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by echevil 8y ago
Probably most east Asian countries? Likely India as well.
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by echevil 8y ago
> Studying STEM is not natural to many kids I don't think there's any intrinsic reason that studying STEM isn't natural. It could be hard to some kids while totally enjoyable to some others. I've seen kids enjoying bu
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FamilyTreeDNA Admits to Sharing Genetic Data with F.B.I(nytimes.com)
3 points by echevil 8y ago|0 comments
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by echevil 8y ago
Well, lots of them are truly friends for sure, and I would certainly see them in person whenever there's a chance. But since we don't live in the same country, those chances don't come up that often. Sometimes it could be man
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by echevil 8y ago
> Expect the consequences to be fairly immediate: More in-person time with friends and family. Less political knowledge, but also less partisan fever. Well, since lots of my friends and all of my family live in different countries, I&#x2
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by echevil 8y ago
It occurs to me that the mainstream American media suddenly turned very negative towards Facebook ever since they've got the idea that Facebook was probably one important reason that Trump got elected. While I agree Facebook has some r
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by echevil 8y ago
They probably need higher compensation to attract engineers at this point and their existing engineers are probably leaving the company at higher rate. They also need to hire a lot more people to tackle whatever issues they are trying to so
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by echevil 8y ago
Well, though privacy is kind of imprtant to most people, what alternatives do people have (other than stop using all social media?) I don't think the problem of Facebook is unique to them at all - data leak, fake news, whatever - they
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Chinese scientist sues the US government for being falsely accused of espionage(jqknews.com)
1 points by echevil 8y ago|1 comments
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by echevil 8y ago
Personally I'd find in-person sales and cold out-reach much more annoying than simple ads (as a potential user). Not sure if that's common.
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by echevil 8y ago
It doesn't really need strong ethical standards here. This scientist received almost universal criticism in China.
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by echevil 8y ago
For any social network to work you’d need most of your connections to get onboard the same thing, whether it’s Facebook or anything else. It’s easy for some people to start emailing their friends but it’s hard to imagine that the general pu
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by echevil 8y ago
> However, once you have (mostly) caught up, it becomes less obvious what the next thing to do is. Chinese economy is not about catching up with the west anymore. If you ever lived in China in recent years, you'd see that the Chines
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by echevil 8y ago
http://news.cqu.edu.cn/newsv2/show-14-16860-1.html This is from the university that lead the experiment. A control experiment was done as well
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China's Moon mission sees first seeds sprout(bbc.com)
248 points by echevil 8y ago|153 comments
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by echevil 8y ago
There are precedents that drug trafficker got death sentences, so there’s nothing surprising at all. I guess he got 15 years sentence originally probably because the government didn’t want to hurt their relationship with Canada at their tim
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by echevil 8y ago
I found western science fictions tends to promote heroism in some way, and whatever obstacle the main character faces, they fight off their enemies in the end. Chinese novels indeed feel different in many ways.
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by echevil 8y ago
Sci-Fi novels are generally less impacted by censorship as they are undoubted considered as fictions. References to religion, social topics etc. are not a focus of censorship
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by echevil 8y ago
The closest to of Harry Potter in China are probably either Wuxia or Xianxia, in which the equivalent of "god", "magic" and "violence" are actually very common. Harry Potter is somewhat popular in China as well
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by echevil 8y ago
I think the right way to think about this problem is treating picking the winner at an early stage as a probability. Even though the value of the probability is small, you'd still want to maximize it when you're picking a startup
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by echevil 8y ago
I'd really love to see this advancement as most of the flights I take are 10+ hour direct flights. > On a side note, why aren't there more startups trying to reduce passenger time at the airport instead of focusing on faster ai
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by echevil 8y ago
China is issuing the same warning to Chinese citizens traveling to US
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by echevil 8y ago
Exactly! It makes no sense to switch to something else if all your friends are still on Facebook. Also, who knows if the app you switch to will have less problems in future than Facebook does now.
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by echevil 8y ago
Sorry I was talking about the french solution https://movim.eu/ when I say decentralized. Thanks for the recommendation and explanations though!
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by echevil 8y ago
It’s hard to see if any of these self-hosted or decentralized solution would ever take off. For a social app, you need to get your friends and also public figures to use the same thing for it to be worth using at all. If it is more complica
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JD.com chief Liu Qiangdong will not face rape charges(google.com)
2 points by echevil 8y ago|0 comments
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by echevil 8y ago
Agree.. Are there any major social app that you can absotely trust your private data with?
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by echevil 8y ago
Where you go largely depends on where most of your friends are. I spend more time on WeChat as most of my friends are there. After I installed SnapChat, I don’t think I ever come back because nobody I know is on it.
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by echevil 8y ago
> Isn’t this showing up in intervires? That depends on the interview, isn’t it? In my on-site with one of the companies, I was asked hard algorithm questions in four out of five rounds, and then one system design round. I doubt anything
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by echevil 8y ago
> International Business Machines Corp said it had no evidence that sensitive corporate data had been compromised. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) said it could not comment on the Cloudhopper campaign. > Both IBM and HPE declined to

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