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by echevil 8y ago
That sounds right. But for bigger companies, they can also come up with a much bigger pool of questions and choose from there
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by echevil 8y ago
I also think this could be very effective first round of screening. The questions don't have to be all trivia though. Something that is simple for legit developers in that domain to answer should also work. Time they take to answer als
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> The government has far too much vested interest to be trustworthy. Yet they are the only entity that can make laws against it
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by echevil 8y ago
There are borderline content that’s hard to judge, but also tons of content that’s undoubtedly fake. For years there have been tons of articles floating around WeChat (Chinese social network) that’s completely made up stories and yet causin
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by echevil 8y ago
> Most engineering interviewees fail to advance because of cultural/personality/communication issues and not technical competence. This must vary from company to company, but it's clear that tech companies spent tons of ti
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by echevil 8y ago
Also, this looks like a feedback email after a take home project? I guess the rejection emails after the technical interview should be much more detailed.
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by echevil 8y ago
Bing has always been operating normally in China
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by echevil 8y ago
> "Why not base it in Taiwan?" Because the startups are simply not there. Why doesn’t US YC base in Puerto Rico
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by echevil 8y ago
Nope. There’re tons of Chinese startups already with or without YC. Would US startups be required to register as Chinese companies if they receive Chinese VC money?
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by echevil 8y ago
Lol, what makes you think they can’t invent their own
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by echevil 8y ago
It’s not hard to understand if you just take a look at stats in the past few years on where recent startups are founded, and where VC money goes. Language barrier is not an issue for YC - they can just hire mandarin speakers like Lu Qi. I’m
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by echevil 8y ago
Really excited to see how YC model would work out in China!
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It is the top 1 free app in China’s App Store for some time now
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Well, you may be glad to learn that there has been lots of rumors on Chinese websites in the past few months that Xi’s position is being challenged and he might even be in danger
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Also, they need to "predict" whether the loan would be profitable as they have not loaned the money yet. The decision largely depends on the precision of their prediction
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Things don't work like that at all in China. Even the basic "financial credit score" is in a very immature state at the moment
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by echevil 8y ago
First of all banks in China works very differently from those in US. It's very hard for individuals and small companies to get loans from banks. Secondly, there are tons of companies working on peer-to-peer lending in US as well. Lendi
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by echevil 8y ago
The Chinese government prints much more money though. Inflation is much more serious in China. The official stats doesn’t reflect this, but it’s clear for anyone who’s familiar with price changes in China
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by echevil 8y ago
On the other hand, if some company have all my data and knows what I would need when I need it, it'd help me save tons of time browsing irrelevant information. I hope they can get better doing that. e.g. Yelp has tons of information ab
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by echevil 8y ago
Early adopters of agriculture most likely had the option to choose between farming and keeping their old way of hunter/gatherer life, and yet agriculture become dominant
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by echevil 8y ago
That's the kind of argument I would simply discard, and it is only a matter of interpretation and can provide no benefit whatsoever..
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I wonder why they don't require existing websites to apply for these licenses. Maybe it'll be a next step
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by echevil 8y ago
I'd expect Chrome to provide some settings at least to not mark local IPs as not secure
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Plenty of companies, universities and even small ISPs use 10.0.0.0
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by echevil 8y ago
This is great. It was so hard to cancel Adobe subscription
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Baidu began mass production of its first L4 autonomous bus(medium.com)
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Baidu just made its 100th autonomous bus ahead of commercial launch in China(techcrunch.com)
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It also invested more than US+Canada https://news.crunchbase.com/news/in-q2-2018-global-vc-scales...
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The reality is, three major players Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent are competing with each other in almost every front, and also competing with tons of new challenges like Meituan, Bytedance, etc. The abundance and variety of small startups and th
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by echevil 8y ago
Vast majority of Chinese population is available to at least parts of the tech products now. WeChat/Alipay is available virtually anywhere. It is true that the development in China is very unbalanced, and habits of different groups of

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