norway adjusts advice after vaccine deaths but isn't alarmed(abcnews.go.com)
3 points by bigpumpkin 6y ago|0 comments
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by bigpumpkin 6y ago
Obviously due to the fact that Chinese input could be better optimized by third parties.
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by bigpumpkin 6y ago
Yep. Lifting heavy is also good because it doesn't take very long and it's far easier to go high intensity for a few reps than medium intensity for many reps. Just gotta be careful to have proper form and not injure ourselves.
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by bigpumpkin 6y ago
To China hawks: Any Chinese civilian company + Military Civil Fusion = Communist Chinese military company The only reason they didn't label Alibaba+Tencent was their market caps are too big/ too many American investors own them.

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