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by cepp 7y ago
> Have you heard of other peers in China faring better? Do managers believe in the whole "Organization Y" self organizing/autonomous philosophy that underpins agile? It depends on the company. The more westernized the bett
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by cepp 7y ago
I'll bite. Please note that I've worked for Alibaba and a startup (Video++) but both in research capacities so our practices will differ from the norm. > What are dev practises like - do people do Agile / Scrum? Is "p
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The Messy Truth About Social Credit(logicmag.io)
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Briefing: Qualcomm’s China Chip Joint Venture to Shut Down – The Information(theinformation.com)
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by cepp 8y ago
Just an anecdote on the price and quality of delivery in China -- I've lived in China for a total of 1.5 years on and off. I've yet, to date, cook a meal myself. 饿了么 and 美团 are so convenient that you can order just about any meal
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by cepp 8y ago
While I agree with you about the money and work-ethic, I think some aspects can be far more rewarding than in the US. In China, you're not making an absurd of money for it to only go to taxes and COL. Instead, you make a comfortable am
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by cepp 8y ago
This is true, however, very few companies will be purely Chinese entities. Both due to foreign investment and desire to IPO in Hong Kong many will manifest as a VIE in which a foreigner or foreign entity can legally own stock.
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by cepp 8y ago
I have a lot of experience with the visa process...fortunately I had pretty good Chinese before I began my job search. I was lucky enough to have help from a pretty notable entrepreneur in Shanghai (a friend of a friend) who sent my resume
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by cepp 8y ago
NOTE: I wanted to say I spoke pretty good Mandarin before going to China the first time. I knew what I was getting into and really wanted to be there. If you appreciate Chinese culture and have studied a bit ignore everyone's warnings
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by cepp 8y ago
While I disagree with your original point that Apple/Google should get into the camera manufacture space, Zeiss is working on a new "next generation" camera system. It's targeted at the RX1/Leica Q market, but with
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Realism about rationality – LessWrong 2.0(lesswrong.com)
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Unknown Knowns – LessWrong 2.0(lesswrong.com)
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Crash: how computers are setting us up for disaster(theguardian.com)
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by cepp 8y ago
A company that I interviewed with in Shenzhen mentioned to me that they had acquired a contract with a central hospital there allowing for them to acquire patient data in real time. This was in service of developing DL algorithms for treatm
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by cepp 8y ago
Sounds like this is Integrated Chinese. A very popular undergraduate text in the US for teaching Chinese language skills.
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China May Become the World’s Leader in AI. But at What Cost? – ChinaFile(chinafile.com)
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Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know(lesswrong.com)
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The Dark Side of the Chinese Dream(thenation.com)
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by cepp 8y ago
Unless you have access to a private repository of billing and insurance data, no. There is no publicly available source for price cross lookups. This is largely due to the fact that billing, coverage and pricing varies not only from hospi
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by cepp 8y ago
As someone who worked in a special unit in a big healthcare company, this hits really close to home. Our BU sponsor got us an outside internet connection in our building so we would have unfettered internet access. That would've been t
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by cepp 9y ago
Worked at a Chinese company in Shanghai before. Everyone on my team could read/write but not speak English. It is most common that people would write code in English but use Chinese for comments and documentation (both internal and ext
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by cepp 9y ago
There certainly is but the downside is that often these high-value, small goods come at an extreme markup compared to anywhere else in the world. Take, for example, Tiffany & Co. whose products are on average 30% more expensive when pay
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by cepp 9y ago
There is now a daily restriction on the amount of cash you can withdraw in Macau (if you are from the mainland) in addition to your yearly withdraw and currency exchange caps. These modifications were made earlier this year to prevent capit
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by cepp 9y ago
As someone who has lived in China I can testify that this is a falsehood. The issue is getting the money out of the bank into some other asset in the first place. If you have that much purchasing power in a Chinese BTC exchange you probably
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by cepp 9y ago
Almost all services are now about $0.07USD/hour, or less and, even better, free on the weekends. Having just come back from living in Shanghai for some time, nothing makes it more convenient than not having to think about the price.
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by cepp 9y ago
> But even though it isn't a perfect system -- 1) It is an improvement over the previous form of paper records, and 2) The industry is iteratively moving to resolve these issues. NOTE : My comments are only applicable to the US
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by cepp 10y ago
> "It is a big, overt statement that the contributions of those people are no longer respected." That's the crux of your argument. In this case, when talking about Calhoun College and the concept of "erasing history&q