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by east2west 6y ago
Actually, there is a Wall Street journal article about it. You can google it. "China Blocked Jack Ma’s Ant IPO After Investigation Revealed Likely Beneficiaries" There has been wild speculation about the source behind this story,
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Hollywood to produce movie about WallStreetBets founder(latimes.com)
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Cruise, GM partner with Microsoft to commercialize self-driving vehicles(ca.finance.yahoo.com)
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by east2west 6y ago
Perhaps the author was trying to make the overview beginner-friendly by using familiar terms. I have found it helpful to compare and contrast Julia concepts with C++ template concepts. For example, term trait is used in similar ways in both
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by east2west 6y ago
For the most part, Boeing and Airbus don't produce equivalent airplanes because they aren't involved in regional jet business. The direct competitors include Bombardier CRJ900, Embraer E175-E2 or Mitsubishi MRJ90, according to Wik
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by east2west 6y ago
Thank you for detailed and easy-to-understand explanations. This is why I come to HN. As someone who used to work in adjacent field, I have a question that I hope you can help me with. DL usually requires a large volume of data, but I don&#
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by east2west 6y ago
Sorry, I wasn't very clear. I meant as the rate of final price. It has been a while so it is a little fuzzy, but I recall the broadcaster said up to 50% of pre-tax price. The official VAT rate is like 17% now, I think (just googled it)
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by east2west 6y ago
Many people know the precise rates; it is just that common people do not, which is the whole point. VAT rate is public and I think uniform across the country. Local governments impose various fees and they are not widely known to the public
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by east2west 6y ago
State secrets in China are not same as classified information in the West. State secrets mean: do not broadcast to average Chinese. It is a censorship tool, it is meant to protect the government from its citizens. You gave an excellent exam
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by east2west 6y ago
It is a case of lost in translation. Chinese use "invoice" for "receipt" because they use the same official form for actual invoices, I think, as a way of cracking down on tax avoidance. China has one of the highest sale
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by east2west 6y ago
Chinese has large regional differences, too. Cantonese has different grammar, not just word usage. Modern Chinese grammar is somewhat similar to English while Cantonese follows ancient Chinese, which places verb to the end of sentence.
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by east2west 6y ago
From WSJ: Amazon Says Email Ordering Employees to Delete TikTok Was Sent in Error. I suspect Amazon realized late what a legal mess it is to ban an app on their employee's cell phone when they have no clear legal basis or governmental
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by east2west 6y ago
On paper, yes, China takes official examination rather seriously. In realty, a saying in China goes: as long as there are exams, there are cheaters. An ancient Chinese source estimates that 20% to 30% participants of imperial exams are impo
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by east2west 6y ago
I don't know about BBC or NPR, but VOA and Radio Free Asia are much more borderline. A valid argument can be made that they are not really independent of US government.
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by east2west 7y ago
Sorry if I come across a bit strong. I am a something of a history buff, and the liberty that some Chinese historical shows take is shocking to me. I am like you, curious about different interpretations of familiar events.
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by east2west 7y ago
The story I am familiar with emphasizes different aspects but illustrate the same point. Cao Cao volunteered for assassination mission but asked Wang Yun for a renowned sword/knife as the assassination weapon. As he entered Dong Zhou&#
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by east2west 7y ago
First of all, the popular empty-city story is made up by the author of "Romance of Three Kingdom." It actually was Zhao Yan, a general in the same faction as ZhuGe Liang, who pretended to have an empty fortress and repelled an att
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by east2west 7y ago
It is rather interesting that this is on the front page with "Authenticity promotes well-being in life and at work" [1]. I don't believe they are opposite, but it is difficult to achieve both. However, publicizing individual
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by east2west 7y ago
I don't recommend cppreference for novices. It is by no means an easy read. It is a reference, first of all. It enumerates all possible minutiae exhaustively. Unless you are already familiar, to a degree, with most of the topics, readi
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by east2west 7y ago
I feel that this debacle would not have happened if it had been subjected to the scrutiny of public market much earlier. One can make public financial market more efficient by spotting bubbles and bet on the other side, and thereby making a
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by east2west 7y ago
Wiki says China is the third largest, after Russia, Canada. US is the fourth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...
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by east2west 7y ago
I think they meant emergency plan. The article could be translated from Chinese. "紧急" could be translated as "urgent," but "紧急计划," with plan attached, is better interpreted as emergency plan. BTW, Google transl
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by east2west 7y ago
Generic programming is not same as OOP. Both Rust and Julia have extensive generic programming capabilities, arguably more powerful although less complicated than template meta-programming.
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by east2west 7y ago
C++ is multi-paradigm. While people can write OOP code in C++, they can also write header-only libraries, which is generic programming. In C++ generic programming, inheritance is merely a language feature to get what you want, not the main
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by east2west 7y ago
I recognize some missing pieces, which I believe you will find interesting. 1. The Soviet union did not order China to attack UN troops. The Soviets were never powerful enough to order something like this, right after the conclusion of a ci
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by east2west 7y ago
You must be trying to be facetious because you are providing an excellent example of an Asian intolerant, closed minded, and prejudicial. You are mouthing the worst propaganda of Chinese Communist, that Chinese culture is not suited for dem
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by east2west 8y ago
Usually optimization takes forecasts as part of inputs. It is actually a lot like reinforcement learning, where the sales forecasts are part of the environment. This is standard process for supply-chain management, not just retail industry
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by east2west 8y ago
I guess this is making a virtue out of necessity. Amazon is clearly behind other tech companies in deep learning, so they are calling it "low-key." I used to work on the retail side, and their prediction process is pretty bland. T
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by east2west 10y ago
When I was a postdoc at UCSF there was subsided housing at the Mission Bay. The price was like $1000 below market rate. I think they still have it, but space is no doubt very limited.
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by east2west 10y ago
I am currently working full time as a scientific developer with substantial background in statistics and control theory, and I want to attend, but I am not sure about the expected course load. Could you discuss average hours a student is ex

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