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by echevil 8y ago
Yeah, moving out of Bay Area sounds more and more reasonable now. I wonder if salaries in Vancouver would match that in Seattle. Both of them are very interesting cities to move to
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by echevil 8y ago
Like Taxi apps or food delivery apps, they need multiple types of users on the platform in new locations at the same time to provide reasonable user experience.
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by echevil 8y ago
Why would you have faith in HN in the first place? :)
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by echevil 8y ago
Even for poorest people in rural areas in China, it’s still possible that they’d pay 10k usd “bride money”. 10k is really considered to be a lot in China for such matters. A wedding could also cost a lot more than that. When they say “a sma
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by echevil 8y ago
Nah they’ll ask for way more than 10k USD if they think you’re rich :) it’s common that they’ll ask you to buy a house/apartment first
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by echevil 8y ago
musical.ly never had the same level of success TikTok now has, and it probably hasn’t focused on monetization at the time it was sold. Plus Bytedance owns quite a few apps many of which are extremely popular
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by echevil 8y ago
It means I have been using Google for 20 years! It changed lots of aspects of my life. Thank you Google!
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by echevil 8y ago
Wealth inequality in US is not any better, under the policies of a democratic government
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by echevil 8y ago
if you say so..
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by echevil 8y ago
It does seem there’s little difference from what they’re trying to do in China then.
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by echevil 8y ago
I’m not complaining. I love the feature!
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by echevil 8y ago
They would still send your data to the government when there is a subpoena I suppose
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by echevil 8y ago
There are a lot more they can track than the search history. Google maps app has a timeline feature that tracks every place I go :)
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by echevil 8y ago
It’s not that hard to circumvent actually. Also in major tech companies in China, employees can just use company network to access websites blocked by the firewall. But if you provide that as a service to general public, it’d get shutdown w
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by echevil 8y ago
Yeah, numbers of calls and emails being sent could be useful as features in fraud detection. I’m totally fine with Apple collecting that. Reliable spam filter for sms and phone calls are something I wanted for more than a decade.
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by echevil 8y ago
I’m sure there are darker side of China that the government would love to hide and there are many parts of the society that’s disfunctional. That’s no secret in China, most people are aware about that. I’m sure my opinions are influenced by
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by echevil 8y ago
Well, probably not for them if they actually exists. I don't find myself on the right of everything, I also don't do stuff that's breaking the laws. I'm in favor since I believe the system has more benefit than its downs
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by echevil 8y ago
That’s not how the system works, only what the western propaganda wants people to believe. I’m sure I won’t be punished because of saying i oppose that. It's only possible that I get some kind of punishment if I'm influential enou
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by echevil 8y ago
I'm speaking as a Chinese citizen who is totally in favor of this. Here's some perspective I can give: "credit system" is far less established than countries like US, and private companies are generally much less trusted
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by echevil 8y ago
As a Chinese citizen who lived in the US for a while, I'm totally in favor of this, and especially when I go back to China. We don't value "freedom" as much as most westerners, and the social credit system is there to ma
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by echevil 8y ago
Paying employees better hourly rate, improve work conditions, and provide them chances for self-improvement. They could even hire homeless people and provide them temporary accommodation. There are tons of ways
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by echevil 8y ago
> they were basically the abandonment of a lot of Maoist ideas in favor of something that was more in line with Western economic thought That’s right. The government basically concluded communism isn’t going to happen any time soon and s
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by echevil 8y ago
The Great Leap Forward is known by almost every Chinese, many of whom having family members actually experienced that. That said, having millions of people starved to death has been quite common throughout the history of China. They could b
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by echevil 8y ago
Won't be long. Mate 20 will be announced on Oct 16.
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by echevil 8y ago
There's a nice uptrend it seems: https://www.natureindex.com/annual-tables/2018/country/all
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by echevil 8y ago
Making things easier for foreigners in China simply have very low priority for these companies. Both WeChat and Alipay are expanding aggressively abroad but their primary motive is just to make things easier for Chinese tourists traveling a
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by echevil 8y ago
Zu Chongzhi derived pi should be between 3.1415926 to 3.1415927 back in 5th century. Well, that was pretty good precision at that time
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by echevil 8y ago
People won’t usually believe random articles over statement from government or other authorities body. But most often, the articles never gets debunked since there are so many, and even if they are, it could be too late to repair the damage
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by echevil 8y ago
Just replace that with "national heroes" and you're all good
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by echevil 8y ago
> The traditional western concept is that an educated people will be able to discern who to trust and when ... That won't solve the immediate problem of caused by fake articles circling around; and it will just bias towards hurting

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