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by eddieplan9 8y ago
You cannot be further away from truth if you think the Chinese higher education nowadays follows the communist bloc model. I did my undergraduate at one of the best universities in China, and to comment on your point: > 1. Doctoral level
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by eddieplan9 8y ago
It's happening already. Verizon just announced $50 unlimited home internet: https://www.engadget.com/2018/09/11/verizon-5g-home/ > Priced at $50 for people who already have Verizon wireless and $
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by eddieplan9 8y ago
It's the sad state of affair in "trusted" App Stores. Little Snitch is the first app I install on every machine. I look forward to a day when network access becomes a permission a sandbox app asks for.
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by eddieplan9 8y ago
Right. How come we don't learn anything from the same policy that resulted in failures such as ARPANET and GPS.
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by eddieplan9 8y ago
By the same logic, you would also jail the parents, teachers and employers of a murders, because they also "supported" the criminal. If your 401k invested in VW - which is very likely - are you also supporting its criminal activit
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by eddieplan9 8y ago
Not trying to detract from the criticism of cost of living, but the source of survey is interesting: > This study was completed among a random sample of registered voters who responded to an email invitation to complete the survey. A
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by eddieplan9 8y ago
1. I have. My main point is that the survey is about how people feel about their finance, not actual financial reality as in "one-third cannot afford food, shelter, and healthcare". The survey itself actually says > roughly
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by eddieplan9 8y ago
Take this piece with a huge grain of salt because it misquotes to exaggerate. The second statement - "A third of Americans can’t afford food, shelter, and healthcare" - is based on a CFPB survey [1] that scores "how people in
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by eddieplan9 8y ago
sales != revenue. with the 30% commission, it would be at most $6B. From http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/01/technology/google-earnings/i... : > Alphabet posted nearly $15 billion in sales for the yea
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by eddieplan9 8y ago
This. Also those payment apps are like PayPal in the sense it provides very little fraud detection and protection. You are petty much on your own. They process almost no chargebacks, for example. The Chinese consumers have vastly different
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by eddieplan9 8y ago
Steve Jobs famously called Starbucks to order 4,000 lattes during the original iPhone launch. https://www.theverge.com/2013/3/4/4063272/meet-starbucks-bar...
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by eddieplan9 8y ago
> If I can pass that task to an assistant, my life would be much easier. You can. It's called Magic ( https://getmagic.com )
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by eddieplan9 8y ago
The demos look as exciting as any chatbot demos we saw before, and I think it will fail in practice just like how chatbots fail. With the exception of very few verticals in controlled settings, most real world tasks are way more dynamic and
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by eddieplan9 8y ago
I know the rhetoric is appealing, but as a Chinese national myself, I have not seen a single STEM person who has left the US for China because of immigration reasons. On the contrary there are plenty of them that have gone to China after se
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by eddieplan9 8y ago
I don’t think the article is about bikes piling up the in the street. It’s more about oversupply and the distorted operating cost of bike sharing in China. From a friend of mine working in this space: it’s cheaper for these companies to kee
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by eddieplan9 9y ago
> This is due to less-expensive pig-feed prices and larger farms, but it's also because of loose business and environmental regulations, especially in red states, which have made the U.S. an increasingly attractive place for foreign
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by eddieplan9 9y ago
Please stop spreading rumors and speculations. The graphic is an illustration and does not necessarily place the car in the actual lane. It clearly contradicts with the police chief’s statement that the victim walks right into traffic from
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by eddieplan9 9y ago
I am deeply disgusted by false equivalency used in many posts this thread. Whatever you think the West is doing is not even close to this. The Chinese government owns and runs more than 50% of the economy and 100% of the industries they d
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by eddieplan9 9y ago
Please do not try to rationalize a completely bullshit way of governing by citing there is no better way. It's an insult to the people victimized by this. I am a Chinese expat, and their stupid policy now says I cannot fly in China bec
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by eddieplan9 9y ago
Thanks for pointing out my mistake. You are right. I edited my comment. To be fair, if the point is to compare profit, then we also need to consider that a traditional worker making minimum wage also needs to commute to work. The average co
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by eddieplan9 9y ago
It's important to not use the IRS Mileage Rate to calculate real cost. (The linked study does not.) The IRS rate is designed for the worst case scenario for the purpose of tax filing (coz you don't want to penalize someone who has
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by eddieplan9 9y ago
For those interested in a deeper dive to just deep learning, "Tensorflow and deep learning - without a PhD" is really good, and covers a lot of material in a single 2hr talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq2nnJ4
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by eddieplan9 9y ago
Many sites hosted outside of China that Chinese expats frequent (like http://mitbbs.com ) have also been flooded with pro-amendment messages. Google Translate of the site: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl
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by eddieplan9 9y ago
This is like criticizing cracking down on bank robbing by saying that now the criminals are going to rob restaurants instead.
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by eddieplan9 9y ago
For those who don't know what 50 cents refers to: they are internet commentators employed by the Chinese government for (dis)information campaigns. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
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by eddieplan9 9y ago
DDoS the whole infrastructure. They have done that to GitHub before by hijacking traffic to Baidu. With millions of phones in the US under their control it’s fairly easy to overwhelm any website (Mercedes comes to mind in recent news) they
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by eddieplan9 9y ago
They do not. Cost of meals is counted in "gross booking". Revenue or sales does not include the part paid to driver or restaurants.
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by eddieplan9 9y ago
I do the old-school thing of buying shows by episode on iTunes for this particular reason (even if the shows are available for "free" in Netflix or Amazon). My kid gets one new episode per week, and she only watches from the iTune
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by eddieplan9 9y ago
I had a crack on my windshield for years, and two cracks on my house windows. I did not fix them not because I cannot afford it but because they did not bother me that much and it took time to find a contractor to do the work.
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by eddieplan9 9y ago
And you should be glad that the governing system is still working, because Equifax is still facing mountains of troubles with the judiciary system and hundreds of class-action lawsuits: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news&#x

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