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by echevil 9y ago
Sigh... If the lawmakers want to copy from China, why not copy their gun control laws first and actually save some lives..
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by echevil 9y ago
I’m just saying, we need to find other applications for this new technology. If we just want to connect city center to airports I’d so much prefer that people invest their money on trains which is a solution that can benefit lots of people
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by echevil 9y ago
The problem is not simply expense but whether the expense is worthwhile. Given Shanghai is already connected by a subway web, the benefit of directly connecting two airports with maglev is very questionable. Maglev is just a bit extreme but
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by echevil 9y ago
I believe an express subway line can do a better job. Though the initial cost for building new infrastructure is high, it also have the other two benefits you mention: Bypass all ground traffic and being very predictable (in fact more predi
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by echevil 9y ago
See levels are rising
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by echevil 9y ago
With heavy investments in self-driving cars, I doubt if Uber would really want to improve drivers' income. It'll all become irrelevant when self-driving taxis become available. It may not happen soon, but it's quite worrisome
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by echevil 9y ago
New Asian immigrants moved to Bay Area for high paying tech jobs have very different views from those that were born in America or have lived here for a long time. Many of the new immigrants have no citizenship yet while the latter are simp
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by echevil 9y ago
On the contrary, I think software/technology is a field where objective assessment of candidate's competency is relatively easy, and the professions requiring accreditation/licensing are relatively rare. Do you think requirin
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by echevil 9y ago
Google, Facebook, and Dropbox were all quite different from their competitors from very early on. I agree their business model could a the key to success, but from a user’s point of view, what is the reason that would make me want to pay fo
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by echevil 9y ago
I think it's more just because of them afraid of "losing face" like almost all Chinese people do. That's quite deep in Chinese culture. Even the most powerful emperors in Chinese history (who would have nothing to be afr
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by echevil 9y ago
That’s a separate problem to solve. Trains in lots of countries are both clean and perfectly safe.
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by echevil 9y ago
This result is not surprising at all. When these taxi service becomes much more affordable, more people will use them instead of other transportation and more people will be stuck in traffic. Uber has been giving me tons of discount last ye
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by echevil 9y ago
It appears quite many of the richest people in China have no political ties now. In fact most rich people in the past decade are either in tech (there are plenty of them as China's tech industry is not any less vibrant than silicon val
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by echevil 9y ago
Looks like there are fair amount of people that share the same feeling about neural nets
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by echevil 9y ago
It’s not killed for sure, but it used to have bigger market share
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by echevil 9y ago
Just one more thing to fix then. Even if these companies wants to double down on EB-1C, it’d still be much harder to bring in low skill tech workers as “multi-national managers”
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by echevil 9y ago
As a tech worker I always feel super grateful that the job I like is also lucrative. There’s no end to greed. Is it possible that we may get paid higher? Maybe Do we deserve to get paid much higher than those equally talented people working
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by echevil 9y ago
All of the major tech firms could also just hire more aggressively in their overseas branches if the cost in hiring in US becomes too high. You’ll face globalization one way or another
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by echevil 9y ago
Are you saying people working in tech are paid too low nowadays in US?
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by echevil 9y ago
Precisely! Anyone familiar with this issue would know this is actually helping major high tech companies. But to most Americans who don't really know what is the deal with immigration, why let a chance to attack Trump administration go
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by echevil 9y ago
It's not an extraordinary claim at all as these two events co-exist: Too few people have skills that companies need; too many people having no skills or irrelevant skills are looking for jobs.
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by echevil 9y ago
Speaking as a Chinese citizen, I'd say most people already use local apps/services for almost everything, so having Apple moving servers to China won't practically have any impact on "privacy" or "human rights
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by echevil 9y ago
Well my iCloud account in China did receive a long email from Apple before this happens, saying that they will move their iCloud servers to China, and what can be done if you do not want your data to be moved. I think they've done enou
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by echevil 9y ago
that's why there's huge room to improve
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by echevil 9y ago
Well, China itself has more than 1 billion people, and there is still plenty of room to grow its domestic market. That market is large enough to sustain tons of companies. More and more Chinese actually feel they’ve wasted too much time lea
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by echevil 9y ago
Well if you ever used any Chinese apps recently you’ll find they are nothing like anything you’re familiar with. Many major Chinese companies might have started with copying some idea from Silicon Valley, but that was long time ago. China n
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by echevil 9y ago
This is actually not too different from the e-book market in China, which is even more fragmented. There are at about a dozen well known e-book readers, and the books are not shared among different apps. Even crazier, Tencent published two
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by echevil 9y ago
In what age did Chinese had no opportunities to read physical books? That was at least half a century back
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That is the "top subset". It is untrue for a lot of other established companies
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by echevil 9y ago
It's a fun read :)

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