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by echevil 8y ago
There is usually a free version and a paid version for better speed.
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There're tons of Uighurs, Tibetians living in peace in China. Plenty of them also live in the east part of China, and plenty of Han people live in Xinjiang and Tibet as well. Falun Gong is banned, yeah, and most Chinese would support t
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Interestingly I just replied to someone else asking about minorities groups in China, you can find it just by searching for my handle. Long story short: It's fine to live in China as a minority group. I've also expressed my opinio
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In a historical context, the minority groups are mostly people lived in different areas. Typically Han was in the central/east region in China, and there were other groups in north/west and sometimes south. There had been lots of
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> Do you not believe the Chinese government to be corrupt, authoritarian, and/or oppressive? I believe it's way too harmful to simply categorize government into "free" vs "bad/corrupt/authoritarian&#x2F
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It turned into an interesting discussion actually, thank you! > To practice things that can be extended to the wider population maybe? I didn't read the full article you referenced, but from what I know it is true that surveillance
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I am a Chinese citizen and all my education was in China, from kindergarten to grad school. > China has cultivated in its people a very troubling mental complex centered on national pride and driven by the Century of Humiliation. I’d say
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Well, thank you for the detailed explanations, and I think I owe you some more explanation. I'm not sure how different are "Major" and "major in contrast". Sorry about my English, it's not my first language. It
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> "they" said they are hardly "major"? Why would I care what "they" say if I have first hand knowledge about whether it's major or not? > For example, the government is sending massive amount of peop
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If you ever actually read the articles published from these media accounts, you'll easily see how "Not ridiculous" the claim is. (Of course there're plenty good ones, I'm not blaming all news media accounts, but the
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The problem of individual news media accounts in China is that they are a major source of fake news, disinformation, and often uses exaggerated titles or suggestive images. I’ve seen too many of those articles floating around social network
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Black Friday 2018 won't come close to China’s record breaking Singles Day sale(cnet.com)
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Alibaba sets new Singles Day record with more than $30.8B in sales(cnbc.com)
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I remember this being a research topic while I was in grad school more than 10 years ago. Like face recognition, it is nothing unique and is being researched by plenty of people
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Companies can decide what schedule makes better sense then. Or if needed, better rules can be established to solve those problems. Even with day light saving, people don't work on the same schedule. Plenty of them need to get up before
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by echevil 8y ago
What’s wrong with just getting up earlier, on your own terms? Or just stay on DST time zone forever?
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by echevil 8y ago
Grew up in a region without day light saving, I really don’t see the point of changing clocks twice every year. I’d be very glad to see it getting abandoned
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Triplebyte founders started by doing tons of technical interviews themselves with candidates. https://triplebyte.com/blog/three-hundred-programming-interv... After the first few hires, their engineers all took part in
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Interesting! I think it could be scalable even at much bigger scale -> Hiring more professional photographers to do that as the company grows doesn’t sound like a terrible idea. Just like Google having tons of people driving cars around
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> The fact is, webapps are suboptimal, and unless something drastically changes, will remain so. I agree it’s still suboptimal for now, incremental improvements are making it less so year over year. More parts of native apps are also get
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by echevil 8y ago
> The system is _highly_ prejudiced towards suppressing false positives I wonder if the algorithm centric interview style at Google can really achieve that. From my experience, algorithm centric questions + plus white board coding have b
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As a foreigner, it sounds to me the root of the problem is still university being way too expensive. Also, shouldn't the government provide direct financial assistance to low income people being admitted to good colleges without needin
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You get out of media bubble by reading news from very different sources. Otherwise you're inside it no matter what you read.
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You forgot there are people outside US? Outside its media bubble
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Well, if the competing theory (that UK is behind the nerve agents) is true, they also have good reasons not to cooperate.
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After doing a project with this I think Tailwind is great! There is no need to choose either BEM or Tailwind, they can co-exist in the same project and they both makes a lot of sense (for different use cases). Typically, I’ll start with tai
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by echevil 8y ago
Don’t worry, if Canada or Sweden is close to become the next superpower, you’ll start to hear all kinds of negative reports about them.
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I think it's equally problematic if you simply trust everything you read on New York Times (or any other media)
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What if the humans are not reliable
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Traditional media also run 3rd party ads on their platform. CNN for example, has Google ads on its website and complains when I visit the website with an ad blocker. Even with sales person involved, and better money trail, the problem is no

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